ok...owning 3 cats, i know its cattish behaviour to kill things. but my cat dexter is becoming responsible for the rapid decline in wildlife! hes killing everything! and worse he keeps bringing everything back as gifts for me. ok i know this means hes happy. which makes me happy... but im starting to worry a bit...
monday i came home to a blackburd allover my living room, wednesday i had a pidgeon splatted around the kitchen... and yesterday i was laid on the sofa and saw a live frog hop across the living room floor... i picked him up... and took him back to the pond across the street... woke up the morning... and he was dead on the living room floor :(
does anyone else have this problem? well... i know it aint a problem as such... but is there anyway to kinda 'calm ' his killing spree down a little? as im getting these lovely gifts virtually every day... im just waiting to see him sitting there with a bit of tabby fur hanging out his mouth where hes ate the other cats!
2007-09-06 23:06:04 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Cats
my cat used to do the same, kept bringing frogs from our neighbours pond!
dead birds were also common!
it's in the cats nature to do this and there's nothing you can really do apart from keeping him locked indoors, but I doubt that's something you want to do.
i like the idea of a bell round it's collar, probably won't help the frogs escape but should help the birds! lol
p.s. not sure if it will work, but getting him spayed might calm him down.
2007-09-06 23:09:18 · answer #1 · answered by Emma G 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmm - I used to own a 'killer cat', and I hated his little presents too! Just a couple of ideas - neutering him (if he's not already been done) may calm him down a bit so he doesn't go out on the prowl so often; and secondly, controlling his access to your home - so you have to let him in and out rather than him coming and going freely. In this way you can stop him coming in if he has a 'present' in his mouth and show your disapproval - he may get the message! Good luck.
2007-09-07 06:20:15 · answer #2 · answered by mad 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
put a bell on him, dont worry about him killing a pigeon they're vermin anyway. a bit worried about the blackbird and the frog. i love blackbirds. when i was a kid we a had a tom cat, every single day he's haul a dead pigeon to my mums back door. my mum would pat him on the head and give him a treat then shout to my dad "he's got another one,christ thats the 5th this week" we'd have to get rid of the evidence, he was taking them from out our back next street over from a pigeon fanciers loft. you cannot tame a house cat especially a tomcat.
2007-09-07 06:28:35 · answer #3 · answered by herr fugelmeister 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
is he neutered?
if not it may calm him down a little if he was
but i must admit i have the same problem with one of my cats lol
my youngest was a stray who turned up one day hanging on my letter box
well i had him neutered but he seems to like to make his killing daily
thankfully he don't give me his prize
before he was done he was bringing everything home
he even caught the neighbours rabbits & brought them home ( alive)
but since i had him chopped he sticks to mice and leaves them well away from the home though they do end up in the garden
untill i get the kids sceam "mum theres another dead one in the garden he's done it again"
2007-09-07 08:51:27 · answer #4 · answered by areyurflowersinbloom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have 2 cats both female, both have been neutered. - one does not bring anything home at all but the other used to bring presents home daily. She had a bell on her collar but it didn't seem to be working so we added another one - she jingles as soon as she walks now and so far we have not had any presents since!!
I used to have a male cat and once he had been neutered he calmed down but we still had presents regularly, not as often as before but they didn't stop. I guess it depends on the cats nature too.
2007-09-07 08:04:47 · answer #5 · answered by **Kelly** 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's totally normal.
Just a tip though, make sure your cats are wormed regularly especially because it's eating frogs and frogs commonly carry tapeworm!
2007-09-07 06:57:42 · answer #6 · answered by Jen C 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have 2 cats .One I call my assasin because she kills things so fast their eyes are open. the other is the mangler cause he ripps everything to shreds. i had them both fixed and keep them both indoors .still doesnt keep them from killing. I live in florida so you get the occasional frog or lizard and the assasin is right there lol.Just remember to pat them on the head and tell them good kitty. LOL
2007-09-07 06:20:20 · answer #7 · answered by ~CountryKitten~ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of my two cats will kill anything in her path... I once went down into the kitchen one morning to discover a dead bat!!! Luckily she hasn't repeated that, mice and birds are her favourites.
2007-09-07 06:11:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes my cats a killer too little pressie every where great aren't they it's just what the do, i bought him loads of collars with bells on he goes out with it on and comes back and it's gone, so i don't bother anymore it nature to him killing so i leave him to it, even though i watched him kill a bird in the garden it wasn't nice
2007-09-07 16:25:24 · answer #9 · answered by joanne b 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kermit murder! Natural behaviour for cats. He is doing his bit
by eating other cats, thus reducing the overall effects that they have on wildlife.
2007-09-07 06:33:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