My cat killed Thumper

[Micca]

One of my cats killed a baby bunny in our back yard last night
The good news is, a mouse (or rat) doesn't haven't a prayer

 

[grinningghost]

I feel your pain. My dog killed baby Thumper a couple years ago in my backyard. And then she brought it to ME.

 

[Patricia]

My perfect little Westie, Minnie, killed 2 baby Thumpers last summer. It's an awful feeling! Sorry to hear about your baby.

 

[preshi]

Awww

If you know me you know how much I love animals(esp. birds), well in the last 2 weeks I've looked outside to see my 9 month old female puppy eating a finch, not once but twice.

I can't tell you how awful I felt. I'm afraid because we have 2 Finch nests on our backyard patio overhang and when those babies need to learn to fly I need to pay close attention to whats going on out there.

 

[Meriweather]

We had a bad year for that a coupld of years ago.
All 3 of mine got a few
And they were "screaming" as they ran by the windows with them
I saved a couple last year.

 

[Beauty]

We have bunnies but thankfully they stay in the FRONT yard away from my babies (dogs). All my cats are inside and they are such HUGE BABIES they would probably run from the rabbits.

 

[kpgclark]

Why not keep your cats inside during the spring when the babies are around?

 

[Kallison]

My labbie killed an entire nest of Thumpers -- well we did get one out of his grubby little mouth.

Also ate a nest of birdies

several baby groundhogs

an opposum

Oh and animal lovers I have no control over him when he is on the hunt, believe me we have tried. He won't even come in the house when there is something to be stalked. The birds were the worst I was running around the front yard at 7am in my pj's screaming drop it, drop it, droooooop iiiiiiiiiiiiit.

 

[Mickey527]

My son's each have 2 cats and they are always leaving little things on the back porch for their "leader"
3 of our 4 cats are declawed. (please, no flames, I love my furniture more than my boys cats) They were originally supposed to be indoor cats but got a taste of the outdoors and I can't keep them in anymore. The 4th cat has his claws but I have never seen him use them.
I have seen them climb trees and jump fences so they are not doing that bad without their claws.
This week on my porch I have already found: 1 snake, 2 field mice and 3 large birds.
I can't do anything to stop this instinctive behavior other than scold them and toss the dead creature in the trash. They watch me but dumb animals, they just go and do it again. Peggie

 

[Dan Murphy]

Awwww, poor Thumper. I was scared when I saw your title there, Micca, thought of Colleen's Thumper. Hope your kitty is not able to get out of the yard, always hate seeing those loose cats that wind up looking like roofing shingles on the roads. Never figured why so many are let loose to roam like that.

 

[always quiet]

So sorry to hear that. I honestly don't know what my cat would do if she came across a rabbit outside. INSIDE the house, she runs from Thumper. Of course, if I were a cat and some crazy, lopped sided rabbit started to chase me, I might just run too!!

My neighbors dog flushed out and destroyed a nest of baby bunnies last spring....about a month after Thumper hopped into my life. She wanted to keep them and raise them like we did, but when she brought them over to me, I told her they were just way too small for her to do. Their eyes weren't even open yet. She took them to the rehab center (the same one that didn't even show me the consideration to call back when I called them and told them I had Thumper and then later yelled at me because I kept her! )

 

[Kirby]

Living out in the county with lots of fields around, my blue heeler goes rabbit hunting quite frequently. Not long ago he and my other dog, a black lab, feasted upon some baby bunnies. There is not really anything that we can do. We have a fence to keep them in but the bunnies come into the yard.

What's really gross is one night last week, my husband and I were jolted awake to the sound of crunching. We thought that the lab had dug up a rock and I went out to take it away from her. To my surprise, the blue heeler was eating an adult bunny that he just happened to catch. It seemed to take forever for him to eat it.

The way we found out that our blue heeler was a rabbit hunter was one day we came back from somewhere and he came trotting around the corner of the house with two legs sticking out of his mouth, one on each side.

Now I know that all of this sounds gross to some and maybe cruel but when you live out where I do, you just have to get used to it. Two years ago an owl swooped down and made off with a Yorkshire Terrier. I hate to think of its demise.