Our defective cats.

[Brad]

At our old house, in the 9 years that we have had at least 2 of our cats, we never saw a mouse. Before the cats we would get one or two a year during winter time. Tonight Maggy showed me a loaf of bread that was on the top of our fridge. It had a small hole chewed through the plastic bag and quite a few pieces of bread chewed on by what certainly appears to be a mouse. I honestly never thought we would ever have another mouse in our house so it must be one brave little mouse. We have 4 (rescued) cats in this house so I believe they must all be broken or just very lazy.
:roll: :lol:

 

[dahlian]

if it helps, my cat is defective too- last time she escaped she brought a rat the size of a small dog into the house and plopped it down on the breakfast table, still 100% alive and kicking.

she also does the thing where they run around chasing nothing at 2 am, classic cat behavior.

 

[Anarah]

Yeahhh, the majority of my cats never gave two shits about hunting mice. I had one that was a good mouser, but he kind of just showed up at our farm one day and decided he was going to live with us. He spent most of his time outside and retained a lot of his wild instincts, lol.

 

[JerryBoBerry]

Time to stop feeding them.

 

[Diana Blake]

I introduced my cat to my brother's guinea pig once...she ran and hid under my bed for three hours.

 

[EdenUk]

I once owned a cat....for 12 hours :shock:

 

[GweenBlack]

if it helps, my cat is defective too- last time she escaped she brought a rat the size of a small dog into the house and plopped it down on the breakfast table, still 100% alive and kicking.

she also does the thing where they run around chasing nothing at 2 am, classic cat behavior.

That's how cats show they love you, don't yell at it when it brings "gifts" at home.

Weird, i know, but its the way to say "HEY MOM I BROUGHT FOOD THIS TIME! I LOVE YOU"

Gotta love cats hahaha

 

[dahlian]

if it helps, my cat is defective too- last time she escaped she brought a rat the size of a small dog into the house and plopped it down on the breakfast table, still 100% alive and kicking.

she also does the thing where they run around chasing nothing at 2 am, classic cat behavior.

That's how cats show they love you, don't yell at it when it brings "gifts" at home.

Weird, i know, but its the way to say "HEY MOM I BROUGHT FOOD THIS TIME! I LOVE YOU"

Gotta love cats hahaha

Oh, I know this and there was no punishment, just a lot of horrified screaming from my dad while my mom grabbed an oven mitt to usher the poor animal back outside. (and when I say poor animal I mean the rat of course) We were just used to her killing anything she found in the house first!

 

[Bocefish]

J/K not my cat

 

[KamikaziKitty]

J/K not my cat

If this were my cat I would name him Dildo Shaggins... Cuz yeah

 

[Anonymous]

NOT TO BRAG OR ANYTHING...
Okay totally to brag.

A week or so ago, I heard this fuck-huge crash in the kitchen and was like WTF DID YOU DO CAT???? (Cat and I were the only ones home)

Run out from the bedroom, HOLY SHIT, CAT'S GOT A DEAD MOUSE
and now he is playing with it like a gross bloody little toy.

Ew.
Eventually I got it away from him and i threw it outside, I figure he'll either decompose or some other animal will come along and get it.

All hail the great hunter kitty!

 

[Anarah]

I once owned a cat....for 12 hours :shock:

how do you only own a cat for 12 hours?? lol

 

[Red7227]

They are so graceful

 

[TacoBelle]

My cat scared the shit out of me yesterday. He somehow turned on the Roomba by himself. I ran downstairs to see what the noise was, and he just looked at me. I think my cat is trying to tell me, "Clean the damn house, woman!"

 

[Anonymous]

I take back anything I said about the cat being a great cat.

He peed on the bed at 6am.

 

[ACFFAN69]

I've had this cat for just under 2 months, she's a stray that decided to attempt to live underneath my neighbors patio for the coming Winter.

No matter how much I try, she can't seem to understand the idea of playing, I've tried so many different toys and none work. The moment she turns to the hunting brain, she immediately runs away and hides. I'm a little worried it gives her Nam-style flashbacks having been a stray so long. Either way, the only thing this Princess does is sleep and cuddle.

