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| Thread ID: 87613 | 2008-02-27 18:24:00 | Psychology of cats | Greg (193) | PC World Chat |
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| 644330 | 2008-02-27 18:24:00 | Why do cats bring their prey home? In the past year our little b******d has brought in half a dozen skinks, lizards and other creepies. Most I've been able to save, but this morning's offering was well and truly mangled. Why do they do this? |
Greg (193) | ||
| 644331 | 2008-02-27 18:37:00 | Why do cats bring their prey home? In the past year our little b******d has brought in half a dozen skinks, lizards and other creepies. Most I've been able to save, but this morning's offering was well and truly mangled. Why do they do this? to show you. thats what I put it down to. pride |
plod (107) | ||
| 644332 | 2008-02-27 18:40:00 | I read somewhere that it's because they don't understand why we don't hunt and bringing prey home is part of an effort to teach us. | Deane F (8204) | ||
| 644333 | 2008-02-27 18:44:00 | Our cat does similar thing with birds and crickets with crickets being the favourite at the moment. I told wife we should try not feeding the cat - therefore it would be hungry and instead of bringing said prey home it will devour it at place of kill. She said no so I will never know if my theory will work :groan: | sam m (517) | ||
| 644334 | 2008-02-27 19:00:00 | Thanks for the responses! At least no-one (yet) has suggested it's for a gift! :lol: | Greg (193) | ||
| 644335 | 2008-02-27 19:46:00 | Most cats do bring their trophies home. I was told it was because they were showing their masters(?) just how clever they are. As Plod says; pride.:) |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 644336 | 2008-02-27 19:50:00 | They are gifts, since you are obviously a useless hunter. :) | FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 644337 | 2008-02-27 20:08:00 | O I told wife we should try not feeding the cat - therefore it would be hungry and instead of bringing said prey home it will devour it at place of kill . Hunger doesn't have a lot to do with it . I have 3, one doesn't hunt, one hunts obsessively and the 3rd is in between . The obsessive hunter eats everything and prefers it to cat food, except for thrushes and blackbirds . Apparently they aren't tasty . Mine have to announce they catches to us, although the obsessive one doesn't mess about for long, its eaten pretty quickly . Mother cats bring live prey home to teach the kittens . There is probably some instinct involved with bringing them to people . But at least part of why mine bring them in though, is so the prey can't escape as easily . I know that as they'll do their best to get it in somewhere hard to escape from and if prevented from coming into the house will settle for the garden shed . |
pctek (84) | ||
| 644338 | 2008-02-27 20:09:00 | O I told wife we should try not feeding the cat - therefore it would be hungry and instead of bringing said prey home it will devour it at place of kill . Hunger doesn't have a lot to do with it . I have 3, one doesn't hunt, one hunts obsessively and the 3rd is in between . The obsessive hunter eats everything and prefers it to cat food, except for thrushes and blackbirds . Apparently they aren't tasty . Mine have to announce their catches to us, although the obsessive one doesn't mess about for long, its eaten pretty quickly . Mother cats bring live prey home to teach the kittens . There is probably some instinct involved with bringing them to people . But at least part of why mine bring them in though, is so the prey can't escape as easily . I know that as they'll do their best to get it in somewhere hard to escape from and if prevented from coming into the house will settle for the garden shed . |
pctek (84) | ||
| 644339 | 2008-02-27 22:42:00 | I don't know why, so long as they eat it all. Once my cat brought home a mouse (yay! less mice about), ate the skin, and left the rest of it (nothing like cleaning mouse parts off the doormat, esp. when it falls apart on you, ick!). | ubergeek85 (131) | ||
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