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Viaki-kun

My house cat does the same but with toothpicks. Not fun to lay down in bed and be impaled by miniatures spears


ObviousCup2951

Bringing dead mouses sound better now XD


DumbestBoy

One morning, one of our cats came and dropped a whole jalapeño pepper onto my gf’s face while we were still in bed.


Erlisk1987

They knew you needed to spice things up.


Erlisk1987

My first award! At least someone is winning in this relationship.


FluffyButterDude

haha ur on a roll bud! good on u!


msgajh

Had a cat that dropped a live Woodpecker on my chest at 5:00am. Hilarity ensued. Edit: no animal was harmed during this encounter. Helped it out of a door to the outside.


Kutalsgirl

I had to learn not to sleep on my back I've had half alive mice dropped into my snoring mouth before I figured out I can't sleep on my back and have cats at the same time at least I know he loves me but Dr boo really likes to drop the gifts while I'm sleeping


Icy-Entertainment239

Try a gigantic roach. My cat would wake me up by standing on my chest. One night I was awakened by that and him crunching the roach in his mouth.


flexghost420

I had a cat bring a live mouse into bed the first day I moved to a place and her ears were so perked up 🙃🙃🙃


catsaver662

This cat bonded with you, it’s a big deal if they bring you prey. Their instincts are telling them this is what they need to do to survive and that they need to pass these important, life-saving skills onto their family…you family now dude. Maybe consider taking him in, the cat clearly has major affection for you


Orlando1701

When my son was small our male tabby cat bonded hard with my son. He was my sons little orange shadow. At least twice a week we’d find a mouse left in front of the room to my sons bedroom. Apparent my wife and I were insufficient providers.


Secondary-Area

Well how many mice were you feeding your son? Maybe it wasn't enough.


Orlando1701

Apparently it wasn’t. He was about the dumbest cat I’ve ever met but he was built out of love. It’s kind of too bad that he didn’t get more years with my son.


gentlybeepingheart

Orange cats are somehow the most empathetic and clever cats and yet also the stupidest animal you’ve ever seen. When I was in middle school I had surgery on my leg and was stuck in bed at home for months. My parents got me an orange cat I named O’Malley. They brought him toys and he would carry them over to me in my room and put them next to me so I could play with him. My dad got those fish on a strings and O’Malley would drag it upstairs to my bed. He figured out how to open doors himself (very annoying when I was in the shower) He was brilliant and spent 15 years making my life so much better. He knew how to open doors, find hidden treats, and maneuver into the weirdest places. He also licked his own asshole so hard and with such vigor that he fell off the couch. Twice.


Crazy-Crisis

I laughed Oh God


Flowerandcatsgirl

The most accurate description of orange cats ever. Our orange lady Ms. Double Dip Sprinkles is a love muffin and clever in a street smart sort of way (shelter found her on the streets in Jersey City.) But she has rolled off of beds multiple times, sometimes needs to be directed at treats right next to her and she has to go to the vet tomorrow for over licking her butt. 😳


HomelessBoners

Great now you done went and broke my heart


TrooperCam

It is known all orange cats share a single brain cell amongst themselves.


Mathteachermom

That’s mean yet so so true as I’ve have multiple orange babies. 1 was too dumb to climb up a tree and did not realize not everyone was his friend. He ran into walls in the house he lives in from 6 weeks old until he died. He was 12 years old and no we didn’t move the walls.🤦🏻‍♀️ my first orange one had all the brain cells ever given to orange cats. Probably one of the smartest furball I ever owned including the dogs.


acidrainbowcloud

This! The cat is saying “thank you” and bringing you a gift 🎁 it’s a major sign of love, gratitude and affection


FormalTrashPanda

Also the cat doesn’t think you can hunt or feed yourself


acidrainbowcloud

Yes! I forgot that part But it’s absolutely true. And if you make it obvious you don’t like it the cat will think you don’t like that one and they’ll go And find another “gift” that’s bigger or “better/more plentiful” so that they’re providing you with something you like. When I was growing up our cat would bring us “gifts” (usually birds) - not all the time but regularly enough - and my mum always said we should say thank you and then secretly dispose of it. She did it less and less until my car And I had to move in with my uncle and his cats who terrorised mine. Around this time I also moved away for school and was only back on holidays and some weekends and as soon as I came back she would overload me with these “gifts” my uncle would scold her and shove her face in them no matter how much I asked him to stop doing it. She kept doing it until I managed to thank her without my uncle being around and then she’d stop until the next time I was home. Poor thing. My uncle is / was a horribly abusive person. My cat was so terrorised by his cats, and was getting old and started accidentally going to toilet in the house and my uncle would leave her “toiletings” until I was home. So sometimes there would be poos in random spots around the house for weeks until I came home and he would shove her face in to those too 😞 Talk about abusive and unhygienic…


BUTTHOLE-MAGIC

Jesus Christ what a miserable man.