Every hour or so of her waking time she will jump up either on my lap or the cushion next to me and meow in my face until I pet her. I'm seriously spending a huge (majority) percent of my day just petting/scratching this cat, and my main reward comes in kneading marks all over my leg. This was previously fine because while doing so I could do other things, but just today she began to gently paw at my chin until I look at her, the moment I look away, the paw comes back up beckoning me to shower her once again with all my focus.

Still, through all her foibles and eccentricities I can't imagine a better cat. :love4:

I hate to use the term, but it is the best way to describe this situation. I have quite literally become "pussy whipped".

 

[Teagan]

She is gorgeous ! Thank you for rescuing her

 

[SaffronBurke]

if it helps, my cat is defective too- last time she escaped she brought a rat the size of a small dog into the house and plopped it down on the breakfast table, still 100% alive and kicking.

she also does the thing where they run around chasing nothing at 2 am, classic cat behavior.

That's how cats show they love you, don't yell at it when it brings "gifts" at home.

Weird, i know, but its the way to say "HEY MOM I BROUGHT FOOD THIS TIME! I LOVE YOU"

Gotta love cats hahaha

A live animal is a gift, yes. But if a cat brings you a dead animal, it's being a jerk. Cats teach their young to hunt by bringing them dead animals to practice on without being hurt. So, by bringing a dead animal to a human, a cat is saying that you're helpless.

Re: defective cats -
My uncle once walked into the house to find his cat strutting around and very proud of himself. He leads my uncle to his bedroom, where there is a still-living mouse on the bed, with its hind legs and tail caught in a mouse trap. The cat was acting like he had caught the mouse on his own. I have also seen this cat jump from the top of the fridge to catch a fly, miss the fridge, hit his head on the counter, and start purring.

 

[JerryBoBerry]

A live animal is a gift, yes. But if a cat brings you a dead animal, it's being a jerk. Cats teach their young to hunt by bringing them dead animals to practice on without being hurt. So, by bringing a dead animal to a human, a cat is saying that you're helpless.

I always thought of it more like 'Here, I'll trade you this food for some of that yummy tuna stuff you give us. See how fresh this mouse is human? It's worth a can of the good stuff, right?'

But cats being jerks does have merit as a theory.

 

[Teagan]

if it helps, my cat is defective too- last time she escaped she brought a rat the size of a small dog into the house and plopped it down on the breakfast table, still 100% alive and kicking.

she also does the thing where they run around chasing nothing at 2 am, classic cat behavior.

That's how cats show they love you, don't yell at it when it brings "gifts" at home.

Weird, i know, but its the way to say "HEY MOM I BROUGHT FOOD THIS TIME! I LOVE YOU"

Gotta love cats hahaha

A live animal is a gift, yes. But if a cat brings you a dead animal, it's being a jerk. Cats teach their young to hunt by bringing them dead animals to practice on without being hurt. So, by bringing a dead animal to a human, a cat is saying that you're helpless.

Not fully true. The majority of times a cat brings you a "gift" of a dead or injured rodent it is a female kitty. She is bringing it to you because you are her surrogate family and she is "bringing home the bacon." Not really saying you're helpless but it's her way of helping you the only way she knows how which is providing for her family. She is trying to teach you skills you lack. That to me is very sweet. Dogs very clearly show humans when they have been accepted as part of their pack and this is a way a kitty can show you that you are part of their pride and accepted as such. For a cat that is a huge ass deal cause let's face it cats are way pickier than dogs and don't just accept anyone into their circle. Let alone enough to want to take care of you the only way they know how.

Also it may very well be a gift depending on the cat. My old kitty I used to have Cuddles (RIP) would bring me her toys all the time. She would want to play fetch or get pettings for being cute. She knew when she brought me stuff it was adorable and she would get attention for such. In reality she trained me to give her something for just carrying something to me lol. Since there would be mice in the house every so often she would do the same with them. She'd bring them right to me dead and drop them at my feet just like a toy and sit pretty waiting for her attention time.

