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[–] 10 points 3 days ago (10 children)

I had an indoor/outdoor cat that would catch birds at night, bring them home dead , and play with them.

What a mess.

Next cat would only go out during the day and lay around. He did manage to catch two rats

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  • [–] 7 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    My cat ran a mouse up my curtain yestetday. Came to bed, there’s a cat just staring up at the wall over my bed.. I figured it was greebles, but then the mouse poked it’s head out of the grommets..

    Needless to say I managed to scare it off the curtain and we teamed up to get it out of the house.

    My cats don’t get to go outside. I used to have a free-access catio, but a former cat would bring chipmunks inside and let them go, and once kept a dead squirrel in a box in an unused closet for three days while he ate it (i didn’t actually think to look in the closet he kept going into, cats are weird and do weird things..), so…. That’s not allowed anymore.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago (7 children)

    Pretty wild to think these goofy furballs we keep around as pets are apex predators.

    I had a cat one time that liked to play fetch. Just like a dog. Never seen anything like it.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 days ago* (2 children)

    they are not apex predators.

    cats are prey for larger animals and are often killed my racoons and other stronger animals.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Not sure house cats count as apex predators because they are also prey animals. A tiger is an apex predator because what eats tigers? But there's stuff that'll eat house cats.

    Nevertheless house cats are extremely effective at hunting small prey. I had a maine coon that drove my city block's vole population extinct for a good ten years. Big dude either loved digging or hated voles.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago* (1 child)

    I had a cat one time that liked to play fetch. Just like a dog. Never seen anything like it.

    I had a cat like that :)

    Colorpoint shorthairs (the ones that look like regular cats, not necessarily the over-bread siamese) are known for that sort of behavior. Mine was a cream colorpoint, and basically looked solid white, but “catdog” is how that breed is normally described, because they tend to be wildly friendly and play fetch.

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