What affects us affects cats
Like many cat owners, I expect others to rescue mice from the jaws of their cat. I expect them to catch a mouse as it runs around the living room and hides behind curtains or under furniture. Is that what you do? Perhaps not. I certainly do if I’m able to. Perhaps my cat …
The question implicitly refers to domestic cats. Cat guardians probably know the answer through their experience of seeing their cats bring mice into their home and release them. If alive and able mice sometimes run under furniture such as sideboards. Domestic cats will silently wait and watch an exit to the furniture in the …
My cat just walked in with a damned big mouse or a rat. I don’t know. I can’t tell the difference without doing some research and I haven’t got time right now for that. Here is the video: My cat catches a rat or a damn big mouse. from Michael Broad on Vimeo. SOME …
It’s that old hunting instinct again which comes out in scavenging the neighbourhood for human items, usually socks and children’s toys but in this instance it is shoes. The fairly familiar examples of domestic cats ‘stealing’ items from homes is an expression of frustrated hunting which has come out not in hunting real creatures …
The anti-cat brigade find any way to criticise domestic and feral cats. They condemn the cat for not even being able to perform their ancient historical role: to get rid of rats. Well back in those far flung days before Ancient Rome, the domestic cat was semi-feral and more like today’s African wildcat. They …
Do domestic cats kill squirrels? Yes, they do but the percentage of house cats who are successful squirrel hunters is probably quite low despite the impression the pictures on this page provide. Depending on the individual cat, those allowed outside might instinctively have the urge to prey on squirrels. They are the right size …
I think you can break the question down into two separate questions. In my experience, cat owners and people in general are far more concerned about domestic cats preying on birds than they are on mammals such as mice and voles or reptiles and insects. If the question is how can you stop my …
Compared to 2,000 years ago the modern domestic cat is smaller, pampered and flabby and not, in general (there will be exceptions), an effective rat catcher. As prey mice are safer and smaller. Modern domestic cats are 15% smaller than domestic cats of Ancient Egypt. The cats of 2,000 years ago were not only …
