Author Topic: My cat could start her own business (Read 4418 times)

helskitchen · « **on:** May 13, 2011, 10:16:59 pm »

My cat has decided she is bored with catching baby rabbits, and has now moved onto moles!!!

Feel like spying on her to find out how she does it, think she must lay in wait at a mole hole and pounce when they poke their heads up.

Think we could rent her out to golf courses etc as a mole catcher!!!

Sandy · « **Reply #1 on:** May 13, 2011, 10:25:48 pm »

Maybe you could but I bet she would not perform for them or you, cats are so independant. Something very sweet about Moles!! not in nice lawns though

doganjo · « **Reply #2 on:** May 13, 2011, 10:30:00 pm »

Quote from: Sandy on May 13, 2011, 10:25:48 pm

Maybe you could but I bet she would not perform for them or you, cats are so independant. Something very sweet about Moles!! not in nice lawns though

Nothing sweet about their teeth though. Oen of my dogs caught one and it turned itself round and bit his lip and hung onto it - till his mate hearing his screams flew from the other side of the field and crunched it - dead!

helskitchen · « **Reply #3 on:** May 13, 2011, 10:49:01 pm »

Quote from: doganjo on May 13, 2011, 10:30:00 pm

Quote from: Sandy on May 13, 2011, 10:25:48 pm
Maybe you could but I bet she would not perform for them or you, cats are so independant. Something very sweet about Moles!! not in nice lawns though
Nothing sweet about their teeth though. Oen of my dogs caught one and it turned itself round and bit his lip and hung onto it - till his mate hearing his screams flew from the other side of the field and crunched it - dead!

Havent seen a mole up close before she got this latest fad - they have HUGE teeth for such a little creature!! They were bigger than I thought too. She somehow manages to kill things without leaving a single mark on them

Sandy · « **Reply #4 on:** May 13, 2011, 11:11:00 pm »

You can save them up and skin them to make some mole skin trousers!!!!!

Fleecewife · « **Reply #5 on:** May 14, 2011, 12:16:53 am »

I tried that - had lots of little skins all laid out salting, but they kept disappearing. Eventually we realised that an enterprising rat was taking them to line her nest

Now the terriers have caught all the rats so that's not a problem but they have also caught most of the moles. We used to have a huge dog who was wonderful as a mole catcher - she would wait patiently for ages, with one foot up, then suddenly do a huge polar bear leap onto the mole just as it popped its head up. The terriers now try the same trick but they don't have the patience. As for the cat - no chance, she's far too busy taunting the swallows.
It would be wonderfful if you could catch your super-puss on camera catching a mole

wildgeese · « **Reply #6 on:** May 14, 2011, 03:29:41 am »

At one time I had three cats one of whom - but no-body was admitting who - caught a mole, decided it wasn't what they wanted and let it go in my bedroom in the early hours of the morning. I was woken by the sound of it zooming round the skirtingboard and trying to bury itself in the wooden flooring. I wondered what on earth it could be; it sounded a whole lot bigger than it was. The cats refused to catch it and sat on the bed watching me, in a state of undress, on all fours stalking the poor creature.

I have actually held one before now (rescued it from the road) - this was before I realised they could bite! I wasn't bitten but neither could I hold onto it; the strength in their front paws is amazing; they prise open your fingers and slide through; you might as well try to get a grip on water.

robert waddell · « **Reply #7 on:** May 14, 2011, 09:34:08 am »

moles a very interesting subject
the mole skin trousers are a material(i am sure )my mother had a mole skin coat (dressed) and you could see the joints betwean the skins in this stupid day and age i would not recommend anyone to even think of using an animal pelt to wear
it is fascinating to watch a mole escape into the ground even with clay (hard dry and compacted)they will burrow there way in
maybe i am just lucky in the amount of moles that i have caught and demonstated to my children and work mates

Fleecewife · « **Reply #8 on:** May 14, 2011, 06:22:45 pm »

Hi Robert. I think sheepskin is still politically correct as clothing, also maybe rabbit so moles will be fine. It's animals which are killed solely for their pelt which it is now unacceptable to wear, especially the endangered ones. Yes, modern 'moleskin' as found in Barbour jacket pockets, is just a look-alike fabric - very disappointing

Sandy · « **Reply #9 on:** May 14, 2011, 07:30:23 pm »

Blimey, you would need a hell of a lot of moles to put me in a nice coat!!!!!!!!!!!!

robert waddell · « **Reply #10 on:** May 14, 2011, 07:53:42 pm »

now don't anybody misconstrue this but my mother was slim i mean slim and there was one hell of a lot of skins in her coat(full length)

princesspiggy · « **Reply #11 on:** May 14, 2011, 07:57:17 pm »

my kids were burying a mole today that the cat had got.

jaykay · « **Reply #12 on:** May 14, 2011, 08:22:19 pm »

Wildgeese, what a great image

One morning our neighbour stopped by for a chat, having been mole hunting. As we chatted, one of the cats came by, a mole in her mouth. He was really impressed - until he realised she'd pinched one from the bucket of dead moles on his quad bike