DumbDuck44 the cat brings the animals to her owners so she is attempting to provide for her family not kill for pleasure. Btw stop using human morality to judge an animal. Its moronic. Animals have no sense of what is right or wrong.
Of course they kill for pleasure. We know this because when cats play, all their play behavior is mimicking the act of stalking and murdering prey. When a cat bits the head of a kickaroo, holding it with its front paws, and rapidly kicking with its back claws, that's how it would catch and disembowel prey that's about its size like a rabbit. Like you say, cats don't have morals, and that's not a moral judgement, its just a fact. Your cat loves to murder, and thinks about murder most of the day, and is imagining how fun it would be to murder something when you're waiving that fake bird toy or mouse toy in front of it.
Cats are one of nature's best killing machines but because they are small and furry we keep them in our homes and give them ridiculous names like Sandwich 😂
ik same with dogs lol papi puff and princes but cats hunt also because there ancestors were actually wild and from Africa and you know what they say when the sun rises in Africa you better be running
+Kerryn Davenport It's not mimicking the birds it's just frustrated it can't get them. If the cat reacts to laser pointer just shine the spot on the ceiling and they will do the same thing. It's called chattering.
Once my two brothers tried to catch a mice in their room for hours and hours but never can never catch it. Our cat saw what they were doing but terrified as they were hitting the floor around with sticks. The next morning we found a dead mouse in front of the door. Seemed like he's saying, take this, idiots.
They don't always hunt for food. A lot of the time they're just practising or bored. So even if you feed the cat it will still hunt for those reasons. Tbf if you were a cat how would you spend the time when everyone else's asleep? It's not like they have jobs.
They don’t “mock” their pray. This “playing” with their prey is needed to release a certain amount of hormones to strengthen the mouth-muscles. Without this release they can’t bite hard enough to kill their food. This evolutionary biological development prevents cats from becoming cannibals - little kittens are same size as mice and scream very loud, if someone grab them. Loud enough to call mama back in time and because cats can’t bite without that hormone release, the next generation is save.
Different cats have different hunting styles. One of our cats is 18 years old and his senses are very limited. His technique is quite impressive. First he observes the hunting area and every single movement, sometimes for days. Then he chooses one spot at which he remains without any movement - almost blind and deaf he simply hits everything that moves in range.
The trait of being a predator is somewhat lost in some cats. I've had MANY cats throughout my life and some of them are exceptional hunters, but some of them don't even bother. Two factors that I have noticed play a role: - A cat raised with brother/sister cats (even better the mother since they learn from her) are most likely to become agile and sharpened because they train their instincts by playing - Also I've seen an increased hunting activity on females while they are raising kittens. As if they're trying to teach the younglings how to hunt.
My tom cat has brought back birds and eaten them whole in front of me before i could stop him he has no siblings just us two i heard females hunt more but he seems to like it
Sandwich and her kind are deceptively powerful for their size- my childhood cat was only 10 lbs and would happily bring home 4 ft long black snakes in addition to the various squirrels, voles, rabbits, birds, mice, and lizards she’d catch. There have even been a few incidents with raccoons where they’ve come off worse than she has - and that was in an area where they’re at least double her weight. (She’s an indoor cat now due to advancing age and environmental concerns.)
"But they don't need her hunting skills anymore"...correction...if she stopped hunting, you would have a mouse problem again. Mouse population problems are not 'resolved', they're maintained. You didn't have enough local predators to keep their numbers down...now you do. Remove the predator and the mouse population will spike again.
@wantafanta01 and is that something to be concerned ? A certain bird died due Cats hunting them? Cats kill bird because they are animal with instinct , human has Human right But Cat don't know about Animal Right so Cats and other animals using Jungle law to eat or be eaten , remember the black plague that the result of Europefolk killing the cats because they though it a witch familiar? And then made the rats population overload and then the plague manifest inside the rats . Human do more sh*t than Cats , and human also do Bird hunt using Bolt or Hunting Rifle . Human is terrible animal ever alive
Can i get 1000 Subcriber For Free? Lab No, cats DECIMATED, and made native bird species EXTINCT. In Australia cats have caused hundreds of kangaroo rat/mice/native rodent species EXTINCT. Every single one gone forever. Yes, cats maintain rodent population. But in many cases they overhunt and cause extinction.
@@autumn8920 animals have been going extinct all the time since forever. It's completely foolish and shows the hubris of humanity that we think we can or should maintain a complete status quo on the planet. We shouldn't be careless, but overly interfering is also bad, even if the change is something we caused. The animals will either adapt, or they won't. That's nature. That's how it's always been and always will be. You can't grind nature to a halt.
Mice have plenty of Other predators, you forget. And also, many cats are indoor cats in the first place, but how come the mouse population hasn’t been growing because of that? Cats aren’t truly important predators anymore. In Egypt long ago? Yeah they were. Now in America? Not so much.
They do it for fun. I had four cats a while back. All demanding food from me. All hunting like little maniacs. Our frontdoor looked like a god darn killing field at times. Birds, mices, hamsters, frogs, toads and one time our frontdoor was decorated with 2 dead rabbits.
Wait til you get live rabbits in the bedroom at night. I come home from work to be scared by one left in my bedroom, still alive that I didn't see in the dark. Then there was a live dove in the bathroom once. That scared me too. Because something moves in the dark and you don't expect it.
