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I am NOT a killer. I love to chase and I bring what I catch home so my mum can enjoy the chase too. She isn't that good at catching things - although her frog hunting much improved with practise. She loves all the chasing so much she steals what we catch to play with alone.
We know she loves it from how loud she squeals when she sees what I have brought in!
Nature made us hunters so that we can survive. I was a very spoiled feral on earth. I always had food, but I learned to hunt from my Mom and Dad. Read my diarys to see how I made the human crazy for a week. Every day I brought her a LIVE mouse on roof. I was thanking her for loving me so much.
Now that I am in heaven - she really misses those mouse adventures.
Me,Sparkle,and Jade are outdoor cats and we never kill birds unless they are just constantly flying around us and pestering us(which most of them have a little brain to stay away from us). It's nature's way though...cats kill birds(and dogs do too,we find birds and squirrels in the backyard ALL the time from Riley,the dog)
as regards the poster who said cats don't catch mice to hang the heads on the wall...no, of course not...but:
when i was growing up we had a black manx indoor/outdoor-katie-who was a fearsome huntress. she was a terror to chimpmunks, and had a chipmunk graveyard in the garden. skulls in one pile, then a pile of spines, a pile of fur...you get the idea. well, one morning i looked out to see what the weather was like-and there was a chipmunk head minus body propped on the windowsill looking in, obviously left over from yesterday's garden adventures. what a way to start the day! i have no idea why she left it there, whether she was storing it for later, just happened to land there when she was batting it about, or whether it was a demented practical cat joke-but in that one case, that one cat did indeed put a head on display. she lived to age 20, and caught an indoor adventurer (baby mouse) just three months before she passed...i wonder if they let them catch critters at the bridge? maybe they revive? or maybe they have holograms or something? cause katie wouldn't be happy if she couldn't hunt...
Ha ha ha, got a good laugh out of the chipmunk head placed on the windowsill LOOKING IN. Maybe somebody should start a thread on "Do cats have a sense of humor"? I think sometimes they do.
When I was growing up, our grumpy indoor/outdoor cat (female) would catch the occasional birdie or mousie and put it in her food dish (as I wrote above). The critters were usually half-alive; apparently Kitty didn't want to eat them (although she seemed aware that they were food, or why else would she put them in the food bowl?), so they were always still half alive when my mother found them. My mother was an absolute saint, an angel on earth, but she could be pretty cut-and-dried about animal death, and I don't know, and really don't want to know, what she did with the still moving/squeaking/chirping things. I do know that she praised Kitty for being so kind in bringing a present, and then waited for Kitty to leave the room to dispose of the victim, so as not to hurt Kitty's feelings.
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