Never See A Cat Kill One

[slip lead 862]

Found a dead one wedged down a sett

[Daniel cain 46,180]

Found a dead one wedged down a sett

cat or rabbit?I had a ferel jump across a Brook run past a tree and drop into an old drain pipe when I was a kid out ratting with the terriers. . when I lived on a golf course end of the 90"s the owners cats would walk past my french doors most nites with young rabbits,I used to curse them...lol

[mushroom 13,253]

Cat's up at the stables catch regular throughout the year (raise litters every year on them aswell)

[Maximus Ferret 2,063]

As said above, cats have no trouble killing rabbits, including the one I have now. I think that almost any cat can learn it as long as there're a few rabbits about. I've known a small female cat to regularly kill rabbits that were almost as big as itself to feed kittens and when I worked in a petfarm next to Clonakilty agricultural college, the yard cats from the college used to grab quite big pet rabbits and run up 8 feet of chainlink fence with screeching rabbit in mouth.

Cats are great hunters if they get a chance and my own neutered tom regularly leaves a full sized rat, sometimes 2, on the doorstep in the morning. I think he's carrying them a fair distance too, from nearby agricultural land so must sometimes make two journeys. A lot on here don't like cats but personally I like to have one around the place.

[jukel123 8,653]

I sense I'm in for a hard time for this claim but I had a Siamese cat that regularly killed adult hares. I used to live on a sporting estate with a huge hare population and she regularly dragged them home between her legs like a leopard carries its prey.

And no my nose is not getting longer as i write this. Of course she preferred leverets but she had several fully grown ones over the years. In fact she regularly provided supplementary feeding for my dogs and ferrets.

Edited November 20, 2015 by jukel123

[The one 8,511]

There's a cat at the bottom of the street reguarly goes down with a rabbit the woman at the top who's garden backs on to the fields keeps moaning about it

[Phil Lloyd 10,738]

So refreshing to hear folk extolling the hunting attributes of the humble Cat...

 

I have always rated them as being class acts, when it comes to having endless patience, superb agility and a skillful strike. We used to have great fun with the farm cats ,..mostly lamping rodents and they definitely carried rabbits around the place,..often secreteing the carcases in the straw barns for consumption at a later date...

 

 

Edited November 30, 2015 by Phil Lloyd

[jukel123 8,653]

So refreshing to hear folk extolling the hunting attributes of the humble Cat...

 

I have always rated them as being class acts, when it comes to having endless patience, superb agility and a skillful strike. We used to have great fun with the farm cats ,..mostly lamping rodents and they definitely carried rabbits around the place,..often secreteing the carcases in the straw barns, for consumption at a later date...

 

These beautiful and ancient feline hunters, sure are good,.. at what they do..

 

 

I've heard of 'Hunt jump kill and carry'. But never 'hunt jump with cat and carry'.

Edited November 20, 2015 by jukel123

[tjones3862 3,423]

THIS WAS THE OTHER NIGHT,,,MARS MISSED A RABBIT THEN WENT TO A RABBIT IN DISTRESS ,,,THE CAT GOT OUT THE WAY AND THE BUNNY LIVED FOR ANOTHER DAY,I HOPE

[peng 136]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZRAE-MnqNA heres one Edited November 20, 2015 by peng

[General lee 979]

When I was a kid I had a big black and white Tom cat that used to bring rabbits back he would only eat the head neck and down into the rib cage a little