There are two types of domestic house cats. Those that eat the head and those that eat everything but the head. amirite?

Mine just killed and ate nothing. Not sure if she beat them to death or what, but they were fully intact with no blood/bite marks.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

They usually grab the head with their front paws and ferociously kick with their back legs to break the neck of their prey :)

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I think the distance between cat fangs allows them to break the rodent's neck in one bite.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I grew up with a head eater. Fortunately, it only happened once. It was shocking to see a headless mouse in the middle of the basement floor.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Oh. Huh. Here I was thinking that OP was talking about the derpy cats who like to gnaw on their owners' body parts. I have one who like to cuddle my head when I'm laying down and just chew on my hair or scalp for some reason.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

My 11yo occasionally licks the hair on my head. I love them knowing they'd eat my face if I die and not discovered for a few weeks.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

We have a head eater now. Some years ago we had a weird one. She brought home a live sugar glider, left a headless rabbit in our daughter's bedroom, and an eyeball and a jaw left in the grass by the backdoor. It looked like the ground was smiling and winking at us. Also, lots of mice, voles, and bat parts were strewn about over the years. She brought home a half a rack of smoked ribs once. Strange cat.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Presents! She must love you!

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I had one growing up that liked to leave presents on your pillow in the night. Woke up more than once face-to-face with a glassy-eyed mouse corpse.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Opposite for me. Stepped on a mouse head on the carpet today :(

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Just be glad it wasn't baby bunnys. My cat would eat the head and bring the rest home for me.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

There's a third. One that's terrified of anything with a head

by Anonymous 1 year ago

or fourth: indifferent princess that expects YOU to kill the mouse

by Anonymous 1 year ago

You are the larger one, so the onus is on you.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Definitely had a cat that ate everything but the head and guts. Those were not pretty sights and I grew up in the country so this cat was catching 3-4 rodents a day and leaving us "presents" on the back porch constantly.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Ours just leaves guts. Nothin nicer than nearly stepping in a pile of mouse entrails of a morning.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Had a cat that ate the head, but also posed the body to present it to my mom. She'd always find these headless mice propped up neatly next to her shoes in the morning. Sitting up like it was begging... great cat, absolutely a sadistic serial killer though.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Mine eats the whole mouse in one gulp. She was born feral- never wastes a kill!

by Anonymous 1 year ago

We used to have a cat that would leave just the eyeballs and assholes. Cats are so strange

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I had a cat that would leave the head and the butt, eat everything in between.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Our cats generally left us squirrel tails or tail feathers.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

We don't have rats or mice but there's a pile of cockroach legs on the floor every now and then.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Mine just rips them in half and leaves them on the floor without eating even a little bit

by Anonymous 1 year ago

My cat of 8+ years has never killed anything. We don't have bugs in the house and she never goes outside.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Mine doesn't either, she watches spiders and bats at them but that's it.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

My cat goes outside, but never hunts anything to my knowledge. She goes into predator stance when she sees a bee flying past her, but that's pretty much it. Her brother, who passed away in December, was the same. Never hunted anything, just rolled around in the flower bed, lay in the sun and followed me around the yard. The only creatures that have ever fallen victim to either of them were spiders and such. Guess they are just as lazy about exercise as I am lol.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Watch your back, that cat is a 48 year old

by Anonymous 1 year ago

My girl mostly watches and meows for me or my husband to come look. She caught something for the first time recently and came into our living room to show it off. She tried to meow for attention around a squirming lizard in her mouth like *Look! Aren't you proud of kitty?!* (We rescued the little guy, and kitty went back to watching for bugs.)

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Mine won't leave a mark or eat them… she just scares them to death:/

by Anonymous 1 year ago

My fluffy himbo eats the front half and just leaves asses sitting up on the kitchen floor like bizarre tombstones.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

my dad hated cats... we had a cat show up in the middle of the night one night, dad went and cut up a hot dog and gave it to her... the next morning, we had 3 mouse butts laying on our sidewalk... that was pretty cool

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I had a cat that ate the legs a few years ago. Nothing else. Just the legs. Liked the crunch, I guess. He ended up escaping the house through a broken window screen when nobody was home and I haven't seen him since. I miss Finn.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

