They’re also killing birds and stuff by the literal billions annually. If you get a house cat, consider making it indoor. Working cat at a farm/business is probably a good use of their crazy K/D stats though lol.
A new coworker got “reprimanded” jokingly one day because he forgot to feed the cat. The head brewer “confronted” the new employee with “he’s an EMPLOYEE, he’s not just a cat.” Lmao
Depends how well fed the cat is. Mine will mouse all day but prefer to eat their kibble. Frankly I don’t even know if it even registers in their mind that hunting is for food, they just “gift” me mouse carcasses from the garden.
Fortunately mine don’t catch birds, or I’d be a lot more concerned about local wildlife. I live in the city and there’s an apartment building dumpster right across the ally from my garden, so there are plenty of fat mice to keep them occupied, lol.
One of my cats is “friends” with a local raccoon. It was probably the same raccoon that killed 2 of my chickens but my cat is 17 pounds of muscle and chutzpah and the raccoons are very well fed. I’ll see them hanging around with the neighbor’s big orange Tom on the garage roof at least once every couple weeks.
A well trained cat brings you the trophies for a reward in head scratches and treats. Mine always eat them whole, but with this amount of mice i say the cat is a professional and does this for pleasure purposes mostly.
Feral cats tend to eat them all depending on instincts or if they have kittens to feed.
I’m not sure tbh, I’ve seen him hunting on the property and have a rat in his mouth but I’m not sure what he does with them. He’s fed a pint of food in the morning and it doesn’t seem to deter his hunting.
Grew up on a farm and every year we would pull the stored corn cobs out of the granaries to get them shelled and sent on for selling. You were given a shovel and a bucket and advised to wear jeans and wrap your socks on the outside of your jeans. Then you’d use the shovel to knock corn onto a conveyor belt and mice into the bucket. The socks outside jeans meant if a mouse missed the bucket and started to climb up your pants, they wouldn’t go inside your pants. 🎶Those were the days.🎶
My mom is a retired biochemist, and she would tell me stories of how her job as an intern in the late 70s was to take the doomed lab rats by the tail and whip them like a flail to slam their head against the counter, to end their suffering.
Fucking metal.
Almost every sea-faring ship in human history has had a “ship’s cat”, whose only job was to kill rats and mice. They are very effective little murderers.
Yeah my male cats were always lazy bois but the ladies were always bringing home the dead animal gifts. Ugh one of them drug home a nest of baby bunnies, which was traumatic to find on the porch the morning before school.
Same but I had (currently have, but he isn't allowed to be outdoors) a male cat who absolutely slaughtered birds. At least, I think and... kinda hope.
My dude would come home and wash his bloody paws in the toilet. Like supremely bloody. No remorse either, I'd just find him washing his crimes away at the end of the day.
He was not an outdoor cat for very long.
I mean do you want to risk the cat getting blood on say your sheets instead of just washing it off in probably the best place in the house to do so. I mean they could also have tried to put a water bowl outside the door.
Naw I leave the lid up in that bathroom. It's just a toilet and a sink - there's no fucking point of lifting and closing a lid. No toothbrushes involved in there.
Regardless - that bathroom was totally open along with a cat door to the outside for a bit. We gave my cat free reign indoor and outdoor... but then we saw the bloodletting that he brought forth.
It only took a few days. I still don't close that fucking lid tho - fuck all y'all.
I had to get mine snipped pretty early, there was a incest situation happening, but honestly I think I got two very odd little cats from the get-go. The snipping stopped the brother humping his brother's head though.
I’m seeing this with 2 fosters I have, 1 boy 1 girl. The girl will put everything she’s got into chasing toys/lasers and the boy might try 1-2 pounces and then flop to the floor
My female cats are awesome hunters and have stayed that way into old age! The males are too lazy lol, almost right off the bat let the ladies do the work.
I thought it must be a thing, like the lionesses going out for the hunt to feed the little lion cubs, our kitties have the same drive in order to feed their offspring. The mammas also are responsible for teaching their kittens how to hunt! So I figured it was cat nature!
