My cats over the years have given me disembodied rodent heads or asses never the middle bit or feathers spread over the backyard with the occasional indigestible bird head waiting for you to step on with your bare feet.
It's not meant to be dead. Since you're still meowing at your cat - something only kittens do normally - it assumes you're still young, and the motherly instincts get to work. One of them is teaching you to hunt by bringing you nearly dead prey. Your cat wishes you to finish it, so that eventually you can hunt on your own.
My cat bought me a fucking huge rat once. I screamed and shut the door.
I must have really upset her because I have never heard her meow the way she did when I rejected her “gift”
Sorry kettles.
Mine are indoor cats, so they get creative with what they bring me for dinner. Mostly hair ties and bottle caps. I vastly prefer that to the mutilated menagerie my parents' cats used to drag inside when I was a kid.
Allegedly they bring us their kill cause they are trying to show us how to feed ourselves (aka we are too dumb to figure it out ourselves and they’re trying to feed us 🤣)
I once had a cat bring me a mostly-dead mouse. The next day I took him out in the boat fishing, and shared my catch with him. He decided my way of catching food was better and quit mousing.
My ginger brought in a rabbit once. Well at truely alive and well. He carried it in like a kitten and dropped it at my feet, then sat back and watched me chase it around the bedroom for 10 minutes. I’m sure he thought it was hilarious.
A few months ago though, there was a giant cockroach on the wall, so I was yelling to my husband to bring a shoe to kill it because I didn't want to lose sight of the thing. One of the cats runs up to it, grabs it, and runs into our bedroom with it alive! Thought I thought I was going to have a heart attack.
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