My Cat the bug hunter

[skullking]

This is just a short story about my cat. He loves to hunt bugs. If some thing flys or crawls by hes gonna go after it and try to kill it and then eat. Well one night I had just come inside after catching some Isopods (Roly Polys, Pill Bugs, Potato Bugs etc...) from my front porch. Well my cat came over to see what all the fuss was about so I picked up one of the bigger ones and placed it on the ground. He right away went into bug hunt mode and sniffed at it. He must of tried to just bite into it right away or something because the Roly Poly crawled on to my cats chin and held on for dear life. My cats just working his jaw biting thing air being super confused. After a few moments I saved the Roly Poly and but im back into the container with the rest of his buddies and my cat went back to tacking a nap. Just a short story but it brought a smile to my face and I hope you get a laugh out of it. Feel free to share any stories of yours that involve your larger pets interacting with your inverts

 

[pitbulllady]

My larger pets do not interact with my inverts at all, because I want to keep all of my inverts. I don't expose my T's, scorps, and true spiders to cats, dogs, snakes, etc. My cat has little prey drive, and has never done anything other than sit and watch when an insect or spider happened to crawl across the floor. My inside dog, a French Bulldog, has even less interest. My outside dogs, a Carolina Dog(Dingo)and a 16-year-old Catahoula, will kill anything they can get their mouths on that isn't a human, regardless of the number of legs it has. So, in two cases, there would be no interaction, and in the other two, I'd be quickly minus an invertebrate pet. My cat will never, ever set foot outdoors as long as I'm alive to prevent that, so I will not find out how he'd react to outdoor inverts, since he has no business interacting with those in either a predator or parasite host role.

pitbulllady

 

[PrettyHate]

My lovebird is allowed to roam my room more or less freely when I am around to supervise her. Her cage is right next to my leopard geckos, so sometimes she jumps up onto the screen lid- my geckos seem to be attracted to her movement on top of the cage and will often all stalk after her. It is pretty funny

 

[CaterpillarArts]

My cat has little prey drive, and has never done anything other than sit and watch when an insect or spider happened to crawl across the floor.
pitbulllady

LOL, this. Although, in addition to having very little prey drive, mine just spooks when bugs/spiders run across the floor. None of my furry critters are allowed in the back room where I keep my fish and inverts, I'm not willing to take the chance of either party getting hurt.

 

[Galapoheros]

I let the neighbor's cat in now and then. I raise crickets, it runs to the bug room door and makes noise when it wants a cricket to mess with. I'll say, "wanna cricket" and it knows that sound means it's getting a cricket. They can learn what verbal "sounds" mean but it sure takes longer for cats than for dogs, ime.

 

[wesker12]

My lovebird is allowed to roam my room more or less freely when I am around to supervise her. Her cage is right next to my leopard geckos, so sometimes she jumps up onto the screen lid- my geckos seem to be attracted to her movement on top of the cage and will often all stalk after her. It is pretty funny

Dude! I gotta lovebird too, so much personality and intelligence in a tiny package haha - she flies on top of my gravid A.metallicas cage sometimes but i'm trying to get her to not make that a habit or place she can sit.