Like how carnivorous fireflies mimic the flash patterns of the harmless species, to lure in the males. Male firefly think's he's getting a hot date, when really, he's just a hot meal~
@@benjaminfarias9169My little sister left a window open and one of our cats got out. Later that day when we thought we lost him he came around the corner with 2 small mice in his mouth. He refused to come back in so we just left his food outside and he always knew to come back for it and he would come and visit us if we were in the backyard. He was a tough cat. He had big scars on him but always managed to come back home. He’s 10 years old right now still running like a champ.
thing is, there are no true feral cats, and u cant know who they are without getting to check their ear-tag. Looks like we got a moron on our hands ppl
My cat brought back a mouse while we were eating our Thanksgiving dinner. We were just assuming that he was showing us that he was thankful too. Also probably wanted gravy on top of his catch.
People here suggesting dogs lost their instinct. Dogs are pack hunters. They never had an instinct to go alone and hunt to begin with, but if you go hunting with them, they're all for it, same as if enough dogs get together.
My Labrador will walk up and eat a mouse and be dead calm the whole time. She also tried to hunt a mallard in our yard once. She has a bowl of food set up for grazing. Trust me, watch huskies, German shepherds, or shiba's. They love to kill things.
Dogs may be able to hunt, but a lot of times they will choose not to. Which is why you can have a dog and a cat in the same home. If he couldn't control his instincts he would quickly kill the cat.
I grew up in the country with my grandparents. We used to work on the corn, strip it by hand and move it around. The mice infesting it would run out and hide under the wooden planks. But we had our friend with us, this beautiful, spotted black and white cat named Fifi. And Fifi was an absolute destroyer. She hunted them down, killed dozens of mice a day. Nothing could escape her. I used to watch her catch birds who flew too low, snatch them out of the air. She was just on a mission every day. I loved her and she loved me so much too, every morning waking up to her licking my hair. It's been decades and I still think of you, my little lady.
Windsor is the hunter in our house. He brings back birds, voles, mice, the like, but he never eats what he catches. That's up to Pekoe, our younger cat. They make a great team: One commits the crime, and the other eats the evidence
I've forgotten what it's called but you should be able to find it on google, it's a documentary about cats and their movement patterns in a small town in England. Basically every cat owner in the town attached a camera/GPS to their cat and they tracked them all. Pretty cool.
Our cats get good food and plenty of treats, but still love to hunt. I do notice that they typically play with chipmunks and often lose interest after awhile. Unfortunately our dog shows no such mercy. I think they are choosy about whom they consume. I don't think they get as many birds as people fear. Beware a cat will jump to its death for bird. They almost cant help it.
You know, I've always found it funny how cats are so cowardly and timid, when they are brutal psychotic killers when they're out and about. They don't get to be *scaredy cats*, they are the scary ones.
Earth Linger There probably easily scared when inside because we are much bigger than them and if you have a dog too that just adds to it since most dog breeds are bigger than cats
Damn that gps map confirms why my old cat use to disappear for like 3 days sometimes. Just show up for food and off she went on that “business trip” of hers...
I have 5 cats and one of them is so gentle he couldn't even hurt a fly or a cockroach. One of them would not sleep without his milk and would wake you up when he's hungry or when he wants something. One of them would only go home when he wanted to sleep. One of them would not stop eating. Finally the older one, the calm one and the protective one. He would usually follow if you go outside in the midle of the night but he goes bezerk when he's hungry.
A cat owned by a friend who lives in the country brought home a crawdad once. Also a small snake. Both still alive. Mine, being in the city, gets rats, mice, and birds on occasion. A month ago we found mouse droppings in the dog treat drawer and all the dog treats missing with a nice hole gnawed through the beggan strips bag. I (jokingly) chastised the cat for not getting the mouse. Next evening? I hear his muffled "meof" at the back door and open it up. And he has a mouse in his mouth. Not quite dead. I had to kill it for him so it wouldn't suffer. But on the upside, no more mouse droppings have been found, even after leaving bait out.
My cat is hunting only to protect me from spiders, i protect him from birds so we have an understanding. Do we need to overanalyze this? you still know less than me john snow
+Zach Crawford Because they are very destructive to the ecosystem. Domestic and feral cats kill billions of birds in the US each year, and have caused the extinction of several species. They aren't wild animals, they're domestic, and it is unnatural to have so many of them going around killing things.
Thats kind of how evolution works. Species show up in a new area and wipe out or severely alter other species all the time. Cats are semi-domesticated. Except for the harshest of climates cats do not require humans to survive. It is in the core of their nature to hunt. If someone doesn't want a cat that hunts (and that perfectly fine) they shouldn't get a cat. They could get a rabbit, it is cute and furry like a cat and it doesn't hunt.
Evolution naturally involves very little movement of invasive species (like cats) between ecosystems; that's something that became much more common due to humans. It's so unnatural and destructive that we are currently considered to be in the sixth (and one of the worst) extinction event in the history of the earth. So again, the introduction of domestic cats to an ecosystem is destructive and unnatural. My point still stands. If you stop them from hunting, either by keeping them inside or equipping them with a leash or a bib or a bell, you can have a cat without contributing to their negative impact on the ecosystem.
That's a very disingenuous interpretation of what I said, and I have no idea where you got anything about cutting off body parts. If you don't value species diversity then I doubt I can convince you to, but there are economic and ecological consequences to reductions in diversity whether or not you think the species are worthy of existing or not. Anyway, you haven't really refuted anything I said before, so I don't have anything else to add to my previous comment.
