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Probably depends on the individual's tendencies. My cat's kill stats for year to date, not too many birds: Total 106 --------------------
by xkcd-sucks 4y ago
Probably depends on the individual's tendencies. My cat's kill stats for year to date, not too many birds:
Total 106
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Bird 3
Red Squirrel 1
Chipmunk 9
Rabbit 11
Vole 59
Deer Mouse 23
My garden and house really appreciate the vole/mouse/chipmunk control
- t-3 4y agoMy cat only very rarely manages to get chipmunks and mice, but he doesn't usually kill them, generally alternating between cuddles and grooming and beating them savagely to make them jump and run. He's scared of birds after being mobbed by robins and crows.
- brigandish 4y agoIs he interrupted in his cuddles and beatings? Cats are much like the kind of psychopaths you'll find in the intelligence services, as portrayed in movies. They'll torture their captive, play with them to train themselves (and possibly for fun, who knows?), and it seems your cat likes to play good cop too. At the end, if the captive's heart hasn't already given out, they'll kill it.
- 411111111111111 4y agoHow did you produce these numbers? You sound way too confident in it's validity unless you've put a camera on the cat and check the full recording every day...
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- _eht 4y agoMy educated guess would be that the gato presents them with these offerings.
- user5678 4y agoSo these numbers are lower bounds.
- xkcd-sucks 4y agoLower bound but pretty confident in accuracy - Have eyes on all catflap traffic, some accelerometer/position data (a cat collar tracker, not a cat tracker!), and observation thus far supports the conclusion that he stages all kills in his "abattoir" area unfortunately underneath the couch regardless of their eventual disposition - pretty common behavior
- hollywood_court 4y agoGoodness. How big are the rabbits in your area? The ones here are so large that I imagine that A) a cat could not catch them and B) the rabbit would disembowel the cat with its rear feet. I've seen rabbits do impressive things to small dogs and snakes. I wouldn't want one near my cats.
- gpderetta 4y agoI have seen cats catch rabbits as big as themselves.
- hollywood_court 4y agoThat’s impressive. On my mothers farm, the turkeys run the show followed by the geese. But neither one of them will ever bother the rabbits. It’s interesting watching the hierarchy. She has numerous 150lb+ dogs and they all defer to the turkey and geese. Even the donkeys don’t go near the turkeys and geese The geese can’t really hurt you, but I’d rather fight a 150lb dog than a 60lb turkey.
- mhuffman 4y agoMy grandfather used to keep a couple of rabbits in the barn to run off the rats! He swore that rabbits naturally hated rats and would fuck them up if they could get near them.
- hollywood_court 4y agoRabbits can be fierce. They aren’t as intimidating as wild turkeys or the boars around here, but I wouldn’t want to try to handle a wild rabbit.
- dboreham 4y agoSmaller cats will catch the baby rabbits, but a larger cat has no trouble catching and eating adult rabbits in my experience. The largest thing I've seen a cat catch was a grouse. Turkeys are too large. Weasel like things seem to be too fierce.
- eitland 4y agoThe last rabbit we had at home ran around on its own. I developed a friendship with our horse, but did not seem to be on friendly terms with the neighbors cat. One time I saw them running across the driveway: the cat first, panicking, the rabbit a meter or two behind chasing it.
- ceejayoz 4y agoAt one point, we had a cat, a dog, and a rabbit. The rabbit and the dog bonded over eating the cat's food.
- type0 4y agoOur neighbors had bunnies escaping because they developed a friendship with wild hares. Seems similar when a dog develops a friendship with a coyote and start misbehaving going on the hunts with them.