cat from the stables has been making itself at home - complete with some tasty morsel it caught to eat!  It could have been in there for anything up to the last six hours or so, and has obviously been on sofa and on beds, as had it's furry lunch.  Now I'll have to de-flea every room.  Grump grump.

can sympathise ...one of my cats has caught a mouse every single night this week ..left them on the drive untouched then comes in and wants to snuggle on my bed....not blooming likely!!!!! into his own bed he goes!!

I'm very cross with myself for leaving the window open enough for him to get in!

I'll bet !!!

My monsters have been bringing in live mices which is good fun not ! They brought in a bird a few weeks ago and it managed to escape and perched on the sofa for a few hours until we caught it and set it free !

When we were first married we had a cat who used to catch baby rabbits (we were in the country then). On more than one occasion we found baby bunnies hiding in the hall! They had a lucky escape as she was a rescue cat who must have lived wild at one point and she would eat most of them - yuck!

our old cat would bring live things and kill them on mum and dads bed (ugh) then disect the spleens and leave them for my mum

mine have been bringing in mice for the past couple of months both live and various stages of disection yuk. I wondered if they were taking the raw meat thing to the extreme
Yesterday we added a dragonfly to the collection ! fortunately it seemed ok if a little stunned and I was able to take it (hopefully) a lotus free zone

The worst thing one of my cats did some years ago was to get into the house via the kitchen window.

It was Christmas and I had a warm dry conservatory and a cat flap in the door, so when I went away for Christmas for four days I imagined my cat snuggled up in the conservatory and a kindly neighbour to feed him.

What I did not know was that a pane of glass in my kitchen window was broken and so although the neighbour was thinking all was well and the cat was certainly eating in the conservatory and snuggled up on the sofa there, the full horror of his antics was not discovered until I got back. A friend of mine who was coming to stay had a key from me, and on entering rang me to say I'd better get home quick!

On arrival home the little monster had obviously found a rat colony somewhere, there were bits of rat and whole rats all over my kitchen, dinning room and hallway! yuck and big grump!

> then disect the spleens and leave them for my mum <IMG alt=eek src="/images/eek.gif">

Obviously loved your Mum then!  :-)

she was the only one she liked...

My friend lives in a bungalow and left the bedroom window open one night. She woke up in the morning to find her cat curled up asleep on her feet and a strange black moggy asleep on her husbands :-O

Well I have now fogged and de-flead every area indoors, just in case, goodness knows what the P@H people thought of me buying SIX double fogger sets.  Really don't want mouse/rat/rabbit (or whatever lunch was) fleas invading, and I felt constantly itchy.  Cat has also been de-flead at the expense of my hands and arms (semi-feral so did NOT like flea treatment being applied!).  Wondering now if I should buy some of the Program stuff for the cats? 

> Wondering now if I should buy some of the Program stuff for the cats?&nbsp;

Have a word with the vet before getting any. Sometimes cats can be overdosed with anti flea products and they can die from it. (Read this in the Vet mag at the vets where I worked).

Ooooh, thanks for that info Polly, didn't know that.  Will tootle down tonight.

My cat lived to 16, with just 3 legs she constantly brought us 'presents' throughout her life.  My parents had brought a cat, and knew what they were taking on keeping her worming and flea treatment religiously up to date.  What they did not bargin for was to walk up to my cot when I was a few months old to see the cat balancing on the side about to present the baby with a lovely fresh 'present'!  Not funny at the time, but its nice to know she cared!

We had an escape artist too.  Arrived home from vacation to find no cat but bird bits in the basement.  Called my friend who was coming over to feed, water and play with cat, yes, she played with the cat every time she came over and cat was in the house when she left.  Later we found this cat had ripped a hole in a metal screen in a basement window and was coming and going as she pleased.  Incredibly, this cat met my friend INSIDE the house every time, never out in the yard or driveway.  Too smart for that. 

We are looking into new windows for our house and the new screens will be fibreglass or some kind of material that sure does not look as sturdy as the old metal screens.  I shudder to think of the short time those new screens are probably going to last.