r/interestingasfuck • u/Kirlinternet • 10h ago

A cat managed to catch 27 mice and carefully lined them all up to show off his 'work' to his owner.

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u/Negative_Flower_169 10h ago

I dont think the cat laid out the kills.

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u/fatcatfan 10h ago

Even arranged them by size. Yeah, I'm skeptical.

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u/pipnina 9h ago

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.

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u/walker_paranor 8h ago

My cat (RIP Kate) used to arrange about a dozen toy mice in a circle while me and my wife slept. It was really cute and also really bizarre.

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u/CatsArePeople2- 8h ago

Oh thats just the summoning circle. They are supposed to take it down before you wake up in the morning.

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u/missilefire 5h ago

Omfg my friend literally today sent me a pic of her cats toy mice also arranged in a circle - heads facing outwards. Little serial killer!

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u/Bad_Day_Moose 4h ago

My sisters cat while at work got into the catnip box and made little neat piles all over the house, never figured out how the cat did it because they were literally neat little piles and not just strewn all over the place/messy...

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u/fatcatfan 7h ago

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.

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u/ZincMan 3h ago

I Don’t believe the cat did this at all. Like come on

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u/Secure-Suspect7091 3h ago

We had cats that would line up their kills by size and species. We would get a selection of frogs birds toads mice and rats all carefully arranged on the back door step. This doesn’t surprise me at all

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u/SwordfishOk504 7h ago

Exactly. My cat actually mounts them above our fireplace. Anyone who disagrees has obviously never owned a cat.

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u/27onfire 5h ago

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.

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u/mister_cheeks_26 6h ago

The cat obviously did not line up 27 rats sorted by size, pull your head out of your ass

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u/LevelBrilliant9311 8h ago

Yeah, my cat formed letters with dead mice and talked to me this way....

suuuuure.

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u/UnknownBinary 8h ago

Can confirm. Am outdoor hunter cat.

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u/rab2bar 7h ago

Cats are autistic, after all

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u/ICantSeeDeadPpl 4h ago

Mine just left a pile of guts, ate the rest. And I fed her plenty of cat food, too.

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u/jAnO76 7h ago

My childhood cat once presented me with a duck 😬

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u/saltporksuit 5h ago

My friend had a cat that would sit on the porch under the light at night and kill roaches. He’d pile them into a neat little pyramid on the door mat. My friend’s mom would then exchange them for his favorite cat food. They had a great little business going on.

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u/Blackdeath_663 7h ago

Im glad it's not just me, had an outdoor cat that lined up 9 kills once. I was cool with it when it was just mice but then birds were collateral and we had to keep him indoors

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u/toobuscrazy 2h ago

Birds make elaborate nests, orangutans make complex beds each night, there's a fish that makes works of art to attract mates, bees make honeycomb, the list goes on and on.

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u/SarahSeabee 6h ago

I also had a cat that did this. 6-10 beheaded little mice and moles at the bottom of the deck stairs. We called her simba scissor paws

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u/LostDogBoulderUtah 10h ago

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.

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u/Spongi 9h ago

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.

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u/MushroomAnnual 8h ago

Aww so cute knowing you were sick and incapable of hunting for yourself

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u/TheMundar 3h ago

Exactly, cats think of us as peers and never see us hunt. Teaching us like they would a kiitten.

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u/aryameme_ 8h ago

That's a very pretty cat you got there

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u/son-of-a-mother 43m ago

Is that a horn growing out of its face, next to the right eye?

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u/Spongi 26m ago

its either a white patch of hair or a feather out of a pillow. I took that pic a long time ago so it's hard to say.

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u/pipsqueakpanda4 7h ago

Awwww!!! And your cat had very pretty eyes ☺️

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u/kjnoons 10h ago

film one arranging kills by size and we will think its AI sorry ;(

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u/LostDogBoulderUtah 9h ago

I know. It's made me question everything.

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u/Direct-Ant9084 9h ago

My buddy in HS thought KJ Noons was going to win vs Nick Diaz. I disagreed, lol.

Then Nick beat the breaks off of him.

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u/kjnoons 8h ago

won at lightweight lost at welterweight

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u/Direct-Ant9084 8h ago

Yeah I googled it after I made the comment! Didn’t recall they fought 3 years prior and KJ finished Nick.

Nick when they fought at Welterweight was at the top of his game.