***** I said in my last comment that " I am all for diversity of species". So I do value diversity, there is nothing there to convince me of. As for the removing of body parts, you said nothing of that. But a lot of people declaw their cats to prevent them from hunting or clawing people. I think preventing a cat from hunting is like preventing a person from solving problems. Both would protect the status quo of nature but would violate the nature of that animal. I have worked at an animal hospital and have lived with outdoor, indoor and everything in between cats. From my fair amount of experience, declawed cats get hurt by other animals and humans because they can't protect themselves, cats with bells tend to be pray for larger animals the can hear the bell and get hit by cars more. Many of the domesticated animal species are naturally heard/pack animals so walking with a leash next to a another animal (us) is somewhat natural to them and if done right can even be "enjoyable", but a cat is a semi-domesticated animal at best and does not generally travel in groups, so leashing is much more alien to them (the odd one will enjoy it, but i'm sure even the odd human would).
Cat's predatory instincts are too strong ! Domestication can never change its wild behaviour ! Even When , it will catch prey with a full tummy , it will play with it not letting it go and then finally kill it . !!
My dude is an indoor cat and he still managed to kill one sparrow and play with his dead body on my dad's bed and today also he was acting suspicious under the bed. So i turned on the lights and a sparrow flew out from under the bed! Thankfully it seemed ok. I ran to turn the fan off and thank goodness it didn't fly into the fan. My cats a freaking psychopath lolol. I don't mind him killing roaches or lizards that come into my house but birdies are cute 🥺 also they said sparrows might go extinct in mumbai soon .
7 years ago before I got a cat, the house was full of big insects, lizards, mice, there were birds that would sing every morning during spring and summer, there were even feral cats that would visit sometimes for food, but now there's non of that. It's always a joy to watch her making that bird like sounds before taking it down.
Cats obviously aren't anything like dogs. We don't have strong bond with them, compared to canines. Trained dogs only hunt on our command, their psychology has evolved to listen to humans. Cats never learned that. They were always used to deal with pest problems. They hunt pests, they eat them, and they also get rewarded for their hunting with more food. That is a positive reinforcement to keep hunter instincts active and strong. Humans can't really order cats around, because pests are hard to locate. So cats have to be let to hunt solely on their own.
Even untrained dogs will try to hunt if you are walking them. Thats why an untrained dog will chase other animals. They see the walk as a hunting trip.
You've got a point, but I don't subscribe to your entire argument. The difference between cats in dogs doesn't necessarily have to do with humans. I think the relationship we have with cats and dogs was shaped more by the genetic baggage they bring then by out attitudes towards them. Dogs are pack hunters, their instinct is to find their place in the pack and work in its interest. To a dog, it's owner is a pack member. When trained well, the dog will see the owner as the alpha leading his pack and obedience training is as much about teaching the owner how to lead as it is to teach the dog how to follow :). Cats, on the other hand, have always been solitary predators and their coexistence with humans was more about mutual convenience than anything else. It's not that humans shaped their hunting instincts, in fact, cats were never fully domesticated. And you can have a very strong bond with them, it's just a different kind of bond as to a cat you are not the leader, you are, best scenario, a good friend. I personally love cats and dogs equally and many other animals as well. I find all of them are wonderful and lovable in their own way. And to make any of them happy one needs to stop treating them as human babies and projecting human characteristics unto them and face up to the fact that animals have instincts, needs and motivations that are quite different from our own.
Humans are predators too (the most lethal ever), and we hunt cooperatively, so it makes sense that we'd "collaborate" (over evolutionary time scales) with pack hunters more than with solitary ones.
When you watch a documentary on a wild big cat, if their quarry escapes the cat will be hungry and tired on the next hunt. If a house cat expended a lot of energy and failed to catch something. It can just go back to the house, grab a bite to eat, take a quick nap and try again! Even when well fed most carnivores still hunt. I think they enjoy it. If they kill something and they aren't hungry they might play with the carcass, store it for later eating or share it with others. I have gone hunting and there is something thrilling(fulfilling?) about stalking and catching prey. I don't get that feeling as much from butchering farmed animals, I think I got a bit attached to them. I do get a similar feeling from harvesting plants(wild and grown)and sometimes even when shopping! I think it's a basic resource/food gathering instinct. Collecting food even when you aren't hungry has probably benefited many species, especially those that were good at storing food for later. Nature seems to like reinforcing survival behavior with enjoyment.
"Why do pet cats continue to hunt despite being fed at home" uhhh I assume the same reason humans continue to hunt despite being able to go to the grocery store
Cuban Agassi yeah and dogs get fed! But what do they do?? Eat out of a garbage bins and kill other peoples pets! And dogs get fed but they still kill and eat rubbish
Nope! My cats have a lot to eat at home like cat cookies, chicken, meat pork fish eggs milk.. but they go outside and bring mice and birds to eat them if there are kitten, mom cats bring them alive to teach their kitten to hunt and kill
"The cat seems to mimic the birds could it be to lure there prey down" well yeah if we do it with deers or just animals we hunt I'd imagine that would be the case
Watching this video made me understand why do I like "Toothless" so much. He is just a cat with the powers of a dragon. When the cat made those luring sound, it just clicked.
Although it's really cool that cats like Sandwich are so skilled at hunting, you should REALLY keep your cats indoors, only letting them outside while supervised. This is important not only to protect the sometimes threatened wildlife they're hunting, but also for the cat's safety! If allowed to wander, the cat could get injured or killed by cars or larger animals such as dogs, not to mention the diseases they could contract from eating wild prey(which they would then get all over your house when they come home..)
Rubbish. I have never seen an indoor cat that was healthy. They always have something medically wrong with them. That's because they weren't meant to live like that. Those of you who keep your cats inside are simply torturing a smaller animal.
