RE: Does your cat hunt - and how do you deal with it?
I think that it does make a difference whether the cat is hungry, and also whether the mother cat has taught the kittens to hunt. So, if the mother was a house cat and never hunted, and then you have a kitten, and it never learns to hunt; it might not have that hunter instinct.
Some cats just seem more inclined to hunt than others, in any case, and I have had cats that would actually run away if they saw a mouse !
One cat that I had just loved catching anything, and he would track down those little lizards with the bright blue tails----- those little rascals are FAST ! ! But he also went after birds, and when I was fishing and landed a fish, he grabbed it as fast as I got it off of the hook, and ate it. That cat just loved fresh fish.
Here is a cute video of a cat that just loves birds, and is not a hunter at all....
