Eeeew! She ate it!

[AmberLee]

Shouting, "Wow, a BUG!" really revves up the fur-babies around here, too.

I try to enjoy the fur-kid's enthusiasm and not think about the bugs much...

[krazyaboutkatz]

Since my cats are indoor only cats, they love it when a bug gets inside. Storm starts his meow alert and then the others get excited as well. I always try to kill the bug before they have a chance to eat it.

[Cheshirekatt]

When I was little our old tom cat, Fritzie used to eat june bugs.

Ewwwwww......crunchy!

[Ally Cat's Mommy]

Ally also loves to chase bugs, but her favourite is Gheckos!!!

We get loads of them here. The funniest thing is when they climb accross my bathroom window (on the outside). Ally paws at them and tries to catch them! Silly girl - she is convinced that one day Mr Ghecko will make a mistake and run accross HER side of the window!

Her other amusement at the moment is the birds nesting in the Air Con outside my study (I'ts one of those old-fashioned "box" ones, set into the side of the house, and every summer birdie nest down in the gap between the AC and the wall). Ally sits on my bookshelf with her little nose pressed to the wall for HOURS - I think that she thinks "one day they will make a mistake and be on my side of the wall".


Reminds me of my RB Ridgeback Fiona. She used to chase birds around the garden, but was too big and clumsy to catch any! Then one day she DID catch one - it was obviously someones pet which had escaped, and didnt have much survival instinct. The FUNNIEST thing was that, after ALL these YEARS of chasing birdies, Fiona had NO IDEA what to do when she caught it - she just sat in the garden with a really DUMB expression on her face, and her eyebrows all wrinkled up in surprise!

(We got the birdie off her, and our vet sorted it out and re-homed it - for such a HUGE dog she was so gentle with it - it was hardly injured!)

[IttyBittyKitty]

Originally posted by NoahsMommy
hee hee

GOOD EBBY!!!

The reason I agreed to get a cat (I was like Edwina's Secretary, didn't know the utter joy of cats, or cared to ) was for bug protection. I love that I haven't seen a spider or bug in my apartment for two years!!! YIPPEEE!!!!

And I thought we were just lucky. Should have known though, I saw Pixel eating a daddy long legs the other day!

[Lorraine]

Good kitty Ebby for catching that mean moth!!
Here in Florida, it is bug paradise for cats, because the bugs are extra large, and very plentiful!!
Sammy and Romeo are inside cats too, so when a mosquito gets in, they go absolutley nuts trying to catch it! Sammy usually wins because he is bigger, and jumps higher, so he gets the snack!
Romeo looks at him as if to say, "are you gonna give me just a bite of that yummy bug?"EEEWWW!

Ear wigs down here are exceptionally gross, they are either light green or beige, my kids call them "booger bugs" because that is excatlly what they look like!
According to Sammy, I suppose these are quite tasty as well!
So far, I have been lucky not to have seen any cockroaches in my apartment. Those are the NASTIEST of all, they are huge!
I HATE those the most! They are so big, you need a shot gun to kill them! I hope if one ever decides to venture in my place, the cats will get to it, before I even see it!

[Tubby & Peanut's Mom]

Originally posted by Lorraine
So far, I have been lucky not to have seen any cockroaches in my apartment. Those are the NASTIEST of all, they are huge!
I HATE those the most! They are so big, you need a shot gun to kill them! I hope if one ever decides to venture in my place, the cats will get to it, before I even see it!

I have a friend who used to live in Florida, in the St Pete area. She was in a temporaty living situation, and there happened to be....well...not "lots" of cockroaches...but more than "some" cockroaches. She was so grateful to have 3 kitties at the time because she knew the population was kept under control. And how did she know this you ask? Well, seems the kitties would kill them, but not eat them, so she'd find the carcasses in the morning! Talk about Eeeeewwwww!!! The good news is she soon found a much better place to live. The kitties easily adapted from cockroaches to those little lizard things you guys have down there. Again they'd kill but not eat, and they always left the carcass in a very consipicuous place so she was sure to see it and know how busy they had been.

[catmandu]

Actually the lost cats have a laissez faire deal with the various spiders and flies that live here. live and let alonre they seem to beleive all Creatures have a right to Live!