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My cat ate a squirrel's entire head...

two fingers

two fingers

Opinionated blowhard. But not mad about it.
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#1
I am as serious as I can be.

When we got him, he was the neighborhood wimp. Other cats would beat him up and take his lunch money for fun.

Well, he turned a corner and toughened up. Now, he not only guards the yard from other cats, he takes out squirrels, mice, moles, and even a few full-grown rabbits have been dragged to the front porch by our guard "dog". He has also taken down quite a few snakes, some of them venomous. These days, he's the neighborhood bad@$$.

But yesterday he did something I have never seen before. He had killed a squirrel and dragged it into the breezeway. And there he sat eating its head! I was loading groceries and other supplies into the house from my truck so I was going back and forth for a while.

And, sure enough, he proceeded to eat the squirrels ENTIRE HEAD! Skull and all!!!! Gone! I have never seen anything like that before. I won't get into the ugly details. But let's just say the cat ate every part of the head. Every. Single. Part. Then he left the shoulder-down thing laying there for me to clean up. (We are all here to serve him, after all.)

What's funny is that he is the sweetest and most unassuming looking docile cat for the most part. But he's a sleeper. He'll take you down..... and apparently eat your head. :wideyed:

So, pretty much all I have left to do is ask the obvious question.

Is my cat a zombie???
 
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Flashback Bass said:
Easy solution, keep your cat indoors.

(Yes I'm one of them!)
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Oh I didn't need a "solution" to what isn't a "problem". :D

I was just wondering if this is a common thing.

His "castle" is our almost 5 acre yard and surrounding areas. But we take good care of him. He lives the good life. ;)
 
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two fingers said:
I am as serious as I can be.

When we got him, he was the neighborhood wimp. Other cats would beat him up and take his lunch money for fun.

Well, he turned a corner and toughened up. Now, he not only guards the yard from other cats, he takes out squirrels, mice, moles, and even a few full-grown rabbits have been dragged to the front porch by our guard "dog". He has also taken down quite a few snakes, some of them venomous. These days, he's the neighborhood bad@$$.

But yesterday he did something I have never seen before. He had killed a squirrel and dragged it into the breezeway. And there he sat eating its head! I was loading groceries and other supplies into the house from my truck so I was going back and forth for a while.

And, sure enough, he proceeded to eat the squirrels ENTIRE HEAD! Skull and all!!!! Gone! I have never seen anything like that before. I won't get into the ugly details. But let's just say the cat ate every part of the head. Every. Single. Part. Then he left the shoulder-down thing laying there for me to clean up. (We are all here to serve him, after all.)

What's funny is that he is the sweetest and most unassuming looking docile cat for the most part. But he's a sleeper. He'll take you down..... and apparently eat your head. :wideyed:

So, pretty much all I have left to do is ask the obvious question.

Is my cat a zombie???
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Possibly a zombie, definitely a badda$$. I'd give him a high paw, and a cold one to wash down his "meal"!!
 
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Oddly said:
While I've nothing but admiration for the cat, I can't help wondering if he's a bit stupid. Surely there's much better eating on the rest if the squirrel?:D
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Ha! I kind if thought the same thing.

Surely, relative to the size of a cat and a squirrel, there has to be some sort of squirrely tender loin or something, right? I mean, it might only be big enough to piss me off. But I weigh 205. I would think a 4 pound cat could munch down on some squirrel loin or ribs or something. :D
 
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two fingers said:
I am as serious as I can be.

When we got him, he was the neighborhood wimp. Other cats would beat him up and take his lunch money for fun.

Well, he turned a corner and toughened up. Now, he not only guards the yard from other cats, he takes out squirrels, mice, moles, and even a few full-grown rabbits have been dragged to the front porch by our guard "dog". He has also taken down quite a few snakes, some of them venomous. These days, he's the neighborhood bad@$$.

But yesterday he did something I have never seen before. He had killed a squirrel and dragged it into the breezeway. And there he sat eating its head! I was loading groceries and other supplies into the house from my truck so I was going back and forth for a while.

And, sure enough, he proceeded to eat the squirrels ENTIRE HEAD! Skull and all!!!! Gone! I have never seen anything like that before. I won't get into the ugly details. But let's just say the cat ate every part of the head. Every. Single. Part. Then he left the shoulder-down thing laying there for me to clean up. (We are all here to serve him, after all.)

What's funny is that he is the sweetest and most unassuming looking docile cat for the most part. But he's a sleeper. He'll take you down..... and apparently eat your head. :wideyed:

So, pretty much all I have left to do is ask the obvious question.

Is my cat a zombie???
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Your cat is just as normal as a cat can be... Mine will eat it all, not just the head but the whole thing.
 
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two fingers said:
Ha! I kind if thought the same thing.

Surely, relative to the size of a cat and a squirrel, there has to be some sort of squirrely tender loin or something, right? I mean, it might only be big enough to piss me off. But I weigh 205. I would think a 4 pound cat could munch down on some squirrel loin or ribs or something. :D
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Maybe you could take a soup can or something similar and fashion the little guy a grill, hook him up with a bit of seasoning, and see what he comes up with. He could be famous!!
 
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@two fingers your story made me laugh. Our smallest, most apparently timid cat (we call her our invisible cat, because visitors never see her) was our most voracious ratter. She too is a small cat, yet she takes down rats pretty close to her own size, as well as smaller ones, and moles. And yes, she eats the entire thing. I know this because she did it so regularly. She'd be there with a dead rat, and then there would be no rat at all. She also, on her own choice, lived outside most of the time, coming in for meals and to sleep, but sometimes being gone (and worrying us) for days or weeks at a time. If we heard a rat in the wall, we'd let her into the crawl space, and then there would be no rat in the wall.

It's funny, though. At about age 17 she retired. That's really how it seemed. She came in, decided to live in our bedroom, and stopped hunting. She enjoys her retirement on comfy cushions and in bed. She's almost 19 now. Her kidneys are failing and we have to give her injections of water 3x per week. She's very patient about it and they clearly make her feel much better.
Enjoy your fierce feline friend. Here's mine:
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My cat only had a small handful of battles that I became aware of afterward.

He caught a squirrel.

He caught a crow.

Unfortunately, he lost 3 separate fights with neighborhood skunk(s). Two of those instances weren't too bad and he only required a bath. (Tomato juice did absolutely nothing.) One of the fights ended worse because the skunk sprayed him in the eyes. After his shampooing/etc, I would slowly splash clear water to flush out his eyes.
 
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