On Fri, 27 May 2011 19:02:28 +0100, "Bob Hobden"
wrote:

"Ian B"
Doesn't need to be a Tom. My cat Cassie is a girl, and she's as fierce at
seeing off other cats as can be. The only time I see another cat in the
garden, it's running at top speed to get through the "enemy territory".


In my experience a neutered Tom can get quite laid back as they age but a
neutered female is still feisty and single minded about such things to the
end. Especially a female pedigree cat that hates oiks!

Maybe the difference is that my tom wasn't neutered until he moved
in. For that matter, nor had he ever been innoculated for the usual
things, wormed or whatever. So he had a few years to impregnate any
females in the vicinity and to do whatever tom cats do. I notice him
occasionally trying to scent - tail held high and all that - but
nothing comes out!

Today he earned some extra treats - he rang his doorbell (that's
another story) and sat proudly as the door was opened and he displayed
the dead rat he'd brought home. A clean kill - he kills rats and moles
with a single bite wound across the back of the neck but carefully
carries the occasional mouse or shrew back for us to chase around the
house and they rarely have a wound! The quantity of tail-less slow
worms around her is another story, though!

In article , Jake
writes

Today he earned some extra treats - he rang his doorbell (that's
another story) and sat proudly as the door was opened and he displayed
the dead rat he'd brought home. A clean kill - he kills rats and moles
with a single bite wound across the back of the neck but carefully
carries the occasional mouse or shrew back for us to chase around the
house and they rarely have a wound!

Ours - a beaut of a bengal - was neutered around 8 months old. He is a
big boy - and heaven knows how big he would have got if we hadn't
removed his bits. (In fact, the bit where his bits were seems bigger
than most cat's bit bags). He terrifies our other timid little tabby
but is ok with the local neighbour catsand positively loves humans.
Anything else feline he doesn't tolerate.

His favourite treat atm is rabbits - well, large-ish young bunnies,
really. He usually brings them back unharmed in order to provide us
with the entertainment and exercise of spending ages chasing round the
rooms to catch and release. (Followed by the long walk across the field
to a briar patch

Sometimes, however, they get seriously discombobulated. Actually, its
usually the head that gets discom-ulated, rather than the bob. But they
are definitely confused following his attentions. Occasionally a leg
gets separated too. Not too lucky for bunny.

Even though he's neutered, he's out most nights from spring - and comes
in extremely keen to tell us all about it (read 'to wake us up')
sometime between 5 and 7 am.

That said, all he has brought back (that we see) are rabbits and rats -
so it could be worse.

--
regards andyw

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In article , Jake
writes

Today he earned some extra treats - he rang his doorbell (that's
another story) and sat proudly as the door was opened and he displayed
the dead rat he'd brought home. A clean kill - he kills rats and moles
with a single bite wound across the back of the neck but carefully
carries the occasional mouse or shrew back for us to chase around the
house and they rarely have a wound!

Ours - a beaut of a bengal - was neutered around 8 months old. He is a
big boy - and heaven knows how big he would have got if we hadn't removed
his bits. (In fact, the bit where his bits were seems bigger than most
cat's bit bags). He terrifies our other timid little tabby but is ok with
the local neighbour catsand positively loves humans. Anything else feline
he doesn't tolerate.

His favourite treat atm is rabbits - well, large-ish young bunnies,
really. He usually brings them back unharmed in order to provide us with
the entertainment and exercise of spending ages chasing round the rooms to
catch and release. (Followed by the long walk across the field to a briar
patch

Sometimes, however, they get seriously discombobulated. Actually, its
usually the head that gets discom-ulated, rather than the bob. But they
are definitely confused following his attentions. Occasionally a leg gets
separated too. Not too lucky for bunny.

Even though he's neutered, he's out most nights from spring - and comes in
extremely keen to tell us all about it (read 'to wake us up') sometime
between 5 and 7 am.

That said, all he has brought back (that we see) are rabbits and rats - so
it could be worse.

--

No one needs to apologise for having a cat. Mine is very useful killing
mice & little rats around my chicken huts
He does *not" do the big ones with brown chisel teeth. we get the terrier
men in to do that.
And even then they can be a challenge for the terrriers that can kill
anything that moves. But it was only myself, perhaps that worried when a
rat hung on to terriers nose and it bled. I insisted on antiseptic, her
owner was amused.