Either one though is hardly jerk behavior to me and kitty should be praised fully for bringing you anything home when it does. Whether they are telling me i'm in the pride or bringing me a gift

 

[Nordling]

I don't know how much of what we're saying is speculation or based on animal psychologist's papers, but be careful of anthropomorphizing animal behavior. The cat I grew up with as a kid, and who is represented fairly accurately in my avatar was a tom cat, and he would always bring home everything he caught, mostly mice. He would always bring them alive and would not eat them until my sister said, "nice kitty, good job." At that moment, you'd hear the poor mouse's neck snap. From that, we could speculate that the cat is looking for accreditation, but I don't think we really know why cats behave as they do.

The female cat we had never brought her kills home, in fact we assumed she "just wasn't a mouser," but one time, while she had kitten, she brought home a huge rat, and paraded it in front of the tom cat. Was she show him that she was a feminist and "I can too!" After ten minutes or so, she tore the rat up and shared it with her kittens.

Cats are incapable of being "jerks." When they're destructive or gross, they're not trying to piss us off, they do whatever they do for their own secret reason. Why will a cat stare into a corner for 10 minutes?

 

[Teagan]

I don't know how much of what we're saying is speculation or based on animal psychologist's papers, but be careful of anthropomorphizing animal behavior. The cat I grew up with as a kid, and who is represented fairly accurately in my avatar was a tom cat, and he would always bring home everything he caught, mostly mice. He would always bring them alive and would not eat them until my sister said, "nice kitty, good job." At that moment, you'd hear the poor mouse's neck snap. From that, we could speculate that the cat is looking for accreditation, but I don't think we really know why cats behave as they do.

The female cat we had never brought her kills home, in fact we assumed she "just wasn't a mouser," but one time, while she had kitten, she brought home a huge rat, and paraded it in front of the tom cat. Was she show him that she was a feminist and "I can too!" After ten minutes or so, she tore the rat up and shared it with her kittens.

Cats are incapable of being "jerks." When they're destructive or gross, they're not trying to piss us off, they do whatever they do for their own secret reason. Why will a cat stare into a corner for 10 minutes?

None of it is speculation or anthropomorphizing them from my post. The first paragraph is simply science and research. Females are the ones more often bring home dead things and bringing it to their kittens or humans. Your girl kitty wasnt being a feminist but rather doing her instinctual job of feeding her babies and weening them off her nips. The second paragraph is just how my kitty was and her behavior with it. She acted the same as a stuffed mylar ball as she did with a dead mouse. I know we humanize animals though quiet a lot. Like thinking monkeys are cute when they "smile" but in reality that's how they show fear and terror. It does seem though that some cats do very much adapt to us and "train" us to give them what they want in some way or another.

I think we can study cats behavior in the wild and in homes all we want but we will never truly know what they are thinking fully. Some cats I swear seem as dumb as a box of rocks. I had one who would stare at light bulbs. Like right at them. He would also try to catch the dust particles in the air. Dum dum cat lol. I have one here now though who knows how to unlocked the cabinets here and get in them. These are child proof locks even some humans cant figure out how to get. Smarty smart kitty. As to why one would stare in a corner? It's it obvious? There's a ghost there. Duh lol.

 

[Nordling]

I don't know how much of what we're saying is speculation or based on animal psychologist's papers, but be careful of anthropomorphizing animal behavior. The cat I grew up with as a kid, and who is represented fairly accurately in my avatar was a tom cat, and he would always bring home everything he caught, mostly mice. He would always bring them alive and would not eat them until my sister said, "nice kitty, good job." At that moment, you'd hear the poor mouse's neck snap. From that, we could speculate that the cat is looking for accreditation, but I don't think we really know why cats behave as they do.

The female cat we had never brought her kills home, in fact we assumed she "just wasn't a mouser," but one time, while she had kitten, she brought home a huge rat, and paraded it in front of the tom cat. Was she show him that she was a feminist and "I can too!" After ten minutes or so, she tore the rat up and shared it with her kittens.