Keep in mind they're only gonna be x-rayed once or twice and in return, they get a chance to be on TV. The owners probably signed a contract agreeing to the X-rays. X-rays really aren't that bad anyway unless it happens a lot over a long period of time.
Poor sandwich. She probably thinks she's a GREAT provider for her family
Princess Consuela yeah she probably thinks what the hell im the one providing for this family while the humans just sit around
LOL yeah serious Aaron...
Literally a bloodthirsty mass murderer that kills just for the pleasure of it... and humans name her Sandwich. Poor thing.
DumbDuck44 the cat brings the animals to her owners so she is attempting to provide for her family not kill for pleasure. Btw stop using human morality to judge an animal. Its moronic. Animals have no sense of what is right or wrong.
Of course they kill for pleasure. We know this because when cats play, all their play behavior is mimicking the act of stalking and murdering prey. When a cat bits the head of a kickaroo, holding it with its front paws, and rapidly kicking with its back claws, that's how it would catch and disembowel prey that's about its size like a rabbit. Like you say, cats don't have morals, and that's not a moral judgement, its just a fact. Your cat loves to murder, and thinks about murder most of the day, and is imagining how fun it would be to murder something when you're waiving that fake bird toy or mouse toy in front of it.
That part with the cat making luring (?) sounds was really interesting.
+KomradeCPU It is not about luring out a bird, but about finding bird postion (direction, how far, how high) and how many birds are there.
how?
Birds answer to cat sounds, then cat is using hearing to guess how many birds there are and where they are.
Mario Power interesting. Thanks.
+Mario Power Well, then it is luring.
Cats are one of nature's best killing machines but because they are small and furry we keep them in our homes and give them ridiculous names like Sandwich 😂
😂😂😂exactly! And I thought rice cake was a dumb name!
ik same with dogs lol papi puff and princes but cats hunt also because there ancestors were actually wild and from Africa and you know what they say when the sun rises in Africa you better be running
Humans are nature's best killing machines, its only natural that we like each other.
and Spud.
Five year later little Sandwich brought home your neighbours chiwawa
My cat has always been a house cat but every morning he goes to the window and mimics the blackbirds with a very similar chirp
mine too lol
+Kerryn Davenport It's not mimicking the birds it's just frustrated it can't get them. If the cat reacts to laser pointer just shine the spot on the ceiling and they will do the same thing. It's called chattering.
+GlassTopRX7 he has never done it with a laser pointer or any other time other than to the birds.
Well perhaps the laser doesn't frustrate him but that is why they do it.
me too
Once my two brothers tried to catch a mice in their room for hours and hours but never can never catch it. Our cat saw what they were doing but terrified as they were hitting the floor around with sticks. The next morning we found a dead mouse in front of the door. Seemed like he's saying, take this, idiots.
zaQba u made my day m8 ahah
he has some... cattitudes... lol
Yeah, cats think humans don't know how to hunt, so they do it for them.
To be fair, they're right most of the time.
lmao
@@jabuticaba9383 Totally agree
the video didn't answer the question
ye 😂
Instinct!
They don't always hunt for food. A lot of the time they're just practising or bored. So even if you feed the cat it will still hunt for those reasons.
Tbf if you were a cat how would you spend the time when everyone else's asleep? It's not like they have jobs.
Dead animals are like pizza for cats.
It did, it's instinct
Cats don’t even need a owner they can take care of themselves
I just love how they’re these adorable cuddly little pets and yet they’re also vicious killers who mock their prey before killing them
They don’t “mock” their pray. This “playing” with their prey is needed to release a certain amount of hormones to strengthen the mouth-muscles. Without this release they can’t bite hard enough to kill their food.
This evolutionary biological development prevents cats from becoming cannibals - little kittens are same size as mice and scream very loud, if someone grab them. Loud enough to call mama back in time and because cats can’t bite without that hormone release, the next generation is save.
because it's hardwired in their brain, duh.
Different cats have different hunting styles. One of our cats is 18 years old and his senses are very limited. His technique is quite impressive. First he observes the hunting area and every single movement, sometimes for days. Then he chooses one spot at which he remains without any movement - almost blind and deaf he simply hits everything that moves in range.
Wow
Is your cat still alive??
@@Aaronxxi Sadly not :( He died last year.
@@eXtremeDR good. less cats means a better future for the ecosystem. Youre a neglegant pet owner for letting him hunt.
@@theviolenceenjoyer don't be a dick
clever girl...
aleix1203 lel
Did you just assume its gender?
Samer Elboshra it's a line from Jurassic park when the raptors lured the handler.
Samer Elboshra the owner say “she” so it’s a female cat
@@lord_khufu r/whoosh
The trait of being a predator is somewhat lost in some cats. I've had MANY cats throughout my life and some of them are exceptional hunters, but some of them don't even bother. Two factors that I have noticed play a role:
- A cat raised with brother/sister cats (even better the mother since they learn from her) are most likely to become agile and sharpened because they train their instincts by playing
- Also I've seen an increased hunting activity on females while they are raising kittens. As if they're trying to teach the younglings how to hunt.
Indeeed
My tom cat has brought back birds and eaten them whole in front of me before i could stop him he has no siblings just us two i heard females hunt more but he seems to like it
My cats who were raised with their parents are absolutel couch potatoes and they just can't hunt not even a fly.
My cat brought prey to his kitties every day, half her size rats, her mother hunted rabbits, a few times she killed grass snakes.
