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Beer Snob-50 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 03:06 PM
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Cat question
one of my cats caught and digested a chipmunk in our basement the otehr day. i saw her playing with it and then caught her finishing off her meal. she left a organ of some sort in the spot where she ate it. is this unusual?
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Rosie1223 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 03:23 PM
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1. no
I don't want to be too graphic but our cat usually doesn't eat the entrails of her kills. I get to clean up that part.
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Beer Snob-50 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 03:37 PM
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3. this looked like a liver or heart. nt
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Flaxbee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 06:29 PM
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5. not unusual .. one of our cats presented us with a live mouse
at the front door, and when I tried to set mousie free, Ivan went back, got the poor bugger, and ate everything but what looked like intestine and liver and left 'em on the door mat. Called me an ingrate. :)
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 09:28 PM
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8. Maybe that explains why Sonia has lost some of her teeth!
I don't know if the boys would know what to do with live bait.
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AmyDeLune Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 03:29 PM
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2. My cat eats *everything*
She was a stray, so I guess she still lives by "waste not, want not." We do have to take her to the vet for de-worming and the occasional spyrochete infection though.
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SoxFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 03:45 PM
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4. I found a bird's head in the living room one time
No idea what happened to the rest of it.

Some sort of weird feline "Godfather" message, I guess...
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 08:46 PM
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6. We used to have a cat who would catch and eat chipmunks
except she left the heads on the front porch. One of my cats caught a mouse in the living room and ate everything but some bits of guts. And a friend's cat catches rabbits, drags them into the garage, dismantles them and eats everything but the innards.
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Lasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 08:58 PM
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7. Yep, they usually leave the gutpile.
Since they caught it, they get to eat the best part. They leave the guts for lucky you.
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Withywindle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 11:46 PM
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9. Not unusual.
That's how they are.


They'd do that to you if they could.
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petronius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 11:48 PM
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10. It's extremely unusual
She only left a mess in one place?
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-28-10 12:43 AM
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11. My Fitzy found a baby rat somewhere and brought it back home
when I called him. He jumped the fence with this live, terrified rodent, and started batting him around on the porch. I was horrified, and yet...

So I went inside, leaving him to his prize. He ate everything except what I believe was the rodent's liver. I think he left that for me, because one of the first times I fed him, I gave him the cooked liver from a chicken I had roasted.
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Beer Snob-50 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-28-10 07:11 AM
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13. my wife will not let them play with the rodents they found.
she screams, separates them, and tries to set the rodent free elsewhere. i figure it is the "circle of life..........."
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-28-10 06:25 PM
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15. I'd only feel differently if it was a pet.
Rats and mice give me the creeps. Funny, because spiders and snakes don't bug me at all.
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-28-10 03:05 AM
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12. Yeah, pretty unusual. Mine like to bring them to me live and eviscerate them while I watch.
That's why they don't go outside anymore.
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Arkansas Granny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-28-10 07:24 AM
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14. Not at all unusual. Some cats will eat part or all of their kill and others don't.
The cat I have now is an excellent mouser, but she doesn't eat them. After she kills them she places them on the dining room floor so I can admire her work. She doesn't seem to mind when I dispose of the bodies.

A friend of mine moved into a house that had a mouse problem. His cat would hunt during the night and leave the bodies arranged around the bathroom stool. Then he would come in to watch as they were flushed down the stool.
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kimi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-28-10 06:34 PM
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16. Not unusual in my experience
Well, in my feral's experience. He will bring me his kills, and occasionally take bits and pieces from them and leave the odd remnants for me to goo-goo over. The odd head, hindquarters, liver, heart, intestines, tail - I admire each and every one, and he's pleased with my acknowledgement of his keen skills.
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cheneyschernobyl Donating Member (137 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-28-10 07:44 PM
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17. Not unusual at all.
Once my cat scratched at the back door instead of meowing. My girlfriend didn't think anything of it...let Patty in...and now we've got a bird flying around inside the house. Do you have ANY idea how easy they are to catch!?!?!?!
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-28-10 09:12 PM
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18. Get a dog. n/t
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-28-10 09:23 PM
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19. And dogs *don't* kill anything?
Hell, they'll roll in the shredded viscera of their kill, or in the rotting corpse of something another animal killed -- the stinkier the better. That's at least as disgusting as chipmunk heads on the front porch.
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-28-10 09:28 PM
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20. "disgusting"?!1 Oh, like this is an objective assessment!1 n/t
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-28-10 11:41 PM
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21. no, not unusual to leave an organ laying around after a kill
Now, if the cat were to leave a piano, I would mention it to the vet.
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