Cat owners see this under their bed. What do I mean? Well, this is what I found under my bed this morning. You can tell that it is under my bed because of the dust! It is a strange looking object. However it wouldn’t be if you had known that last night at about 2:30 am I heard that familiar shattering sound of a mouse’s skull in the jaws of my cat. I went back to sleep but was unsure if he was eating his kill under or on the bed.
That dreaded crunch, crunch
That crunch, crunch, crunch as he starts at the head and works his way towards the tail. Nothing is left except the object that you see in the video. Sometimes nothing is left at all. It takes around 60 seconds. He normally leaves what I believe to be the gallbladder which is bitter in taste. However, on this occasion he appears to have left behind the stomach. This is what it looks like to me but I can’t be completely sure. It looks very large actually for a mouse’s stomach but I’m not too sure about the anatomy of a mouse, if it was a mouse!
Let’s say it was a small mammal, probably a mouse and if it was it would be his sixth or seventh within the past few months. As you know you he has brought in several birds. And as you also know he is an avid hunter.
Ideal barn cat
I think that he would have been ideal as a farm cat. I think in retrospect he probably should have been adopted by a farmer and become a barn cat. He couldn’t do the job now because he has been cosseted and loved by me every day of his life except for the first seven weeks when he was a feral kitten.
Expertise at hunting among all the domestic cat is dependent upon the cat’s character and desire. Some are good and some are not so good. My cat is at the top end, the Premier league of hunters.
Sometimes when he comes back he smells of what I believe to be rubbish of some sort, perhaps it is some old rug or linoleum which he rests on. My guess is that he is waiting within an old shed of some sort for a mouse to emerge. Three houses down from me there is an abandoned shed and I think he does his mousing there. It can’t be closed so it is safe from that standpoint.
My cat escaped his bespoke enclosure
You may have guessed by the way that he escaped from his bespoke, custom-made backyard enclosure. I was told that no cat could escape from it but he did. He climbed up to about human head height and gnawed his way through the fencing. I’m deciding what to do next.
Blimey that’s some mighty mouse to have an organ that big, or are your floorboards very narrow?
The UK cat killer is still killing & mutilating cats who roam at night. Two in the last week. Maybe keep the mighty hunter in at night?
It is not an urban myth despite the budget saving rubbish from the Met & the idiot cat hating professor about it being foxes predating on cats. I know you prefer the prof’s explanation, but he is wrong, had other motives and has history on shutting down police operations to catch cat killers.
If that fence/enclosure was sold to you as a cat containment fence/enclosure I’d suggest you alerted the manufacturer and raise a query on that. You might get a refund or a more resistant replacement. Maybe someone or something damaged it so it was weakened?
Here’s to Gabs staying safe to hunt another day.
Yes, cats do have a sense of duty, as it were, and they’ll do what they can to do what they can. (get out to get the mice). I’ve known two escape artists in my life and they were truly amazing. My cat always found a way to get out of my house when he wanted, even if it came down to wearing me down. Another was a neighborhood cat who escaped a cage. Yes, a folding cage meant to contain a cat or dog. Worked on it all night until he found it’s weakness and squeezed out. Much respect. Oh, I used to see mice and rats around the outside/back yard. Haven’t in years. Cats know they have a useful skill that serves us, and they enjoy performing it, unless they’re fat, lazy and happy I guess. As for me reading the gross details of mice eating first thing in the morning… not thrilled.