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[meganbmoore]

Dear Squeaker (aka-one of the parent's cats),

Yes, you have fulfilled your solemn duty as a cat and caught the Big Bad Mouse and have presented yourself at the door with it in your mouth.

Sadly, I cannot allow you in the house with your prize, and am under strict instructions to make you spend the night outside if you eat it, as you tend to throw up.

This is your own fault.

But yes, I do quite admire the trophy of war.

Love and Sympathy,
Me

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[logically.livejournal.com]

....LOL

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

She stands there and stares through the glass doors just staring up with this proud/pleading expression all "why aren't you letting me in?"

[logically.livejournal.com]

"I have a presssssssssssssssssent for yoooooooooooooooooou!"

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Pretty much. If I had a camera, I would have so taken a picture of it.

[escalove.livejournal.com]

When we had cats when we lived in Texas, our cats would always come to the door with lizards and such. And they would look at my mom with that look and be all "Aren't you proud?"

I always thought it was rather thoughtful. Our current pet is a dog, and while she is more lovable then the cats, she is all like "ME! ME! ME!" and never really tries to give anything back.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Back when I lived at a place with a huge and semi-wild wooded yard, my dogs were constantly on Varmint Patrol and racked up a rather impressive number of kills of rats, mice, squirrels, and moles. They never actually brought them to us -- they pretty much lost all interest in the critters once their necks snapped and the fun squeaking stopped -- but if I was around when they managed to catch something, they would sometimes give me this "Moooooom, my toy broke! Fix it!" sort of look...

(My cat is an absolutely worthless hunter, but that's pretty much why I ended up with her in the first place -- feral kittens who don't learn how to feed themselves don't survive long unless they manage to collapse of hunger on a convenient sucker's doorstep.)

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, the intent is there, but...

[curlyjo1.livejournal.com]

"But... but I'm a big bad hunter! I caught it for you!"

I read a book on cat behavior once that said that they view us as "mom" hence the presenting of the butt, and the big bad hunter thing. It made a lot of sense to me, at least.