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Coyotegirl ([info]coyotegirl) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2004-11-11 01:43:00
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Current mood:*boggle*

found_objects wank rides again!
"This is what my male cat, Hunter found today. The little baby rat was sooo adorable I wanted to kiss it. But I reminded myself it was a rat and let him play with it to death! ;)"

It just kinda speaks for itself.

The comm is usually pretty well modded, so it's probably going to go away soon. It's spawned one and a half pages of frothing comments at this point, though.


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[info]ladybirdsleeps
2004-11-11 12:47 pm UTC (link)
I live in the country, so we get mice indoors a lot -- my cats find them and I invariably rescue them (to kill them later, mercifully).

I have a hard time understanding the "it's just ____, so it doesn't matter if it suffers" mentality.

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[info]smo
2004-11-11 04:36 pm UTC (link)
Of course it matters if a mouse suffers. They're living, sentient beings. But if cats and other predators didn't eat them, they'd get so numerous they'd destroy the earth.

...which reminds me, humans could use a good predator or six. *sigh*

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(no subject) - [info]kadath, 2004-11-11 08:16 pm UTC
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(no subject) - [info]kadath, 2004-11-12 02:53 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]windex_junkie, 2004-11-13 12:57 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]ladybirdsleeps, 2004-11-11 09:18 pm UTC
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[info]teratologist
2004-11-11 01:29 pm UTC (link)
On the one hand, cats will be cats. And people will be assholes.

On the other hand, my baby rats are just about that age now, so OMGGRRRHATE'JUSTARAT'MYASS.

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[info]mistressrenet
2004-11-11 01:38 pm UTC (link)
When I had a cat we let it eat lots of things. It was a cat, that's what cats do, and there was no way I was going to snatch a mouse away from his little jaws, especially one that was already inside the house. (We did make him let go of a bluejay once.)

But I sure as hell didn't take pictures and post it to a comm with "OMG THE CUTE!!"

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[info]ecchaniz0r
2004-11-11 02:26 pm UTC (link)
I think the OP has the brain worms.

I love my cat, I do, but it freaks my shit out when she catches some rodent-thing and clobbers it about. I don't watch.

Nor do I watch when she EATS THINGS HEADFIRST.

Generally I don't let her eat what she frags, but seriously? Those who tell me to 'rescue' the mice? AHAHAHAHA you try it and good luck.

*has a mousefree house and garage and is happy*

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[info]maryavatar
2004-11-11 09:03 pm UTC (link)
Mine does the head first thing too. I've been freaked out on more than one occasion by finding a dead mouse on my kitchen floor with a hole gnawed in its head and the brains missing.

My mother lives on a farm, and her cats aren't allowed in the house. Mainly because they leave rabbit parts as gifts on the front doorstep.

"Eeeeeew!"

"What is it today?"

"Kidneys."

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(no subject) - [info]sarajayechan, 2004-11-11 09:10 pm UTC
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(no subject) - [info]teratologist, 2004-11-13 04:49 am UTC

[info]sarajayechan
2004-11-11 09:09 pm UTC (link)
My cat dropped a mouse at my sister's feet once, as if she were playing with one of her furry toy mice. My sister freaked, and for good reason...as for rescuing the mice, the best we've ever done is hope they run outside.

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(no subject) - [info]ladybirdsleeps, 2004-11-11 09:21 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]sarajayechan, 2004-11-11 10:32 pm UTC

[info]entelodont
2004-11-11 05:25 pm UTC (link)
Wow.

I'm not gonna resist the opportunity to share stories about MY little bastard cat, of course, who loves to disembowel and decapitate unfortunate cute animals. We generally rescue what we can (although I don't feel as bad about the nonnative species, especially since after eating what he catches he gorges himself on cat food anyway and barfs everything up. I remember encountering a pile of vomit topped with a perfectly untouched mouse face perched on top, staring up at me. Living in a semirural area, I'm quite used to seeing dead animals in all sorts of condition, but that was just icky.

