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Hunting with a house cat?

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Digital Caveman:
More likely she'd go after mice, squirrels, small birds, ducks, or fish.  I have seen all of these bagged by felines.  A cat doing a back flip to catch a songbird is really quite funny.  No idea how the duck was caught though.

Pappy:
House cat that are just out  mostly for a stroll I don't mine but a feral cat that are really out to hunt and feed them self usually don't last long around my farm,and man can they hunt, they will devastate the baby rabbits and young quail , of course they ant much worse than Turkeys, they will eat anything that moves and cover every inch of ground to find it.  :) the TWRA won't admit it because they love their Turkey but we had lots of quail in our area until they reintroduced the Turkey.  ???
 Pappy

boomhowzer:
That's an excellent point, Pappy. One of the downfalls of keeping a cat as a hunting companion is they're out there when you're not, wrecking havoc on the small game population. We originally acquired our cat to take care of a mouse problem. Now though, I don't see as many rabbits hopping around and the only 13-striped ground squirrel I've seen this year was in her mouth. Last year I killed a half dozen of the little buggers, and I about tripped on a rabbit every time I walked out the door. I don't think she's killed a full sized rabbit yet, but I'd imagine she's raided a burrow or two. There are still plenty of red squirrels and chipmunks around, they're too fast for her, but I think you're right, Pappy. Keeping a house cat as a hunting companion is going to mean having to travel further afield to find small game. Of course, I do love shooting red squirrels, so that should keep us occupied until deer season.

Also, fish? tradcraftsman, you've seen a cat catch a fish? I like fishing too, maybe I'll take the cat out on the boat!

Digital Caveman:
To be precise, the neighbors cat left fish on their porch.  They may well have been picked up dead on the shore, we had big fish kills in the spring.  Still was kind of funny though.

archeryrob:
I assume you are hunting only with a bow? I have a single shot shotgun that keeps #6 for aerial problems and 00 buck near it for land based chicken problems. The sound of the shotgun clicking open makes the cats all big eyed and scurying for a hole or diving under the deck. They aren't much for the bolt action 22 mag or throwing a mag into the AR and pulling the charging handle either to drill a ground hog in the garden.

Now my Lab, I have to tell her to sit still and shut up or shes trying to get in front of me. But she'll bring it back, unless its inside the fence.

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