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That looks like my cat Peach and she is known as Slim But Dim.

It's so cute!!! I love cats

Very cute

LOL I had a situation like that once. A mouse was in the feeding bowl of my cat eating her food, and the cat was just laying there watching it

The rat hasn't met Plato and Gandalf! It would be an ex rat very quickly. They once brought in a dead one and left it under the dining table. I wouldn't have minded only a 1 year old Matti had been crawling on the dining room floor only an hour before, and it was in the days when I did 3rd party admin from home and had spent an hour accounting before I'd noticed.

Does this cat need training?

My dad once saw a mouse that was killed by a near-by cat

P + G must have had similar training to your cat... if it squeeks of flies its prey!

Sad to say that while my cat has no problem bringing in tiny little mice and voles, I'm fairly sure she'd run a mile if a rat came along... rather like I would...

It's a worrying thought if she gets any bigger... she brings live creatures into the house! And we're surrounded by fields, so there must be rats somewhere!! (They're one of my biggest fears, definitely room 101 stuff...)

Never mind the cat.

That rat's a bit daft if you ask me! Puss might have had a change of personality overnight and become a fierce predator.

I just love ginger cats, particularly ginger toms.
Ours died 2 years ago at the age of 18. He was a good mouser.
Once on holiday in the Lake District on a farm, we met a farm ginger tom who was as big as a cocker spaniel. I kid you not. I usually pick cats up, but I thought twice about this one. He could have done real damage. The farmer's wife laughed when I asked about mice. He didn't bother with them, but brought foxes, badgers and rabbits home, all dead. The farmer thought the cat's Mum had mated with an escaped large cat from a zoo or something. His weakness was white chocolate.
Bev.

I was once around a friend's house when their cat bout home a dead rabbit... Wish mine would... I like rabbit stew and can tell if they're Mixi or not. (This is just as long as the rabbit is a wild one rather than someone's pet... I might suddenly tell hubby they're his cats)

Yellow dog used to be a bunny-killer - he was actually very good.......caught his last one at the age of 10 out on our local golf course.......but he certainly knew what to do once he'd caught them..... In some cases he'd actually done the rabbits a favour - a few that he caught down in England were myxi ones so he was actually putting them out of their misery and sparing them further suffering, although it's still hard to watch......

Strange, actually as we have friends who used to also have a yellow lab - and he also was an expert rabbit-killer......our friend used to take him to pheasant shoots and whilst everyone else's dogs were retrieving pheasants, our friend had a steadily growing pile of rabbits at his feet......ah RIP both dogs!!!

It was given that I used to go beating at shoots and had a taste for Rabbit that I learnt what to do with them. Still eat roadkill now. If the pheasant or rabbit is too far gone for human consumption then I chuck it into the hedgerow for the other animals around. Better than a pancake simply for the carrion birds. Swiss army knife is normally in handbag.

I won't mess with you on a dark night in a deserted lane then!!!!

Came down yesterday morning to find a dead mole, all four feet in the air, laid neatly in the middle of the music room floor. We didn't even know we had a mole in the garden, but an uprooted plant and a trail of soil across the path told its own tale.

Look it provides me with a pair of scissors and a corkscrew. The knife is a tool, I'd never consider using as a weapon. Its just its better to gut rabbits asap, you deal with the rest of them later.

I hope if I ever get knocked down that the ambulance arrives before jod does

I used to hate it when our old dog brought bunnies down from the hill. Usually they were on their way out and had to be dealt with swiftly. A quick blow with an axe isn't pleasant but it's the best way.

We have a few wild rabbits on our garden at the minute. The dog tries to play with them but doesn't get a chance to get close. The killer instinct has been spoiled out of her Odd for a dog originally bred to bait badgers!

Relax if you got knocked down I'd use the first aid kit!

Its a shame that the knife is first thought of as a weapon. I'm glad I'm not the only one who considers taking a small pocket knife out and about with me as normal!

Well I was a Girl Guide, and ever since then its got rather engrained. When Hubby bought me my Swiss Army knife the corkscrew and scissors were the two items I counted as essential. The tweezers have come in useful when one of the children get a spliner. The screwdriver and bottle opener are the other tools except the main blade that tends to get used.

I would never consider the knife bits as weapons its a pity that so many people do.

I agree Jod, and it's a pity not everyone is as responsible as yourself, but I suppose in the wrong hands, any knife can be considered a weapon.

ANYTHING can be used as a weapen to some degree or another. A bit of paper even.

I was a girl guide until recently, but never saw hide nor hair of a knife there. My dad taught me how to use mine, and I do use it.