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[Adam4868]

Alexa.....how do I get rid of Squirrels 🤣

 

[First Aspect]

I have never met a cat clever or fast enough to catch a squirrel.

 

[rockyroller]

I have never met a cat clever or fast enough to catch a squirrel.

& that's not a bad thing. but they do give chase!

 

[First Aspect]

& that's not a bad thing. but they do give chase!

One of ours brought in a succession of leverets one year. Possibly they were hares in fact. It was horrific. Also dismembered a pigeon in the kitchen. There were several stand offs with partially defeathered but otherwise very healthy corvids. A sparrowhawk with rigor mortis (probably a collision with a window rather than the cat). A mouse trap, attached to his foot. And at one stage 3-4 voles or mice a night. He died a few years ago, but he was a force of nature for a while, that cat. Rip

 

[rockyroller]

One of ours brought in a succession of leverets one year. Possibly they were hares in fact. It was horrific. Also dismembered a pigeon in the kitchen. There were several stand offs with partially defeathered but otherwise very healthy corvids. A sparrowhawk with rigor mortis (probably a collision with a window rather than the cat). A mouse trap, attached to his foot. And at one stage 3-4 voles or mice a night. He died a few years ago, but he was a force of nature for a while, that cat. Rip

awww wonderful, now that's a proper cat, eh?

 

[Profpointy]

I have never met a cat clever or fast enough to catch a squirrel.

We had a cat that caught and ate a few squirrels

 

[First Aspect]

We aren't supposed to love one companion animal more than another are we, but I suspect many people find that there is a special one that stands out somehow. That one was mine, probably because I was his preferred servant.

 

[Adam4868]

I have never met a cat clever or fast enough to catch a squirrel.

I won't show you the kill then....what being a family forum 😁

 

[First Aspect]

I don't believe that your pampered sausage shaped cat will get that squirrel.

We have a black cat (in her last few weeks now sadly - but she is 19 1/2, so a good innings) who we affectionately call the black slug, because she more or less used to have the same general morphology when viewed from any distance. Always liked her food.

 

[Chris S]

One of ours brought in a succession of leverets one year. Possibly they were hares in fact. It was horrific. Also dismembered a pigeon in the kitchen. There were several stand offs with partially defeathered but otherwise very healthy corvids. A sparrowhawk with rigor mortis (probably a collision with a window rather than the cat). A mouse trap, attached to his foot. And at one stage 3-4 voles or mice a night. He died a few years ago, but he was a force of nature for a while, that cat. Rip

My neighbour's cat is the same. Every other day there is a dead rat or decapitated bird in my garden. I leave the rats for the seagulls, the birds go in the bin.

 

[simonali]

A rare photo of her not scrounging!

 

[Adam4868]

I don't believe that your pampered sausage shaped cat will get that squirrel.

We have a black cat (in her last few weeks now sadly - but she is 19 1/2, so a good innings) who we affectionately call the black slug, because she more or less used to have the same general morphology when viewed from any distance. Always liked her food.

All joking apart she's getting on in years....think she's about 16/17 by our reckoning.Got her when she was a feral 3 year old from a sanctuary and she took an instant shine to my daughter !
They did say she wasn't good with kids....I soon found out she wasn't that good with anyone 🤣
She's quietened down quite a bit since then....sometimes gives me a cuddle,although only on her terms !
She's a born hunter,fighter,scavenger etc...live opposite a golf course that used to be her hunting ground,now she's quite happy to defend her domain in the garden,we've had the whole array of kills brought to us including squirrels and even a seagull to the horror of my partner !
Worst for me are frogs and toads as she tortures them....and my god have you ever heard the noise they make !

 

[Reynard]

I have never met a cat clever or fast enough to catch a squirrel.

My much-missed tortie, Poppy, was the squirrel and rabbit specialist here chez Casa Reynard. Madam Lexi was also a prolific hunter - she's slowed down in her dotage, bless her. But she once cleaned out a nest of pheasant. And ate the whole damn lot!

 

[Thorn Sherpa]

Saving her energy for the late night walk

 

[Thorn Sherpa]

Few from Manvers Lake tonight, loves a dip in the lake when there's no night fishing.