Sandwich and her kind are deceptively powerful for their size- my childhood cat was only 10 lbs and would happily bring home 4 ft long black snakes in addition to the various squirrels, voles, rabbits, birds, mice, and lizards she’d catch. There have even been a few incidents with raccoons where they’ve come off worse than she has - and that was in an area where they’re at least double her weight.
(She’s an indoor cat now due to advancing age and environmental concerns.)
lol
"But they don't need her hunting skills anymore"...correction...if she stopped hunting, you would have a mouse problem again. Mouse population problems are not 'resolved', they're maintained. You didn't have enough local predators to keep their numbers down...now you do. Remove the predator and the mouse population will spike again.
@wantafanta01 and is that something to be concerned ? A certain bird died due Cats hunting them? Cats kill bird because they are animal with instinct , human has Human right But Cat don't know about Animal Right so Cats and other animals using Jungle law to eat or be eaten , remember the black plague that the result of Europefolk killing the cats because they though it a witch familiar? And then made the rats population overload and then the plague manifest inside the rats .
Human do more sh*t than Cats , and human also do Bird hunt using Bolt or Hunting Rifle . Human is terrible animal ever alive
Can i get 1000 Subcriber For Free? Lab No, cats DECIMATED, and made native bird species EXTINCT. In Australia cats have caused hundreds of kangaroo rat/mice/native rodent species EXTINCT. Every single one gone forever. Yes, cats maintain rodent population. But in many cases they overhunt and cause extinction.
I agree
@@autumn8920 animals have been going extinct all the time since forever. It's completely foolish and shows the hubris of humanity that we think we can or should maintain a complete status quo on the planet. We shouldn't be careless, but overly interfering is also bad, even if the change is something we caused. The animals will either adapt, or they won't. That's nature. That's how it's always been and always will be. You can't grind nature to a halt.
Mice have plenty of Other predators, you forget. And also, many cats are indoor cats in the first place, but how come the mouse population hasn’t been growing because of that? Cats aren’t truly important predators anymore. In Egypt long ago? Yeah they were. Now in America? Not so much.
They do it for fun. I had four cats a while back. All demanding food from me. All hunting like little maniacs.
Our frontdoor looked like a god darn killing field at times.
Birds, mices, hamsters, frogs, toads and one time our frontdoor was decorated with 2 dead rabbits.
Yea, they might as well ask why people hunt?
Wait til you get live rabbits in the bedroom at night. I come home from work to be scared by one left in my bedroom, still alive that I didn't see in the dark. Then there was a live dove in the bathroom once. That scared me too. Because something moves in the dark and you don't expect it.
@@OffGridInvestor sounds like u need to start paying your light bills
@@ericmcgowan1993 😂😂😂😂
The cat mimics for good reason. The cat wants to assure the prey that it's safe to well... Eat...
Like how carnivorous fireflies mimic the flash patterns of the harmless species, to lure in the males. Male firefly think's he's getting a hot date, when really, he's just a hot meal~
Sandwich! Haha what a cute name!
The best catnames are pastery related. Or overall food related.
Cupcake, Traybake, Spaghetti.
Its shit
@@bourisb24yearsago11 Hihi
"Why do cats hunt?".... Because they are predators?
Greg Alman maybe
Simple
Greg Alman but domestication usually takes away the urges but cats seem to be an anomaly
cats domesticated themselves throughout history, look it up. humans cannot tell them what to do.
Yes they are predator but good behaviour
My cat stays inside and he takes care of the flies.
Timmy Burch same
😂😂 same bro
Yeah, my cat has no interest in hunting. I've seen him watch a bird and not do anything about it. He loves his gravy lovers food.
@@benjaminfarias9169My little sister left a window open and one of our cats got out. Later that day when we thought we lost him he came around the corner with 2 small mice in his mouth. He refused to come back in so we just left his food outside and he always knew to come back for it and he would come and visit us if we were in the backyard. He was a tough cat. He had big scars on him but always managed to come back home. He’s 10 years old right now still running like a champ.
That guy is clearly very proud of Sandwich’s killing skills, he’s suppressing a smile the whole time.
No!
That scene when the cat was mimicking the sound of the bird reminded me of the movie Predator
moar sandwich please
+dre857 OH Yessss!
dre857 th-cam.com/video/W2pZonB5tJ8/w-d-xo.html
I'd watch a documentary about Sandwich.
@@benjaminfarias9169 Thank you
"Sandwich has some unusual hunting techniques" - Pulls out a suppresed 1911-
Thanks
The bird sounds and the cat mimicking the bird sounds is eeriely similar to gun battle sounds. They sound like bursts of gun fire.
When he said “they’re lambs in the field nearby, so you never know” LOL
She didnt go for it yet ;)
They were designed to survive off of hunting. Therefore, they will hunt.
And I enjoy hunting feral cats, so it's win-win!
thing is, there are no true feral cats, and u cant know who they are without getting to check their ear-tag. Looks like we got a moron on our hands ppl
TheMelloMan cats were not 'designed' they evolved.
DonQui terrible bait at least try next time
@T REX Hihi
Decided then..I am going to name my cat Banana
lol
cat: "I'm a banana!" cute
I have a cat named Banano, he is pretty yellow 😁
That should impress the local feline lassies.
Next time i go for Panini
My cat brought back a mouse while we were eating our Thanksgiving dinner. We were just assuming that he was showing us that he was thankful too. Also probably wanted gravy on top of his catch.
People here suggesting dogs lost their instinct. Dogs are pack hunters. They never had an instinct to go alone and hunt to begin with, but if you go hunting with them, they're all for it, same as if enough dogs get together.
