Who would have thought that this innocent looking cat would become a successful hunter. I suppose we trained him with that fimble on his left, as he used to carry it around the house. For years now he has caught mice and occasionally birds, frequently letting them go unharmed in the house so we have to catch them and return them to the wild. On other occasions he brings then in dead just to show us how clever he is.Since we moved to Devon he has located the field across the road and we have been receiving frequent presents of Mice and Shrews.
This week he suddenly changed his prey and brought in a rabbit which he let go in the garage, unharmed but somewhat worried. We returned it to the field and it ran off into the gorse bushes.
Today he started by bringing in a dead rat which he left in the living room, (I hope he doesn't bring in any live one
s) and when that was taken off him he went out and returned with a dead rabbit. We caught him trying to take it upstairs so he turned round and took it into the kitchen where he put it down by his food bowl.
As the field across the road can be very muddy he also comes back covered in red mud, as if he has been digging it up. Who knows what we will get next?
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