Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for January 08, 2015

Awe, he’s just doing his job…Cats have one job and they do it well…..Mostly rodents…OK, an occasional bird if they get lucky…..Although I did come home one time, walked into my bedroom and saw Maggie on her hind legs on my bed, twirling a small garter snake above her head like it was a pizza… Good kitty!

Luddy is the man lol err cat. Ole Ar and Jan just are’t grateful of his lionly skills

We had a cat in England that used to put dead church mice under our Christmas tree every year. He was only trying to participate!

Arlo needs to dispose of the remains of the prey outside. Lundy might just go trash can diving to retrieve his present.

Some of our cats liked to bring us birds… Into the house… With the flapping and the feathers going everywhere and all… Then the very proud cat looked confused by our reaction.

That was jewelry. Have you never seen a ‘mouse pin’ before?

My cat used to bring live mice up from the basement and release them. She would then watch as I tried to catch it. Stupid cat..

One of our cats leaves various rodent gifts for my wife at the back door. But one of them catches them and brings them to the ancient toothless cat who is no longer up to catching his own.He has been seen to do this multiple times. It takes the old cat a while to gum it apart, but he does it justice.

Our cat did rid our basement of mice. She brought them into the bedroom and proudly put the bodies so we would find them when we woke.

This is why we don’t let our cats out often.

She’ll not appreciate it unless it’s put in her lap….

LuvThemPluggers said, less than a minute ago

When our cat was young, she used to bring lizards into the house as a gift for me. She never hurt them, but did this particular kind of cry so I knew what she meant. The lizard would drop it’s tail and then the hunt would be on, so we could put it back outdoors. Sometimes, we were actually successful.

“I love you, mommy.”

Two stories: several years ago, a friend of mine described the Christmas party at his parents house where friends and family had gathered and the family cat bounded into the middle of the room, getting the attention of all who were there…and then everyone noticed the mouse tail hanging from the cat’s mouse that slowly disappeared at the animal was being swallowed.

The second story is from my wife when she was a kid. They had two golden retrievers who were let out during the day to play (and hunt) in the woods behind the house. They often brought back small kills…squirrels and the like to the back porch. One day they brought half a beaver (the back half). Those dogs were right proud of themselves. My wife and her four sisters were screaming…well, like girls.

You folks should be happy your cats show you their trophies! Our hunter left his prize jay under our bed — we had to search to find out why flies were swarming in the bedroom!

avocet13: She was trying to train you to do it yourself.

Cats seldom kill for food.Cats kill for fun.

I had a cat once that I thought never caught mice because she never brought them as “gifts”… then one day I spotted her eating one. I guess she just never thought to share.

Had a cat that used to patrol the yard (we actually thought we saw her patrolling about half a mile away one day; but that’s another story). She brought up a live rabbit kit one day while Mom was sweeping off the porch. Mom swatted the cat in the head with the broom; Cat (that was her name; long story), surprised, dropped the rabbit kit on the cold concrete porch. Rabbit, who must have thought the cat was its mother as it wasn’t struggling, sat on the porch for an instant as though taking in its surroundings and situation. Then it took off as fast as its little legs could carry it. I don’t know if Cat ever brought up a “present” such as this again.

“Better to let them hunt if you keep them outside. Better to keep them inside so that they will live longer.”.If you kept a cat outside, how could you stop it from hunting?.Not that it matters, I don’t keep cats even though several hang around my house and eat the catfood Patsy puts out for the possum.(He is convinced it is all for him, so who am I to argue with a possum?)

Our barn cats eat what they catch. Though one left a chipmunk’s head in the middle of the aisle one day. I have found various parts of birds laying about as well.Last month I found a mouse nested in my saddle blanket, after I put it on my horse. My horse did not appreciate it.

Some great stories there! I know it’s too late for just about anyone to see this, but . . . my chief cat story won’t take up the jillions of times we found mostly birds on our front stoop. But after we’d moved and didn’t let the cats out very often, one day I did find, in front of a stone bench on the side of our patio, two little juvenile squirrel heads, neatly bitten off and put side by side for us to see.

It was my dog who put a dead gopher on the bed right in front of my nose one morning.

Dangit. It would have been helpful to see this strip BEFORE I became single.

My older brother once owned a cat. When the cat brought him dead mice, he didn’t throw the mice into the trash, but into the toilet., immediately flushing it. afterwards.