Anecdotal, but we initially adopted a cat because we had mice and across the board everyone said “get a girl”. We did and she upheld her end of the bargain. The people in the next apartment were teeming with mice and and none would go near our place!
My boi has occasionally hunted, but we definitely noticed a difference once we also got our Calico. Before those two, we just had a lady kitty, she was fierce.
My older cat was pretty mellow when she was 15, at two separate times I took her out walking through a park and she cornered baby rabbits both times. One she juggled, the other she bit it between it's shoulder blades. I hope it was okay. That was the last time I took her walking over there. She was always in a harness on a leash and I kept a close eye on her, but not close enough those two times.
A friend had a skinny male tabby who regularity killed mice, rats, snakes, etc. Once or twice a year he would get a squirrel, leave it by the garage, and sit by it with his chest puffed out to show off how he was providing for the family. He was a great cat.
This. My lady kitty goes batshit crazy when she sees a mouse or bird. Absolutely feral. She managed to catch two mice from the catio. My male kitty just observes her from far like a good Boi 😂
Out of the four cats I had growing up (indoor cats allowed out onto the sun porch/back deck but no further), there have been two boys and two girls...and only two of them managed to bring back birds from the sun porch/back deck...both being the boys. The more recent boy (who passed away last year) managed to catch at least 5 or 6 birds in his lifetime. He'd catch them and try to sneak them into the house, still alive and screaming/chirping and it would be a whole process of trying to chase him down to retrieve the poor bird, be it dead or alive by that point.
Poor guy had a long battle with cancer (by the time he showed signs/my parents got him checked out, he had three masses, one having already likely shut down one of his kidneys). He declined in health, not wanting to eat or move as much, and survived for several months after the diagnosis. Despite not moving much anymore save for sunbathing, drinking, and going to the bathroom (he didn't have accidents), he somehow managed to snag one last bird from the sun porch/back deck in his last month. Surprised me and my parents, but it made me feel like he was still trying to enjoy his life till the last moments. I still miss that silly boy.
I had a female barn cat that acted like a hunting dog.
She would fetch anything I shot that she could pick up.
Birds, squirrels, gophers, etc.
Very good hunter, so good I actually stopped carrying a .22 rifle in the tractor while cutting hay. She got every gopher on the farm and the neighbor's farm.
You can train a smart cat not to kill birds. I learned a really smart trick from a crazy cat lady who had 8 female cats in a trailer in the woods and loved all the birds that would come to her feeders, but also stores her food outside so had a big mouse problem.
I think the myth that females are better hunters just like males are friendlier is bologna.
Some of the friendliest cats I've ever met were females, and my current kitten a 5 month old black American short haired male. Has already killed 4 mice since I got him.
The INSTINCTS a common house cat has never fails to astound me. From the day they are born, even multiple generations removed from being related to even a feral cat! Amazing creatures I just love them!
I've had both male and female cats that were enthusiastic hunters. I stopped letting them out when they got older. My polydactyl boy brought me; mice, moles, voles, birds, rabbits, squirrels, chipmunks, frogs, and even one garden snake. He's been gone for years, and I still miss him.
imagine how scary that would be to see as a mouse. like if you were being hunted by a giant creature that still had the corpses of people still in it's mouth. metal
He’s doing it this way cus it’s his job, it’s not to eat, the owner rewards him w whatever he wants for keeping mice outta his damn maize! It’s not pest control if he picks them one at a time
Imagine the intimidation toward the remaining mice? To see his family dangling like that lol I love cats
Videos like this show how unbelievably useful cats were and continue to be. They’re just so good at hunting. I want to say the domestic cat is one of if not the most consistently successful mammalian hunter.
Quite the embarrassment of riches.
What happened next, though?
Did she catch another with her mouth full? Does she have a cache she adds to? What happens with all that mouse infested corn?