There is a third type, often where the owner claims their cat doesn't hunt. (The cat eats the whole thing in this case.)

by Anonymous 1 year ago

A street cat adopted me. All I would find is a beak, feet, and feathers when I found his kill.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

One of mine ate the whole mouse, tail and all - I have a video

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Strangely, my cat eats mice like chicken wings. Just strips the meat and leaves the paws and head.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

My cat doesn't eat a dang thing from a dead rat. She brings it to me and I give her the "go ahead". Her record is 4 seconds

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Headless squirrels under the couch every month, could've made a necklace or something

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Mine would switch between eating heads and bodies. Or sometimes leave a liver and a left leg. Or just a head. Or a tail and a kidney. I guess he had whims.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

my cat throws mice in the air and then catches them with a bite in the neck, then she brings it home as a present

by Anonymous 1 year ago

My sister's cat, Ghost made the hallway look like a murder scene once. My cat, Zelda brings mice to the bathtub and just plays with it.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

An old lady I used to work for had an outside cat and I have her on video just chowing down on a whole mouse

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I saw my cat eat a mouse head first and then devoured the whole thing after. Not even a tail left.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Mine eats everything but one of the organs - if i had to guess, i would say its the liver?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

My boy Tiger always started at the butt and left the head. He was a great cat, but a little light in the smarts department.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

It seems my friends is the kind that just eats the head (the latest kill being that of a decently sized common rat snake) they even took a picture lol

by Anonymous 1 year ago

You forgot the third type: the one that doesn't eat anything and befriends everyone

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Mine eat everything except some of the organs. Never again will I walk outside barefoot

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Our cats used too catch rabbits and eat everything except for the paws, skin and digestive tract - which they would leave at the back door.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

My mom's cats eat everything and like to leave a little blood stain on the floor, even the small kittens would go to town on whatever mouse mama caught for them

by Anonymous 1 year ago

My first cat caught a lizard and ate it, head an all. She was puking a black nasty vomit for a while and never again ate the head of the lizards.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Mine sometimes eat the head, sometimes everything but the head, sometimes everything but the gall bladder. It depends on the type of rodent, I suppose. We have several different kinds. So no, it's not necessarily the type of cat.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I had a cat that could have been a surgeon. He'd catch a bird and I'd find a few feathers and the stomach and kidneys neatly dissected out and nothing else.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

he would always start with the head, that first <<CRACK>> was hard to listen to, but you know, at the end there was no blood, no feathers, no nothing

by Anonymous 1 year ago

It may be that I have two cats, and so one does one and the other cat does the other... But I find that birds are without heads Mice are without bodies. It may be that one of my cats prefers mice and the other prefers birds. Birds get brought underneath our bed.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

We had mice in the house when we first moved in, our cat literally found them one by one and ripped their heads off, it was a complete bloodbath! Had to find a body for each head 😂

by Anonymous 1 year ago

And I have a Woggles who caught a mouse earlier this week and just carried it around, let it go, caught it again, and moved to another room. I had to catch the mouse and dump it outside.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Neighbour cat used catch rats. Would leave presents in our backyard. Often just the snout (not the whole head), paws (but rarely all four) and selected organs of which the liver was the most common (or perhaps just the most recognisable). Good times

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I have a third type. Those that eat the entire body and head by swallowing it like a snake and don't eat the tail... don't ever try to take a cats kill.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

My little murder machine would leave me the guts from birds in the middle of my living room. Great thing to wake up to. (my own stupid idea to add a pet door to the yard.) She eats the whole lizard though. The other somehow finds a grass snake in my garage so bring it inside to play with.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

My 21-pound giant black house panther leaves us just the liver of the mouse regularly. "Here, human, the best part just for you!"

by Anonymous 1 year ago

We came home to half a bird once. Three years later, still never found the head. I really hope he did eat it.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Nah, there are at least three other types. My cat "plays" with things until they die and then walks off in disgust. My dad's male cat used to* kill something and then eat every bit except some tiny unidentifiable bit of innards. My dad's female cat "collects" animals - brings them into the house but does not kill them, just lets them loose to terrorise the humans! * he died a few years ago

by Anonymous 1 year ago

My one old girl will eat everything but then leave the tail attached to a little piece of the butt. I guess she don't eat ass?

by Anonymous 1 year ago