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Just got home to find a large headless rabbit in the middle of the lawn, right next to a black cat, who was licking his lips and looking extremely guilty.

Yukky

oh who's rabbit was it, had it been attacked by the cat or what. being an AL you should know.lol. catherine xx

The cat belongs to me. I hope the rabbit was just a large one and not one of the neighbours!

RIP Easter

yeah I have never known a cat to attack a rabbit before, strange. catherine xx

yeah that's what I thought Anne. catherine xx

They can't eat the skull anyway. Where did it go?

Al, if it was headless, sounds like a fox had it, got disturbed and left it.

I had a cat who thought it fair game to go after rabbits. He used to eat half of it then bring the rest indoors!!!! YUK!

He is a big cat. It's not the first time he's caught a rabbit either. OH saw him bring it into the garden, head and all, but obviously dead, so no point stopping him eating it. Cats do eat the whole thing - excluding entrails. The vet has confirmed this, when I queried it before. Apparently the rabbit fur acts as dental floss for cats and helps their teeth! Eugh.

This thread confirms why I am a dog person!!! My lab cant kill a fly let alone a rabbit!!! Cazxxxx

Yeuck!! I thought the birds and mice my cat caught were bad enough!!

When i was young we had a lovely rabbit and she had 6 babies.They were gorgoues all hoping around and furry.We all went to visit my nan and when we came back we did a head count.Only 5 babies.We found the baby at the end of our garden dead without its ears.Then we see our cat bringing the ears up in next doors garden.It had bad effects on my brothers and sisters and me.So yes cats do go after rabbits.. Annie

One of our five cats catches rabbits on a regular basis. :-( Another catches slow worms. :-( Another - mice, shrews and field voles. :-( Another - rats and mice. :-( The biggest cat - what does he catch? - Flies! :-S Seriously, Topsy has destroyed most of the local rabbit population until next year, something we're not proud of, though we love her to bits. On that note, night night. x

My (now sadly deceased) ginger tom used to bring rabbits into the house on an annoyingly regular basis - through a high top-opening window at that. He also used to bring in assorted birds, moles, voles, shrews etc. - He never killed anything - used to bring them in unharmed and let them go. Used to spend flipping hours scrabbling round underneath furniture trying to catch the wretched things to let them go. We eventually came to the conclusion that the silly creatures must be suicidal - he had a bell round his neck and glowed bright orange in sunlight - so should have been quite easy to spot on grass - but still the wildlife came in droves! I think he was trying to train us to hunt - here you go, catch that.... Miss him like mad though, despite it all. Helen

The worst place we caught him with with a dead rabbit, was in our bedroom, on the floor at the end of the bed. Again, the head was missing and there was blood all over the carpet. Not nice.

Hard to appreciate some presents isnt it - goes to show it definitely isnt the thought that counts!

Being an animal lover, I do find the habits of cats somewhat revolting at times, but I suppose it's only natural for them to hunt and kill. We caught one of the cats chasing a little field mouse in the garden once, managed to get the cat away and OH picked up the mouse to put it the other side of the fence. Mouse was so grateful it bit OH! (I didn't laugh much.)

any chance your cat could teach my cat to catch proper things instead of frogs and toads, I put the remains of three frogs out last week, I dont like frogs when their alive let alone dead.lol jean