Some time ago, we were baffled as to why our cat was hunting and gathering squares of bread. Today brought revelations in the form of our neighbour. It is he that puts the squares of bread out for the birds. And Mogret has taken to making off with it.
He informs us that she drags the bread close to the shrubs in his garden and then attempts to pounce on birds that come down to eat the bread.
That’s not normal is it? Do cats set traps?
I do realise that there aren’t hordes of gnomes lovingly hand-carving these cat treats, but at the same time I have to wonder about why the detail is there at all.
Smart as the Mog is, she’s not going to a. know what an actual fish looks like or b. appreciate that the cat treat attempts to resemble a fish.
Actually, she licked it and turned her splotchy nose up at it anyway. So much for marketing..
so far, a piece of bread, a dead baby blackbird and some kind of rodent (also pre-dead, thankfully). These are the presents of the last 24 hours. The last one arrived in the last 5 minutes.
The bread was amusing. We heard her do the victory blorp last night, and were worrying about what kind of animal she was going to present us with. So I switched the outside light on to have a look. She was crowing over a small white square. Closer inspection revealed that it was, in fact, a small white square of bread. We took that as a hint that she was hungry and put down some food.
This morning, a dead baby bird was noticed, on The Precious Rug. No sooner was this removed when she reappeared again, with some kind of rodent in her murdering mouth. It was too big to be a mouse, too small for a rat. I didn’t get a chance to count its toes, so uncertain if it was a shrew or not. It was dropped on the same square of The Precious Rug, that she’d dropped the bird on. Damnable creature!
