Just in case you miss the subject line, don’t click the cut text below if you have an aversion to viewing dead, drowned and dissected birds and mammals. Telstar has been on an absolute rampage recently and he seems to want to drag everything home and share it with us. Some of the horrors may hold a macabre amusement for those of you who have lived with cats for a long time, so I’m sharing them on this fine Caturday.

Yep, that’s a drowned mouse in a toilet. Thank you, cat.

And this is a pair of dead robins in the front hallway. One is decapitated. The other is intact. The perpetrator can be seen lurking in the background.


The pièce de résistance. Half of a squirrel, its paws, its face, and its liver artistically arranged on the landing. I have no idea how he got it to appear as if the front half of the squirrel had teleported through the floor.

Look at that face. Butter wouldn't melt!

Yep, that’s a drowned mouse in a toilet. Thank you, cat.

And this is a pair of dead robins in the front hallway. One is decapitated. The other is intact. The perpetrator can be seen lurking in the background.


The pièce de résistance. Half of a squirrel, its paws, its face, and its liver artistically arranged on the landing. I have no idea how he got it to appear as if the front half of the squirrel had teleported through the floor.

Look at that face. Butter wouldn't melt!
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Awesome Flatmate L: "I'm not very squeamish about most things."
Me: "I thought so, but I didn't want to show you a dead squirrel and have you be like, 'Why are you showing me a dead squirrel?' in a sad way."
Me: *turns laptop screen for L to see*
L: "Why are you showing me a d-- Oh. I see."
Me: "Portal squirrel?"
L: "Portal squirrel."
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...I still don't understand how he got the tail to do that. It looks premeditated. Most alarming.
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I am forever grateful that Kheldar chose to bring his first kill (a pigeon) into the house during the day, while everyone was at home. Apparently our reaction to that was so traumatic (attempt to rescue the pigeon and when that failed chase Kheldar out of the house with his prize and then chase Shadow out of the house with the same damn pigeon) that both of the cats decided to keep the results of their hunting prowess in the garden from then on. This does mean coming across dismembered frogs while trying to do the weeding but it's a lot less mess out there than it would be indoors.
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I will say that Telstar deserves good marks for artistic presentation.
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The squirrel almost looks premeditated. I found it that disturbing.
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I had to buy one.
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I got so used to finding intact rats that I was actually relieved when Jaz started to eat most of them.
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*Not fondly.
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