Taz killed a mouse!

Sapphire Silk · #1 03-25-2012, 09:13 PM

My kitten is getting all grown up! She was four months when I got her. Now she's almost 15 months old, and seems to have stopped growing. She's not a big cat, and still fairly lean and gangly . . . with just as much energy as ever although she has stopped flying through the air like Superman.

I've been smelling something bad in the kitchen all day. When I looked around, I glanced under the kitchen table at what I thought at first was one of her mouse toys. Taz must have thought it was one of her toys (she has several mice toys, plus a squirrel toy, balls, and the like), and killed it by accident.

I gave her much praise, of course. I haven't had any problems with mice since Jasmine (one of my old cats) killed one a few years ago, but I think they got a little bolder after I lost Stumps (he was definitely a predator when it came to rodents) because Taz was a kitten and inexperienced as a hunter. Hopefully the little buggers will think twice and stay out of my house.

cashierbex · #2 03-25-2012, 09:19 PM

Awww. The most my cat killed was a plametto bug. My other cat, who died a while back, was an out door cat and then we moved to NY fro FL then he moved back down to FL with my grandparents and he became an outdoor cat again and killed a rabbit. I miss him.

fireheart · #3 03-25-2012, 10:05 PM

Our first cat killed crickets. Then ate everything apart from the back legs.

Sapphire Silk · #4 03-25-2012, 10:49 PM

She's a pretty good bug hunter, too. I was a little surprised to see the mouse; haven't had a problem with them in a couple of years.

But she'd be a terror on the small animals in the neighborhood if I ever let her outside: a whole world of self propelled cat toys!

Or at least, that's how she'd see it

Aethian · #5 03-26-2012, 12:13 AM

Pete was a mole hunter.
Sabrina was a moth hunter.
Chu was a snake killer.
Ming was EVERYTHING.
Halloween was a mouser and a dog pouncer.
Pumpkin was a dairy farm cat, I dunno what all he killed.
Salem was a bird and mouser...
ect ect ect

Not one spider killer in any of my cats.

Kittish · #6 03-26-2012, 05:49 AM

Ginger and Amber are aspiring young hunters. They're both just about right at the 1 year mark, still kittens, but mid to late teens kittens. They're indoor/outdoor cats, since we have dogs and a dog door (no real way to KEEP the cats in the house).

They started off, when it started warming up, with the first bugs to come out, mainly grubs and something that looks like a small black wasp but doesn't appear to sting. Then it was lizards. I actually was able to rescue one lizard that was still very much alive when it was brought into the house. I do hope it survived. I've found several not alive lizards in the house when the kittles lost interest in them. Here lately, it's been kangaroo mice (probably actually kangaroo rats, but they're small enough that I think of them as mice). I've found 3 or 4 of those in the house so far, thankfully all dead. I'm waiting for the first rabbit (we have cottontails and jackrabbits in huge numbers).

And of course, they go after bugs. They LOVE it when I have the porch light on at night. At least the bugs they've figured out are tasty snacks. They don't seem to have worked out yet that the lizards and mice are good to eat.

Scorpodael · #7 03-26-2012, 06:24 AM

I have a cat named Jinx, and she is fast. REAL fast. "Give the chipmunk a 5 second headstart and still catch it to play with it" fast.

Seraph · #8 03-26-2012, 11:37 AM

My heart just about stopped when I saw the thread title....my dog when I was a kid was named Taz, and her first "present" to me was a mouse. Imisshersomuch. ><

lordlundar · #9 03-26-2012, 02:05 PM

Quote:

Quoth Panacea

She's a pretty good bug hunter, too. I was a little surprised to see the mouse; haven't had a problem with them in a couple of years.

But she'd be a terror on the small animals in the neighborhood if I ever let her outside: a whole world of self propelled cat toys!

Or at least, that's how she'd see it

No, I think the operative phrase for that is "fast food".

taxguykarl · #10 03-27-2012, 05:39 PM

Congratulations to kitty.

November after Elsie joined us, Mrs. TGK and I were setting up to host Thanksgiving. She pointed towards a corner and yelled, "I told you to get rid of the realistic mouse toys."
I looked close and it was not a mouse toy--it was a real one. Elsie's first confirmed kill.
Good kitty.