Quote Originally Posted by Emil Miller View Post
Why can't you? I've told my cat repeatedly not to do it, and that goes for chasing butterflies and birds.
haha, getting them to eat their mouse outside unasked (also during the night when we are not there) is about as far as we've got. For the rest, we are grateful that moles disappear as quickly as they have cropped up in the garden. Whether vountary or not, I can't say.
Oh, and that they actually eat what they catch.
Anything that comes into the house alive is caught in a wisky bottle box and goes out, alive. That policy came into practice when 4 years ago Baldrick caught a mouse, brought it into our 50m² living room and ran around with it for 4 whole hours. I think it must have sneaked out, because I never saw it again after it went behind the fire place.
The only exception to this and the eating outside policy was Emma teaching her kids to unt and how to kill.

Then again, our cats are from a line of prolific hunters. Our Emma once caught a blackbird on the roof in our city house in Belgium to show her small ones how it was done, catching and eating. I mean, white cat on red roof. The bird must have been a very daft one.
Our friend has more of our line and those get fat on eating their catches alone. Her cat Smirnoff (son of our Emma) caught the rabit of the neighbour's children... . The neighbour was not amused. When he was six months he caught a crow and ate it. He was double his huge size for three whole days and didn't eat, waddling around .

They don't catch too many birds anymore. I think since we moved away from a rural area, the birds are not that daft to go and sit on the road, because there is traffic.