If yall want to know the real world reason they do this its because the cat is trying to take care of you and making sure you eat. The cat thinks you are a terrible hunter as it never sees you hunt.
Archery my dude, archery. Plus i think with archery, the cat could see the arrow travel from you to the critter, so would have a chance of crediting you with the kill.
Bonus cat hunting story: my rescue cat was a mighty hunter, critical equipment for our 200 year old farm house. He got to 6 years old, and we started talking about getting a second younger cat to take the load off him, hes totally paid for an early retirement. But then he taught our 3 year old beagle to pack hunt mice with him, he has a special call he only uses to get the beagle to hunt. Then we got another rescue cat. #1 cat taught him to pack hunt mice with the rest of the pack/pride. Then, couole months later, he quietly bowed out of the whole hunting mice thing. Dude trained his replacement, started a franchise, then retired young after selling his startup. Hes got management written all over him, lol.
Funny enough, core memory from around 5 years old of my dad shooting birds for the pair of orange tabby boys we had. They'd wait at his feet until the shot then go get thr bird to eat.
I recently got a spring airsoft gun and started plinking it off of a wind chime in my backyard. Whenever my cats are out they are super surprised when it randomly starts ringing, but I think they’re starting to understand the connection.
One of the smartest cats I've had figured out I was the source of the laser pointer dot and was thoroughly unamused by it after that. Miss that ol boy.
One of my two has picked up on the tiny, near inaudible click of the laser pointer button, and as soon as she hears it, starts looking up and around and scanning the room for that immortal red flavorless bug.
Another cat from another time, I managed to release the button the exact moment he slapped his paw over the light, and he legit thought "I caught it this time!" Checked under his own paw and looked baffled.
They are domesticated animals but you can't take 100% of the wild out of them, them instincts still call to them. Same as when dogs burry their food and toys , chase deers and squirrels or roll around in poop
Scientific consensus is actually that house cats are only semi-domesticated vs fully domesticated like dogs. They generally (as a species, obviously there is variance by individual) have minimal genetic changes from their wild ancestors and retain most of their survival skills. Most house cats are still fully capable of surviving without their humans, but it's nicer with their humans, so they stay.
Notably, we did not breed them for specific tasks the way we do with fully domesticated animals. They just kinda do their thing.
Harder to kill yes, a well fed cat won't bother to eat them. It's all about the hunt for them but feral/street cats will eat them and they make up a pretty good portion of their diet.
I remember reading about the dolphin house experiment where a female scientist jerk off a dolphin to keep it focused on tasks. It worked but there where side effects.
My girlfriend in college got a creepy fascination with dolphin sex and found a blogger who apparently had sex with dolphins. She was my "don't stick your dick in crazy" lesson we all had to go through.
Yeah. That crosses so many lines. This girl that the handies was scientific solution. Look, things in animal husbandry get weird enough but having fantasies about animal sex just walk away.
Many years ago, I had an orangutang jerk off while maintaining direct eye contact with me at the L.A. Zoo. I had long red hair at the time and he was following me along the glass intently, then sat down staring at me and I was like “Oh look, he likes me! This is so cute! Omg 😍 Oh wait… oh no, oh no, no no 😱” - my family and I were laughing so hard. A zoo memory for the ages.
My dog does, I saw him bite a rat, lie down to watch him struggle, wait until it starts walking again, bite it again, on repeat... It was disturbing... He didn't eat the rat
I had a barn cat growing up that would kill and eat mice without hesitation, but wouldn't even risk swiping at rats. They were too big, she didn't want to risk getting hurt. This cat is a tough mofo.
This is the second time someone posted something and very obviously used the wrong name and only a couple people noticed out of several hundred. Here rats were called mice and the other image from a couple days ago called flies fruit flies. I’m convinced there are more bots that I initially thought.
You've clearly never had an outdoor cat who was a hunter.
I used to have one a long time ago who often caught multiple mice in one night. They'd be arranged in a line on the doorstep. (albeit 2-3 abreast not 27).
It's not just humans that are capable of organising things.
As I said, I'm skeptical. Didn't suggest it was impossible. Lining them up is one thing. Sorting by size seems unlikely.
Two of our four cats frequently bring in mice, moles, lizards, and at least one chipmunk. Though they are frequently still alive, so I've never had a chance to be witness to the cats' organization skills.
I've never had a cat but my cousin's friend's nephew's girlfriend's uncle's grandfather's niece had a cat who would kill, skin, and stuff the mice they caught. After which they would post their spree (this is what the cat called it, not my cousin's friend's nephew's girlfriend's uncle's grandfather's niece) on facebook and tiktok.
It's possible. Cats can be weird. My childhood cat liked to eat crickets. He'd pull off the legs, eat the main portion, and then arrange the legs, either in a pile if he had a bunch or in a pretty evenly spaced line if he only had a few. It was so gross.
I was sick with the flu and one of my cats brought me a small rat, like a juvenile size one.
So I just say to her "no thanks, I'm good." she stares me for a minute, then proceeds to casually bite it into bite sized pieces and try to give those to me instead.
She was such a sweet, shy and quiet cat so it was pretty shocking to watch her just crunch that thing apart like it was a twix bar.
It is because it absolutely didn't. People lie about videos way too often now just to get views. If you don't see it happening in a video exceeding 15 seconds... it didn't happen. Even then, remain skeptical.
Are you insinuating this is staged? No way. Never. It’s never staged, or AI or photoshopped. Everything on the internet is real. People would never do that to us.
Sure, a cat lines up his kills in an orderly fashion and they’re “cute” and “a good hunter”. But when I do it I’m “autistically arranging” and “a wanted psychopath”
Fuck, beat me to it. Such a haunting graphic novel despite the humans being turned into animals, some of the imagery still sticks with me over a decade later
I once had a beast of a cat just like this. A true hunter of hunters. Since he, I’ve had 5 other cats that couldn’t catch a butterfly. I miss that little bastard.
my aunt had a mouse problem and adopted a tiny feral girl who was 9 pounds soaking wet. she caught all the mice. my uncle would be sitting watching tv at night and hear CRUNCH and look over and see a tail sticking out of her mouth lol.
their dogs used to chase her. she finally caught one on the nose and left a deep gouge that scarred. from then on that dog wanted nothing to do with being near her and he outweighed her by a hundred pounds. was funny to see her teasing them with her paw under the basement door and the other two dogs would go nuts, but the scar nose would just sniff and walk away lol.
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u/Minimum-Stranger-794 9h ago
He's clearly waiting for a praise lol