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My cat was scuffling at a bag of potato chips and I went over and moved some things out of the way thinking she was after a cockroach.

I get back to the study and I hear *pitterpitterpitterpitter* and a very determined cat leaping after the prey.

It was the pitterpitter that gave it away. Cockroaches sound like crumpled paper at best, this thing had losta legs!

Prey = one very fluffy escapee crab.


With fish, she couldn't care less, but critters she'll chase for hours! Kinda sad cause its the critters that I'm most attached to!


Anyone else have a household hunter?





For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. - Terry Pratchett

"Prey = one very fluffy escapee crab."



Can crabs actually be fluffy? And escapee means he escaped from your tank?

We have two household hunters (cats), cause the mice came in this winter. The siamese waits for hrs. at night for her intended prey to come out. When it does, she usually nabs it. The calico isn't as patient. She has to actually see movement before she is spurred into the hunt mode.

I get amused when they hunt their "invisible" prey. One will come tearing into the living room clawing at a certain place in the carpet in an attempt to capture this invisible prey. Then they chase it onto a chair or the couch still trying to grab it. At this point, they usually roll over on their back, glaring at us & meow, as if to say," Well, aren't you going to help me out here?"

That's our cue to find & toss them a cat toy, which they quickly kill. Then they sometimes lay there waiting for another victim. Other times, after their quick kill, they are racing to the other room as if they should have been there yesterday!

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Mine have been hunting ladybugs and flys. Its pretty funny watching them try and figure out how to get to the ceiling. I doubt they would know what a mouse was if they tripped over it.

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I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
~ Mae West

I have four inside cats and they all are just lazy. Lay around all day do nothing except demand lovin'. Now Jerry the Outside Cat I saved as a kitten from a pack of dogs, if it moves he's after it. The neighbors all love him and pay him for his skills. He kills any mice or rats Cuban lizards. I've even seen him jump on the back of very large bird and fly up into the air about 8 to 10 feet before letting go. I was trying to take a picture but i missed the shot. I know I could have sold it.

Djrichie
"Don't Panic"

Djrichie
"So Long, and Thanks For All The Fish" Douglas Adams

Vegemite likes to chase flies and mosquitos, which she usually catches. She's caught one gecko although she's not really gone after them since the first one, also an avid hunter of humans, does quite well against paper balls or anything that crinkles.

She'll drink from the top of my tank, and the office tank, but after the first few days with us she hasn't given the tank a second glance.

From my two grays, Zelda wouldn't chase much anything except the mardi gras beads, Nadia would pounce on the pond but ignore the tank. She was also quite a paper ball chaser.

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It was an escapee from one of my tanks, it just kind of gathered a lot of lint before I found it

For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. - Terry Pratchett

Lol.. poor crab!

im down to a cockateil these days but he thoroughly enjoys watching my electric yellows from the cabinet edge, knocking his beak on the glass every now and again to try and catch one swimming past... he did take a swim in my 20g once trying to have a drink of fish water!

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Truth doesn't always win friends but it influences them

My Beagle will catch and eat birds if they get close enough to the ground or get stuck on the enclosed porch. Its a traumatizing event when he catches one....well for me and the bird.

*Kristin*

My dog brought Danielle and I a gift... a mole! Well... most of a mole... minus the head... which was nearby...

1 mole down.... 9,999 more to go

Don't know about fluffy crabs, but there's a hairy crab in existence ... this critter, which goes by the scientific name of Kiwa hirsuta.




Panda Catfish fan and keeper/breeder since Christmas 2002

Leave it to you to know of a "fluffy" crab if there was one in existence Cali.

I thought it was really pretty though, especially for a crab.

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i had a dog growing up that would chase and very rarely (once) caught them. then she had no idea what to do with them. and when she wasnt doing that, she'd chase down and bite on bottle rockets or any kind fire works

Fish tanks are an expensive addiction