When I lived in my previous house sometimes, when it was really hot, huge Cockroaches would come in the house or patio coming from the outside. My cat LOVES Cockroaches! She doesn’t eat, just play with them until they not only die but pieces of it get scattered around the house.
Well one day I woke up with a live roach walking in my face and when I jumped from the bed there were pieces of another roach all over my bed! The pati looked like a rochpocalypse and the fucking cat was so tired and happy she just went to sleep in the living room. I had to put my clothes and bedding to wash and clean and change everything at 2am. This fucking cat
I remember a time when my cat found a mouse in our cottage. Everyone was asleep or trying to sleep while the cat was looking for the mouse. For some reason, I looked at the bed’s edge and saw tiny whiskers and a tiny nose. The mouse had sandwiched itself between the edge of the bed and the mattress, trying to hide from our cat. I think it got away, too. Made me feel good especially considering our cat was constantly bringing in mice it had killed.
Had a mouser cat drop a live mouse in my bed once. It ran up my leg. Haunted.
I cured her of the desire to bring me mice by trying to take them from her while she was still playing. I lost mouse privileges :(
Drag is afraid of cats because drag doesn’t know how to say no in a way a cat can understand.
Depends what you’re teaching them. They’re biting? Move away so they know playtime’s over if they bite. Be consistent, because they won’t get it the first time. Don’t scratch that? Put a scratchable surface in front of it, and when they use it, reward them with positive attention. Etc.
How do you tell a strange cat on the street that you don’t want it to go near you?
That’s tough, because street cats that do that have been socialized to be super pro human (strange humans give them snacks?)
I guess if it was me and I was visiting someone allergic, I’d do something silly like put on hand sanitizer and let them sniff my hand. Or hiss at them, if I didn’t see people around. Walk loud. Unfortunately, a lot of “i’m scared go away” body language can come across as 'I’m not threatening! Say hi!!" to a friendly cat. What’s the specific situation drag is in?
Weird because usually when I see a strange cat on the street I’m trying to get out to come over to me.
Lol that was my thought exactly.
And fyi, food is the only thing I’ve found so far that works.
Drag is afraid of cats because drag doesn’t know how to say no in a way a cat can understand. Drag would feel much better about exploring friendships with cats if drag felt able to say no.
Ive got two cats. Ones a hunter that’ll chase anything the other is a defender that will growl when someone’s at the door.
They found a mouse a month ago and all they did was tap at it, no claws, and follow and just watch it. Zero interest in taking care of it.
Eventually I just picked it up and put it outside. Ive never been so disappointed in my life lol
Damn, I was born in the countryside so the cats I grew up with were all so much more savages.
I’ve seen one of my cat eat the whole mouse in front of me once, it was quite surprising how easily it was gone, nothing left.
House cats. They chase toys and laser beam dots for a living.
You picked up a live wild mouse with your bare hands? They’re a very big disease vector, and they bite. Be careful!
I was thankful that our cat was a straight up murder machine. She kept anything we wouldn’t want, far away from our house, including other cats. She was seriously the most bad-ass cat I’ve ever met. Never once lost a fight.
No I didn’t literally pick it up, i got it into a small box.
“Tap and Follow” is the new “Like and Subscribe”
Lol!
Follow up:
Alt text: Now she’s looking at me like this, like it’s my fault I lost it. I tore the whole bed apart. She caught it, and I have to sleep with it, but that’s my fault, obviously.
Yeah, she was definitely trying to teach you to hunt (some cats seem to consider their owners just gigantic incompetent cats). She’s probably saying something like “I even brought it right to you and you still couldn’t catch it?!”
Just another fuzzy creature to snuggle with. She wanted to share
smh. How are you ever going to learn to catch mice when you can’t catch one in your own bed?
For the record, she could be trying to help you learn to hunt.
maybe.
or she’s just an asshole.
What record is this for? Someone’s keeping a record?
the Cat Court!
I have to say that she’s just being a loving cat. They make me do it. they’re really benevolent overlords. honest.
I love my cat. One month after I adopted her and brought her home, the entire rat infestation is gone, zero mice, it’s been like 2 years since, I still haven’t seen any mice.
My primary reason was for companionship, but second reason to get a cat is hoping to get rid of all the mice, and it worked! Sadly the roach problems are still here… cats don’t really deal with roaches… 😓
I once had a beagle that was a voracious insect killer. She would play with spiders, cockroaches, ants, etc. the same way people talk about cats playing with mice. Eventually, she would always make a mistake of pressing too hard when trapping the insect and pulling it back, and we’d have another little squish spot by the back door that needed to be cleaned.
That conversation can be interpreted in an entirely different way.
Beginning with a verb & a different name for cat. Maybe this post is about Mickey.
What other way?
