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About one day or so a week, I wake up and find one of the cat's toy mice floating in their water dish. I know who it is, it is Daisy, our little Calico kitty. She, for whatever reason, known only to her, thinks she is drowning a mouse and saving the house ! No other toy gets drowned , just mice.
Every so often, she also brings in a lizard from the lanai (usually one she has killed) and lays it at my feet while I am on the computer. She gets a disappointed look on her face when I pick it up with some tissue and flush it down the toilet. The other two cats never do any of that, she is the only one.
Cats are just nuts ! Do any of yours do similar things ?
Oh, I also find toys in my shoes when I am getting ready to go to work !
My cats have always left rubber bands and hair ties at or in the water dish.
I've never given my cats toy mice or birds because at times they have grown up with rats and parrots.
The only feathers they are exposed to are when my little weirdos decide to fly around the room or land on the floor acting like they don't stand a chance of being eaten.
One of mine - Giles - also has a favourite toy mouse that he is completely obsessed with. I keep having to replace it (I bulk-buy the mouse when I order the cat food). When he's not playing with it, he usually stores it in either his food dish or the water dish The problem with the water dish is that the mouse has a battery inside which makes it squeak and the eyes flash up red... The mouse gets wet, the battery then malfunctions and the damn mouse won't stop squeaking until I cut open the fabric, take the plastic shell out, open it with a screwdriver and cut the wires to the battery inside. A couple of weeks ago I almost had a heart attack when I was woken in the middle of the night with red eyes flashing in my face and loads of squeaking, because Giles thought it would be a good idea to bring the soaking wet mouse into my bed
Toys in shoes - yup. Something about our shoes must remind cats of holes in the ground.
I had a cat who hunted socks and chewed them up). He would run around the house with a sock dangling between his front legs and under his belly, exactly the way a big cat drags dead prey. If a sock drawer were left open even an inch, he would use his paw to hook out a sock.
One of mine - Giles - also has a favourite toy mouse that he is completely obsessed with. I keep having to replace it (I bulk-buy the mouse when I order the cat food). When he's not playing with it, he usually stores it in either his food dish or the water dish The problem with the water dish is that the mouse has a battery inside which makes it squeak and the eyes flash up red... The mouse gets wet, the battery then malfunctions and the damn mouse won't stop squeaking until I cut open the fabric, take the plastic shell out, open it with a screwdriver and cut the wires to the battery inside. A couple of weeks ago I almost had a heart attack when I was woken in the middle of the night with red eyes flashing in my face and loads of squeaking, because Giles thought it would be a good idea to bring the soaking wet mouse into my bed
Haha, that is really funny about the battery powered mouse. We had the same thing happen. Daisy evidently drown the one we had that squeaked when you squeeze it, and when it got wet the circuitry shorted out. We kept hearing this low pitched squeaking coming from somewhere, and my son finally found it and disabled the battery.
Today, I found the one I had fished out of their water dish, and that I had put on the counter to dry, in the kitchen sink. She had it half way into the garbage disposal opening. Guess she was going to kill it once and for all !
A couple of weeks ago I almost had a heart attack when I was woken in the middle of the night with red eyes flashing in my face and loads of squeaking, because Giles thought it would be a good idea to bring the soaking wet mouse into my bed
LOL OMG, that's so funny!!!
I have a squeaky mouse for my two cats and almost every morning I wake up to it near my face in bed. And although I always expect it to be there, it still startles me when I open my eyes. They make these toys so life like! I don't have the one with red eyes flashing but I know that'll surely push me over the edge. Literally. I'd be falling off the side of my bed!
One of my cats has really good hunter instincts but thankfully nothing lands in my shoes or water dish.
Wee Cailleach is our playing flinger and she will drown anything in the water bowl.
Snoozy Suze Quze is our runner through our home and she does her best to drink around the latest drowning victim in the water bowl.
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No other toy gets drowned , just mice.
The problem with the water dish is that the mouse has a battery inside which makes it squeak and the eyes flash up red... The mouse gets wet, the battery then malfunctions and the damn mouse won't stop squeaking until I cut open the fabric, take the plastic shell out, open it with a screwdriver and cut the wires to the battery inside. A couple of weeks ago I almost had a heart attack when I was woken in the middle of the night with red eyes flashing in my face and loads of squeaking, because Giles thought it would be a good idea to bring the soaking wet mouse into my bed 
