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Hunting is what I like best but as an indoor-only cat I don't have many chances. I have been unable to purrsuade my human to supply living mice for me.
She just won't. She used to keep them as pets, and she thinks mice are rather nice.
Instead she plays games with me using a fishing rod toy. Now this is OK, but a fishing rod toy is not a mouse. And when I catch it, there is nothing to kill.
She tried lazer lights too. I quite liked these but I found them even more frustrating than the fishing rod toy. With the toy I could grab it and rake it with my back legs even if I couldn't give the kill bite. But with a lazer there was nothing to grab.
And besides, she never gives me enough play time.d
So I I decided it would have to be flies. Bluebottles, ordinary house flies, are best. They are big enough to see properly and when you catch them they are crunchy.
You can still enjoy being a serial killer, even if your victims are just small insects.
Wasps, those insects that are yellow and stripey, are a mistake. A big mistake. Bite a wasp and you find yourself in the vet's surgery.
Do you have a balcony? I managed (to my humans' total surprise) to catch a baby bird that I ate before they could say anything, and last week I caught a cicada as well (I ate it too)—all on a netted balcony! You are right, playing with a fish pole toy or laser is not the same as catching alive little creatures! But my humans try to keep me entertained with toys too!
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