On the other hand, if it weren't for him I never would have known we have shrews in the area. Not that I don't like shrews, but I appreciated the opportunity to know what lives around me, because I am a curious dork.

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[info]kookaburra
2004-11-11 06:34 pm UTC (link)
Eeeeh- am so not a rat fan. But not because I think they are disgusting or unclean, just because they get into EVERYTHING in the barn and then if you don't have cats you find one or two everymorning drowned in the ponies' waterbuckets. And they grow to obscene sizes.

Pictures- not in good taste, but the act being committed, well, circle of life, and all that.

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(no subject) - [info]elanor_durall, 2004-11-11 06:45 pm UTC
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[info]maryavatar
2004-11-11 09:09 pm UTC (link)
We had an invasion of mice last year when the waste ground behind our house got cleared for housing. We tried everything: mouse traps, humane traps, sonic repellers... nothing worked. So we got two cats, and were mouse-free in just over a week.

Hurrah for natural predators! People who get squeamish about a cat killing a rodent would probably be just as squeamish about finding a mouse in their children's breakfast cereal.

Yes, that really happened.

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[info]xero_sky
2004-11-11 09:31 pm UTC (link)
When I lived in Oregon, our cats made opening the front door each morning into a horror show. The little bastards apparently thought "Oh GOD! Look at that! Fuck!!! It's still moving!! I'm gonna be sick!!" were sounds of approval and affection, because they sat there and purred like the fuzzy little psychopaths they were.


Look at all the attention I could've gotten if I'd just taken pictures and posted 'em on LJ. *sheds a tear*

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(no subject) - [info]jess_d_ripper, 2004-11-11 09:42 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]xero_sky, 2004-11-11 09:58 pm UTC
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(no subject) - [info]thewashinator, 2004-11-12 03:47 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]pradaloz, 2004-11-12 09:21 pm UTC
Wow.
[info]rogue
2004-11-11 10:04 pm UTC (link)
Kerry as president = community turns into high concept art only.

... What?

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Re: Wow. - [info]kookaburra, 2004-11-12 04:50 am UTC

[info]also_not_a_pipe
2004-11-11 11:46 pm UTC (link)
I can sort of understand why some people were upset by this, and it was a little callous to post it without a cut, but for God's sake. It's a wild rodent. It's not someone's cute pet rat, it's vermin. There's a big difference between the two.

Now I need to quit before I start whacking off to my "cats play with their food because they're mostly-tame predators, not because they're cruel" rant. The prevalance of misinterpreting cat's hunting behavior as "mean" is one of my huge pet peeves.


(And when a cat brings live prey home, it's because it thinks you need to learn to start hunting for yourself.)

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(no subject) - [info]maryavatar, 2004-11-12 12:18 am UTC
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[info]ladysorka
2004-11-12 12:20 am UTC (link)
I wonder, if I took pictures of my cat eating the roaches, as she likes to do, if I'd get the same response.

Personally, I cheer her on. Then I don't have to deal with them.

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[info]blackjackrocket
2004-11-12 01:01 am UTC (link)
My parents' cat had no idea that mice were for eating. It killed a good six of my pet mice, all from head trauma from batting them around (his reaction was pretty much "Squeaky toys!")

Of course, there was one hearty little mouse who managed to survive many trips to the basement in the cat's mouth (she eventually died of old age), but...

I'm also reminded of my high school days. We had a mouse problem, so occasionally there'd be one scurrying across the floor...and people would try to stomp them! So what I would do is get a cup and a notebook and catch it, and take it out to the football field.

The office would even call for me on the PA after a while, with "Will the Mouse Wrangler please come to (location)?"

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[info]auguris
2004-11-12 05:06 am UTC (link)
link

"i have a big kitty, kinda like that, but orange named buddy. And he catches all types of things and brings them in the house alive. And i always say "BUDDY! NO!!!!" and he drops it and i save them. Because sad. Maybe that mouse has (had) a family."

...

Are you shitting me?

