Last night, while I was on the train trip from Hell, my cat found a young rabbit. My wife was home and managed to prevent the half-feral asshole from killing it in the house and put it in a quiet spot in the yard; hoping for the best.
This morning it was still breathbg.
She had to leave early but asked me to handle it. I tried giving it some water with a straw, and I didn’t see any obvious injury, but he laid there breathing hard.
So I put on my welding gloves and got a plastic grocery bag. I gently picked it up and cradled it in the bag until it stopped moving.
I am a monster. Hate me.
I’m sad this happened to you, but people keep cats as pets to rid the place of rodents. Your cat probably does this on the regular, and showed you this one because it was extra proud of it.
We had rehabbed a century old house from the Addams family house to a museum piece, only to have a mouse breakout happen in our yard. Then they started to get in the house, and that was a serious problem. I tried traps, but I could literally set 10 around the back steps, and in an hour they would all be sprung, with about half of them with a dead mouse.
He were starting worry about it, when a stray cat showed up at our house, and decided it was a nice place, with nice people, and the added bonus of a yard full of mice to kill. Fun!
He was such a sweet guy, but he had the heart of serial killer. Within a couple of weeks, we weren’t seeing any mice, and I couldn’t walk across the backyeard without finding a headless mouse corpse. After he had things under control, he decided the place was good enough now, and invited his beautiful Siamese girlfriend and their three kittens to live with us. No humans were consulted in any of these decisions.
So if you’ve got mice around your house, a cat is your very best extermination strategy.
Cat Distribution System working as intended.