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Post by heartpawprints on May 16, 2013 17:07:56 GMT
Apart from the obligatory cat poop and sick, what's has been the most disgusting thing you've had to deal with due to your cat/s? Worst: I found a little, thoughtful gift on my second last step. It was the tail half of a mouse with the innards splaying out. Cute! Odd: A dead full size chocolate brown domestic bunny in my bedroom. I'd like to point out that karma was restored because a few years later, there was a chocolate brown domestic bunny loose in the street which would have been cat prey, but my neighbour and I rescued it and got it handed over to the animal refuge.
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Post by SarahHound on May 16, 2013 19:29:57 GMT
Half mice are pretty nasty, I get them quite often. Unfortunately Skye likes to bring me a gift and will jump up on me and leave it on my chest when I'm sleeping. Mouse guts in your bed isn't nice.
As for odd, well today I found her holding a bee. She had it in her paw with her claws curled round tight, and was just sitting watching it buzzing and struggling in her grip. How she wasn't stung I don't know!
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Post by judypops on May 16, 2013 20:09:01 GMT
Worst, I can't quite think of one. No rodent innards for us, Morandi doesn't hunt (that we know of) and Charlie eats whatever he gets!!! It would probably be having to clean up sawdust from everywhere after Charlie knocked over my hamsters before ( they were ok, the bottom of the cage fell off but they were still secure) or when we first got the cats I had Charlie out on a harness and in an attempt to climb a small tree he got his leg caught between the tree and its supporting post, I got quite a few bites. Oddest would be when Charlie (yet again!!) caught a wasp and decided to eat it. He ended up getting stung on his lower lip which swelled up a lot! General animal odd would be waking up one morning to find 2 donkeys in your back garden !!!
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Post by scallywag on May 16, 2013 20:12:37 GMT
Ewwww sorry guys think i will stick with a Mutt sorry to gate crash you
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Post by tonib on May 16, 2013 20:38:36 GMT
Worst dead mice/birds in various forms are often received although the live ones let go at 1 a.m & refusing to be rescued are too appreciated. But I think having to clear up 6 rooms after Penny had decided to share her being sick with most of the 2 floors of the house takes the biscuit! Odd That's got to be the time I was just about to go to work when Roman came in the cat flap & into the living room where he laid down with a live rabbit in front of him. I managed to cover it with a towel & took it outside on to the front lawn, where it laid still. Oh dear I thought but I couldn't see any blood or damage. All of a sudden it rolled over & ran off across the lawn, through the picket fence into the next close & back up to the country park. I suspect it was suffering from a sore head as Roman was carrying it by the scruff of the neck, just as a kitten is carried by its mum, & it's head would have been used to open the cat flap! Mind you the rabbit got its revenge, as when we got home, Roman's ginger head was now ginger & black spotted. The black spots were moving - rabbit mites/fleas - and he was scratching!!! A quick dose of frontline (which was just about due anyway) & the problem was resolved by next morning, luckily nothing left in the house.
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Post by gladys on May 16, 2013 22:12:33 GMT
I'm so use to half dead rodents being left at the back door or on the decking that I can't think of anything else. Did have a beautiful green bird left in the hall, looked like a pet bird rather than a wild one. Oh every summer I have to rescue frogs from my youngest cat who just plays with them. She never hurts them and when I put them back in the pond they swim off happily. The frogs play dead until they think she's gone then when they try to hop away she catches them again from behind the bush/tree/picnic table. Ooh just thought of an odd one, the youngest cat came to me at 12 weeks old completely covered in fleas (the only time we have had them in the house). She was confined to one room while the treatment killed them all but she managed to get in to my office where my rats cage lived. She then sat on top and groomed herself and yes I then had to treat my rats for fleas too!?! Thankfully that's the only time I've ever had to treat my fur family for having fleas.
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Post by ownedby3cats on May 17, 2013 6:35:11 GMT
Don't have half dead rodents to deal with best thing about having indoor cats. Worst was dealing with Bonnies tail when she got it caught in the hinge side of the door. Had to take her to the vets as an emergency and she had a little bit of her tail amputated.
Cant thinkof a oddest.