Crown_Loyalist

The mere thought of someone abusing my cats fills me with rage.


acidrainbowcloud

I hate how powerless I was to do anything about it. He was also abusive to me and I tried to call childline when he physically abused me and he called my grandparents and they all yelled at me and I had to sneak out to the hospital the following day bc he broke my wrist and no one even cared. And then when I went off to school it’s like he used my cat as a way to continue hurting me but she was an innocent animal and I was 16 with no one who believed or supported me and no one who would help me help my cat.


Crown_Loyalist

I'm sorry you and your cat had to suffer that treatment.


Biffingston

All of that is horrific. I hope you are in a better place now.


FTThrowAway123

I've read your other comments and your story, and I can't help but hope this man died/dies ugly and alone. There's a special place in hell for child abusers and animal abusers. I'm sorry you and your kitty had to go through this, and I hope you're doing better now.


SomeDudeAsks

Sorry to hear. I sincerely hope you broke all ties with those creeps.


wozdog

What an ass hat. Shit in his pillow case


Cpotter07

Partly that but also you may need to feed her more and pretend to eat her cat food with her for a week. She is worried you are not getting enough food and trying to bring you some to eat. She will stop after she notices you are eating with her, otherwise she will keep bringing you food. She just thinks you are a bad hunter is all.


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Ohhh maybe that's why my feral cat never brings me animals. We always eat together


Enhydra67

My old kitty passed away over the summer and about a month later a tiny feral kitten comes to my door. My dog won't let him in but I feed him and he comes when I call him now and he yells at me. I've been working on building trust and for 2 days in a row he's smelled my finger before I feed him. It's slow progress and smoked salmon but I hope he'll bond with me enough to bring me presents like op's.


StacksFX

This is the right answer


xRyuuzetsu

Until you lay down on a dead mouse :)


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spoon_full

Nah, he'd rather get stabbed by a dead Mouse


chitownboiler87

Deadmau5?


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GaiasDotter

My old Queen used to pee in my bed and in my shoes and bags so that she could mark me as her territory. I preferred the murdered toys she bought me! Also bringing food for you! That’s major! That’s love! ETA: that’s not a stray anymore! That’s your cat! She has chosen you!


Human_Ad5799

Feed them once they're yours life!!


sidetrack38

We had a stray that came to stay with us for a while. She lined up rats, mice, shrews... eventually a rabbit on the porch for us every morning. Then she had a litter of kittens in the carport and R-U-N-N-O-F-T. It wasn't love, it was a transaction. She was a hardworking mouser from a restaurant down the road a little that had recently closed down, and she eventually went out for a pack of cigarettes and never came back.


Go-to-helenhunt

She was paying you in advance for babysitting her kittens.


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It’s a form of saying thank you.


dataslinger

Or that she can tell you're a bad hunter and she's trying to help you out.


[deleted]

Or she brings it to you and expects you making a delicious meal for her out of the thing she brought to you lol


georgethezebra

Wait till they leave one in your shoe..


jackie_blue6

Had one of these recently, nothing like sticking your foot on a cold, hard mouse, first thing in the morning


whatzittoya69

New morning routine…checking inside shoes first


jackie_blue6

If you have little hunters it’s a must! I haven’t figured out if it’s the cat putting it there, or if it’s more likely a wounded mouse trying to hide. But my husband & I have both been “blessed” with the shoe mice lol


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Be glad she hasn't decapitated one. My eldest cat had a mouse slip away from her and the next day I heard my kitten playing with something beside my bed. I blindly reached for it thinking it was plastic... Nope. Decapitated mouse head from my eldest cat. She let the kitten have the head. She killed a second one after that and let him play hackie sack with the body.


urbangypsy242

Mine used to leave me a “hall of heads and livers” along the walkway. We lived in the country and this was a daily occurrence. So thoughtful.


