My indoor/outdoor cat Toby used to bring in many gifts of dead mice. Then he got older, and I moved to a place with a less interesting neighborhood, but more cats (and my car was afraid of them).
Although I know there are still mice and rats, Toby stopped bringing in mice. I started teasing him about it, with tone of voice and using familiar words that he might know like "mousie" and "Mighty Hunter".
He REALLY doesn't like being teased or taken lightly! And seemingly he does understand at least some words besides "dinnertime".
Anyway, a day or two after I started teasing him for no longer being the "Mighty Hunter", he brought in, for the first time ever, a BIG RAT. At least three times bigger than anything he ever dragged home before.
I guess that showed ME!