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(no subject) - [info]visp, 2004-11-13 10:29 pm UTC

[info]zarla
2004-11-12 06:42 am UTC (link)
I bet you anything that if that mouse/vole thing was a little lizard, the reaction wouldn't NEARLY be this strong.

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[info]papervolcano
2004-11-12 02:08 pm UTC (link)
While the pictures were in pretty bad taste, and depressingly trollish, the cat is just being a cat. Small, squeaky things are designed to be pounced on, after all.

I remember the day we got my cats. They were tiny little kittens, so very adorable and cute. Within a couple of hours of getting them home, they'd killed two spiders and a butterfly. I really shouldn't have been surprised when headless voles started appearing in the laundry basket, or mouse intestines were strewn across the kitchen floor. They seem to have got bored of it now, though I'm not going to say they've stopped, because otherwise I'll end up having to dispose of mauled sparrows or something.

The squeaky things aren't all cute and fluffy though. I can't be the only one who had cannibal hamsters.

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[info]teratologist
2004-11-12 04:26 pm UTC (link)
Ok, so having returned from stuffing my maternal instincts back into the Mason jar under my couch, I can say that 1. I found the 'that's not a rat, it's a mouse! No, it's a vole!' bit the most amusing part of the wank and 2. the matriarch barn cat on my parents' farm pwnzored all other hunting cats. He confirmed kill record was seven juvenile rats, three mice, and something that was probably a vole but it was too mangled to tell in twelve hours, and she lined them all up on the porch overnight so that my (city-bred, fastidious) grandmother could find them in the morning. She was also observed stalking small woodchucks and once got into a stand-off with a marten (or possibly a fisher) (albeit one that probably would have ended badly if my grandfather hand't driven off the marten with a wrench.)

Her granddaughter, who is one of the four lazy indoor cats who lives with me now, does not appear to be able to catch mice for crap. She's very good at chasing them into my shoes though.

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[info]phosfate
2004-11-12 09:35 pm UTC (link)
Tasha the Samoyed once caught a half-grown bluejay. Being, as she was, mildly retarded, she had no idea what to do with the thing, and ran around the yard with it head-first in her mouth. I had the privilege of (a) catching her, (b) prying teenage bluejay out of her mouth, and (c) keeping them apart until the bird figured out that it was not in fact dead and needed to leave.

The only thing worse than touching a wild bird is touching a wild bird covered in dog spit.

Tasha, of course, felt she deserved huge kisses for her hunting success. >_<

Just felt like sharing.

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redwarrior
2004-11-12 10:30 pm UTC (link)
What doesn't bother me is that the cat killed the mouse.

What DOES bother me is that the cat's owner was psychotic enough to take pictures and call them "cute".

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[info]selene_avis
2004-11-13 12:08 am UTC (link)
I've never had this problem; both of my cats are fat and lazy. Actually, I've had fun bothering my one cat J.T. by putting a lizard on him. (He didn't do anything.)

I have, however, had to rescue more than one lizard from my sister's dog Darla.

However, while cats will be cats, erm...things suffering isn't exactly a good thing.

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[info]oxydosic
2004-11-13 01:08 am UTC (link)
While i love animals, i respect and recognize the food chain. And the cat's natural instinct to hunt things.

I used to have a cat who was an apex predator. She killed often and without mercy. One spring she climbed into a tree and killed an entire nest of baby birds one at a time, then ate them. And when she ate her kills she ate it WHOLE. Just crunched on them til they were softer and then swallowed them whole like a freaking anaconda.

Nature ain't pretty, but hey, it's how things work. And i don't spend time pondering if those mice i feed my snakes had families.

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[info]tiasian
2004-11-13 01:58 pm UTC (link)
Man. My family is currently living in a house with a pool.

The past few summers, I'd jump in only to find rat corpses. Not fun.

I don't think rats are very cute anymore.

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[info]visp
2004-11-13 10:34 pm UTC (link)
"No such entry"

Aw, phooey.

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