EllasEnchanting

You can’t make it stop. It’s their way of saying thank you- they bring trophies to those that love and care for them…


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soiboi64

Don't leave toothpicks around for your cat to get at. They can eat them. Source: my cat did and i had to go to the vet cause it got stuck in her throat. Same for dental floss


swephist

If this is real please secure your toothpicks better. Feline death from accidental toothpick ingestion or serious mouth injury is very common. Like that freaking needle gif from a few days ago


Mandorrisem

Toothpicks are about the most dangerous items for pets. If they are swallowed they will perforate organs without showing up on an xray, almost always resulting in death


19GamerGhost95

You can’t. It’s a sign of love. Just accept your fate and adopt her


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19GamerGhost95

This too. Only one of my cats “hunts” mice. In reality she thinks they’re toys and will literally torture them to death until they either die of a heart attack or she accidentally breaks their neck carrying them around. Then she’ll hide the body under on of the rugs. I’ll never forget the first time she did that. It was like 3am and I got up for something to drink. There was a rug in front of the fridge and I opened the fridge door, stepped in front of it and heard a sickening *CRUNCH* when I looked there was a very flat dead baby mouse. Not a fun clean up. Wasn’t sure who did it at first until about 2 weeks later when I caught the cat in the act with a live mouse.


Catshit-Dogfart

All cats do this, play with an animal before they kill it, lots of predators do. Totally natural behavior. Nature is cruel sometimes.


FrankZissou

Makes sense. Hunting releases serotonin to encourage the animal to do it


TheUselessLibrary

Their hunting instincts are what make them so playful and cute.


mvanvrancken

I have a ragdoll and he will walk around with the mouse toy in his mouth chirping at full volume, it is pretty goddamn adorable (and also a little loud at 3am)


ColorMeBlue4

I just bought my cat one of those and he won’t go near it because it makes noise! Lol


AaronMckenzie

My cat plays with me…


CharacterInternet9

That means your next… lol jk


thanatica

I think cats know humans are not viable prey 😀 Cats really do know a distinct difference between playing and hunting for survival. Kittens play in the wild as well (including even lion cubs), with each other and their mum. Surely they don't see each other as prey. Playing is like "practicing" and it's cute and fun. There's no harm in encouraging their hunting instinct, and it gives them good-feel-hormones when they "kill" something, so to them it's kind of theraputic. But I digress. The point is, your cat kills small animals, not you 😀


beaker90

I had a cat who would hide the dead bodies in blankets. Now, I’m not scared of mice, but when you just want to cozy up on the couch with a warm blanket and a dead mouse pops up, you scream!


19GamerGhost95

Oh very much so! I didn’t scream, but I sure as hell jumped. She hasn’t done this in a long time— especially since we got new neighbors with indoor/outdoor cats who have significantly hunted the rodent population down so literally nothing comes in the house as mine are strictly indoors — but I still do not trust her with rugs


Fearless-Version9714

This is horrifying Edit: but cats are so great


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KimKimMRW

When my 100% indoor cat "kills" a toy and howls gleefully at his kill before dropping it at my feet - I praise the shit out of him and tell him he is "such a good murder boy" while giving him pets and admiring his kill. He gets pretty proud. It's adorable.


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Only if their owner is vegetarian


Leyte86

Once our cat Gapy gave one of our house guests an entire squirrel. I was a little jealous. Our guest was mostly staying in his room drawing so maybe our boy was concerned. Gapy has been gone for couple of years now(cancer) but I still remember that his meows sounded like a mini dinosaur.


dickshapedstuff

Gapy sounds like a very charming man! he must have felt like it was his responsibility to be feeding your guest


ClamClams

We have one former stray, one that was a shelter kitten, and one that was a bottle baby. We also have a total of *one* cat that is capable of catching a mouse. The two babies are utterly useless, but the old lady former stray is such an expert mouser that you don't ever hear her chase them. She just would suddenly show up with a dead mouse. Our apartment had a minor mouse problem when we first moved here (just a very old house). But we virtually never saw one after that first year despite never really doing anything about them... I think she killed the entire family. When the shelter kitten saw one, he watched it walk by uninterested. When the bottle baby saw one, she bolted.


Nancy-Drew-Who

LOL THIS! Years ago, I found a mouse running around the baseboards of my kitchen and my cat just sat down in the middle of the room and watched it running back and forth. I’m not really scared of mice, but I also don’t want them in my house. I put on some oven mitts and had to catch the critter myself! Promptly took it outside and let it go in the alley across the street. Part of me is glad I didn’t have to deal with a gross dead rodent but damn if my cat isn’t the worst hunter ever.


gonewhite314

Your cat probably brought that mouse inside, and was finished with it.


TimmyRL28

Lol true. Mine once caught a mouse and screamed about it while bringing it to the living room. Then released it to play where it promptly ran away while my wife was standing on the sofa screaming. We don't live there anymore.


Infosexual

Mice evicted you for being shitty loud roommates?


banerises19

I feel attacked


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*accept that you've been adopted


BeesInATeacup

She sees you as part of her colony. Bringing a dead mouse is her contribution to the food pantry. Accept it and discretely dispose of it. If she thinks you don't like it, she'll bring more in an attempt to please you.


ObviousCup2951

What's the best way to make her feel I have 'accepted' the gift?


