The Hunting CatIt is easy to forget that the cats were domesticated originally in order that they were hunting small harmful animals. His physical attributes contribute to his efficiency as predators: big eyes that look forward, with a good field of vision; ears that perceive sound frequencies that are, far from the human ear (as those who emit the small rodents); an agility and an extraordinary balance for jumping and rushing; and claws and deadly teeth to hold and to kill to the prey. On having given the final bite, this cuts the spinal cord between the vertebras of the neck, killing her almost instantaneously. There are cat owners which displease the hunting trends of their animals. Many people consent killing rats and mice, but are disturbed by their habit of killing birds. Fortunately, the cats stalk and pursue to the birds, but almost they never hunt them. Those that catch them, the most probable thing is that they are very young and that they have just left the nest, specially of the species that nest in the ground. A way of avoiding is to put to the cat a sleigh-bell in the necklace, in order that it sounds when he moves and alert in this way to the birds around them. (Although there are cats that get to achieve that the bell does not sound when they move). The hunter cats also catch beetles and other insects, reptiles, small rodents, big rates and even rabbits, according to what they find. In the small preys, the first thing that they eat is the head and they are in the habit of disdaining the intestines. Not always they eat the prey where they have hunted, but they remove it – sometimes still alive and debate - as a gift to his owner or to other cats. To the eyes of our cat, this one is a logical and natural behavior, for very disagreeably that seems to us. |
