Weird gifts your pets bring home...

[josaphine32]

Ziggy has been going out now for the last three weeks he loves it outside, We get leaves,sticks, stones. But ast night was the ultimate......A roast potato, He was not going to let me have it, I hope he did not raid someones house to get it.

Anyone else had any strange gifts from there pets?

[Mosaic]

One of my lovely boys brought in a rabbit at midnight, literally live and kicking, and also screaming....he was very annoyed when I took it off him and released it.

[Bambiagain]

Some friends had a cat that woke them in the middle of the night with terrible thuming on the cat flap. Turned out it had a large rabbit that it couldn't force through the gap.

[Bambiagain]

Thumping...

[abstibus]

An oven-ready turkey on Easter Sunday.
A dead gerbil.

[Eve]

I woke up one Mothers Day from a doze on the sofa to two rather smug cats sat either side of a dead magpie in my lap! One (can't remember if the same one) I put in a carrier bag outside in the back so I didn't have to go out front to the bin in my dressing gown and it kept coming back in in the carrier bag like a bloody boomarang!!! Wheelie bin time!

I've had a live mouse and pidgeon which looked dead until I went to pick it up and it MOVED!

One has been coming back lately with bits of chicken and whole slices of ham in her chops! The other has a thing for tubigrips and turbitowels, carries them round in her mouth. I've had a few mad dashes to shut an open window where underwear goes on the move!

[welshlibranr]

Callie likes to bring in snails, she cracks the shell and eats the body if I don't take it away from her very quickly, I hate snails!....she brought in the skeleton of a small bird yesterday, I had to take it out of her mouth!......Yuk!.....felt sick!.....

[maggiebee]

Someone mentioned catflaps. Uproar one day - Cheeky the cat trying to get a still live pigeon through ours. Had various mice, shrews, small birds etc. always dead though.

[wolf63]

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[nungate]

Henry keeps finding cotton buds, no idea where he finds them as the only ones are in a jar - with a stiff lid and is on a high-ish shelf. He runs all over the house with one dangling from his mouth I suspect he may have been a smoker in a previous life

[slinkycat]

My brother lives on a narrow boat, he heard strange crunching noises under his bed one night, it was his cat eating a rabbit it had bought in, eewh! Same cat tried to drag a live duck through the catflap!

[hau kola]

My cat was playing with what i thought was a leaf...turned out to be a young bat.I scooped it up and rang a local rescue guy who nursed it back to health and released it in our area.

[islasmum]

My old Tigger used to bring in frogs from the pond next door - my sister was living there at the time fortunately; he got an absolutely enormous one one day, and it screamed, which was awful! I had to rely on OH to remove them and put them back in the pond - there's no way I could ever pick up a frog.

[islasmum]

We've lived at this house for over 7 years now, and sometime in 2004 I lost my glasses, and hunted high and low for them but never found them - lo and behold one day last year my clever dog Isla came trotting in from the garden carrying my glasses - they were very bent, but still intact. I've no idea which dog took them out there as Isla wasn't born when they disappeared! and the previous belgian shepherd wasn't a thief, so it must have been one of the labradors.

[boxtops]

Our cats' crowning glory was when I came home from shopping and found a live magpie sitting in the ceiling light fitting, looking evilly down at me - I have no idea how they got it through the cat flap.

I locked the cats out and rang the RSPCA for advice, all they could say was "use stout gloves".... so I thought I'd unscrew the light fitting and slide the bird into the cat basket. No such luck - the light tilted and the bird flew to the top of the bookcase and promptly fell down the back of it.

Thankfully the RSPCA had also suggested turning out the lights and opening the front door so the bird could see outside - the prospect of dismantling the bookcase didn't appeal, but thankfully there was a gap underneath it and after a few minutes the magpie stalked out and made for the front door.

Meanwhile the cats were pounding on the catflap trying to get back in.... :0)

[RATTER15]

I know I have told this story on her before so I will keep it brief: whilst walking my Lurcher (Lass) one Christmas morning about 10 years ago, we were walking down the country lane where I lived, as we passed a gate to a large field I noticed a rabbit in the grass, I indicated to my Lass to go get it (its not poaching as long as I don't go in the field) so she popped over the gate, ran straight past the rabbit and disappeared, only to return 30 seconds later with a whole roast turkey in her mouth and still piping hot. We ran all the way home pretty promptly I can tell you.

[islasmum]

Well she managed to sort out your Christmas lunch for you ratter!

[Figgypud]

I had a cat once that used to collect all the rubber bands the postman dropped on the pavement. They were red, and she would come in with them all hanging from her mouth and frighten me half to death until I realised what they were! She also once managed to catch a pipistrelle (?sp) bat.

The worst thing any of my cats ever brought home was used, disposable nappies! (The neighbour's teenage daughter used to change her baby and lob the nappies out of the upstairs window onto their drive, where they would remain until the next time she could be bothered to bin them, (unwrapped!) on her way out. All I can say is that my cats are tidier and more hygienic than she!

[boxtops]

Egh figgy, that's gross!

[horseshoes]

Amongst the usual small animals and birds, my Mum's old cat brought in
1) a seagull
2) a mole
3) a 6ft pampas grass
Goodness knows how she managed the 3rd one as she had to turn at a right angle to get it through the cat flap. She was VERY proud of it!