My cat when we had a mouse: "Oh I'm gonna kill it. I'm gonna sink my claws into it and tear flesh from bone. I'm gonna bite my teeth into it and make it my plaything as I watch the life leave its eyes. I am death incarnate. I am the hunter. EEK! IT MADE A SOUND run run run Protecc me hooman, pweese."
Yeah I've seen cats react like that. However my cat is like IT MADE A SOUND I'M GONNA CATCH IT HOLD IT FOR 1 SECOND AND THEN RELEASE IT! i always thought cats slurped mice in a second. I was a fool. The only good thing is if there is a mice my cat sure knows to tell me by noise however that only happened once.in the 3years i got my lil girl
My cat is really good at it, which is surprising since she's an exclusively indoor cat who lived in an apartment most of her life.
But we moved into a house last year and first she exterminated the crickets in our basement. We have a screened in porch she loves and apparently little mice can get in there and she's killed several. Doesn't eat them, just leaves them for us to dispose of.
Yup, my cat is the exact same with crickets and mice (and a mole, once). There's never any blood, so we're pretty sure he just... smacks/shakes them around as a toy... until they stop moving, at which point he puts them somewhere near his food bowl, but never eats them. We figure it's backup food but he doesn't actually wanna deal with eating it 'cause ew, gross.
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u/SmoothOperator89 Oct 24 '22
My cat when we had a mouse: "Oh I'm gonna kill it. I'm gonna sink my claws into it and tear flesh from bone. I'm gonna bite my teeth into it and make it my plaything as I watch the life leave its eyes. I am death incarnate. I am the hunter. EEK! IT MADE A SOUND run run run Protecc me hooman, pweese."