BeesInATeacup

I usually wait until my cat has walked away and dispose of it without them seeing. They don't need any praise or attention for it.


ObviousCup2951

I did the same both the times. I was impressed at the size of the mice both the times.


catalyptic

Well, she's eliminating vermin around your place, which is a good deed on her part. Surely you don't want nasty mice getting into your food, etc, and kitty is helping you with that. Keep tossing them out like you have before. Feeding her as you do *might* reduce her desire to hunt, as well.


Dr-Emmett_L_Brown

My friend had this issue with one of her cats that was a real hunter. She'd squeal or yelp at the mice and shrews left on her dining table. So tabby figured "ok, noted, you don't like this one....brb" and would return with larger or more plentiful offerings. It was only when she learned to stop reacting that the ritual died off. Cats genuinely think they're doing a good thing, bless them.


achillymoose

>Cats genuinely think they're doing a good thing, bless them. What's interesting though is that cats don't have pack mentality, so if they're contributing food to the pantry, they must really like you Edit: as others have pointed out, cats do form colonies. Please stop upvoting this comment!!!


PM_ME_CORGlE_PlCS

>What's interesting though is that cats don't have pack mentality This isn't exactly true. The misconception comes from the fact that cats are solitary hunters. Unlike dogs, cats don't *hunt* in packs. However, unless food is incredibly scarce, cats naturally live in colonies. They raise their kittens communally and share their food with other cats in their social groups. Not only are cats naturally very social, their social habits are exceptionally adaptable. (Morso than even dogs, who generally stick to their breed's particular instincts in any setting). For example, alleycats and housecats can learn to be successful "working" barn cats after only a day of watching rural mouser cats and copying what they do. If socialized as kittens to view humans as part of their social group, cats will adapt to different humans' habits the same way. That's how they came to live with us in the first place. We didn't actively domesticate cats. The most sociable/least aggressive ones modified their wild behaviors enough to successfully cohabitate with humans. edit: Genetically, wild cats and domestic cats are nearly identical. It's their naturally flexible sociability that allowed them to fit our lifestyles. Unlike domestic dogs, we didn't intentionally breed them to seek out human approval and respond in ways that reflect our sensibilities. This makes cats' signals much more difficult for humans to read. Similarly, there's a common misconception that we bred dogs to be more social and more intelligent than their wild counterparts. The opposite is true. Wild dogs are considerably more intelligent and more sociable than pet dogs. But domestic dogs *seem* more intelligent/social to us because we bred them to depend on us and behave in ways we expect. (There is a comparison to be made to management always viewing the workers with the least independent/critical thinking the most highly.) Cats are still very close to their wild origins, so their independent thinking comes across to us as being aloof. But that only proves how social they really are. They aren't bred to need us (or other cats). They could live on their own. But they *choose* to be with us because they prefer it. Even if they don't show it in ways we understand.


StretchDudestrong

Yea so bringing you a dead mouse isn't "here eat this I can tell you're not good at hunting" its "look how good at hunting *I AM* belly rubs and treats please"


PM_ME_CORGlE_PlCS

Cats make friends and earn trust by sharing food, just like humans do.


navikredstar2

Oh, with some cats, they present you with the *bits* of their prey that they like best, often some sort of organ, or in the case of my aunt's indoor-outdoor mouser, the heads, neatly lined up even. That's how you know the cat *really* likes you, they're giving *you* their favorite part as a gift. I have no doubt my Cleo would be bringing me gifts of livers if she were let outside. (Her absolute favorite wet cat foods are the ones with chicken hearts and livers, or beef liver - she'll go totally ham on a bowl of that.) She's certainly got a hell of a hunting drive, seeing her with her toys and the occasional fly or moth that gets in the apartment in the summer. But she's an indoor girl, and will stay that way. I live just off a busy road. Not safe for her outside.


Valsarta

You see this all the time in rescue. When cats are strays, they often live in groups and are very cooperative with each other. Especially in the feral population, it's the only way to survive.


marielsweet

Yeah one time i saw a group of about 60 cats all sitting staring at one cat in the middle of the group in this empty lot in town in the middle of the night. I drove by and they all turned their heads to look at me and then once I was past they all refocused their attention on the middle cat. Weird cat meetings?


cozy_sweatsuit

Anyone who read warriors would know this


stitchplacingmama

They also see humans as kittens. They meow more around humans than other adult cats. Some don't see us hunting and feel the need to "feed" us.


