I would love to see a team of Siamese hauling a dead rat through a catflap. That would just make my day -- no, I tell a lie, that would make my year!

Because they are protected from hunting (by humans) much of the year in Europe, pheasants can be remarkably dim. I remember pheasants strolling around in the grass on the airfield at Baden-Söllingen like ladies and gentlemen at a garden party. When a cock pheasant strutted right up to one of the Bofors guns of the airfield defence battery during an exercise, the soldiers of the gun detachment -- friends of mine -- caught it with a dustbin lid and a sack. It was delicious.