Cat Hunting Styles
Wild felines eat their preys fast, without a pause, while domestic cats take a longer time, stopping once in a while to take a look to its surroundings, surely because they aren't submitted to as much pressure as they are in the wild world. When a cat eats a mouse, he usually starts with the end, cutting it by the neck and tearing it with its molar teeth for then swallowing it almost whole. Then he goes on with the superior halve of the body and, then one of the hind legs followed by the abdomen.
Some cats eat it all, while others put apart the gall bladder, the thin intestine and some other parts of the digestive apparatus. If in the process they swallow hair and skin, they will vomit it later.
Often, cats bring the preys or part of them, home. The origin of this practice is probably the habit of sharing their food with other members of the litter.
Another habit that they develop after hunting and that many owners dislike is that of playing with the dead prey, as if reviving the experience of hunting and the death of the victim, throwing the body to the air once and again, jumping and rolling on the ground with it and hiding for again find it on several occasions.
Although the action of hunting is an improved practice in cats, there are many pursuits that fail, it is estimated that almost 90% of the birds and more than 75% of the mice escape from a cats claws.
The subjects from these observations are mainly farm cats, so this proportion doesn't show in any way laziness or lack of experience.
The next bite
Well fed domestic cats feel almost the same attraction for hinting as the ones who do it by need.
Surely, the best philosophy among felines is that, the basis is "you never know from where the next bite is going to come". The bigger felines, as are lions and tigers, feed on more than they need and don't stop until full. On the other hand, domestic cats are good hunters and they never get tired of capturing preys, even if they won't feed from them.
In fact, there are many creatures, as the shrew house and hogs, that cats only hunt for fun, because they don't constitute a good bite. And the same happens with mice, that, although tasty, they are left dead on the ground once the game ends..
Birds are the great exception, considered by cats as a feast to the taste. They feed on them with such enthusiasm and voracity that the only thing left from their body when eaten are a small bunch of feathers.
