Moth AbuseOne happy summer as a child - I found a new night-time game for my cat. I would turn the light on and open the window.
The moths would fly in and my cat would eat them. Crunch. Crunch. Crunch.
Then I caught him eating a rather lovely dragonfly. It was still buzzing as he munched.
I felt rather guilty and stopped the game.
(The moths would fly in and my cat would eat them. Crunch. Crunch. Crunch.
Then I caught him eating a rather lovely dragonfly. It was still buzzing as he munched.
I felt rather guilty and stopped the game.
rob,
Wed 15 Oct 2003, 12:05,
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and flieswe've found one of our cats wandering around with a buzzing coming out of its (closed) mouth and a cross-eyed look as it tries to see where the noise is coming from.
Sometimes there is a swallow, then silence and sometimes the mouth opens and the fly emerges relatively unscathed
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Wed 15 Oct 2003, 12:53,
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Sometimes there is a swallow, then silence and sometimes the mouth opens and the fly emerges relatively unscathed
My cat used to do thatIt all stopped though the day she caught a Bee.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick,
Wed 15 Oct 2003, 13:33,
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My CatLoves to eat flies. He follows them all around the room, growls, pounces and munch crunch munch.
The other day I was sitting outside and this large, mangled, 4 legged spider walked past him. a quick munch and the spider was gone. Cat walked off.
Cat came back 30 secs later, sat down, coughed and out walked a slightly more mangled, yet still able bodied, 4 legged spider.
Apparently they don't taste nice.
(The other day I was sitting outside and this large, mangled, 4 legged spider walked past him. a quick munch and the spider was gone. Cat walked off.
Cat came back 30 secs later, sat down, coughed and out walked a slightly more mangled, yet still able bodied, 4 legged spider.
Apparently they don't taste nice.
Weetobix,
Tue 21 Oct 2003, 15:21,
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ours did that!He had it's wings sticking out of each side of his mouth.
Looked like he had little mouth wings
(Looked like he had little mouth wings
beefandcheese,
Wed 15 Oct 2003, 17:54,
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cat fartswe live in the NW of the us, and around august time flying termites appear. being kids, me and sis would go out with our badmitton rackets and hit them out of the air, either chopping their wings off or cutting them in half our crazy ass neighbor cat Namaste (possibly helped when my dad conker her int he head hard with a rock) would come out and eat what we hit down, and then fart to worst i have ever smelt. so we quickly would kill the bugs and then run the hell away from the cat to escape its gas
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Wed 15 Oct 2003, 18:17,
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speaking of mothsin colorado (southwestern u.s.) the summer time (usually mid-june to mid-august) is filled with miller moths. they're real annoying because if you leave any light (even a small thing, like a clock on - with out blinds or shades or whatever on the window) at night, they find any way they can to get to it, and fill up the whole room. fortunately, we had cruel techniques for moth extinguishing... two particular ways that we would do it were to open up the back of a large fan and slowly feed them through, watch the shredded moth come through the front, and then laugh like little 7th grade girls... it was just that amusing. another thing to do was to get those stand up lamps that have the little shade/bowl around the lightbulb at the top (and make sure it's an adjustable one that the light can be faded on) and we would toss the moths on and watch them burn - usually, you had to catch one and throw it on real quick with the light at max. that way they'd get stuck burning on it. the most amusing part was turning the light up and down (so that there wasn't a fire or anything) and watching the moth smolder... the amount of moths made for great fun if you had any enemies at work, though.
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Fri 17 Oct 2003, 0:54,
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