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My 8-ish-year-old cat, Mean Kitty, is a slug. She doesn't play with toys, doesn't respond to catnip, hates other animals, won't let anyone hold her. She's never in a hurry to get anywhere, ever. She only likes to go out on the lanai and lay by the pool in the sun, or sleep in a secret tent where nobody can see her.
Today I let her out on the lanai and she immediately raced over to the corner and grabbed a lizard. I haven't seen her move that fast in years. In her younger days she would catch a lizard and hold it in her mouth, walk up to the door and meow to get our attention (and the lizard would fall out and run off, and she'd start over again). Then she'd torture it and leave its carcass by the door.
This time after she caught the lizard, she ate it. SHE ATE THE WHOLE THING, ALIVE, IN TWO GULPS WITH ITS LEGS KICKING AND EVERYTHING. Right in front of me.
These are normal run-of-the-mill brown lizards (I'm in FL), non-poisonous. But should I be concerned that she isn't getting enough to eat? Or should I just be glad that she's finally having a good time and not sulking around the house all day? (;
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"You didn't see nothin'."
Today I let her out on the lanai and she immediately raced over to the corner and grabbed a lizard. I haven't seen her move that fast in years. In her younger days she would catch a lizard and hold it in her mouth, walk up to the door and meow to get our attention (and the lizard would fall out and run off, and she'd start over again). Then she'd torture it and leave its carcass by the door.
This time after she caught the lizard, she ate it. SHE ATE THE WHOLE THING, ALIVE, IN TWO GULPS WITH ITS LEGS KICKING AND EVERYTHING. Right in front of me.
These are normal run-of-the-mill brown lizards (I'm in FL), non-poisonous. But should I be concerned that she isn't getting enough to eat? Or should I just be glad that she's finally having a good time and not sulking around the house all day? (;
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"You didn't see nothin'."