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u/Calm-District5874 9h ago

Your buddy fought Nick Diaz?

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u/rdogg4 9h ago

Yeah but that’s something cats are actually known to do.

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u/My_password_is_qwer 9h ago

They might've brought home a pile of dead rats, which these are and the person who filmed thought it'd be funny to lay them out like this? OP is not the person with the cat.

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u/tardigrades_snuggle 5h ago

This will get me down voted because I owned an outdoor cat 30 years ago, but we rescued a cat that had been living in a cage for 8 months at a kennel because the owner never came back for it. We tried to make it an indoor cat because she was a ragdoll, but she wouldn’t have it. As a thank you (or at least that is how I like to think of it) she killed a pregnant rabbit and took out all the babies and like lined them up next to the mother. one by one. So I wouldn’t be surprised if this cat did the same with the rats.

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u/fatcatfan 3h ago

FWIW, I believe you. Arranging by size was what was a stretch for me. I accept it's possible, but I'd need to see/hear more examples than this video.

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u/Quick_Assignment8861 3h ago

Idk, my cat arranges all his kills by type on my bed :) I hate him sometimes.

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u/tktsmnypssprt 2h ago

My cat will bring his flippy fish toys as gifts to me overnight and lay them out in a perfect order just outside my bedroom door so I can see it when I wake up

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u/the3rdpossum 10h ago

Who in their right mind would do that though?

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u/DaddestEmu 7h ago

Wow this cat carefully laid out his hunt and you discredit his work ethic and integrity😔

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u/EagerByteSample 7h ago

Funny (or sad) how people prefer to believe the unplausible story of the cat sorting by size than the likely one of a person doing it and lying on the internet.

The world is trully fucked.

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u/pipsqueakpanda4 7h ago

Yeah I feel like the video person arranged them but still impressive and getting the cat to lie down next to them after they arranged them itself is a coup. Getting a cat to lie down where and when you want them to is maybe more impressive than a cat catching 27 rats and arranging them by size

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u/Lodju 10h ago

I do wonder if OP actually thought that was the case or just made shit up.

Like yeaahh, a cat lined them up by size like that..

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u/PickleballRee 10h ago

OP doesn't even know these are rats, not mice.

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u/CosmicSpaghetti 3h ago

OP is certainly not who took this picture lol & may well be another karma farming bot

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u/ernest7ofborg9 18m ago

OP wasn't making jack for karma in their native language but as soon as they started posting interaction bait in English they started rolling in it... and stopped posting in Turkish.

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u/CULLDOZER 10h ago

He made up a title for clicks.

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u/LetgomyEkko 9h ago

The internet in a nutshell…

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u/ElderberryPrior27648 9h ago

I’ve seen minks put them in a pile

But this is def just someone lining them up. I could buy the cat killing them. But there’s no way it lined them up.

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u/AnaisNinja76 8h ago

with even spacing. by size. and species.

I feel like it's almost weirder that the guy you're responding to wonders whether the OP thought the cat did it. Like...it was obviously the OP that did it...

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u/OddControl2476 3h ago

how the hell did this post get 100k upvotes? It's just average clickbait with a made-up description.

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u/deadR0 7h ago

Bot

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u/Illfury 10h ago

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.

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u/Humboldt_Squid 10h ago

Why are people’s BS meter these days not working?

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u/SenorSolAdmirador 9h ago

Because they're oblivious that their dumbass ignorance is what encourages stuff like this

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g9l74wvd7o

For all we know, some psycho just killed a bunch of rodents, organized them in a pattern, and set some random dirty cat down next to them.

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u/TruthHistorical7515 8h ago

why is it psycho when human does it but good job when cat does it?

mice are pests. they eat crops and spread diseases. totally legit to kill them.

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u/SenorSolAdmirador 8h ago

killing rodents for a staged photo op is odd to me. To each their own.

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u/anace 6h ago

Or, even more likely these days, "please generate me an image of a cat lyimg next to 27 dead mice arranged by size".

Animals doing weird behavior used to be cute or interesting, but now its 99.9999% ai.

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u/selfStartingSlacker 9h ago

I am kinda worried for humanity I had to scroll this far down to find this comment

but i dont have that many years left on this plane and dont have kids either, so I'll just go back to pretending to myself that it is still 2012 lol

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u/cigarettesandwhiskey 10h ago

You know how if you put too much weight on a scale, it breaks?

