Cat gives birth to mouse

[AlphaFrog]

Originally posted by starang21
sleeping with the enemy

I think you hopped on the wrong thread. Unless you really want to talk about who you're sleeping with on a thread about gerbils...

[Optimist Prime]

Originally posted by starang21
sleeping with the enemy

[AlphaFrog]

Originally posted by Optimist Prime

I think he meant to post this on the "If Your Life Were A Movie" thread

[DSTinguished1]

Originally posted by starang21
sleeping with the enemy

Funny. But i dont think anyone else got it.

[KSigkid]

Originally posted by starang21
sleeping with the enemy

Haha, that's pretty funny.

Yeah, that thing doesn't look anything like a cat. Someone's trying to pull a fast one.

[Optimist Prime]

Okay, it dawned on me. I'm so slow sometimes.

*laughs at that late, like a dumbass*

[starang21]

Originally posted by DSTinguished1
Funny. But i dont think anyone else got it.

neither do i...



pretty simple if you ask me.

[PiKA2001]

Originally posted by starang21
neither do i...



pretty simple if you ask me.

Don't worry, I got it. Frogs have small brains.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally posted by PiKA2001
Don't worry, I got it. Frogs have small brains.

Don't worry, I got it too...but being that it really wasn't that funny, I was really hoping that he had posted on the wrong thread. I was trying to give him the benefit of the doubt.

[starang21]

Originally posted by AlphaFrog
Don't worry, I got it too...but being that it really wasn't that funny, I was really hoping that he had posted on the wrong thread. I was trying to give him the benefit of the doubt.

you were the only one to think that, though. now with said, is the problem us or you?

hmmm.......


small minds are abound on this site.

nice attempt to save face.

[KatieKate1244]

Whoever posted earlier in the thread that someone is trying to pull a fast one is correct. That would be a gerbil. No way on God's Green Earth is it a kitten-thingy-whatever.

[preciousjeni]

I don't know - maybe it's a Tunisian gerbil. I didn't see any gerbil images that looked like it. Maybe it's another rodent we're not familiar with?

From the looks of that cat, it's a 100% outdoor pet. So, the owners likely didn't see the birth.

It's still possible that it's some sort of mutation. The images are pretty fuzzy.

[preciousjeni]

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/

About a week ago Smerk posted a link in the forum to a story about a cat who supposedly gave birth to a kitten that looks like a mouse. The story reads:

According to the owner of the cat, the litter included 5 regular kittens, and one that more resembles a mouse. The owner says the nose, mouth and ears look like that of a mouse, but the rest of the body is that of a cat. The mother cat doesn't seem to notice or mind. She's nursing and taking care of it, just like the kittens.

The thing is, when you watch the accompanying video you can see that the "kitten" doesn't just slightly look like a mouse. It really looks like a mouse. But why would a mouse be living with a bunch of cats? To clear up this mystery, I contacted Sarah Hartwell, who runs messybeast.com. I figured that if anyone could shed light on this mystery, it would be her. Her verdict: That's no kitten! Here's what she writes (reproduced with her permission):

It is just a rodent that the cat has adopted. I've added information to http://www.messybeast.com/freak-misc.htm
Possibly the mother took the rodent back to the nest and then her maternal instincts overrode her predatory instincts. This is not uncommon if the prey is the same size as her kittens and makes similar noises and especially if it doesn't run and re-trigger her predatory instinct. Alternatively it went into the nest attracted by potential food while the mother was absent and because it had ended up smelling like the kittens she didn't view it as prey. Once it starts acting like a mouse again i.e. jerky movements and instinctively fleeing, she will treat it like prey. Possibly it isn't acting like a mouse due to being injured by her if she hunted it. You may have seen documentaries on confused lions, usually inexperienced juveniles, that adopt young prey animals because the terrified or injured prey stops acting in a prey-like manner and this confuses their instinct to kill it.
There are several cases of young squirrels being fostered on nursing cats and the maternal instinct overriding the predatory instinct. On the other hand, but involving the same 2 instincts, in cat colonies, there are plenty of cases of kittens being killed by other females because their movements and sounds triggered predatory instincts and they were treated as prey (my friend's cat was a female that hunted another cat's kittens because of confused instincts).

Update: Boing Boing speculates that the rodent in question is a kangaroo rat.

[amanda6035]

Originally posted by starang21
you were the only one to think that, though. now with said, is the problem us or you?

hmmm.......


small minds are abound on this site.

nice attempt to save face.

LMAO. What a trip.