OMFG, my cat just brought this HUGE grasshopper/whatever in and ATE IT!

:puke: eeeeewwwwwww, :wtf: :scared: :puke:

at least he's eating a balanced diet.

:silly:

This is like the 5th time in recent weeks this has happened... wtf?

'fore you see it again...

it's 17-year brood time around here, and the dogs just keep eatin' 'em.

He stalked it, pinned it down with his paw and then crunched it up and ate it, wiggly little legs and all.

:puke:

She slapped her paw right on top of it, you could see nothing but eight spider legs flattened, sticking out from under. She curled her paw with the spider wedged to it and whipped it into her mouth. Bing bang boom. :crazy:

...just be glad you're not the size of that grasshopper...;-)

...and one of the street cats has brought me a "present"
and left it at the front door.

It might well be the biggest mouse I've ever seen- at first glance,
I thought it was a small rat.

he threw it on the floor and got down to devouring it... selfish bastard. :silly:

From my POV, it was nice of him to dispose of it himself.

I have to remove the mouse on the porch...but I have to wait
until the cat isn't hanging around, so his feelings aren't
hurt by seeing me throw it away.

Like I don't have stress enough, now I have to worry about
not offending a cat!

:silly:

That's what *my* cat would feel compelled to do.

:scared:

And she's not even my cat! She seems to have fixated on me because I sometimes give her treats. And to make matters worse, my landlady (who owns the cat) is jealous or something, and not only blamed me for this ... but demanded that I wrap up the rat and take it to a public dumpster 2 blocks away, because she doesn't want it "sitting around in the garbage".

I wish she (the cat, not my landlady) would just eat the rat without any fanfare, because that would make my life a lot easier.

for giving her treats! That's why she (the cat) didn't eat it.

Lucky you. :)

up the remains....but those things can put up quite a fight ( we used to have tons of them in my grandmothers backyard )

I got swarmed once as a kid by roaches (the downside of living on the Mississippi Coast below the poverty line in a house with large gaps between the floors and walls). Been terrified ever since. So my cat (yes, Minnie, for those who know the picture) jumped on my lap once, smiled at me as though telling me she was about to give me a special gift, and dropped a roach into my lap. She didn't understand the horrified screaming, but she was sweet enough to pounce on the creature and devour it, once my gyrations had dislodged it from my lap and flung it halfway across the room. She's never done that again.

So maybe the way to teach your cat not to bring you such things is to shriek like a terrified child while jumping manicly then curling into a small ball while sobbing. If nothing else, it gives your kids something to laugh at for years to come. :shrug:

i'd rather they didn't eat them tho...

your kitty wants you to be well fed

but then your kitty felt they needed the food more than you

:rofl:

they leave little grasshopper legs all over the house

gross

:D