+promontorium Animals never love their instinct to hunt. Any dog pushed to starvation will turn to scavenging and hunting if it must.
gromann how would you know? There are animals who probably enjoy the hunt, so don't say ALL animals hate there instincts
My Labrador will walk up and eat a mouse and be dead calm the whole time. She also tried to hunt a mallard in our yard once. She has a bowl of food set up for grazing. Trust me, watch huskies, German shepherds, or shiba's. They love to kill things.
Think he meant to say Animals never _lose_ their instinct to hunt.
Dogs may be able to hunt, but a lot of times they will choose not to. Which is why you can have a dog and a cat in the same home. If he couldn't control his instincts he would quickly kill the cat.
I would never try to destinguish a cats instinct.
Just let it hunt
Why Do Cats Hunt? The answer is simple really... they need to exercise and be stimulated for their wellbeing.
Then they can run around the house.
Maybe that's what you canadians do for fun, the rest of the world has higher standards.
JOhn Doe
Yeah - and those 'higher standards' have led to the unleashing of one of the worst invasive species the world has ever seen.
infinitecanadian C..candians?
p algorab I do not understand.. canadians are a kind of thier own but i would still count them in into mankind.
I grew up in the country with my grandparents. We used to work on the corn, strip it by hand and move it around. The mice infesting it would run out and hide under the wooden planks. But we had our friend with us, this beautiful, spotted black and white cat named Fifi. And Fifi was an absolute destroyer. She hunted them down, killed dozens of mice a day. Nothing could escape her. I used to watch her catch birds who flew too low, snatch them out of the air. She was just on a mission every day. I loved her and she loved me so much too, every morning waking up to her licking my hair. It's been decades and I still think of you, my little lady.
Sandwich, you are awesome.
Thank you
Windsor is the hunter in our house. He brings back birds, voles, mice, the like, but he never eats what he catches. That's up to Pekoe, our younger cat. They make a great team: One commits the crime, and the other eats the evidence
I really love this? is there more? or like a full documentary somewhere?
I've forgotten what it's called but you should be able to find it on google, it's a documentary about cats and their movement patterns in a small town in England. Basically every cat owner in the town attached a camera/GPS to their cat and they tracked them all. Pretty cool.
+DallasH717 Cats Uncovered...it's in the description.
BBC Horizon - Secret Life of the Cat
+Juhani Virtanen is amazing must watch
+DallasH717 It was so good.
do another video on sandwich that's a cool cat
“Why do cats hunt?” How are they supposed to get food? Go to the grocery store?
The Humans provide them😐
I don't hunt. My human slave brings me food.
these people are confused as to why their Cats are acting like Cats
My cat sheba is 10 and she hunts like a pro. Shes a recue and is living the dream with all the woodland and fields around
I had a small female cat once who brought back a full grown squirrel.
Our cats get good food and plenty of treats, but still love to hunt. I do notice that they typically play with chipmunks and often lose interest after awhile. Unfortunately our dog shows no such mercy. I think they are choosy about whom they consume. I don't think they get as many birds as people fear. Beware a cat will jump to its death for bird. They almost cant help it.
"Your pet has the posture of a Tiger or Lion" WELL YEAH ITS A CAT!
3:00 - chittering. You see house cats do this when they see birds outside the window.
Cats are amazing companions and amazing hunters.
You know, I've always found it funny how cats are so cowardly and timid, when they are brutal psychotic killers when they're out and about. They don't get to be *scaredy cats*, they are the scary ones.
Earth Linger There probably easily scared when inside because we are much bigger than them and if you have a dog too that just adds to it since most dog breeds are bigger than cats
The misconception actually
I miss my little man :(
Go get another one. Million of cats need homes.
Because they can't use tin openers or use phones to order pizza and kebabs.
My aunt live with 10 cats for hunting mouse bc her house is near rice field. Once, I looked them how to hunt and that was amazing. 😺😺😺
I just play with my cat when she is in hunting mode, so she can actually kill flies in my house 😂
"We all like to do the things we're good at" - Daenerys Targaryen
Sandwich ain't playing a single game with y'all!!
This is why i love British programs. Clever and serves a purpose, not stupid as north american tv series like canada's worst driver, bah.
Damn that gps map confirms why my old cat use to disappear for like 3 days sometimes. Just show up for food and off she went on that “business trip” of hers...
They hunt because they're bloodthirsty little predators, and that's why I love them so much
I have 5 cats and one of them is so gentle he couldn't even hurt a fly or a cockroach. One of them would not sleep without his milk and would wake you up when he's hungry or when he wants something. One of them would only go home when he wanted to sleep. One of them would not stop eating. Finally the older one, the calm one and the protective one. He would usually follow if you go outside in the midle of the night but he goes bezerk when he's hungry.
A cat owned by a friend who lives in the country brought home a crawdad once. Also a small snake. Both still alive.
Mine, being in the city, gets rats, mice, and birds on occasion. A month ago we found mouse droppings in the dog treat drawer and all the dog treats missing with a nice hole gnawed through the beggan strips bag. I (jokingly) chastised the cat for not getting the mouse. Next evening? I hear his muffled "meof" at the back door and open it up. And he has a mouse in his mouth. Not quite dead. I had to kill it for him so it wouldn't suffer. But on the upside, no more mouse droppings have been found, even after leaving bait out.
+Grindstone Cats are so smart.
You challenged his hunting, so he proved you wrong, mate.