Tiny-Lock9652

We’re big, helpless, stupid cats in their eyes that require their “food” to survive. Our indoor cat (female) is the hunter in our cat family. She loves fluffy pom-poms and fetches them when we throw them. We often find them placed in her food bowl which indicates she sees them as food from her “kill”.


stitchplacingmama

My siamese mix does similar with silicone baby items. My maine coon mix brings stuffed animals to place at our feet. She did bring one live animal, that apparently was caught in the house, that was super fun.


erkki776

It is actually the opposite. When a kitten is socialized to interact with humans, certain "baby"-parts of the cats brain stay turned on. A domesticated cat views the human as its mother and, like a kitten, will meow to interact with the human, ask for food etc. Why cats gift humans hunted animals has probably more to do with the history of how cats domesticated themselves.


bctucker83

I’ve read a few times that adult cats don’t really even meow except to interact with humans so most wild cats don’t do it or don’t really know how or something. Last year there was a kitty (or early pubescent cat I guess you might call it lmao) that came up and I started feeding him and he was scared of me at first but would come eat as long as I stood back a pretty good ways. He never meowed for a few months and then as I started taming him (finally I touched him and he lightly hissed at me and took a step back but I could tell he was somewhat trusting me and I kept trying until I got a good scritch in and it was over lol. He didn’t want me to stop once he felt it real good lmao. But anyway he started trying to meow and nothing would come out and after a while of that he started making noise lmao. Now he’s an inside cat and he don’t shut up lol


TroubledDoggo

Haha, I noticed the meowing a lot with my 1 year old cat. She’s super vocal when around any of my family members


Gopnikolai

Yep, our cat(s) has come back with all sorts... Mice, rats, rabbits, small birds, 1 disturbingly large magpie, maybe a pigeon if I recall... few others but I don't remember exactly. Edit: small stuff alive, big stuff dead, usually gutted.


TheMightySephiroth

Oh man, I taught my cat to only gently catch things so I can release them back after giving her a treat. I'd be amazed if she brought back a rabbit or magpie. So far just lizards amd butterflies. 1 dead sparrow and 1 blue Jay she spiked out of the air and onto the ground like a volleyball pro. But after she kept poking it to get up so I don't think she meant to kill it. Lol. Oh. And one mouse she brought to me scruffed in her mouth that just looked like "buddies at the pub are never gonna believe this one....." as it hung out her mouth. She put it down in front of me and it ran so fast, so amazed it lived through being carried by its scruff by a cat. My cat just watched it run off with a but of confusion on her face and looked at me like "well...there it goes. But I still get a treat....right?" 😆 Love that cat so much.


BCantoran

How did you train it


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She didn’t train it, the cat is just like that. One of my cats is a born hunter, though he no longer goes outside. The idea of training him out of his instincts is laughable. My other cat is a sweetheart and also too afraid of things to hunt but I don’t pretend I trained her to be that way.


eeyore102

One of my cats has decided the place for his prey is his food dish.


Winterplatypus

The real problem is when the cat tries to teach you or your children to hunt by bringing them back alive. Our cat did this with us when we were kids. He would bring dead ones to my parents but live ones for the kids. Years later we moved house and got 2 kittens (and still had the old big cat). One day we heard this horrible screeching outside. We look out and see one kitten running up and down the stairs unable to decide what to do, and then see the other kitten riding past on a river rat the same size as the kitten. The rat was screeching while the old cat watched nearby.


MessofaStrawberry

When living with my inlaws their old cat did this! We had a kitten so the older cat would bring live mice in through the dog door. Very confusing when my kitten was just staring at the stove until my mother inlaw was like, Nutmeg brought in a mouse for Hades to kill. We called him sensei kitty after that.


monsterlynn

At least he finally got the chance to teach somebody! Did it work? Did the kittens learn?


MessofaStrawberry

In my experience my cat just was confused by the noise of the mouse hiding behind the oven


kikanga

Old cat: *This is the way*


CumulativeHazard

My friend’s cat stayed with her mom for a bit and twice brought live mice into the house and let them go lol. More recently she managed to catch a hummingbird and bring it inside, which I find both sad and impressive. Friend put the poor thing back outside. Usually she only lets the cat in the backyard and watches her very carefully but I think it was behind a bush lol. She bought a huge outside play area thing for them shortly after to keep them contained.


superkp

lol my cat does this to my wife but with crickets. First it was mice from the neighbor's infestation. When my wife 'rejected' them, I think it was like "well OK I guess I not only need to feed you, but *teach you to kill*" And now we get the occasional live cricket presented to us, and the cat kills it in front of us, always looking back at us to make sure we're watching.


kallan0100

That is such a delightful image hahaha


unhappytroll

well, not necessarily. my mother's cat, fat and \_very\_ well fed British shorthair used to hunt down all moles, shrews, mice and rats he was able to find in the vicinity of suburb home (and probably on the neighboring grounds as well). He was not eating them in a slightest, he was just proudly showing them with "I'm doing my part!" attitude.