Cats are incapable of being "jerks." When they're destructive or gross, they're not trying to piss us off, they do whatever they do for their own secret reason. Why will a cat stare into a corner for 10 minutes?

None of it is speculation or anthropomorphizing them from my post. The first paragraph is simply science and research. Females are the ones more often bring home dead things and bringing it to their kittens or humans. Your girl kitty wasnt being a feminist but rather doing her instinctual job of feeding her babies and weening them off her nips. The second paragraph is just how my kitty was and her behavior with it. She acted the same as a stuffed mylar ball as she did with a dead mouse. I know we humanize animals though quiet a lot. Like thinking monkeys are cute when they "smile" but in reality that's how they show fear and terror. It does seem though that some cats do very much adapt to us and "train" us to give them what they want in some way or another.

I think we can study cats behavior in the wild and in homes all we want but we will never truly know what they are thinking fully. Some cats I swear seem as dumb as a box of rocks. I had one who would stare at light bulbs. Like right at them. He would also try to catch the dust particles in the air. Dum dum cat lol. I have one here now though who knows how to unlocked the cabinets here and get in them. These are child proof locks even some humans cant figure out how to get. Smarty smart kitty. As to why one would stare in a corner? It's it obvious? There's a ghost there. Duh lol.

Also, adding to the mystery of cats is that they are half feral and half domesticated. Or perhaps the late cartoonist Kliban had it right....

 

[Teagan]

I don't know how much of what we're saying is speculation or based on animal psychologist's papers, but be careful of anthropomorphizing animal behavior. The cat I grew up with as a kid, and who is represented fairly accurately in my avatar was a tom cat, and he would always bring home everything he caught, mostly mice. He would always bring them alive and would not eat them until my sister said, "nice kitty, good job." At that moment, you'd hear the poor mouse's neck snap. From that, we could speculate that the cat is looking for accreditation, but I don't think we really know why cats behave as they do.

The female cat we had never brought her kills home, in fact we assumed she "just wasn't a mouser," but one time, while she had kitten, she brought home a huge rat, and paraded it in front of the tom cat. Was she show him that she was a feminist and "I can too!" After ten minutes or so, she tore the rat up and shared it with her kittens.

Cats are incapable of being "jerks." When they're destructive or gross, they're not trying to piss us off, they do whatever they do for their own secret reason. Why will a cat stare into a corner for 10 minutes?

None of it is speculation or anthropomorphizing them from my post. The first paragraph is simply science and research. Females are the ones more often bring home dead things and bringing it to their kittens or humans. Your girl kitty wasnt being a feminist but rather doing her instinctual job of feeding her babies and weening them off her nips. The second paragraph is just how my kitty was and her behavior with it. She acted the same as a stuffed mylar ball as she did with a dead mouse. I know we humanize animals though quiet a lot. Like thinking monkeys are cute when they "smile" but in reality that's how they show fear and terror. It does seem though that some cats do very much adapt to us and "train" us to give them what they want in some way or another.

I think we can study cats behavior in the wild and in homes all we want but we will never truly know what they are thinking fully. Some cats I swear seem as dumb as a box of rocks. I had one who would stare at light bulbs. Like right at them. He would also try to catch the dust particles in the air. Dum dum cat lol. I have one here now though who knows how to unlocked the cabinets here and get in them. These are child proof locks even some humans cant figure out how to get. Smarty smart kitty. As to why one would stare in a corner? It's it obvious? There's a ghost there. Duh lol.

Also, adding to the mystery of cats is that they are half feral and half domesticated. Or perhaps the late cartoonist Kliban had it right....

Hmm maybe the one who stared at light bulbs was having a moment about them too haha.

 

[Nordling]

And in a way, I kind of hope we never unravel all their secrets. It's what makes them so lovable...like reading a mystery novel.

 

[JickyJuly]

I miss Brad. He's a good egg always saving kitties and stuff. :-D