As promised, here are the dead things.
These are just some of the things the cat leaves for me each morning. Thankfully she didn’t decapitate them like she normally does. When she does that she leaves the eyeballs on the back door welcome mat. I don’t know what she does with the heads.
I think these might be moles but I’m not really sure. I didn’t poke them with a stick to try to turn them over to get a better look. They are a little bigger than a mouse and as you can see they don’t have long tails.
*update*
Shortly after posting this I noticed another dead thing in the yard. It’s been decapitated but the eyeballs are still attached as you can clearly see. I think it’s a bunny, sorry Katherine.
I’m not sure if this belongs to the bunny or is from a bird, it looks as if there are feathers attached. You can biggify if you want to take a closer look.
Ah, look at those lovely presents!
She must love you very much.
Cooooool. Dead things!
So does she pluck out the eyeballs as an especially treasured delicacy for her human? I'd really like a photo of that, please.
Holy crap. Y'all gotta click to biggify that. The thing on the top has its legs all up in the air and his mouth wide open suitable for any dramatic death scene.
I'm sorry, but at least she brings 'em to you dead. I had a cat kill a bunny and bring it into the house, still screaming. It didn't make it. Judging from my latest post, I'm sure you can guess who did the killing.
I just found another in the backyard, no head, which means the eyeballs are
somewhere. It's a bloody mess of what could be a squirrel or a rabbit. It's
hard to tell at this point. I'd post a picture but it might be too graphic
for some readers. I can always send one to you though, let me know.
I thought they were moles too. They're actually kind of cute if you pretend they are just sleeping. My cat brought me the tail of a squirrel once, with the fleshy bloody strip of rump still attached. *gag* Thankfully my Chihuahuas don't feel the need to gift me with dead animals!
I've just updated, take a look at the new dead thing.
I've just updated the post with more dead things and eyeballs.
That would have been the end of the cat for me. As long as she leaves them outside I am okay with the whole kill things for fun but if she were to bring them inside I would have to find another home for her.
I've added two more dead things I just found this morning. Or it could be one dead thing, I'm not really sure. It's decapitated which is always fun.
For the last week my son has woken to “Would you get rid of the dead things, please” rather than “Good morning”.
If that's love, I wish the cat would hate me.
Holy crap, it's like Texas Chainsaw Massacre all up in here! I LOVE IT!
Holy cow. I'd agree that is a bunny and a bird. Wooooow. Your dog is vicious with his “friends”. And Stanley looks like such a sweet dog. He probably doesn't understand why his toys keep falling apart.
I totally biggified the poor little moley. That guy knows his death poses.
Awesome.
Stanley is a lover not a fighter, this is all from the cat, Dini.
It's good to know you follow through….I think.
The Farm cats often bring the publicist presents. She has gotten dead gophers, mice, snakes and skinks. Birds are rare but due show up now and then.
She is sad when it happens but cats will be cats.
The male person jumps with glee when they kill a gopher.
What the hell is goin' on at your house!?!?! {faints}
I ain't biggifying any of that.
It is obvious how much your cat loves you.
Now MY cat likes to urinate on my leg…my Bride says this is a sign of love as well, she is 'claiming' me. Cats have odd ways of showing affection…I think that old song…
“That's a strange way to tell me you love me…” was written for cats.
That is awful, Jen. Simply awful. What do you do with these things when you find them? My cat is an indoor cat now thank God. But we still have Harry the serial killer dog. Harry on a number of occasions has peed on my leg. He smiles at me, lifts his leg, and pees on me. Excuse me? What is that all about? It's bad enough to have dead squirrel and dead possums brought to me, but to be pissed on too really pisses me off.
OMG. I am totally grossed out!
{faints} ahahahahahahahhha!
I CANNOT look! I just can't. You know she's bringing you gifts, right? Tell her flowers and chocolate work better.
I totally biggified. Yeah, I'm twisted like that.
Oh just wait till you see my next post… NONE of you will ever talk to me again…
Holy COW that bunny one is one for the books! Your cat has some major anger issues… you have a Jeffrey Dahlmer cat or something… but didn't he EAT his victims? Your cat just loves to KILL! ha ha!
P.S. You MADE my day by posting this!
This is just par for the course in the summer months. During the winter the cat doesn't do anything but sleep and eat, and poop I suppose. My neighbors love her because she is single handedly taking care of our rodent problem in the neighborhood.
That's really kinda sad, but I'm glad I made your day. I'm also kinda creeped out by that.
Usually she just leaves the body. I don't know what she does with the heads. Do cats eat this stuff?
I thought you would.
It's okay if you don't look. I couldn't read Katherine's post about grilled bunny. I think the idea that these are gifts are a myth. These are threats, http://www.goodeatsfanpage.com/humor/otherhumor...
I throw them in the trash with the dog poo. What else can I do with them?
What is with cat's peeing on people's legs? If my cat did that she wouldn't be my cat anymore.
Im already scared!
I have my neighbor Henry come over and get them. I'm not sure what he does with them. (And I'm afraid to ask.)
I will NOT biggify those photos. I had to clear the worst mess ever up from the cat room one morning. I even found a chunk of flesh in my laundry later on!
The saddest (funniest) thing we ever found at our back door was a nose with teeth still attached. Nothing else, just a tiny pink nose with two front teeth.