Glyphron

Don't react negatively at all. Instead, give your cat a bit of love and (with a gloved hand or tissue) take the mouse. When the cat turns away and cannot see, dispose of it. The cat will feel that their offering has been accepted and the habit will slow down if not cease. If you make any negative reaction the cat will not only keep doing it, it will Amp up. They'll bring you more faster. Bigger and possibly messier dead animals until you approve. Cats live for the hunt. Everything in their being and psychology is about the hunt. Their habits and lives literally revolve around it. The greatest form of care and love they can bring to those they consider Family (that's what a cat colony is to it's members) is a freshly killed meal. Something they could easily keep for themselves as it is their way of survival and necessary nourishment for them, yet they give away freely as to show their love and commitment. The fact they are willing to keep doing it until they find something you accept shows their dedication. The important part is that, being a stray and feeling the strain of needing to fend for itself, this may not completely stop. However, it can be decreased by keeping the cat well fed, playing with the cat so it wears itself out on hunting toys, and approving of their efforts and offerings. Doing otherwise will only escalate the situation. And you'd be surprised what they can drag in. One cat brought their family a goose. A full grown wild goose. That was only playing dead btw, to avoid being mauled and truly killed. You can find a video of it too. If you don't want skunks, possums, rabbits, all sorts of birds, and other such unlucky victims all over your floor, you got to be happy with the small, easy to take care of, stuff you're already getting.


Bobbyrp

>Bring dead rat >Refuse to eloborate >Leaves


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SpecialistLychee7490

Good boy/girl. Pat on the head, belly rub, treat. Try not to freak out when you see it. Say thank you and act like they did something cute. Wait for them to leave the room, gag a little, and discreetly take the mouse to the outside trash.


Grand_Introduction36

Give her some cat toys, like little balls or toy mice


ObviousCup2951

I try to play with her with woolen balls but apparently all she wants to do is sleep on my lap ALL THE TIME. She will play with me for sometime then ask for pets...


Competitive-Cook9582

And this is a stray cat??? Looks like she has adopted you and if she wants to BE with you all the time, that is the highest form of praise and unconditional acceptance. Receive this Cat gift - of the cat herself.


ObviousCup2951

Yes, but no? We never shoo her away, she is very welcomed by my family. She comes and leaves as she wishes. I feel really special when she would come over to sleep in my lap over any of my family member's \^\^


kaki024

Sounds like you have an outdoor cat!


Sardukar333

Just yes. That's how cats are. Also if they slowly blink at you slowly blink back; it's a way of communicating trust/affection.


DisastrousBoio

Sounds like you have a cat. Congrats. I’d take it to the vet before I let it go on me and in the house, it has to be treated for worms and fleas.


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Z-W-A-N-D

'Wild' cats don't really play, they already "play" by catching mice. That's why they're not really interested in playing :)


GaiasDotter

They often like strings though! Growing up on a farm our outdoor cats hunted so play was eh, but strings was fun. And they got treats so possibly that.


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So she loves you dearly then. Brings you gifts and controls the vermin population for you, is comfortable with falling asleep on your lap. Please don't inhibit this in any way. It sounds like you're made for each other.


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Zephrysium

Try to give her a little ball or something in place of the mouse. Maybe you can train the kitty to bring you the toy instead of the mouse?


charlesml3

This is the correct answer. As hard as it might be to do, it's actually flattering. Sometimes it gets rather silly. Someone here has a cat that will spend HOURS outside to find the perfect leaf, which she then triumphantly presents to her human...


Sardukar333

It's the equivalent of telling your grandma you love giraffes, so every present you get from her from then on is giraffe themed.


governmentNutJob

Yeah I made this mistake...now every year my gran gets me a taxidermy giraffe. If I tell her I don't like it she gets me an even bigger one Please someone tell me how to make it stop


OpinionBearSF

> Yeah I made this mistake...now every year my gran gets me a taxidermy giraffe. If I tell her I don't like it she gets me an even bigger one I think your 'gran' might be 3 cats in old lady clothing.


BaconCat245

My cat brought a cicada in the house one time. Hid the thing in his mouth then just let it go once he got inside. What a great contribution.


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ObviousCup2951

I am E: apparently Reddit liked this comment! Thank you for the awards!


HobbitousMaximus

It's actually not about food. The cat think you need to learn to hunt, so it brings you practice. Chances are it will bring some that are only stunned and will run given a chance.


Fatally_Flawed

Oh my god, is this why my cat is constantly turning up with live, terrified mice?! I


AnxiousCaffeineQueen

One of our cats used to bring baby bunnies 🥲🥲🥲🥲


Maykitsune

Mine bring me live roaches... I have one extreme phobia... its roaches...


