Topic: shriek!! (Read 2434 times)

Millys Mum · « **Reply #19 on:** April 23, 2008, 20:28:52 PM »

This evening i got a rotting bird corpse complete with hanging entrails and ants

For a moment i thought Taz had finally managed to catch himself something but nope he had found somebody elses unwanted kills

Iv asked him to stick to chips and bread

berties mum · « **Reply #18 on:** April 22, 2008, 21:46:30 PM »

Susanne (urbantigers) · « **Reply #17 on:** April 22, 2008, 17:43:42 PM »

I'm so glad my lads are indoor cats!!

blackcat · « **Reply #16 on:** April 22, 2008, 17:40:31 PM »

ESther is very gentle with her prey until she has presented it to me. Then she goes into full-on killer mode. I assume is a habit she acquired as a stray with kittens ...

alisonandarchie · « **Reply #15 on:** April 22, 2008, 16:35:40 PM »

I have always wanted to see a slow worm

BC Esther must be very gentle not to harm it.

Sam (Fussy_Furball) · « **Reply #14 on:** April 22, 2008, 10:24:27 AM »

If we had slow worms I can guarantee Zephyr would bring them home for me. He loves earthworms and I have to take them off him and go and put them in the garden under a large upturned terracotta plant pot otherwise he follows me out and recaptures them

CurlyCatz · « **Reply #13 on:** April 22, 2008, 06:47:38 AM »

ROFL Jo

there is a lady who owns a laperm down in england somewhere ( and a lab

) and her permie gets out into garden and takes these slow worms in, last year she first brought it home and the lady put it out only to find it back in her house again a short while later (dead) this happened 2 more times when she thought enough was enough and shut her permie in doors so she couldnt see where her owner was putting this now very tattered specimen and she lobbed it down over her garden fence.
The next day guess what...yep she almost trod on it in her hall way

Baggy · « **Reply #12 on:** April 21, 2008, 23:11:20 PM »

Saw my neighbour's siamese cat yesterday, crossing our lawn with what looked suspiciously like a slow worm dangling from its mouth. I imagined the screams as he appeared through their cat flap!

Gillian Harvey · « **Reply #11 on:** April 21, 2008, 23:03:45 PM »

Quote from: Den on April 21, 2008, 21:14:00 PM

Slow worms are lovely. Sadly though they are getting rare.

I feel quite honoured then, I usually have several sleeping in my compost heap!

blackcat · « **Reply #10 on:** April 21, 2008, 21:23:01 PM »

since you all tell me it is rare, i have filed a report with RAUK so that they have the record ...

Den · « **Reply #9 on:** April 21, 2008, 21:19:56 PM »

Quote from: blackcat on April 21, 2008, 21:16:23 PM

well this one should live to a ripe old age as Esther had not injured it at all, clever girl

She is a very good girl, as they are a protected species. Poor you having the shock of your life

blackcat · « **Reply #8 on:** April 21, 2008, 21:16:23 PM »

well this one should live to a ripe old age as Esther had not injured it at all, clever girl

Den · « **Reply #7 on:** April 21, 2008, 21:14:00 PM »

Slow worms are lovely. Sadly though they are getting rare.

Sam (Fussy_Furball) · « **Reply #6 on:** April 21, 2008, 21:13:54 PM »

Ahh you're safe here BC we only have one native snake and that's the adder (they are very common in areas with lots of bracken ... but the chances of actually seeing are VERY remote). http://www.wildlifebritain.com/theadder.php

blackcat · « **Reply #5 on:** April 21, 2008, 21:10:17 PM »

well, strictly speaking the neighbours have it now

but yes, an interesting creature, and not something I had met previously. My problem is that growing up in Tasmania, if it looked like a snake it was a snake and what is more it was a venemous snake so I do tend to err on the side of caution. But this one looked so sluggish I just picked it up behind its head and dropped it over the wall ... I was feeling quite brave,

Sam (Fussy_Furball) · « **Reply #4 on:** April 21, 2008, 21:06:34 PM »

you're very lucky to have a slow worm ... they are totally harmless, shy and sweet little creatures (ickle legless lizards .... NO that is not the same as pi$$ed newt

)

blackcat · « **Reply #3 on:** April 21, 2008, 21:02:54 PM »

phew, yes, that is it I think, although mine had a slightly pointier head (not so thick top through to bottom), but that is possibly just a regional variation ...

Sam (Fussy_Furball) · « **Reply #2 on:** April 21, 2008, 20:58:43 PM »

oooh sounds like a slow worm: http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/281.shtml

blackcat · « **Reply #1 on:** April 21, 2008, 20:55:08 PM »

Esther has just come in giving her usual 'I have caught some savage prey' noise, that usually presages the arrival of a savage autum leaf or similar. She rushed into the pantry and dropped what looked like a cat collar until I turned on the light. What is was, I have no idea, but is looked like a stubby muscular snake. About the size of a cat collar lengthwise, it had scales and a white mark around its mouth. Very muscular and quite sluggish in its movements (fortunately). It is now in the next door's garden (they are not living there I hasten to add) and Esther safely inside. Please tell me this was a slow-worm and not an adder!!! I have no idea what either of them look like

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