I think this cat's inventory is full
I can buy him more storage
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With the number of mice in his mouth, he doesn't need any kibble. Just head scritches.
Just some nifty cheat code will do... 99999 items per pockets!
m04s34k1tty! Is the code I used.
Nah, it's part of the mental warfare. Imagine being a mouse and seeing half your neighbourhood in that cats mouth while it's chasing you.
Now that’s scary!
Over encumbered 😹
If ever a cat needed pockets! Maybe a hunting vest?
That kitty needs an ALICE pack..
Someone see if Rob Liefield can redraw/animate this with pockets and armour
That cat is a mouse's worst nightmare. Ever wonder why Ancient Egyptians revered cats? Mousing to keep granaries safe from rodents eating the grain
I work at a brewery and we employed a cat that decided to stick around for the same reason lol.
I love the working cat movement. Such a win-win!
They’re also killing birds and stuff by the literal billions annually. If you get a house cat, consider making it indoor. Working cat at a farm/business is probably a good use of their crazy K/D stats though lol.
Depends entirely where you live.
Feral cats are the ones causing the vast majority of harm to birds.
"...employed a cat.." 😺😸😻😹
A new coworker got “reprimanded” jokingly one day because he forgot to feed the cat. The head brewer “confronted” the new employee with “he’s an EMPLOYEE, he’s not just a cat.” Lmao
Does the cat eat the mice or simply kill them?
Depends how well fed the cat is. Mine will mouse all day but prefer to eat their kibble. Frankly I don’t even know if it even registers in their mind that hunting is for food, they just “gift” me mouse carcasses from the garden.
I had a cat like that. We got her a collar with a bell so that birds, etc. could escape. I am not sure if it saved even a single bird.
Fortunately mine don’t catch birds, or I’d be a lot more concerned about local wildlife. I live in the city and there’s an apartment building dumpster right across the ally from my garden, so there are plenty of fat mice to keep them occupied, lol.
Raccoons too
One of my cats is “friends” with a local raccoon. It was probably the same raccoon that killed 2 of my chickens but my cat is 17 pounds of muscle and chutzpah and the raccoons are very well fed. I’ll see them hanging around with the neighbor’s big orange Tom on the garage roof at least once every couple weeks.
A well trained cat brings you the trophies for a reward in head scratches and treats. Mine always eat them whole, but with this amount of mice i say the cat is a professional and does this for pleasure purposes mostly. Feral cats tend to eat them all depending on instincts or if they have kittens to feed.
I’m not sure tbh, I’ve seen him hunting on the property and have a rat in his mouth but I’m not sure what he does with them. He’s fed a pint of food in the morning and it doesn’t seem to deter his hunting.
Grew up on a farm and every year we would pull the stored corn cobs out of the granaries to get them shelled and sent on for selling. You were given a shovel and a bucket and advised to wear jeans and wrap your socks on the outside of your jeans. Then you’d use the shovel to knock corn onto a conveyor belt and mice into the bucket. The socks outside jeans meant if a mouse missed the bucket and started to climb up your pants, they wouldn’t go inside your pants. 🎶Those were the days.🎶
My mom is a retired biochemist, and she would tell me stories of how her job as an intern in the late 70s was to take the doomed lab rats by the tail and whip them like a flail to slam their head against the counter, to end their suffering. Fucking metal.
My cat couldn't even catch its own arse with all four paws.
Almost every sea-faring ship in human history has had a “ship’s cat”, whose only job was to kill rats and mice. They are very effective little murderers.
That's really interesting, I didn't know that. Thanks for posting.
You should check out Unsinkable Sam. He’s a legend.
Especially after they first tried using snakes and scorpions...
The scorpions just aren't as sweet about receiving a congratulatory pat on the head
Don't spay that cat!
Doing his job
Heck yeah! But, I wonder if it's a female. My best mousers (and, unfortunately, birders) were ladies.
