Conference misery::feline_v1

    Remember the character in Dracula by the name of Renfield - the guy in
    the mental hospital who begged for flies, etc???  That's Stitch's
    nick-name "Yeeeessssss master" Things that fly don't stand a chance
    around him - Pippin gets her share of the beasties as well as Gino but
    "renfield" is the champ - - <<>> it's the crunching sound I hear
    sometimes that I find rather disgusting as well as the half eaten ones
    I find on the floor!  Ahhhh cats
    
    Giudi +3

    Zildjian *loves* crickets.  She'll wait and wait in the cellar until
    she can pounce on one then she eats it!  This is what gives her her
    occassional dirreah (sp?).
    
    Now Spunks, on the other hand, will go for just about anything but only
    eats grass - she's a vegetarian (except when it comes to chicken on the
    grill ;-*)).
    
    Anna/Zildjian(who is freezing at home cuz of no heat - she's my heat
    seeker)/Spunks
    
    

    
    I live in the country part of Mass. Berlin.  With our kitty Scruffy and
    the Dudley Road gang, I get "alot" of presents.  
    
    If we leave both outdoor lights on, they attrack bugs that I've never
    seen in my life, and wish not too!  So the kitties have a field-day
    over catching, batting them around and eating them!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    
    The kills are another thing, I've had plenty of field mice, moles and a
    few feathers.  I have had the "unpleasant" experience of parts of
    squirrels on the sidewalk in our yard.  Insides of who knows what!  And
    what the cat thought was good, spat on my steps, cause I guess it
    didn't agree with them!!!!!!!!! UGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
    
    Scruffy tries to bring them in the house and I slam the door on her.
    
    I've had more than my share of presents........and I imagine, more will
    come.
    
    Carol
    
    

    
    
    	Sasha makes raccoon noises when she sees bugs.  It is the
    	funniest thing.  Then she'll follow it around the house.
    
    	Audrey is the only ones who eats bugs though....yecch!
    

    JJ,
    
    Must be the Siamese in her!  Taja eats bugs too.  YUCKY!!!
    Kelsey just plays with them.  Once when I had him out on his run he was
    chasing something around.  I was sitting on a rock watching him and
    when he was done he put the "thing" in his mouth and ran over to me
    with it.  It was a huge cricket!  He was so proud of his catch!
    

        Missy loves bugs.  Ants are neat too!  They are fun to follow all
    over the house then eat.  Flys and the like are great fun when they
    land on the screen door and the cat HAVE to jump up to get them.  Of
    course, putting holes in the screen at the same time.
    
         Dandy has brought me 1 mouse, a chickadee, 2 snakes, (snakes are
    his favorite) and various other THINGS.  He likes ants too.
    

    
    
    	We won't even discuss some of the presents Brandi used to
    	leave on the front stoop.
    
    	disgusting......
    

    Well, I threw out my fly swatter years ago - 7 years ago to be
    exact - when we got Isis "The enforcer" of Putiput.  No flying
    insect is safe from her paws.  She'll catch them mid-air between
    her front feet.  And she's taught several of the others to do the
    same.  
    
    Also, we have crickets in the cellar and the cats INSIST on going
    down every evening to hunt them.
      N
    

    
    I've noted this before, but will say it here also.  I had a cat
    (Rousseau) that caught a baby bunny on Easter.  She didn't kill the
    poor thing but scared the you know what out of it.  She also carried
    home a few snakes, mice, and birds.  She also did a number on my
    mother's canaries (sp?).
    
    Now Rusty came to me as a non-hunter until I introduced him to the
    country living.  Now he brings home mice and chipmunks.  I don't think
    he has mastered catching birds yet (knock on wood he doesn't).

    DejaVu, an indoor kitty is my *protector*.  So far, she has managed to
    stalk and kill two (2) mice in my house.  She is also de-clawed.  the
    others just stand around and watch or just play with *critter*.
    
    Way to go Deja
    
    Sandi and the Storm Troopers
    
    

    I think I've described this somewhere in here before but, Amelia
    is a spider catcher.  I can remember vividly the first time she
    caught one (at my urging if I remember correctly), popped him in
    her mouth and turned to look at me with spider legs hanging out,
    then proceeded to much the little guy.  Yech!  I went from saying
    "get him, get him" to "no, no, don't eat him".  Gads, I hate spiders.
    
    Jan

    Alexander is 8 months old and there is no bug safe from him.
    He wakes me up at daylight (which comes too darn early these
    days) - not to be fed, but so he can go out and catch bugs.
    (Evidently the early morning bugs across the lawn taste better
    than those from any other time of day?)  I've shot many pictures
    of Alex running and leaping across the lawn in pursuit of some
    small bug or another.  Heaven forbid a fly or a moth should get
    in the house!  Alex makes these short of chitterring-squeaky
    noises and stalks it all over the place, tail swishing madly.
    
    Our other cat, Jessica,  brings home chipmunks, birds, mice
    and once a squirrel, but she doesn't bother with bugs or ants
    or the smaller stuff.  Alex on the other hand has not yet 
    learned that bigger things can be caught too, with the
    exception of a frog.  He followed the frog for over an hour,
    occasionally putting a paw gingerly down on it, then lifting
    it up quickly.  Eventually he tired of the game and picked it
    up in his mouth and brought it to the back door for us.  Now
    what can you say in that situation except "good kitty!'?
    
    Laura, Jessica and Alexander
    

    How 'bout....
    
    "EEEWW!, Good Kitty!"   (yech!)  ;*)
    
    Bonnie

    Ants have a very strange effect on Gino - he likes to roll around in
    them.  Then he starts doing this "pounce" sort of dance - rolls some
    more and then has a "go nutz".  I mentioned this to the Vet and he just
    laughed and mentioned that sometimes ants have this sort of effect on
    cats.  Every time we bring Gino down the back he scouts the darn things
    out and rolls in them.    S T R A N G E
    
    Giudi +3

    Ha ha ha ha ha!! OOOOh, hee hee hehehe!! WAAAHHHHHOOO!!! ha ha ha!
    
    I can just see it now!
    
    Bon

    hmmm...  catnip ants ....:^)

    Whats funnier is when they're crawling on his back after he's had a
    good roll around and him running around trying to shake and lick them
    off at the same time - wild look in his eyes - it drives him crazy but
    he loves it!!
    
    G

Maybe formic acid is a "turn on" for felines?  that is, as far as I know, the
common output from ants.

Hmmmmm, interesting...none of my feline roommates indicate this passion, but
then, how do I know what they do when I'm here all day????