Cat Just Ate A Baby Squirrel in My Garden!

Cybercubed

We have squirrels that we occassionally feed (not much just from time to time) and supply food that come into our garden, we have a big garden, so there lots of space and trees for birds and the like to be in.

Sadly my mother saw a cat with a baby squirrel (not sure what its doing in our garden) in its mouth waving its arms frantically she chased it and ran off, and now my mums in tears crying like crazy. She says she wont even attempt to feed any more animals, she's in bits right now. Seeing the baby squirrell with its arms and legs waving looking for help. She's badly cut her hand trying to open the door.

The animal kingdoms really awful sometimes.

I ****ing hate cats, love pussy though.

AntiVirus

It's your mothers fault for setting up the trap!! :mad:

HowAreWe

ah sure, french people eat frogs.

frozenfrozen

my steak tastes lovely

Mr Benevolent

Cats hunt. A baby squirrel is easy prey. Nothing else to this story.

humbert

Sacrifice the cat to the squirrels, it's the only way you'll appease them.

Cybercubed

AntiVirus wrote: »

It's your mothers fault for setting up the trap!! :mad:

Well thats the thing, they come into our garden with or without food anyway, even when we don't have food they're always about.

My name is URL

Seeing the baby squirrell with its arms and legs waving looking for help

lol.. was it signalling to the next door neighbor's dog? It must have left its phone at home with the nuts.. pity that. It could have called the fire brigade otherwise.

shopaholic01

It's what cats do.

RVP 11 wrote: »

I ****ing hate cats, love pussy though.

I seem to remember you saying something about animals higher up the food chain ................

nice1franko

If it was a grey squirrel then give her a good belly rub!

http://www.independent.ie/farming/news-features/grey-squirrels-are-vermin-urbanites-need-to-realise-this-2282207.html

edit- the cat that is, not your mother.

kildare.17hmr

Grey squrell? They are a pest!

Duggy747

That's nuts!

Roadend

Was the cat biting its nuts?

AntiVirus

Cybercubed wrote: »

Well thats the thing, they come into our garden with or without food anyway, even when we don't have food they're always about.

That wont stand up in a court of law, your mum is going down an an accomplice to murder. :mad:

shopaholic01

shopaholic01 wrote: »

It's what cats do.



I seem to remember you saying something about animals higher up the food chain ................

Yeah i'm waiting for the day Aliens first arrive, then i'm gonna get me hole.:D

stovelid

It's similar to charismatic (non-mega) fauna syndrome.

You probably wouldn't care less if it was a rat or pigeon so you can't expect animals to make a distinction.

Gummy Panda

A squirrel would eat you and your family if it got the chance.

Micky Dolenz

Feed the pussy regularly or it will go elsewhere.

Shryke

Screw him if he was a grey, om nom nom. And shame on you for encouraging grey squirrels.

davet82

that pussy was after his nuts

Duckworth_Luas

Get a dog, preferably a bull mastiff.

Just ensure that your father continues to get his conjugal rights!

OldGoat

...red in tooth and claw.
Tell yore ma to man up.

Bambii_

poor squirrel r.i.p little guy

davet82

OldGoat wrote: »

Tell yore ma

tut tut tut... what are the mods coming to these days

christmas2012

poor baby squirrel dreadful,dreadful anytime i see my cat up to mischeif in the garden a water spray does the trick,and another thing,put a bell on his collar so the birds and squirrels hear him coming..it always works there hasnt been a death since we got the collar with the bell..

OldGoat

davet82 wrote: »

tut tut tut... what are the mods coming to these days

Don't know about any other mods but I've become forgetful.

My apologies to the Mods of AH for my faux pas.

grindle

Acorny story if ever I heard one.

Catweasel

That's nothing, Freddy Starr ate my hamster

curlzy

Is your hysterically crying mother a vegetarian? If not then she's a bit of a hypocrite really. Or is it only cute animals in pain that upset her. Humans do much much much crueller things. Like force feed animals until their stomachs explode, as a species we're such scumbags.

Nothingbetter2d

Cybercubed wrote: »

We have squirrels that we occassionally feed (not much just from time to time) and supply food that come into our garden, we have a big garden, so there lots of space and trees for birds and the like to be in.

Sadly my mother saw a cat with a baby squirrel (not sure what its doing in our garden) in its mouth waving its arms frantically she chased it and ran off, and now my mums in tears crying like crazy. She says she wont even attempt to feed any more animals, she's in bits right now. Seeing the baby squirrell with its arms and legs waving looking for help. She's badly cut her hand trying to open the door.

The animal kingdoms really awful sometimes.

was it a grey squirrel? if yes then the cat did the red squirrel a favour. the north american grey squirrels are killing off the native red ones.

Shryke

A lot of love for red squirrels on here. Grey squirrels - they're like the Nazi fascists of Irish ecology.

davet82

grey rights!

bloody racists the lot of ye's!

herosa

Cats. One part fireside companion. One part serial killer.