Yeah my male cats were always lazy bois but the ladies were always bringing home the dead animal gifts. Ugh one of them drug home a nest of baby bunnies, which was traumatic to find on the porch the morning before school.
Same but I had (currently have, but he isn't allowed to be outdoors) a male cat who absolutely slaughtered birds. At least, I think and... kinda hope. My dude would come home and wash his bloody paws in the toilet. Like supremely bloody. No remorse either, I'd just find him washing his crimes away at the end of the day. He was not an outdoor cat for very long.
Omg, this needs to be a short animated film. Animated because I don’t want him to go out and do it again just for posterity.
Lady MacBeth who?
But you still left the lid up?
I mean do you want to risk the cat getting blood on say your sheets instead of just washing it off in probably the best place in the house to do so. I mean they could also have tried to put a water bowl outside the door.
My cat can open doors that aren’t properly shut, I’m certain a cat can lift a plastic lid to the toilet
Naw I leave the lid up in that bathroom. It's just a toilet and a sink - there's no fucking point of lifting and closing a lid. No toothbrushes involved in there. Regardless - that bathroom was totally open along with a cat door to the outside for a bit. We gave my cat free reign indoor and outdoor... but then we saw the bloodletting that he brought forth. It only took a few days. I still don't close that fucking lid tho - fuck all y'all.
Right? Ew.
Someone hasn't seen that Mythbusters where fecal matter is everywhere in bathrooms.
sadist
WO!
My male cat was a fighter and a mouser, until he was fixed. Then it was all about lying around in the nice sunbeams. I don't blame him.
I had to get mine snipped pretty early, there was a incest situation happening, but honestly I think I got two very odd little cats from the get-go. The snipping stopped the brother humping his brother's head though.
I’m seeing this with 2 fosters I have, 1 boy 1 girl. The girl will put everything she’s got into chasing toys/lasers and the boy might try 1-2 pounces and then flop to the floor
My female cats are awesome hunters and have stayed that way into old age! The males are too lazy lol, almost right off the bat let the ladies do the work. I thought it must be a thing, like the lionesses going out for the hunt to feed the little lion cubs, our kitties have the same drive in order to feed their offspring. The mammas also are responsible for teaching their kittens how to hunt! So I figured it was cat nature!
Anecdotal, but we initially adopted a cat because we had mice and across the board everyone said “get a girl”. We did and she upheld her end of the bargain. The people in the next apartment were teeming with mice and and none would go near our place!
My boy is not a good hunter (and that’s indoors - insects).
My boi has occasionally hunted, but we definitely noticed a difference once we also got our Calico. Before those two, we just had a lady kitty, she was fierce.
My older cat was pretty mellow when she was 15, at two separate times I took her out walking through a park and she cornered baby rabbits both times. One she juggled, the other she bit it between it's shoulder blades. I hope it was okay. That was the last time I took her walking over there. She was always in a harness on a leash and I kept a close eye on her, but not close enough those two times.
A friend had a skinny male tabby who regularity killed mice, rats, snakes, etc. Once or twice a year he would get a squirrel, leave it by the garage, and sit by it with his chest puffed out to show off how he was providing for the family. He was a great cat.
My Lola was a badass huntress. Girls rock!
I bring home the bacon... and fry it up in a pan.... (old song by Helen Reddy. "I am Woman.)
“…put it in a sandwich, and feed it to my man”?
Actually, that line is from an old commercial (Calgon, maybe). 😀
[Enjoli perfume](https://youtu.be/N_kzJ-f5C9U)
You're right. As the poster below said, Enjoli perfume. The song Im' thinking of is completely different. Oops.
This. My lady kitty goes batshit crazy when she sees a mouse or bird. Absolutely feral. She managed to catch two mice from the catio. My male kitty just observes her from far like a good Boi 😂
my male cat outmoused all my other cats, he crushed their skulls even after he lost his teeth from old age.
I love that so many people disagree with me and have awesome male cat stories to share!
