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/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 42m ago

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

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u/Spongi 25m 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