Look what the cat's dragged in!

Could it be bits from a wild Mink that has been killed by a fox?

No idea about the fur but our cats manage to lose collars. We now have a cat flap that works on chips implanted under their skin.

No cat flap here, our cat asks to be let out or in ! Had a few cats but never a cat flap!

They look a bit like woolly caterpillars, but the fur on yours is very silky and long?
And you say there's skin underneath.
Weird.

Years ago our hunter tabby brought in something just the same from the woods behind our garden. We thought it was a mink tail.
We had an array of gifts from him: baby pheasants, live bunnies, lizards, birds, frozen fish fillets on Fridays and a turkey carcass through the open top bathroom window while I was in the bath beneath!
We never found out who the fish belonged to!

Maybe a pine marten?

I'd be very surprised of a cat (or even a fox) would win a fight with feral mink.

We used to get them in the chicken house (where they would kill everything). The first time this happened I rang the local chemist asking to buy some strychnine. There was a kind of strangled cough and he replied " No, Madam, you can't. You need a gamekeeper". The gamekeeper's first words were " Always make a lot of noise before entering your chicken house; trust me you do NOT want to interrupt or accidentally corner a mink. They are absolutely fearless and very dangerous".

I once saw my three large dogs and killer cat corner a stoat, and stoat won hands down Stoats are small terrorists; this one used to come in the open back door to steal from their food dishes. It was absolutely brazen, no fear of me whatever.

Interesting info from * butterandjam*. I didn’t realise they were so aggressive. There was a roadkill one that lay on the side of the road for ages near us.

We adopted a big, ‘homeless’ tabby cat. He was lovely, but his real owner denied knowing him, so we kept him.
He was soft as clarts, daft as a brush and followed me everywhere, but was a very good hunter.
One morning I got up to a stoat (dead) in the kitchen. We think he must’ve backed in through the catflap and dragged the stoat through behind him.

Not being funny, but are you absolutely sure that these are parts of an animal/animals, as opposed to some sort of fake furry fabric (of which the backing might be mistaken for skin)? They sort of look too clean and neat around the edges to have been savaged by something, though admittedly it is hard to tell from a photo.

What the heck…? We used to get all sorts of presents from ours via the cat flap, the worst being a live bat that we had to capture and evict. Our DSIL’s cat used to climb over the high wall into their garden bearing all sorts of gifts - a full peg bag, a neighbour’s boot. He excelled himself one day, hauling over another cat (alive and very much kicking).

Off cat mode for a minute . When I was a child our dog once went walk about and brought my Mum 6 eggs back, in their box , all unbroken!

We used to have a very strong-willed rescue cat. At various times he brought a raw lamb chop, a woollen sock, and a very flappy pigeon through the cat flap.

Oldnproud

Not being funny, but are you absolutely sure that these are parts of an animal/animals, as opposed to some sort of fake furry fabric (of which the backing might be mistaken for skin)? They sort of look too clean and neat around the edges to have been savaged by something, though admittedly it is hard to tell from a photo.

Just what I was thinking

What colour is a badger? I've only ever seen pictures and assumed they were beige with black markings.
One of the pieces of fur is a bit matted and scruffy.
Yes a stoat tail seems feasible but I'd be surprised if my two 16 year old ladies are still capable of hunting and catching such a creature - even bits of its tail.
The oddest gift they;ve brought me was a piece of cheese still in its wrapper - many years ago.

I live in the countryside and regularly see dead animals and parts of animals , but I have never seen any animal remains lying around that look like anything like that.

Let's say it was a stoat tail - how on earth have your cats - or any other animal for that matter - opened it up and cleaned it so thoroughly that there isn't a speck of flesh or blood visible on the 'skin'? How are the edges of the 'skin' so neat, almost as if they have been cut with scissors, no sign of bring chewed on or even ripped apart?
The more I look at the photo, the more I think that this fur is synthetic.

Is it one of those cat toys, the things that n strings or sticks? Our cats dragged a very large roadkill hedgehog in once, dragged it upstairs to the lounge of our townhouse and were fighting with & attacking it.

The oddest thing my cat brought in through the catflap was a large Yorkshire pudding!

My ‘posh’ cat wouldn’t know what to do with anything live! …. She chooses not to go outside much which unfortunately means she doesn’t toilet outside. However, every night she brings up to me in bed her dangly elephant and/or her dangly cat. And every morning I take them downstairs again. She doesn’t play with them or take notice of them at any other time. Weird cat!

One of mine brought in an enormous Coi carp, think a heron dropped it as he's such a little cat. Another brought back a salad sandwich 🥪

My cat brings in frogs. Live ones. Almost every other day during the spring and early summer. We have to keep a frog catching kit (sieve and piece of stiff card) handy in the kitchen.

Our frogs don't croak (in either sense). They squeal, very loudly. Not something you want to hear at three in the morning when you were fast asleep, up until the cat brought in his latest friend to show you.

My previous cat in his extreme old age allowed a young stray, also male, to come in and eat the left-overs from his dinner, and sleep behind my husband's wood lathe, or on the indoor wood pile in cold weather.

I was amazed, but I honestly do not think that even at 17 and when he himself may have realised that he did not have much longer to live that he would have allowed any other kind of animal than a cat in.

Might these scraps of skin and fur be a present from your unseen dinner guest?

A cat that hunts is capable of dealing with a weasel or ferret.

Now after the death of my old cat, when I succumbed to temptation and came home with two kittens, we installed the kind of cat flap that is programmed to read our cats' chips and not allow others in.

What the makers do not say is, that if the flap is open so your cats can go out, any cat or suitably sized critter that comes in to your house can get out, as I found out when a newly nubile queenie cat got out that way. (Don't worry, I found her before the neighbourhood's uneutered toms did. She was standing outside, looking sadly at the cat-flap that refused to open for her.)

They also do not tell you, that if your cats are like Topsy and "just grewed" they will decide it is easier to get you to open the back door than to squeeze out through the cat flap, although mine do come in again using their door, rather than mine, quite happily.

I said we should have ordered a dog flap, but do you think DH listened? Our cats are large cats, always, however small they are at 11 weeks.

Had a Google about and I'm pretty sure it's a cat toy mink tail or faux fur cat toy.

Shelflife

Off cat mode for a minute . When I was a child our dog once went walk about and brought my Mum 6 eggs back, in their box , all unbroken!

Top stuff. Good belly laught!!
Lol.

DollyRocker

Had a Google about and I'm pretty sure it's a cat toy mink tail or faux fur cat toy.

Something like that seems much more likely to me, DollyRocker

One of my son's cats would go crazy for a particular type of furry fabric. When he started wearing a warm, furry top indoors last winter (my son, that is, not the cat!), the cat would jump straight onto his lap and stay there as long as allowed licking and mouthing it voraciously.