Not Very Nice....

[razer121]

not for the faint hearted this, but today when i was walking home with my little girl and gf, we saw a ginger cat in the park near a tree, unfortnatly...there was a squirrel that came down the other side it was not nice! the cat got ready then just pounced on it...it kicked it abit then that was it, mouth round the neck....i felt so bad because i couldnt do anything for the poor squirrel, i know it happens all the time but the fact i saw it only about 10 meters away made it even worse, my gf....didnt listen when i told her not to look either....so now she cant stop thinking about it, luckily for my lil girl she didnt see as i made sure she couldnt, i just wish that i didnt get chole out the scoundrel, that way the moment i saw that cat spot the squirrel i could of scared the cat of....well i feel real bad so decided to post this up, i didnt even know cats did this??? has anybody else expereinced this?

 

[Curiosity101]

Cats are predators...end of. They may have been domesticated for a long time, but some of those natural instincts remain.

I wouldn't feel bad about it. It's not as if the cat maliciously killed the squirrel, I'm sure it wasn't nice to watch...but yah know.

 

[Truck]

I also wouldn't feel bad about it, its what they do instinctively, but they don't seem to kill for food anymore, probably because they've got it back at their owners.

I know its not nice to watch, but its nature.

 

[razer121]

i understand its nature but when you think about it afterwards and you know you could of done something is whats getting to me...poor squirrel,

 

[The young one]

My two cats chased a squirrel into the house and trapped it behind the dresser, then the squirrel started growling and the cats got scared an ran off. I had to put on some thick gloves and catch the squirrel.

I wouldn't feel bad if I saw a cat eating a squirrel, it's nature, if the cat was a stray it's got to survive somehow. The cycle of life...

 

[crimsontsavo]

I can not count the furry broken corpses I have seen on my doorstep over the years.
Often times I walk outside and see what is left of a chipmunks head staring at me with garish vacant eyes.
Well, it just comes with the territory when owning cats.

 

[indigoj]

Horrible as it must have been to see, if you are in the uk and it was a gery squirrel then it's not a bad thing. Grey squirrels are introduced 'pests' that have decimated the native red squirrel population.

In my local park squirrels are culled every now and then as numbers get so high. Maybe better a cat got that one?

 

[Haych]

its a good thing you DIDNT do anything, you could have left it half dead, and suffering.

and i agree, unfortunately, it isnt the nicest thing to see, but its something a cat cant help, mine are currently "cackling" at a fly

cant be as bad as what poor kev had.... he woke one night to Bella playing with a "toy" mouse... only to feel it on his side, under the blanket (she somehow threw it there) a real one! least to say he screamed like a girl and went pansyig off to the loo to flush it!

 

[M.R Otter]

Razer... I know exactly how it feels like, those cats keep on entering my home and killing my pets... few days ago when I came from school I saw a street cat on my Aviary, so I threw a rock at it and scared him away, and one day the when I was on my home's roof watching Birds.... I saw a street cat attacking one of my sister's rabbits, my sister was playing in the garden with 4 rabbits when one of the rabbits came close to the bush a cat came out pierced it!! and I can't believe that I could not do anything.... I came down from the roof and chased the cat, but the cat kept holding rabbit until it jumped to our neibours house!! those street cats are pests they had killed so many of my pets encluding:
1-cockatiels
2-diamond doves
3-our own pet cat (it had been attacked by those pest cat inside the house)
4-some pond fish
5-Asian chipmunks
Those animals that I mention are not all of my pets that are been killed by those freak street cats!!

 

[razer121]

oh dear....are you in the UK m.r otter?? the ones round here are bad for killing but there not that bad!!, either way ive gotten over it now, although my gf still has a hard time talking about it....and yes it was grey one, i think there cute though lol, the ones near me are so tame! they come to your hand, if your nice enough just wish i could save that poor one.....



p.s sorry

 

[bae1994]

yeah must of been horrible to see


we were having a picknick once in a park and a squrel came dow and stole a whole custard filled donut and ate it it was shocking lol

nothing could do tho as it was up a tree

 

[chesterscot]

this is why when owning cats they should wear bells it may help to save wildlife
also for those who say its nature sure the instinct to kill is there but it is not naturall for predators to be as well fed or in such un natural numbers for prey animals to be able to cope

mr otter apart from the pondfish where did you keep all those animals for them to be able to become cat food accidents happen but after it happened to me once i took steps to prevent it you should do the same
scot