When my first child was born, we only had one cat. He was very attentive during pregnancy then left a dead mouse as a gift right by the crib. He was a mouser when he was young, but hadn’t hunted in a few years, so it was obvious that he understood there was a new “kitten” to take care of.
When he was gone and we had one of the cats we have now, I had my second child. Now this cat had never hunted so much ad a spider, but she caught her only prey to date, another mouse, and left it beside a gift bag of baby stuff I had from work.
I could have definitely done without dead mice, but I was pretty touched that they understood and wanted to do something “nice” for the babies.
When my first child was born, we only had one cat. He was very attentive during pregnancy then left a dead mouse as a gift right by the crib. He was a mouser when he was young, but hadn’t hunted in a few years, so it was obvious that he understood there was a new “kitten” to take care of.
When he was gone and we had one of the cats we have now, I had my second child. Now this cat had never hunted so much ad a spider, but she caught her only prey to date, another mouse, and left it beside a gift bag of baby stuff I had from work.
I could have definitely done without dead mice, but I was pretty touched that they understood and wanted to do something “nice” for the babies.