Well, like YLL said, our kitty is a little "slow on the draw", so he probably wouldn't be able to catch anything live. He doesn't have the opportunity, since he's an indoor/outdoor on harness only kitty. I do let him play in the attached garage sometimes, and he corners chipmunks that sneak in through the gap at the side of the door, but he has never actually gotten one. I wouldn't want him to catch or eat anything.
Now, my mom's cats, on the other hand, were ferocious hunters. She used to live in an upper flat (duplex, apartment, etc.), and she would let her kitties roam freely through an open window at the bottom of the stairway, day and night, summer and winter. The boy kitty, Phil, is now 12 years old, and the girl kitty, Taffy, I think is about the same age, so they were both getting pretty old then. Both are declawed in the front, yet they would catch FULL GROWN RABBITS and drag them up the stairway to present to my mom. They brought in countless birds, including cardinals, mice or chipmunks nearly every day, and yes, frogs and lizards too. (Amazing, since she lived in the city, nowhere near any open country!) She finally trained them to take whatever they had into the bathtub, so she could more easily clean up the gore that was left. 
Most times the poor creatures were brought in still alive, so my mom had birds flying around fairly often, and was constantly returning animals to the outdoors. She also had kitties getting sick from eating outdoor animals. She would call me and moan and complain about all this, but when I suggested she keep the cats inside and only take them out when supervised, she said she "couldn't". (She's retired too, and home all day, so it would be easy enough for her to keep an eye on the kitties.)
Now she lives in a lower apartment in a complex that has a large pond, and keeps the sliding patio door open day and night, winter and summer. The kitties are still bringing in the occasional frog from the pond, but they've gotten older and maybe their eyesight isn't as good. One time, as she was trying to return a frog to it's natural habitat, she slipped on the bank and FELL INTO THE POND in the middle of the night (yuck!! it's all full of algae and pond scum!!) And she's still calling me to complain about the apartment being too cold in the winter and too warm in the summer, and her heating/cooling bills being so high, and all the spiders/bugs getting in, and of course the only response I have is SHUT THE *&%@ DOOR THEN!!!!!!
(Parents these days, I tell you.....)
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Eventually I caught it in a towel and took it outside - I don't think he even noticed it was gone. 
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