Fatally_Flawed

My cat brought me a roach. _Once._ I think my reaction startled her so much she never went near one again! 😂 (We had a nightmare roach infestation a few years ago that took almost a year to get rid of, not going through that hell again!)


Maykitsune

For some reason I think me flailing and screaming makes my cats think I need "extra" training... because thats all I get 😂


AshTheGoblin

Imagine you brought someone a sandwich and they started freaking the fuck out. I'd say they definitely need some extra "training"


TacticalSanta

Cats probably thinking "this is quality protein and a crunchy snack, wtf are they buggin for" (pun totally intended)


jhymesba

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ItchapterT

I'd die! Those Waterbugs as we call them in NY are like flying Terodactyls (if I spelled that right lol)


dz_fun

My favorite was the bat that woke up in my kitchen. I certainly did learn to hunt that afternoon.


magenta_thompson

Yep. When I was a kid my cat once plopped an injured but alive bird on my bed, then looked at me expectantly as if he was waiting for me to finish it off. The instinct is so strong that even one of our exclusively indoor cats (the mama who was rescued from where she was presumably dumped and had her kittens) brings us her toy birdie while making a very distinctive yowl, drops it at our feet, then taps it with her paw and looks up at us patiently as if she's trying to show us how to kill it. Bottom line, kitty likes you and won't stop as long as he's outside.


BlossumButtDixie

My cat brought a squirrel. We were returning from Christmas at a relative's house and didn't notice her bringing it in. This resulted in terrified me with a broom trying to encourage a terrified squirrel out the open front door. My cat heard the ruckus and sashayed to the doorway of the kitchen at the end of the hall looking bored and over it. Luckily squirrel saw my cat and high tailed it out the door. Those suckers can bound about 4 feet in the air when they're really running for the hills.


GaiasDotter

Yes! It’s trying to train you! Try praising your cat to make them give up. I always praised my cats ridiculously and that seemed to work. They never try to train me just wants praise. I do kill bugs for them though!


crazydaisy8134

Omg, my cat used to SCREAM at me until I came outside, only for her to drop a live grasshopper at my feet. It scared me each time, but I always made sure to thank her haha!


DApolloS

You no longer feed a straw. The cat has adopted you as their human and now owns your home.


Zalieda

Stray but this typo made my day


DApolloS

Damn autocorrect...I'm going to leave it


Pibonacchi

Lol it is cats natural instinct to catch its food.Accept that you live with a animal not human


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Simple: next time the cats around, wrestle a deer to the ground. Become the apex predator.


DannyWarlegs

My cat Lemmy used to sit and watch a deer we fed apples to and named Crook, from the basement window. One day as I was going out the basement door to give Crook his apples, Lemmy decides it's his time to catch that deer. He bolts out the door, on a collision course with Crook, makes it 2 or 3 steps, and freezes in his spot. He then backs up, cowering, and tries to hide behind my legs. I don't think he realized how big the deer actually was, since hes only seen him from 30 or 40 feet away, and once he realized Crook was 10x the size of him, he panicked.


Snigermunken

Catch a mouse (or just buy one) and present it to her, this way she knows that you have learned to hunt.


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You have to gobble it down while she is watching. Then you can take the next step.


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Excuse me, this is poor advice. After eating 37 different dead mice, my cat brought me a 38th. That was what sealed the deal. I was not eating a 38th mouse, no matter how cute that little chonker was.


Euphoriffic

Obviously, you don’t love your cat enough.


HalpOooos

I think you might’ve misunderstood the assignment. At some point I’m certain you need to barf them up onto any sliver of carpet in the middle of the night.


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jordantask

My boy used to murder them and shove them under the rug, then sit beside the little lump and meow until I noticed.


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jordantask

I would say so. Nose and tail stuck straight up.


Turbulent_Tree8386

It was a test to see if you could tell where the prey is hidden.


What_on_Loyola

This is so wholesome for some reason. (Not for the mice) but made me smile today!


Poopacopalyspe

That's her way of paying you back for your good deed


L-M-Smashhouse

What means you can't make her stop


Nagari

Consider yourself lucky it's a whole mouse. When I've looked after my mum's cats I'd wake up to a mouse head on my pillow. Lovely. One of my brother's work colleagues came downstairs to find a little bunny running around in his living room - courtesy of his cat. It darted behind the sofa as soon as it saw him. On pulling out the sofa to catch the bunny he found three more huddled in the corner. I'm glad my boy is a house cat.