Nice
Sandwich is a beautiful cat...lovely fur and markings.
Thank you for your comment
My cat is hunting only to protect me from spiders, i protect him from birds so we have an understanding. Do we need to overanalyze this? you still know less than me john snow
To British, Thanks for your great great love to Cats!!! You guys truly love cats so much I'm one of you!
“Why Do Cats Hunt?”
To live, obviously
0:08 SO FREAKING CUTE OMG
Why would anyone try to stop a cat from hunting? That would be like trying to stop a human from trying to find patterns in things.
+Zach Crawford Because they are very destructive to the ecosystem. Domestic and feral cats kill billions of birds in the US each year, and have caused the extinction of several species. They aren't wild animals, they're domestic, and it is unnatural to have so many of them going around killing things.
Thats kind of how evolution works. Species show up in a new area and wipe out or severely alter other species all the time. Cats are semi-domesticated. Except for the harshest of climates cats do not require humans to survive. It is in the core of their nature to hunt. If someone doesn't want a cat that hunts (and that perfectly fine) they shouldn't get a cat. They could get a rabbit, it is cute and furry like a cat and it doesn't hunt.
Evolution naturally involves very little movement of invasive species (like cats) between ecosystems; that's something that became much more common due to humans. It's so unnatural and destructive that we are currently considered to be in the sixth (and one of the worst) extinction event in the history of the earth.
So again, the introduction of domestic cats to an ecosystem is destructive and unnatural. My point still stands. If you stop them from hunting, either by keeping them inside or equipping them with a leash or a bib or a bell, you can have a cat without contributing to their negative impact on the ecosystem.
That's a very disingenuous interpretation of what I said, and I have no idea where you got anything about cutting off body parts.
If you don't value species diversity then I doubt I can convince you to, but there are economic and ecological consequences to reductions in diversity whether or not you think the species are worthy of existing or not.
Anyway, you haven't really refuted anything I said before, so I don't have anything else to add to my previous comment.
***** I said in my last comment that " I am all for diversity of species". So I do value diversity, there is nothing there to convince me of. As for the removing of body parts, you said nothing of that. But a lot of people declaw their cats to prevent them from hunting or clawing people. I think preventing a cat from hunting is like preventing a person from solving problems. Both would protect the status quo of nature but would violate the nature of that animal. I have worked at an animal hospital and have lived with outdoor, indoor and everything in between cats. From my fair amount of experience, declawed cats get hurt by other animals and humans because they can't protect themselves, cats with bells tend to be pray for larger animals the can hear the bell and get hit by cars more. Many of the domesticated animal species are naturally heard/pack animals so walking with a leash next to a another animal (us) is somewhat natural to them and if done right can even be "enjoyable", but a cat is a semi-domesticated animal at best and does not generally travel in groups, so leashing is much more alien to them (the odd one will enjoy it, but i'm sure even the odd human would).
My Cat Bear is a fairly small cat and he has bought back a small fox before!
Made a movie entitled.
"The killer within" 😂
Who does not know, tigers also imitate the voice of Wapiti, this is definitely a way of hunting.
Why do cats hunt?
Me: to eat so they can live
There’s an old saying: “you can take the cat out of the wild, but you will never take the wild out of the cat” 🤔😁💯
I love this cat.
Thank you
Cat's predatory instincts are too strong ! Domestication can never change its wild behaviour ! Even When , it will catch prey with a full tummy , it will play with it not letting it go and then finally kill it . !!
Does this video remind anyone else of the Warriors books series?
Ah yes, these books are FIRE
Am I the only 1 who notices Sandwich's fart at 1:42 ?
meow
I love cats 🐱
If your cat brings the food back to let's say... Your doorstep and leaves it there that means the cat loves you.
I would never want to stop them from hunting!
Lola Bint Even at the cost of some species nearly going extinct because we don't keep them indoors?
It's called nature . Leave it alone .
Yea but I don’t wanna clean up dead baby bunnies wtf man
My dude is an indoor cat and he still managed to kill one sparrow and play with his dead body on my dad's bed and today also he was acting suspicious under the bed. So i turned on the lights and a sparrow flew out from under the bed! Thankfully it seemed ok. I ran to turn the fan off and thank goodness it didn't fly into the fan. My cats a freaking psychopath lolol. I don't mind him killing roaches or lizards that come into my house but birdies are cute 🥺 also they said sparrows might go extinct in mumbai soon .
I am in LOVE with this serie!!!!!
7 years ago before I got a cat, the house was full of big insects, lizards, mice, there were birds that would sing every morning during spring and summer, there were even feral cats that would visit sometimes for food, but now there's non of that.
It's always a joy to watch her making that bird like sounds before taking it down.
Our house also. Our kitten came to house along with pigeon, squirrel, lizards etc in her mouth.
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The type of cat every owner wants to have
Cats obviously aren't anything like dogs. We don't have strong bond with them, compared to canines. Trained dogs only hunt on our command, their psychology has evolved to listen to humans. Cats never learned that. They were always used to deal with pest problems. They hunt pests, they eat them, and they also get rewarded for their hunting with more food. That is a positive reinforcement to keep hunter instincts active and strong. Humans can't really order cats around, because pests are hard to locate. So cats have to be let to hunt solely on their own.
Even untrained dogs will try to hunt if you are walking them. Thats why an untrained dog will chase other animals. They see the walk as a hunting trip.
MrRibbotron Good point
***** Same here
You've got a point, but I don't subscribe to your entire argument. The difference between cats in dogs doesn't necessarily have to do with humans. I think the relationship we have with cats and dogs was shaped more by the genetic baggage they bring then by out attitudes towards them.