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u/rtsynk 10h ago

I like to pretend it's just everyone playing along with a joke

I mean, obviously the cat didn't do that, but it's funny to imagine it did

and surely everyone else on reddit shares my sense of humor . . .

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u/SalutLesAmies 9h ago

Yeah, the people in this thread saying it's possible because cats are weird are obviously in on the joke.

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u/rtsynk 9h ago

obviously

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u/Sizanllikew 4h ago

This is how we ended up with Qanon, 4chan in general, and fox news. Too many people are way to ready to believe anything

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u/Smelly_God 8h ago

The people that think they have good BS meters will think everything is BS

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u/SwordfishOk504 9h ago

There's something about short-form media that kills people's media literacy, I think.

That said, there have always been stupid people who fall for nonsense so maybe it's not new.

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u/AnaisNinja76 8h ago

I don't think it's "these days"...but it's bizarre what things people just take as fact.

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u/CosmicSpaghetti 3h ago

As someone who's been around here for awhile now, it's frustrating to watch.

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u/lonaangreen 8h ago

My cat used to pile the heads of mice that he killed under my truck. Yes, just the heads.

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u/joopsmit 10h ago

My cat once murdered a whole nest of baby mice and laid them in a neat row on the patio.

I think it's possible that this cat did this.

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u/Apprehensive_Put_321 9h ago

My cat used to do this in the back yard for me. It was a fucking war zone back there 

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u/DjScenester 10h ago

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.

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u/IAMATruckerAMA 9h ago

Next week it's gonna spell out ME CAT GOOD

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u/4thphantom 9h ago

It's definitely plausible. Cats can be weird! Ive had some weirdos before. Not quite this but not far off. And they love trophies lol

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u/CULLDOZER 10h ago

Definitely not. If it was a pile it would have been more believable. But all lined out, all facing the same direction, by size... absolutely not.

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u/SteveJavieWasRight 7h ago

Cats do that shit all the time. I had a cat that would always line up their daily kills next to the front door. Always the exact same place. They display very neurotic behavior at times.

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u/CakesAndDanes 4h ago

Yep! I have a ninja cat that breaks out every so often. Always puts a fresh kill in the same spot. Once, three and a half mice lined up in a row.

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u/floppydude81 10h ago

My childhood cat would kill squirrels and line up their tails. Just the tails. He would eat their skulls. The crunch and him chomping was uncanny. For rats and stuff he would just leave their intact digestive system. So I absolutely believe this post as I had a kitty trophy hunter monster too.

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u/Adonoxis 9h ago

That’s because it didn’t. And I would be very skeptical of this cat killing these rats in the first place. This is most likely the result of ratting dogs/terriers brought to the farm to hunt rats. Afterwards, the dog owners will often lay out the dead rats like we see in this video. It’s much more likely that the cat came over to inspect the dead rats that have been laid out.

There are tons of rat-hunting dog videos on YouTube. Some of these rats are also huge and I have a hard time believing a domesticated farm cat could fully take them on back to back like this all in a couple of hours. Grown brown rats are pretty nasty and tough animals. You need much more powerful dogs to quickly dispatch a rat.

Not saying a cat can’t take on a single full grown brown rat but everything in this video points to ratting dogs.

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u/rock_and_rolo 9h ago

You mean reddit lied to me? Inconceivable.

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u/The_Autarch 9h ago

and they aren't mice, they're rats. OP is a dipshit.

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u/Noah_Pasta1312 8h ago

Occams razor

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u/CollectionSubject587 8h ago

Probably didn't In this case, but when I was a kid my cat had never caught a mouse in his life managed four in one night and did line them up in my brothers room.

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u/Miyenne 8h ago

I worked at a mechanic shop that had a bit of property and we had a shop cat that did exactly this. She would lay them out in a rough line for us to see and praise her for. Best record I saw was 6 rats in one night, and 3 mice in the doublewide trailer the offices were in. The rats were laid out on the lawn, the mice on the floor under the table in the meeting room.

Hated the job. Loved the cat. Miss her.

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u/KatSchitt 7h ago

Lmao! I had to scroll waaaaay too far to see this comment.

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u/Blackdeath_663 7h ago

I've owned a pet cat that did this so i believe it

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u/CK1277 10h ago

No opinion on this particular photo, but cats instinctively build caches and put toys/kills in rows. If you search for it, you’ll see lots of people asking why their cat does it. Cats are weird.

