BS: Presents from your cat

Subject: RE: BS: Presents from your cat
From: Blackcatter
Date: 20 Jul 02 - 02:45 AM

You sure it's not their way of asing for sparrow flavored cat food?

That's always got me - tuna, beef, lamb, turkey flavored catfood - all the animals a cat is likely to hunt in the wild.

Subject: RE: BS: Presents from your cat
From: Genie
Date: 20 Jul 02 - 02:44 AM

Well, WD, it would seem either it's a present or they're tyring to convince me. Otherwise, why not just eat the quarry and be done with it? Why leave it at my feet (which Minnie Meowse used to do) or in my bathtub?

Subject: RE: BS: Presents from your cat
From: Wincing Devil
Date: 20 Jul 02 - 02:39 AM

Of course you realize these are NOT presents, these are the cat's way of saying "Me Big Hunter! Me can feed myself! It's just more convenient to wake you up in the morning to feed me, that's all!" They're trying to prove that they can still survvw on their own, if need be. My only question is who are they trying to convince, themselves or me?

Thank God cats don't have opposable thumbs or mankind is DOOMED!

Subject: RE: BS: Presents from your cat
From: Genie
Date: 20 Jul 02 - 02:39 AM

Liz, I guess I should be thankful that Melanie left her "gift" in the bathtub and not under the bed!

DMcG, no frogs so far, but years ago I made the mistake of "releasing" a garter snake into my front yard. The poor thing was lying on the sidewalk, thoroughly chewed, the next morning.

Subject: RE: BS: Presents from your cat
From: Blackcatter
Date: 20 Jul 02 - 02:37 AM

Our cats love to play with the anole lizards we have in Florida. We also see our share of tree frogs (not too many though, as they're out when it's wet sort of opposite of the cats), and the fun thing is the occasional palmetto bug (picture a BIG cockroach that flies).

Anything not nailed down is a cat toy.

Do not interfere in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will piss in your coffee mug.

Dogs beg, cats expect.

"Anyone who does not understand protocol has never dealt with a cat." (Robert A. Heinlein)

Subject: RE: BS: Presents from your cat
From: DMcG
Date: 20 Jul 02 - 02:27 AM

Our cat is just over a year old. So far we have had two full sized rats, a mouse and a frog brought into the house (rats dead, mouse and frog alive). Most mice and birds he is content to devour in the garden.

Subject: RE: BS: Presents from your cat
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 20 Jul 02 - 02:26 AM

My first cat Koh-i-noor presented me with 1 live baby rabbit, 17 half eaten mice/shrews/small birds of indeterminate species but mostly headless and 1 pork chop, seasoned.

My third cat Ceramen (check out 'cat farts' thread, probably about 2-3 years ago here) brought a whole pigeon through the cat flap. We don't know how he caught the pigeon, because a) it was bigger than him, b) he was as thick as the proverbial pieces of carpentry, c) he'd never caught anything before.

The perpertrator was never traced but there was an entire (partially skeletised) blackbird under the chest of drawers once. We only noticed when the flies got unbearable one warm night. We'd been away during the smelly bit and obviously the maggots had cleared away the rest of it.

My second cat, Shadow, spent an entire afternoon emptying a rat nest - she brought in 6 baby rats, all furred, all just ready to leave home. We thought she kept bringing the same one back again, but after putting 2 in the dustbin, got a bit suspicious. We were surprised because by this stage she had had most of her fangs removed (she's getting on) and wondered how she was getting them. Closer observation of the garden showed that she was sitting on the back fence, waiting. When Ceramen came round the corner with his latest acquisition, she would cuff him round the head till he dropped the rat, she would then pick it up and bring it to the house whilst he trotted off for another one.

Most of all they've brought me unending hours of delight and affection.

LTS

Subject: Presents from your cat
From: Genie
Date: 20 Jul 02 - 02:08 AM

Just as I was getting ready to leave on a 6-day trip, I noticed something kind of dark and fuzzy-looking in my bathtub behind the shower curtain. I thought it was a large cat turd --though there was no odor--or a dust bunny, but I couldn't imagine why it was there. Then I thought maybe it was a giant hairball, but it looked almost like it had a small beak. Looking at it a bit longer, I realized it DID have a beak!

It seems my dear Melanie La Mew, who can get into and out of the house through the bedroom window, had decided to leave me a going-away present--a very small, half-eaten bird!

Now, this has nothing to do with music--unless you folks know of songs that deal with this kind of subject matter. Or maybe other cat staffers* who have been similarly tributed by their furry felines will be inspired to celebrate the event in song.

Anyway, this is the first time any of my cats has brought me a bird as a present (they generally eat the few birds they catch) or brought any such trophy into the house through the window (though I've had a mouse left on the porch before).

Mainly, I just wanted to share my joy -- not to mention my relief that I found the "gift" BEFORE my 6-day absence--with fellow moggy huggers. Feel free to relate your own trophy stories.

Genie

*Dogs have owners. Cats have staff.