(12-18-2014, 02:27 AM)Happyflowerlady Wrote: Cats can be so amazing, can't they ? I have had some that were prolific hunters, but never one that has caught a bat. Obviously she was proud of herself, too; since she brought it in for you as a special gift. (which you declined to eat).
It is interesting how cats (and sometimes dogs) will bring you in the bird or mouse that they have caught.
Cats usually bring in living prey they have captured so that they can teach their kittens how to hunt for prey.
She probably sat there and watched you chasing that bat around , muttering softly to herself, "He's never gonna get it. He has to learn how to pounce way better than that."
I think she brought the critters in for the other cats. As a feral, she was never much welcomed by the other cats who, although she was their housemate for nearly twenty years, always treated her as an outsider. Even her daughter would team up with the others against her mom.
She brought a bird to Baby Girl, the mother of the two older sisters who I still have, and dropped it in front of her, clearly as an offering. Baby Girl walked away from it.
She brought my wife and I inanimate objects. We would get up some mornings to find leaves, clumps of dirt, crumpled cigarette packages that she probably dug out of someone's trash, pieces of wood, and all sorts of things piled up outside our bedroom door.