Are they moles? They're so weird looking with their non-tail tails. Funny story, my cat used to bring pine cones and leave them on the back porch, which was much better than her bringing dead, decapitated animals, but finding 40 pine cones on the back porch in the morning was a little freaky.
I think I love your cat!! I totally love poking dead things with a stick. We'd get along great!!! lmao. This post just cracks me up. I cant believe there's a decapitated dead bunny rabbit in your back yard.
Although now that I think of it….it had better be a dead bunny, 'cause if it was decaptitated and alive it'd be a zombie bunny. Gasp!!
40 pine cones would be easier to clean up, you wouldn't need the hazmet suit and the pooper scoopers like I use to clean up the dead things, but still that is a bit strange and would make me wonder about the cat.
Flesh in the laundry would make me lose it. Who did the nose and teeth belong to? The worst thing she has done is leave the eyeballs, licked clean, on the back welcome mat. I thought the kids had left there marbles there and was ready to yell at them for leaving a hazardous toy around for someone to trip on, then I took a closer look and called my brother to come over and clean them up. He didn't, said I could do it myself.
I think I would have a fit with eyeballs! The teeth belonged to a little field mouse we think. They were so small, and were also on the back mat!
Mitzi at least brings things home alive and we can usually save them from death, but Sukie is wise to that.
Babs x
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I'm not altogether sure if your cat loves you or is threatening you… *smile
That's why my critters are inside critters. They may occasionally kill a Q-Tip but at least those are “guts” I can vacuum up.
She was supposed to be an inside cat but she got out one day and got a taste of the real world. I haven't been able to keep her inside at night since then, except during the winter of course. She likes outside but she isn't crazy. She kills Q-tips too.
My cat, may he rest in pieces – he was cremated – used to leave presents all the time. Once left a huge rat in my son's room when he was still cribbing it. Once brought a live baby squirrel into the house, also left it in my son's room. We attempted to chase down the squirrel, couldn't because it was too damn fast. Finally, I constructed a makeshift ramp up to an open window. The squirrel got the hint and raced up the ramp and out the window. My cat was pissed but not half as pissed as I was.
Awwww, now you have me all sentimental for my old cat Harlot, who spent every summer killing everything she could get her paws on within a 100-yard vicinity of my house. I made a deal with her: if she killed it, she had to eat it. No wasting the prey! Which means if she got a squirrel (which she did several times every summer), I didn't have to feed her that day. She loved showing off her catch. Which was fine, since it was usually in one piece for the display. Except for the time with the squirrel head. But Sparkle has blogged about that, so I won't repeat it.
Un…..believable! There is something totally awesome about you showing us the dead things your cat brings back. I don't know why. I think it's because it's the first time I've actually seen someone do that.
Well! You don't hear THAT every day.
Um, would it be the one with the bag over it's head I mean body? I LOVE that pic, by the way. With Nicky's comment about it being a cat in a bag's body (or was it vice versa?) Anyway…hysterical.
Yep. He ran inside the house (I can't remember why the door was even open) with a screaming bunny in his mouth. Dave chased him back outside and then we tried dumping a pitcher of water over Calvin's head in the hope he would release the bunny. That didn't work. So he turned the garden hose on him. But by then the bunny was dying and went quickly after. We buried him under a tree.
Yup, kitty brought you moles. The second one looks like rabbit fur. The joys of summer!
Hey, the eyeballz are the best part!
This is certainly original content.
What the hell, Jen!?!
Aww man. That first picture is a bunny. I did enlarge it not once, but twice. I had to use the magnifying glass. I think the ear is above the decapitated head. Why would this bunny seem less gruesome if its eyes were closed? Excuse me, if its EYE (singular since it was in profile) was closed.
Now your cat could become a ninja assassin killing moles and squirrels all day long and I would love her/him for it. But he/she hast to draw the line at bunnies.
Come on, they're *bunnies.* I also thought bunnies were fast. Guess not.
Yeah, we break new ground here at Redhead Ranting every day!
As long as she doesn't bring me a puppy or something larger than her, I'm okay with it. Especially the squirrels and rabbits, there are just way too many of them.
They actually eat the things they kill? Eww.
That would have freaked me out. I'd read all the stories about cats and babies and if a cat had brought a dead or live squirrel into my son's room I would have had to move, leaving the cat behind.
It's a decapitated graveyard around these parts. The morbidly curious side of me would love to see her do it, just to know how she does it. This is the cat who gets slammed by the refrigerator door all the time because she won't move, so she isn't the brightest animal out there.
Ewww!
Yeah, we'll see if any spammers steal this one.
It's just how we roll.
These aren't cute pudgy bunnies, these are emaciated, gangly bunnies, and sometimes strangely deformed with extra ears, there are way too many of them and if the cat doesn't get them then they become pancakes on the road. Oh, I should have taken a picture of that.
Barf.
The first picture does look like moles. Do they have webbed feat?
The first picture is a mole and the 2nd is a gopher, I don't know what the 3rd picture is. My cat also eats these critters. We live by a big field with moles, and gophers. She eats the entire gophers but always leaves the head and stomach (I don't know why) The moles she uses as toys and usually lets them go in the house to play “Cat And Mouse” with later. I hate that she kills these critters and save as many as I can she brings me not already dead, but realize it a cats life here where I live by the large field of rodents.