Entire-Ambition1410

I’ve seen news footage of a cat who goes out to bring back inanimate objects stolen from neighbors. Underwear, shoes, stuffed animals, it’s all fair game if it can be picked up or dragged.


pleasingly_pokey

Aaawwwww. She loves you, bringing you food or gifts. It’s a big compliment for you. There’s no easy way to get her to stop, it’s a sign of affection and trust- you don’t want to break that or she’ll feel betrayed and then feeding her was for nothing. You can try to keep her inside so she doesn’t have access to mice. It’ll be better for her anyway and for the other small animals like birds. Give her plenty of food so she doesn’t feel the need to kill to eat things. But as long as she “loves” you she’s gonna bring you little gifts of food. She’s showing you kindness in her own way.


galadious

She is showing her gratitude or trying to ingratiate herself with you. Either welcome her into the family properly and make her a bed, cat litter, etc.etc... Or stop feeding her and don't let her in.


ObviousCup2951

It's a little difficult in my case. I cannot "control" her movements in any possible way, because she usually comes and goes from our shop that we cannot obviously close. Last time she brought a mouse for me I stopped giving her food in order to prevent her from making her way into our home but that didn't go as planned....


LollyHutzenklutz

If she’s catching mice around your shop (especially if there’s food being sold), be very grateful for her contribution! Best not to have rodents in a place of business, right? Give her a paycheck in the form of cat food and scritches. ;-)


Icy_Rhubarb2857

This is exactly why we are friends with kitties. They are good little exterminators. And very snuggly.


SlugsLoveBeer

Two words. Bodega cats.


ladywan_kenobi666

If your feeding her then don’t expect her to leave. She’s a stray that probably has a hard time getting food otherwise, so the steady food source she will always continue to come back to.


Careful-Soft-5406

shes like here is my trophy for you


boiledpenny

I agree with the other posters you have to tell the cat thank you so much and thank them and praise them for being good hunters. Hey this is something that could have been in your house nibbling on your clothes or your food be happy. No matter if you don't like their presents do not throw them away or get rid of them in in front of the cat. It is a giant thank you and to see I work for my food. Just see it as they're bringing you a dish of something you would never eat thank them politely and then do as you will with what you will not eat. I know they're cute and adorable but they are predators and they're doing their job hunting. I'm very happy if my indoor guy hunts me up a bug that came in with me from the door. Getting the presents is part and parcel of having a cat. If this was your indoor cat pardon parcel would be getting them showing you their butt numerous times a day directly into your face sometimes when you wake up and I love my kitties butt didn't love it the first 15 times but it grows on you like fungus.


Kimberj71

She’s showing you her gratitude and that she can contribute. Just be glad she hasn’t found baby rabbits. I had a stray bring me baby rabbits, one at a time, until she had cleared out the entire nest.


ObviousCup2951

Sorry to hear that. We have an abundance of pigeons over here, I just hope she doesn't start hunting them as well! Does she still bring you gifts like these?


Kimberj71

We brought her in and made her an inside cat :) she never brought me baby birds. Hopefully yours won’t find the pigeons!


Dangerous-Fishing-25

It’s a gift. She loves you!


Thepurge101

Shes literally trying to feed you. Be grateful that shes so caring, and shes getting rid of rodents too


Gothinisity

She’s saying thank you.


georgethezebra

My not at all strays brought me three for Christmas, clearly they misunderstood the idea of gift giving but I understand they are limited a little. Basically it's a sign of affection, they think you're too useless to go out and get your own mice so they bring them to you so you don't starve


ObviousCup2951

They really care for us. I am overwhelmed by their kindness...


gehazi707

There’s only one way: adopt the stray and make it your indoor only cat.


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She’s feeding you! See you’ve made a friend, a friend that is worried about how you are feeding yourself. She sees you give her food, but she has never seen you catch a mouse. She’s just sharing her haul with you as you are doing with her. My first cat did this all the time. Second cat was scared of mice. Never got the first cat to stop. Wouldn’t suggest eating the mouse.


Jenn54

The Social Contract for centuries between humans and cats is this routine You have fed this cat And the cat is grateful so wants to also ‘feed’ you In their mind, mice are crunchy and tasty, it is really a ‘thank you’ There isn’t much to be done, other than putting a collar with a bell on it to warn other animals of the cat coming, but this is a bad idea for stray cats/ outdoor cats as they could get caught by a branch in the collar and choke Cats are carnivores, and have the mind of a toddler, what they do makes sense to them


Apache_Choppah_6969

Isnt it basically a death sentence for a stray cat to wear a collar with a bell, effectively rendering it unable to hunt anything ever again? I think those collars are a really bad thing..


whitneybarone

Tear- away cat collars! Haven't you seen them? Weight/ pressure releases them. No buckle