"HeyBub" wrote:
DerbyDad03 wrote:

Last night I watched my cat stalk something in the woods for about 10
minutes until it must have flown/scampered away.

After 10 minutes of crouching down and stealthily walking towards the
woods, she just sat up and started cleaning herself, like "Yep, that's
all I came out here for. Hunting something? No, not me. Just walked
over here to lick my paws, yep, that's all."


Not long ago I saw a study reporting that feral cats (and I presume tame
ones) catch their prey every third pounce. Just imagine, only three leaps
away from a snack (lizard, bird, frog, grasshopper, mouse, mole, moth, baby
anything, and thousands of specific prey - not including opossums).

My cat likes to hunt the chipmunks around our house. One time I saw him
hovering over one in the front yard so I chased her away. The chipmunk was
lying on its back and not moving so I reached down to pick it up and toss
it in the woods.

As soon as I got within a couple of inches, the critter flipped over and
ran off under a bush. It had been playing dead so that my cat wouldn't play
with it.

Scared the sh*t out of me when it jumped up!