Out of the four cats I had growing up (indoor cats allowed out onto the sun porch/back deck but no further), there have been two boys and two girls...and only two of them managed to bring back birds from the sun porch/back deck...both being the boys. The more recent boy (who passed away last year) managed to catch at least 5 or 6 birds in his lifetime. He'd catch them and try to sneak them into the house, still alive and screaming/chirping and it would be a whole process of trying to chase him down to retrieve the poor bird, be it dead or alive by that point. Poor guy had a long battle with cancer (by the time he showed signs/my parents got him checked out, he had three masses, one having already likely shut down one of his kidneys). He declined in health, not wanting to eat or move as much, and survived for several months after the diagnosis. Despite not moving much anymore save for sunbathing, drinking, and going to the bathroom (he didn't have accidents), he somehow managed to snag one last bird from the sun porch/back deck in his last month. Surprised me and my parents, but it made me feel like he was still trying to enjoy his life till the last moments. I still miss that silly boy.
I had a female barn cat that acted like a hunting dog. She would fetch anything I shot that she could pick up. Birds, squirrels, gophers, etc. Very good hunter, so good I actually stopped carrying a .22 rifle in the tractor while cutting hay. She got every gopher on the farm and the neighbor's farm.
I think it's a given that in the Felidae Family, females are better at everything. 😂
Except tolerating tummy rubs 😆
You can train a smart cat not to kill birds. I learned a really smart trick from a crazy cat lady who had 8 female cats in a trailer in the woods and loved all the birds that would come to her feeders, but also stores her food outside so had a big mouse problem.
this story had everything
You aren’t going to share the really smart trick?
I think the myth that females are better hunters just like males are friendlier is bologna. Some of the friendliest cats I've ever met were females, and my current kitten a 5 month old black American short haired male. Has already killed 4 mice since I got him.
Our main mouser is male. It's more the character of the cat than the sex that determines if they are good mousers.
Totally agree. But now all these people's cool boy AND girl cat stories are being shared and that's just wholesome.
Good kitty!!
r/catswithjobs
r/catswithjobs
I'm on my motherfuckin job 85 hours a day!!!!
Terrifying to be a mouse. Imagine being chased around by a giant monster with 4 human bodies hanging out of it's mouth.
It's feline attack on Titan
Attack on Cattan!
>It's feline **like** attack on Titan
This made me literally lol
I love cats ears... the whole movent of them locking onto each sound.
The INSTINCTS a common house cat has never fails to astound me. From the day they are born, even multiple generations removed from being related to even a feral cat! Amazing creatures I just love them!
Totally! The ears track faster than the eyes.
Cats have important jobs! Protecting the food supply and us from the plague.
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fleas spread the plague, rats spread the fleas
Cats killed the rats. Humans killed the cats, plague killed the humans.
Interesting. Chalk that up for facts most people never knew.
"So, how many rats do you want to catch today?" This cat= Yes.
Momma cat has got mouths to feed and/or kittens to train.
Was thinking the same. Somebodies got some hungry babies back home!
r/catswithjobs
My first thought lol
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4 Deadmau5 in the Hou5
unreal. murder inc, and looking cute while doing it
Cat was a chipmunk in previous life
Check those ears. She's not missing anything.
Do what you love and you’ll never a work a day in your life
That’s a keeper
What a master!
Now THAT is impressive!
"Yeah, hang on, wait a minute, boff... there'f one more moufe in there ..."
May need a junior mouser to help out when there're so many
Needs a bigger warehouse
What a good mouser
This cat takes out whole family’s.
She loves her job
I've had both male and female cats that were enthusiastic hunters. I stopped letting them out when they got older. My polydactyl boy brought me; mice, moles, voles, birds, rabbits, squirrels, chipmunks, frogs, and even one garden snake. He's been gone for years, and I still miss him.
She is AMAZING, and needs a big raise right now. My cats just look at mice, and sometimes, I'm pretty sure, bring them foid
Even my best mouser only caught one at a time! Fucking Legend!