Ellis Dee

There are lots of red squirrels in the parks around my home in a leafy part of Helsinki. My dog's big ambition in life is to catch one, but they are too fast for him and he can't climb trees.:)

Cats, on the other hand, are very good at waiting patiently and pouncing and they catch and eat a lot of squirrels, both kits and adults. So do pine martens, which are likewise fairly common, and eagle owls, and foxes ---

It's all a part of something called nature.:D:D

herosa

Its horrible to watch though. I have cats and when they bring something in I either have to get my OH to deal with it or go round screeching to the neighbour to come deal with it. I bet he is glad he bought the house next to mine. Its like the wildlife programmes. I have to put the cushion over my face for the bit where the lion catches the zebra. Nope. Sorry. Cant do that bit. Your mum shouldnt feel bad. Its a horrible thing for an animal lover to witness. I would have been in bits too but its something you just have to try and blank out. Tell yourself hes in squirrel heaven.

smash

If it was grey, then it's vermin anyway.

Gone Drinking

Speaking of family members and animals.

Our dog was walking down our hall one day when he started getting sick, my mam walked out of the kitchen and saw the dog getting sick, which made my mam get sick. So we walked into the hall to see the dog and my mam getting sick. It was hilarious.

Another dog we had a few years later, took a dump in my little brothers room during the night. My little brother, sleeping on the top bunk, woke up for school and jumped down. He landed his foot straight into it, it was pushed between his toes like a play doh machine.

He came out of his room, walking on the ball of his foot, with all the siht coming out from between his toes, puking his ring up. It was hilarious.

Another time, we had a dog that had been sick that day, so my brother was taking him to the vet, with my other brother (the toe siht brother). The dog siht in the back of the car, which caused my toe siht brother to get sick in the front of the car. Not so hilarious for my brother driving.

herosa

I think your entire family both 2 legged and 4 legged need to visit the medical professions and get a standard daily px for an anti emetic. You personally need to dole one out to them all every morning.

gazzer

We live out in the countryside with loads of fields around our house and one of our cats is forever killing birds and baby rabbits. I'd say at least once a week we come home from work to find a half eaten rabbit at the door. Then when we let our springer spaniel out she gets the scent of the rabbit and runs towards it like a mad thing and eats the rest of it.

We have put a collar and bell on the cat but still she keeps on killing. Once the cat is inside the house she is a little angel and curls up on your lap to go asleep.

Im half expecting to find a half eaten cow at our door one of these days.

herosa

I love cats but the fact that they are murdering ba**ards by nature is a definite issue with them. It is disturbing.
Imagine saying that about people! Yer man is grand if you dont think too hard about the six people he killed this year.

Anyway I love my cat so I just go into denial about that side of their nature. Anyone who has a cat has to deal with this and then as Gazzer says they rub up against you as if butter wouldnt melt in their mouths.

The single biggest reason that men exist is to separate the cat from its prey. If Im ever tempted to divorce my OH I just think of that issue and suddenly his quirky little ways dont seem too bad.

Tipp Man

Cybercubed wrote: »

We have squirrels that we occassionally feed (not much just from time to time) and supply food that come into our garden, we have a big garden, so there lots of space and trees for birds and the like to be in.

Sadly my mother saw a cat with a baby squirrel (not sure what its doing in our garden) in its mouth waving its arms frantically she chased it and ran off, and now my mums in tears crying like crazy. She says she wont even attempt to feed any more animals, she's in bits right now. Seeing the baby squirrell with its arms and legs waving looking for help. She's badly cut her hand trying to open the door.

The animal kingdoms really awful sometimes.

Tell your ma to grow a pair

Tipp Man

herosa wrote: »

I love cats but the fact that they are murdering ba**ards by nature is a definite issue with them. It is disturbing.
Imagine saying that about people! Yer man is grand if you dont think too hard about the six people he killed this year.

Anyway I love my cat so I just go into denial about that side of their nature. Anyone who has a cat has to deal with this and then as Gazzer says they rub up against you as if butter wouldnt melt in their mouths.

The single biggest reason that men exist is to separate the cat from its prey. If Im ever tempted to divorce my OH I just think of that issue and suddenly his quirky little ways dont seem too bad.

And you need to grow a pair as well FFS

herosa

Tipp Man wrote: »

And you need to grow a pair as well FFS

"As for you, my galvanized friend, you want a heart. You don't know how lucky you are not to have one. Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable."

Wizard of Oz to the tin man or should that be the Tipp man?

Stark

Eating baby animals is horrible. Now who's for spring lamb?

herosa

Stark wrote: »

Eating baby animals is horrible. Now who's for spring lamb?

True. Still ,I dont want someone to bring one in through my catflap,race up the stairs and torture it to death in my bedroom.

Capt'n Midnight

Meanwhile in Oz, cats are wiping out the native animals.

kildare.17hmr

herosa wrote: »

Stark wrote: »

Eating baby animals is horrible. Now who's for spring lamb?

True. Still ,I dont want someone to bring one in through my catflap,race up the stairs and torture it to death in my bedroom.

Good thing for you they have slaughter houses that do this for you so you can ignore it

Tipp Man

herosa wrote: »

"As for you, my galvanized friend, you want a heart. You don't know how lucky you are not to have one. Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable."

Wizard of Oz to the tin man or should that be the Tipp man?

Whenever i see a rabbit on the road I swerve to hit them

They are a plague

Son Of A Vidic

kildare.17hmr wrote: »

Grey squrell Cats? They are a pest!

Corrected the obvious error in your post.

herosa

Maybe you should google anti social personality disorder. Shucks. Maybe you are a big softie really.