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was well fed but brought a bird indoors with him once. He plunked the bird's body down behind a chair. I called out for my husband to pick up the bird to throw it away. He was tall enough to reach over the chair and grab it. I was busy holding the cat back from eating it.
When my husband touched the bird, it fluttered and flew up to the ceiling! It was either wisely playing dead until then, or had been too traumatized to move.
So the bird flew around the living room with my husband and me chasing behind it and the cat running along with us. I closed the cat up in the bathroom and grabbed a broom while my husband grabbed a folded newspaper to try to guide the bird toward the kitchen door exit that I had propped open.
Eventually, the bird went out the door and flew away, leaving a few downy feathers behind, but no bird droppings, fortunately.
One other time, that same cat dropped a headless mole on our doorstep. I discovered it when I went out to pick up the newspaper and stepped on the mole in my bare feet.
After that ,Alex became an exclusively indoor cat.
So ,well fed cats will hunt, out of instinct, even if not hungry. I guess I'm just hoping that they will do it less often when not hungry.
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