Gift from my cat

What a lovely Wilf! ??

You are indeed honoured. My kittens used to bring me leaves or earthworms. Yuk. It was almost a relief when they grew up and graduated to field mice, as they were at least cute and usually still alive. The half-dead gull I could have done without though. Heaven only knows how Monty got that through the cat flap. [xx(]

My cat has never brought me a present. I don't know whether to feel relieved or offended ?

A gull? Ew that's really quite scary. Pete and Dud never brought us anything so we've been lucky.

Apparently a piece of bacon rind has just been given to MrH which means he's into someone's bin and it could be a long evening ?

Good to know MrH hasn't been left out. ?

Sounds like a good present to me - better than live animals !!!

My friend who is a proper mad cat-lady says you must praise tot he heavens, otherwise they think they've failed and bring you something bigger.......

Just so's you know ?

How lovely! I got a stick this morning. Otis loves sticks. My H takes him for walks. We think that secretly he thinks that he is a dog

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My friend who is a proper mad cat-lady says you must praise tot he heavens, otherwise they think they've failed and bring you something bigger.......

Just so's you know ?

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Hope - you're right. Chicken skin definitely preferable to live or dead animal, but less good than sticks ?

I love the sound of Otis ?

Otis! Fetch! Quick! ?

Binx mostly brings us other cats. His girlfriend Bliss in partcular. Diiiirty boy.

I had a lovely fat mouse plonked on my pillow this morning from Munki.
Mr Tart said it was still warm when he threw it over the back fence ?

Did I get the name wrong Hazel? I was sure it was you with a Wilf? Oops!

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Did I get the name wrong Hazel? I was sure it was you with a Wilf? Oops!

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No - you're right, it was the Wilfer ?

Our cat once nicked a piece of fish from a neighbour. She took the fish outside to eat as it was a warm day, popped back into the house for the salt and before she knew it our cat had whipped the fish off her plate. She came over complaining to me, all I could do was apologise.

Aww, how clever.

We mostly get frogs and toads from ours ???

Frogs make a hideous squeaking noise when punctured ?

We normally get half eaten mice, voles or shrews. occasionally a dead bird with feathers and blood strewn about the place.

sometimes live mice.

once a live frog.

the worst was a dead London rat. niiiiiice.

quote:Originally posted by bettyb
Our cat once nicked a piece of fish from a neighbour. She took the fish outside to eat as it was a warm day, popped back into the house for the salt and before she knew it our cat had whipped the fish off her plate. She came over complaining to me, all I could do was apologise.

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What did she expect you to do - take it out of the cat's mouth, wipe it off and put it back? ?

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quote:Originally posted by bettyb
Our cat once nicked a piece of fish from a neighbour. She took the fish outside to eat as it was a warm day, popped back into the house for the salt and before she knew it our cat had whipped the fish off her plate. She came over complaining to me, all I could do was apologise.

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What did she expect you to do - take it out of the cat's mouth, wipe it off and put it back? ?

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I honestly don't know what she wanted me to do. He didn't even bring it home to eat, he rudely sat on the roof of her shed eating it, just to wind her up further. ?

My Larry once brought in a dead squirrel (actually, he's done this twice during his lifetime). I'm obviously not praising him nearly enough for his "gifts of love"! ?

Our cat brings home rubber bands, courtesy of the postman who always drops them on the road when he's finished with them. ?

Definitely preferable to chicken skin.

Ron's first gift to me was steak, cooked, still warm!

xxx

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Ron's first gift to me was steak, cooked, still warm!

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That could be a good gift, if only it weren't dragged through the garden first ?

Neither of my cats bring gifts. Dylan sings for his supper and seems to think that's good enough, and Edward tries to hypnotise food so it jumps of our plates. In the past though, I had a great cat, Moses, who once brough home a whole black pudding, still in the bag, and on another occasion a bag of butcher's sausages.

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Ron's first gift to me was steak, cooked, still warm!

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That could be a good gift, if only it weren't dragged through the garden first ?

id="quote">And if he brought it on a silver platter, not in his mouth, and it came with accompanying veg and a nice bottle of Pinot Noir. ?

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quote:Originally posted by monkey fingers
Ron's first gift to me was steak, cooked, still warm!

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That could be a good gift, if only it weren't dragged through the garden first ?

id="quote">And if he brought it on a silver platter, not in his mouth, and it came with accompanying veg and a nice bottle of Pinot Noir. ?

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Try as I might I can't train either of ours to open wine bottles and bring a glass [V]

Lumpy Moses sounds like a top cat. Wilf needs lessons.

I had a cat who stole a pork chop from under our grill once. She set fire to her paw but retired triumphant, with the chop.

He use to come home smelling of curry too, cigarettes and once had chilli sauce in his fur- We think he use to enjoy a night out on the town!

He's sulking now we have moved out into the country

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He use to come home smelling of curry too, cigarettes and once had chilli sauce in his fur- We think he use to enjoy a night out on the town!

He's sulking now we have moved out into the country

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Sounds like he used to knock around with that Barcardi Breezer cat. ?

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aww, how clever.

We mostly get frogs and toads from ours ???

Frogs make a hideous squeaking noise when punctured ?

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so do we ☹️!] I hate them with a passion they pretend to be dead and when you go to get them they become alive again ?

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quote:Originally posted by princess layabout
aww, how clever.

We mostly get frogs and toads from ours ???

Frogs make a hideous squeaking noise when punctured ?

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so do we ☹️!] I hate them with a passion they pretend to be dead and when you go to get them they become alive again ?

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Oh that's horrible when they do that. Many's the morning that I've heard the telltale splat-squeal sound of a cat playing with a frog on the kitchen floor, then gone to pick up the "dead" frog only to have it jump halfway up my nose [xx(]

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Our cat brings home rubber bands, courtesy of the postman who always drops them on the road when he's finished with them. ?

Definitely preferable to chicken skin.

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How dangerous ?

We lost a cat years back who had swallowed a rubber band, it got wrapped around his intestines.

We got a headless starling yesterday. Thank fook he's not yet figured out how to drag them through the magnetic catflap?