Sandra
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Post by dutchkitties on May 17, 2013 8:04:59 GMT
Dismembered frogs under my bead spread. (Tommie)
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Post by lotsofcats on May 17, 2013 9:25:29 GMT
I think the worst cat thing I have ever dealt with was when my 8 month old ginger tom got killed by a car and a woman further up the road thought it was her cat and buried it in her garden. When her own cat turned up she turned detective to find out who's cat was in her garden. The next day my husband went and dug him up and reburied him in our garden.
The oddest one was when my cat Kali lived with her kittens in the cat shed (long story) - they were about 3 weeks old. Kali had been let out into the garden and me and hubby were sat in the cat shed playing with the kittens. The shed door and cat pen doors were open when all of a sudden Kali came jumping into the shed and dropped a live rat in front of her kittens - I have never moved so fast in my life, I grabbed the kittens and threw them into their box and I was out of there. My husband grabbed a small box and managed to put it over the rat. I think Kali was telling her kittens it was time to start eating solids!
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Post by cia on May 17, 2013 14:30:43 GMT
Oh Jenny - your first tale so so sad and your second OMG that was quick thinking on your half.
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Post by heartpawprints on May 17, 2013 17:02:20 GMT
Dismembered frogs under my bead spread. (Tommie) Oh that is particularly nasty!
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Post by tonib on May 17, 2013 20:06:39 GMT
Oh forgot a worst - more of a terrible fright
When we first got Lexie she was kept in an upstairs (small) bedroom on her own so she could settle & we could gradually familiarise the other 3 cats to her & vice versa. A few days after she arrived I decided to give her a bit more room & took her down to the dining-room & conservatory combination. She seemed fine so went to get something from the next room (kitchen) & shut the door to the dining-room. Very shortly I could hear plaintive cries/shrieks (rather like a siren going off - she gradually wound up the yell). Went back into the dining-room & couldn't see her. I realised the cries where coming from behind the sideboard/dresser. Found her in the middle (side to side) suspended by her head behind it. It looks like she'd gone up on the top & fallen behind. I couldn't move it on my own. I was terrified as was she.
Luckily the neighbour across the way was in, a fairly burly man, & he came across & we managed to move it slowly having first quickly moved anything lose from the shelves (not for their sake but if they fell it could scare her more & if they broke could hurt her if she panicked) & she dropped down - obviously very frightened. Took her to the vets to get her checked over & she was fine.
Didn't leave her on her own there for quite some days & had tried to block the gap at the top she fell down (the side panels go slightly further back than the top & plus the skirting board meant there was a big enough gap for her to go down but it narrowed up when it got to the cupboard base part which was the problem I think). She's never tried to get up on the top again, although a couple of times I've thought she was going to try it & we've stopped her. We'd never thought she'd go up there - none of our bigger cats have - but she's definitely one for going up high.
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Post by daintipawz on May 17, 2013 20:57:27 GMT
I remember when I had cats that went outside years ago and Sioux one of my Siamese had a thing about catching earth worms, those big horrid wriggly things which makes you scream. She brought one in to the kitchen, it was twisting and turning as she played with it,unfortunately I didn't deal with it and jumped up on the kitchen work top shaking like a leaf as I am terrified of them, I sat there for what seemed like hours although it was only minutes before someone came in and threw it back out. Luckily I don't have to deal with anything like that nowadays as all my cats are all indoor cats now. I do see them catching the odd spider which makes me squirm but I usually walk away fast and let them get on with it.
But the worst thing of all was bringing two of my cats in when stray dogs came down the road and killed one by shaking her so much she had her neck broke and the other so badly injured he had to be put to sleep. That was the worst time of all which I have had to deal with regarding my cats.
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Post by heartpawprints on May 17, 2013 21:22:36 GMT
But the worst thing of all was bringing two of my cats in when stray dogs came down the road and killed one by shaking her so much she had her neck broke and the other so badly injured he had to be put to sleep. That was the worst time of all which I have had to deal with regarding my cats. That must have been truly horrendous. You have my sympathy for having gone through it.
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Post by camorris on May 18, 2013 13:50:41 GMT
Gosh Sharon, no wonder you only have indoor cats now. I can't imagine anything worse. At least when cats have traffic accidents it all happens so quickly they don't have time to feel fear.
Poppy has just bought me one of the worst 'presents'. A bald baby Jackdaw from the nest in 'her' tree. I'm not sure if she went and got it down or it fell out. It was quite gross. I buried it at sea (flushed it down the loo)
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