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

[Cheez]

This is hilarious man! Thanks.

 

[fcleff]

The little BA in question.

I couldn't get him to hold still and "pose". And being dusk, they're a little blurry.
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The more observant among you will notice his six toes on his front feet. He has extra "thumbs".

That’s a fine cat. Dang fine.
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[murphy]

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.

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

Is my cat a zombie???

Your cat is my Hero

 

[murphy]

when I worked in a rural group home...we had a big Rat problem, Adopted a cat

I would arrive to work in the mornings with decapitated rats strewn across the driveway

 

[IamGroot]

when I worked in a rural group home...we had a big Rat problem,Adopted a cat

I would arrive to work in the mornings with decapitated rats strewn across the driveway

What cat works best with lawyers?

 

[Fishheadjoe]

When I was a kid, we had a cat that had seven toes on each front paw. His foot prints in the snow looked like he was wearing boxing gloves! His name was "Chicken" which sure got a few looks from the neighbours when my mom would call for the cat!
Fishheadjoe

 

[Downunderwonder]

when I worked in a rural group home...we had a big Rat problem, Adopted a cat

I would arrive to work in the mornings with decapitated rats strewn across the driveway

A, the driveway is a nice warm place to sit and eat your rat head.
or B, the guy you want to impress with your ratting skills arrives by the driveway
or C, the cleanup crew arrives by driveway and you don't want no stinking rat carcasses laying around one minute longer.
or D, the guy that arrives every morning looks like he needs a feed and after dining out on rat heads you figure be generous.

 

[ElectroVibe]

Cats bring these dead bodies because they think their owners don't have the predatory skills needed to survive. The fact that you don't eat it means that it may be some kind of symbolic ritual.

 

[basst scho]

once i saw a cat of ours puke out a whole, half-digested mouse

cats can be psychos. we had a cat that scattered a bird all over the terrace. bloody pieces, feathers and guts everywhere...

 

[basst scho]

Cats bring these dead bodies because they think their owners don't have the predatory skills needed to survive. The fact that you don't eat it means that it may be some kind of symbolic ritual.

and they wanna show what good hunters they are. looking for approval when they bring it to you

my cat eats a lot of the mice he catches. even on command one time
he brought a mouse that barely lived, i took him to the mouse and said "diego, kill it"...two minutes later only the skeleton and guts remained

...disgusting, but a good cat

 

[BBox Bass]

The Pilgrims brought polydactyl cats on their ships because they believed the cats were excellent mousers. OP's cat might be a descendant.

I had a 6-toed cat whose main talent was removing the lid from the Crock Pot, but she also served as excellent pest control when I owned a house whose basement had many mouse-sized entrances from the outside. I never saw her kill the mice, but I found the regurgitated evidence later, usually on my bedroom floor. The one time I did witness a kill was when I took her out on a harness and she dived under the deck and grabbed a mole less than 30 seconds after we went outside. She was around 13 at the time, but still had lightning-fast reflexes.

I now live in a mouse-proof home and keep my cats inside. They're afraid to go out, even on a harness. One is an excellent bug killer and the other one just sits and watches the murders take place.

 

[FilterFunk]

Cats bring these dead bodies because they think their owners don't have the predatory skills needed to survive. The fact that you don't eat it means that it may be some kind of symbolic ritual.

I thought it was to gain the leader's (owner's) favor, like some sort of tribute. I wonder if cats think owners are stupid or ungrateful for not eating such delicious treats!