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Cat Just Ate A Baby Squirrel in My Garden!

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  • #52
    Tipp Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,025 ✭✭✭Tipp Man


    It's weird that people who claim to be animal/nature lovers are infact so far removed from the reality of it.

    Whenever i see a cat stalking a mouse or a rabbit i think it is an absolutely beautiful sight, the stealth of their movement, the speed of their pounce, the power to drag their catch huge distances. I could watch them all day - we have some kittens who are learning to hunt at the moment and it is just amazing to watch

    That's what makes nature beautiful


  • #53
    SdoowSirhc
    Registered Users Posts: 524 ✭✭✭SdoowSirhc


    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.

    They just don't stop killing! Damn it, it never gets any easier!:mad:
    Ye all need to calm the f*ck down and stop getting upset about a cat being a cat.:P


  • #54
    SdoowSirhc
    Registered Users Posts: 524 ✭✭✭SdoowSirhc


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Meanwhile in Oz, cats are wiping out the native animals.
    I presume this wasn't in Oz though :P We've had cats around Ireland for over 1000 years now and they are part of the balance.
    herosa wrote: »
    want someone to bring one in through my catflap,race up the stairs and torture it to death in my bedroom.

    Sounds like a line from a Tyler the Creator song :D


  • #55
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Tipp Man wrote: »
    Whenever i see a cat stalking a mouse or a rabbit i think it is an absolutely beautiful sight, the stealth of their movement, the speed of their pounce, the power to drag their catch huge distances. I could watch them all day - we have some kittens who are learning to hunt at the moment and it is just amazing to watch

    But why do they torture and "play with" what they caught?


  • #56
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Cats can be a handful at times if your anyway squirmish. I've a ten year old tabby who I reckon has taken thousands of lives. He kills 2-3 times a day every day, rabbits, mice, rats, shrews, birds, squirrels you name it. He's extremely territorial and will attempt to kill others cats who stray onto his patch also. As a result of this I keep him now at night since he had begun attacking the neighbour's cat.

    I got a kitten last year whos also a big hunter, it took a long time for the tabby to accept him but now he seems to treat him like an apprentice and the two of them hunt together. The kitten is proving to be just as brutal, we refer to him as 'Psycho Kitten'.


  • #57
    Tipp Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,025 ✭✭✭Tipp Man


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    But why do they torture and "play with" what they caught?

    Its training - especially when a mother brings a "kill" back to its young alive - thats how they learn

    They probably enjoy the playful side of it as well


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