Mighty Hunter

[sabotabby]

Last night, I discovered that my stack of 11x17 printer paper had a wee surprise in it. Marinetti had apparently stashed a little present in there for me, all dismembered and icky! What a good cat, except that I'd only used about a third of the paper, so it wasn't really the best place to stick it.

I suppose I should be grateful that the only two mice I have ever found in my apartment had already been dispatched by my brave cat, but I do wish he wouldn't squish them. Ugh. I screamed like a girl and threw the entire stack of paper, mouse and all, into the garbage.

I was later informed that my reaction may have been a bit...extreme.

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Comments

[threeliesforone.livejournal.com]

one of my cats killed a mouse once. we've always chalked up the murder to billie, but really, it could've been either of them. especially since after the cat killed it, they both sat back 4 feet from the thing & stared at it in the middle of the kitchen floor until nick & i discovered what they were doing. thank goodness for no surprises. although, i should start shaking out my boots before putting them on, just in case.

[sabotabby]

Marinetti didn't even show me. I think it might have been there for awhile.

You'd think the more...er...zaftig kitties wouldn't be able to catch mice, but Marinetti seems to be decent at it. So it could be either, really.

[uberbitsch.livejournal.com]

Although the final option is tempting too...

[sabotabby]

Well, he wasn't considerate enough to refrigerate it.

[jaymoh.livejournal.com]

My mom's cat, Runt is a superb hunter. They live just outside of Yosemite, so he has all kinds of critters to chase; mice, rats, gophers(when he catches a gopher there is much rejoicing), bunnies, quail, etc. I've stepped in entrails a few times. Usually on the welcome mat. My Ayida isn't much of a hunter. She gets by on her looks.

It's funny that Marinetti hid the mouse. Why? How? Maybe it was a surprise present! Was he at least there for your reaction?

[sabotabby]

It's quite likely that he did not fully succeed in killing it, and it crawled into the paper to die. But he manages to hide his toys rather well, especially his Bush doll, which I can never find.

He looked quite proud when I found it, though.

[zingerella.livejournal.com]

o.k., my usual reaction is "Scream like a girl, go all over queasy, then resolve not to be so darned girly, and sensibly throw out only the paper with the mousy bits on it, gagging and cursing the cat the entire time."

[sabotabby]

I suspect that the majority of people, you included, are far less squeamish than I am. Weird.

[jaymoh.livejournal.com]

That's exactly right. That option wasn't quite there. My husband however would have screamed like a girl, then have ME throw away the paper with the mousy bits.

[violachic.livejournal.com]

You know, I've learned not to flinch when an Israeli soldier points an M-16 at me, but mice... can't abide 'em. In fact, we had a mouse problem in the house in Tuwani, and we all screamed like little girls when it peeked its head out.

[sabotabby]

Hee! I think I'm not just a brave person, having chosen the run-and-hide option in the face of riot cops and neo-Nazis. I'm actually okay with living mice -- even quite good at catching them -- it's the gore that gets me.

That reminds me of Jan Wong's account of the Tiannamen Square massacre; people weren't afraid of bullets, but when it started to rain, they all went for cover.

[disi.livejournal.com]

i would scream and thow it all out. except that i'm cheap, so when my fit was done, i'd probably go back to see if i could salvage any of it.

the only time i ever had to deal with anything like this is when my dog brough home a squirrel she had killed. in retrospect it was kind of cute. she's such a provider.

[sabotabby]

I'm cheap too, but not cheap enough that I was going to risk OMG touching any part of the dismembered mouse. Also, it's one less thing to move.

[pretzelsalt.livejournal.com]

The cat I grew up with would bring me one or two offerings a week in the summertime.

I made the mistake of thanking her the first few times and made a show of my gratitude - which backfired into "YOU LIKE IT - ME GO GET MORE NOW!!!"

I wouldn't feel too sorry for the mouses - they are of the smart.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4593682.stm

[sabotabby]

Haha, serves him right!

[jaymoh.livejournal.com]

OMG icon! See "mini chomp":http://www.cuteoverload.com/

Yeah, that story. I dunno, I'm on the mouse's side on this one.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

I would probably also throw out any adjacent dented pages (because they are dented), but I would certainly keep the rest of the ream.

[sabotabby]

Some were dented and...well, stained.

[y2kesha.livejournal.com]

No "Ticky box" ... What up with that eh?

"Make the cat clean it up?" HaHa, that'll be the day...that's why they have humans!

[sabotabby]

I ran out of options and got lazy.

Have you ever taunted a cat when it gets a bad case of cattitude by putting the can of food in front of it and a can opener and saying, "Make it yourself"?

[jvmatucha.livejournal.com]

When my Empress Pookey kept bringing me dead rats and mice, a friend of mine suggested that Pookey was probably under the impression that I was not getting enough protein in my diet!

[sabotabby]

Perhaps I'm looking anemic these days. I certainly haven't been eating properly.

[bike4fish.livejournal.com]

I always dreaded Salamander catching a mouse - considering how she attacks her toys, I expected little mousie pieces all over the place. However, the one mouse she did catch was left in a place where I was sure to see it, not where I would step on it, and was completely intact.

[sabotabby]

She's considerate as well as pretty.

I wonder what's going to happen in the new place...I think there might be a lot more mice, given what an old building it is.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

Where's the "congratulate the cat" option?

[sabotabby]

That's a given. He always gets congratulated on his kills. I forgot to give him one of his treats, though.

[ironed_orchid]

The Nina cat brought home a rabbit the other day. She is a very fearsome hunter. Delirium is still at the grasshopper and moth stage.

[sabotabby]

Wow, a rabbit? That's ambitious.

[crosley-bendix.livejournal.com]

There is a cat that lives in our house that is a mighty hunter of the bats that we occasionally get. He is the funniest cat in the world. According to his owner, he was a happy, gregarious cat until his owner went away to get an undergraduate degree and he was thrown into basement and ignored for 5 years. Now everything that comes out of his mouth is a peeved, off-key whine. But he is an awesome hunter. He was walking up the stairs and saw the a bat flying around the living room. He went into the living room, tracked the bat for a few minutes, and then in one leap of about four feet into the air smacked the bat down on the floor.