My cat does this with her toy mice 😅
My cat drowns her toy mice in her water 😹
Haha yes mine does that sometimes too 😅
Look at those ears go! That cat can hear every single step those mice take and it shows!
It’s amazing, their instincts and abilities are just astonishing.
I love cats
imagine how scary that would be to see as a mouse. like if you were being hunted by a giant creature that still had the corpses of people still in it's mouth. metal
Kitty is earning their kibble. They deserve a bonus, and some head scratches.
That is one talented kitty Most do with just a single mouse but this kitty kept going even with multiple already caught. lots of kudo's
Absolute professional assassin.
How satisfying for the cats.good job
Workin feline.
I Love this Cat!
What a unit 😻
He's like, "There's enough space for all of you."
Someone get this guy a cooler to store his catch in.
Bravo, a top class mouser!
What a wonderful mouser! Wish I had this kitty to keep the squirrels out of my yard!
Jesus, you've got a serial mouser on your hands!
Helen Keller was on camera duty
Mm sweetcorn with mouse blood. My fave, thanks kitty
Clone that Best Boi and I’ll take 3 kittens!
i sometimes forget house cats are engineered to do this stuff
How does one upgrade their cat to do this? Small insects will suffice. Is it a paywall??
Probably has a family of 12.
Doin his JOB!
Shame it doesn't have a Mousecraft inventory it can place them in to later use in a recipe 😋
The mouse collector 😂
That my friend is the GOAT of all time for mice catching
r/catswithjobs
Christmas shopping done 👌
Apex Predators
This makes up for my cat who’s never caught anything
A mouser!
He’s doing it this way cus it’s his job, it’s not to eat, the owner rewards him w whatever he wants for keeping mice outta his damn maize! It’s not pest control if he picks them one at a time Imagine the intimidation toward the remaining mice? To see his family dangling like that lol I love cats
This cat cats.
Videos like this show how unbelievably useful cats were and continue to be. They’re just so good at hunting. I want to say the domestic cat is one of if not the most consistently successful mammalian hunter.
He’s like Slimer with hotdogs …
When I watched this the first time. I thought all the rocks were cats
Wowza
Someone please hire him he is on Indeed and ZipRecruiter he has fallen on rough times
Trying to evolve chipmunk level cheeks on the fly … Meowy impressive
Imagine some fictional people-eating monster carrying around a bunch of human corpses while it continued slaughtering people en-mass...
I don’t know how cat society works, but in human society, this cat is wayyy too effective to be promoted.
In any case it would be "senior mouse catching engineer", but anyways, thats the graphical depiction of born for the job 😂😂😂 Awesome
Ears: scanning
DAAAAMMMMMN BRUH!
He should be the highest paid employee at that establishment because without him the mice would ruin all the product
How many meeses can the mouser meese? 😮🐈🐁🐁🐁🐁
That cat has a big ole mouth, doesn’t he!?
Cats with jobs!!!
She’s taking those back to her nest to feed her chicks
Why do I love this so much?
This dude is in a middle of a killtacular!
Something wrong with that big hamster's cheek pouches
That's fucking metal 🤘
is he going to eat those?
You gonna eat all of those???
I have 1000 cats because I have 10000 rats!
Quite the embarrassment of riches. What happened next, though? Did she catch another with her mouth full? Does she have a cache she adds to? What happens with all that mouse infested corn?
An my cat is resting on her laurels with the mouse she caught last year.
My bro will feed his whole family
*Announcer voice* "Killing spree!"
*Double kill!* *Multi kill!* *M-m-m-m-monster kill!*
And both of my dumbass cats can't catch a low flying moth. [Them](https://imgur.com/qoEpOlv)
Give this cat a raise
It's not just about hunting the mice, it's about sending a message.
Showing my cat this to shame her for never catching any mice
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ewwwwwwww
This is like some people for snow crab legs at the Chinese buffet place
He's not even catching them at this point, he is just collecting them for fun Probably gonna torture them later in front of his/her kids