Brucie2 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 03, 2020 9:53 am
OK, I'll clarify ....
Cats have a habit of bringing their catches home to 'show them off' & end up just letting them go.
Every day one of our cats brings home skinks that it catches. Never hurts them at all. Gently picks them up & carries them to the door.
After making the mistake of just opening the door before checking I learnt to check first.
Now I gently pat her & retrieve the lizard & take it back to the rocks.
Easier than having to remove the fridge, dishwasher or stove to find it!!!
Years ago when I was a wee fella my father built a mouse proof barn. It had legs with guards on to stop vermin climbing up. It had a landing outside the door but the cats would catch a mouse & jump up, play with their catch & then sometimes it would escape & let the mouse in the barn.
We had one cat used to kill brown snakes and bring them back to our front door.
Nope, I don't want a cat door!!
Friends I worked for adopted a stray cat and it brought them a gift every morning .... of a snake. Dropped at the back door, still very much alive. The cat would wait there with the snake until the wife came to the back door, drop it at her feet and then head inside. Brown snakes, red belly black snakes, those crazy copper scaled ones that made their scales shimmer in waves just before they struck out, and even an Illawarra death adder. The wife would pick them up with the kitchen tongs and put them into a glass tank adapted for reptiles from a fish tank.
When she mentioned about the snake with the shimmering scales I mentioned they have a strike speed faster than you can refocus and the shimmering was a distraction for its prey .... that one went into a bottle of metho ...... then she mentioned about the funny short fat snakes with a tiny tail that it wiggled in the air .... a death adder ..... it hides in leaf litter with the tail showing through the leaves as an attraction for birds and small animals .... a few minute people killer and will actually chase humans. They do keep the feral cat population down how ever and this cat appeared to be no exception because it didn't return a few days later, must have found a bigger death adder and was not quite so lucky.
When I asked how many snakes she had she said the number seemed to vary and she was worried some were getting out
More likely they were now in a larger snakes belly ..... They all ended up a jars of metho ......
T1 Terry