Dogs are pack hunters, their instinct is to find their place in the pack and work in its interest. To a dog, it's owner is a pack member. When trained well, the dog will see the owner as the alpha leading his pack and obedience training is as much about teaching the owner how to lead as it is to teach the dog how to follow :).
Cats, on the other hand, have always been solitary predators and their coexistence with humans was more about mutual convenience than anything else. It's not that humans shaped their hunting instincts, in fact, cats were never fully domesticated. And you can have a very strong bond with them, it's just a different kind of bond as to a cat you are not the leader, you are, best scenario, a good friend.
I personally love cats and dogs equally and many other animals as well. I find all of them are wonderful and lovable in their own way. And to make any of them happy one needs to stop treating them as human babies and projecting human characteristics unto them and face up to the fact that animals have instincts, needs and motivations that are quite different from our own.
Humans are predators too (the most lethal ever), and we hunt cooperatively, so it makes sense that we'd "collaborate" (over evolutionary time scales) with pack hunters more than with solitary ones.
When you watch a documentary on a wild big cat, if their quarry escapes the cat will be hungry and tired on the next hunt. If a house cat expended a lot of energy and failed to catch something. It can just go back to the house, grab a bite to eat, take a quick nap and try again! Even when well fed most carnivores still hunt. I think they enjoy it. If they kill something and they aren't hungry they might play with the carcass, store it for later eating or share it with others. I have gone hunting and there is something thrilling(fulfilling?) about stalking and catching prey. I don't get that feeling as much from butchering farmed animals, I think I got a bit attached to them. I do get a similar feeling from harvesting plants(wild and grown)and sometimes even when shopping! I think it's a basic resource/food gathering instinct. Collecting food even when you aren't hungry has probably benefited many species, especially those that were good at storing food for later. Nature seems to like reinforcing survival behavior with enjoyment.
short answer, God! intelligent and willful design.
+RLAgito yeah ... um no
+Dark W everyone has their beliefs :)
+Macksis Everyone knows the lizard people made cats to infiltrate the human race over the course of thousands of years...
^This is bait.
+Archon170 or sarcasm
"Why do pet cats continue to hunt despite being fed at home" uhhh I assume the same reason humans continue to hunt despite being able to go to the grocery store
Young cats hunt.
When they get a bit older and they are fed tasty wet food they don't bother anymore.
It depends how much foot she has .... And how much old they are
@@Nick-ry4bu that's quite true. They don't' just hunt as much. My cat still caught a mouse at age 18.
Aww they're so vicious and cute!
Why Do Cats Hunt? Umm because they need to eat
Atomic X nope. We feed them. Is for the thrill
Cuban Agassi yeah and dogs get fed! But what do they do?? Eat out of a garbage bins and kill other peoples pets! And dogs get fed but they still kill and eat rubbish
Nope! My cats have a lot to eat at home like cat cookies, chicken, meat pork fish eggs milk.. but they go outside and bring mice and birds to eat them if there are kitten, mom cats bring them alive to teach their kitten to hunt and kill
Yes and they are PREDATORS... like big cats are?
Cats make that chirp sound when they want something they cannot get to.
0:40 why is there PewDiePie?
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Bluestar: you may hunt for sport but we hunt for survival
I found feathers on the floor of kitchen this morning. Obviously my cat brought something in. My cat finishes the bowl, but he still loves to hunt.
😂 The cats name is sandwich?
that is a squirrel she is mimicking, not a bird
I agree with you. I used to think that sound was a bird until I actually saw a squirrel in a tree making the sound.
They're actually plotting to murder her human family and take over the house
She is provided with food but the meal she get on her own is more delicious. You go Kat...I mean, cat.
Thank you
My cat is a bad hunter, he can only hunt rats and mice. And he does't even eat it, he wants us to give him some wet food.
He's hunting for you! LOL Seriously, he probably thinks he is providing for you
Sandwich. Now that’s a unique name! I named my boa constrictor kudos
Thank you
"The cat seems to mimic the birds could it be to lure there prey down" well yeah if we do it with deers or just animals we hunt I'd imagine that would be the case
I feel really amazed seeing cats they are literally small versions of tigers.
Cats are predators
Watching this video made me understand why do I like "Toothless" so much. He is just a cat with the powers of a dragon. When the cat made those luring sound, it just clicked.
Although it's really cool that cats like Sandwich are so skilled at hunting, you should REALLY keep your cats indoors, only letting them outside while supervised. This is important not only to protect the sometimes threatened wildlife they're hunting, but also for the cat's safety! If allowed to wander, the cat could get injured or killed by cars or larger animals such as dogs, not to mention the diseases they could contract from eating wild prey(which they would then get all over your house when they come home..)
Incyray Jeez,that sounds like real exciting life...worse than being in a zoo!!
If I was a cat, I'd rather you euthanize me than imprison me like that.
Rubbish. I have never seen an indoor cat that was healthy. They always have something medically wrong with them. That's because they weren't meant to live like that. Those of you who keep your cats inside are simply torturing a smaller animal.
Whenever my can't sees the grass moving, her eyes get smaller and she starts to get in a pouncing position and runs super fast
Is nobody concerned about these cats being X-rayed?
Keep in mind they're only gonna be x-rayed once or twice and in return, they get a chance to be on TV. The owners probably signed a contract agreeing to the X-rays. X-rays really aren't that bad anyway unless it happens a lot over a long period of time.
They more than likely die long before they can develop cancer.