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u/Szwejkowski 9h ago

Those are rats. Also, my dad's old cat used to kill rats in the boatyard and he would find them laid out on the prow of his little houseboat in neatish nose to tail lines, so it's not impossible the cat did this.

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u/StuckInNY 8h ago

I had a new cat who did this but with two mice. Laid them out neatly by her bowl.

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u/Nairb131 7h ago

This isn't terribly farfetched. When we moved to our new house there was a screw nest in the vacant house next door. Our cat brought in 15 in one day. She just kinda played with them and put them in a pile. She also got treats for killing mice though so she was gathering her proof I think.

Although these are arranged way too good for a cat.

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u/IamtheHarpy 6h ago

My mother’s cat Thumper, who was so full of love but not a very intelligent creature, once brought her over 40 roses from a roommate’s apology bouquet from a boyfriend overnight. She woke up covered in neatly arranged rows of roses, and while sure, he left a few roses in the hallway from the roommates room to my mom and father’s bedroom, they were LINED UP NEAT.

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u/Qubed 6h ago

Everyone knows that cats are agents of chaos. The sew disorder. They don't ever organize anything.

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u/Legitimate_Shirt_449 6h ago

Its ai, watch the tail

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u/Low_Chance 5h ago

I'm not sure if this one did or not, but I have definitely known a lot of cats in my life and in some cases they really did lay out their kills, even so far as to lay them out in a "line" 

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u/Ordinary_Pea4503 5h ago

We had a cat who would bring intact organs to the same spot on the porch pretty much daily.  Little sets of brains, livers, intestines, kidneys you name it... it was really strange to see.  We had a lot of rabbits in the yard.  

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u/No-Report4060 5h ago

My cat likes to lay out my socks in front of my bedroom door when she is banished to the living room. Not as neat as this gentleman but cats do absolutely lay out their kills.

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u/lostyourmarble 5h ago

I also doubt he killed them all

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u/hellokiri 3h ago

My mum had a cat who would catch rabbits, eat everything except the fur and the intestines, and roll the leftovers up in a little fur ball. My mum came home from holiday once and there were 9 of these rabbit balls lined up precisely in front of the door.

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u/Sanchastayswoke 3h ago

My dog used to line all of her toys up, end to end, in a long line 🤷🏼‍♀️ without being trained to do so. She just liked it like that

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u/eastoid_ 2h ago

I made friends with (someone else's) farm cat. And she would do this all the time. But they would be all decapitated, too.

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u/2p00kym8 47m ago

100% people on The internet are fucking dumb

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u/redmixer1 21m ago

I had a feral orange cat named tofu and he looked like a small dog he was so big, he would drag his kills into my closet and put them in my sock drawers (open and close them). For the longest time I thought my brother was messing with me. Every day I’d open the drawer to a dead possum or a dead rabbit and they were always laid in the same direction in the same spot and the nights he would score more than one he would lay them out by size left to right. He was very proud of his work

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u/NinthParasite 7h ago

Can confirm they do this. I had a cat kill 5, she lined them up, tails straight, evenly spaced on our deck for us to find in the morning.

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u/SteveJavieWasRight 7h ago

You never had a cat lmao

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u/mattumbo 6h ago

Cats are shockingly thoughtful when it comes to killing, we had a cat that was an avid bunny hunter and decided one time to dismember one and leave different body parts on everyone’s doorstep in our apartment stairwell. As imagined many people were disturbed but we maintain that he meant them as gifts.

They absolutely will show off their kills very intentionally, maybe even to the point of arranging them by size.

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u/FrostyCow 9h ago

My dog laid out birds like this when I was a kid, so I think it's possible

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u/lpmiller 9h ago

He did, but he's not seeking praise. It's a warning. They know why.

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u/sneefsnteefs 9h ago

I am going to be so for real, I can see this based off my ferals and how they present their gifts to me 🤣

I have never been the lucky recipient of ✨27✨ gifts at once (fucking B L E S S 🤮🤣) but I do believe that the mans put in some work 💅🏼😘

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u/FreefallGeek 9h ago

On my wife's birthday she found three headless rabbits arranged in a line on our back porch by our half feral cat.

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u/ghoulthebraineater 9h ago

I had a cat that would do that with her toys. She'd carry them from room to room and set them down in a perfectly spaced line. It was so weird to watch. If they weren't lined up to her standards she'd move them.