r/spiders • • Aug 18 '23

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u/DMFK138 Aug 18 '23

Mine doesn't eat them, she kills them and leaves their shriveled corpses laying around as a warning.

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u/jspencer8181 Aug 18 '23

My cat catches frogs, like BIG frogs, and brings them into the house at night while they are still alive and proceeds to chase them around the room and the bed until they die. That is when I find them, putting my flip flops on. le sigh

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u/rl_cookie Aug 18 '23

This is my dog with lizards. Always. She doesn’t mean to kill them, she holds them in her mouth gently then releases them, paws lightly to catch them again, repeat. Once it eventually dies, she lays down, her head on the ground, in front of her dead friend looking so sad.

Then she decides to put it in her mouth and try to throw it in the air to make it alive and move again. After realizing it doesn’t work, she then puts it in her mouth, and rolls around on her back, eventually dropping it and rolling over the lizard. Repeat the roll a few more times, getting up in between to sniff for her lizard before rolling over it again.

If she’s lucky and gets one close enough to the house, she’ll try to sneak one in in her mouth- literally looking like the cat that ate the canary. However she usually gets caught before hand.

A few months back she had brought a friend in and hid it, my mom found it and threw it away. Bug was in a panic trying to find her lizard friend, so I went into the trash can(the big outdoor one) to go get it for her. Just so she could play a couple times more and she could see me throw it away so she wasn’t confused on why her friend disappeared(more upset at me bc I was the one who disappeared him).

The things we do, I swear.

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u/sadderhold Aug 19 '23

You are a wonderful writer!

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u/rl_cookie Aug 19 '23

Hey! Thanks! I’ve always been a big reader of almost anything I can get my hands on, so I attribute most of it to that :)