Cats are no more what they used to be
By topffer
@topffer (42156)
France
November 19, 2018 5:46am CST
The world is changing. Last spring my cat did not managed to catch a wood mouse in my home, and I had to buy a trap to get rid of it.
You may think that cats are tough guys with hair in the ears, but with domestication they became sluggish. Mine spends most of the day sleeping.
On the other side, natural selection has emboldened rodents, and they are now hunting cats. If you don’t believe me, watch this short video of a rat running after a cat. It was published this weekend by a French newspaper, «Ouest France». It is a lamentable reality. My next pet will be a rat.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
19 Nov 18
I do not understand how a wood mouse came in my house. I am in the center of a city, I would not have been surprised by a mouse or a rat, but a wood mouse
? They eat only fruits and vegetables, and the nearest park is at 200m from my home. Kind of mystery.
? They eat only fruits and vegetables, and the nearest park is at 200m from my home. Kind of mystery.1 person likes this
@marguicha (215428)
• Chile
19 Nov 18
I had heard that before, but I thought that it was with those big mice only. I believe now that mice can devour cats in minutes if the so wish.
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@marguicha (215428)
• Chile
19 Nov 18
@topffer My husband told me that once, when he was a teen, he saw a rat under his bed. So he looked at it and growled. The rat rat to him and he had to flee
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@topffer (42156)
• France
19 Nov 18
@marguicha They are not nice creatures. I wrote that my next pet will be a rat, but it is the last animal that I would like to have as a pet.
They are not nice creatures. I wrote that my next pet will be a rat, but it is the last animal that I would like to have as a pet.2 people like this
@topffer (42156)
• France
19 Nov 18
It was only a small sewer rat, one is probably not enough, but if they had been 10...
I know by experience that rats can be aggressive. A morning when I was 7 or 8, I saw a big rat eating something on the pavement when I was going to school. I put a foot near the rat to frighten it and... it jumped on my shoe. The one who ran away was not the rat
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
19 Nov 18
it happens when we feed them 3 or 4 square meals a day at a fixed time like what most humans do so they don't see the need to hunt anymore
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
19 Nov 18
@topffer I don't eat regularly most of the time, I eat when I'm hungry that's why my human instinct is still intact
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@changjiangzhibin89 (16534)
• China
19 Nov 18
I have watched the similar video before.Now a cat isn't the mouse's natural enemy ,because they are born to living in comfort and don't know why and how to catch a mouse.That is exactly the law of use and disuse.
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You may be right, the apocalypse is perhaps for tomorrow
@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
20 Nov 18
Our dog goes after mice and kills them but I don´t know if he would a rat he just might.
Once I lived in a place where there were a lot of rats around being by a river.
Our next door neighbour came down a killed a huge rat with her shoe and I thought she was so brave as it was a very big one and she polished it off just like that.
The rat was in the doorway downstairs and I could not get past it so Placida came down and said don´t watch and zas it was gone.
Not that I condone that either I have no wish to kill them outright but she did it just like that very brave as they can go for you and do a lot of damage.
I don´t blame you for running off from the rat either.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
20 Nov 18
@topffer
One can hardly blame you for that.
I am not a rat lover either but they are there I know and some as big as rabbits sometimes.
Placida just went and did the rat in and they give me the shivers and not good ones.
I suppose its in our D.N.A. to fear them and mainly because they have sneaky look about them and you never know what they are going to do next.
They are said to be very intelligent also but I have never been close enough to them to find out no thank you.
Also the diseases they can carry ugh.
They make me shudder not so much with fear but disgust again its probably what we have learned you know in knowing how to survive.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
20 Nov 18
@lovinangelsinstead21 It is not in the DNA of everybody : an online petition had been started to stop to kill them in Paris 
! Now you see them running during the night near the Seine, and there are hundreds of rats. It is frightening and disgusting, I would not be surprised if the plague was coming back
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! Now you see them running during the night near the Seine, and there are hundreds of rats. It is frightening and disgusting, I would not be surprised if the plague was coming back.1 person likes this
@topffer (42156)
• France
20 Nov 18
Oh, yes, it was courageous, and I would not try to do that. I am a bit afraid by rats since I was a kid. We were living near a large park, and there were rats in the park (they are back in the parks in Paris : because of animal lovers complaining the city do not kill them). A morning, when I was 7 or 8, I saw a big rat eating something on the pavement when going to school. I put loudly a foot near its face to scare it and... it jumped on my shoe. The one scared was not the rat. I ran to the school without looking back to check if it was running after me like in the video. Since that event I consider that rats are dangerous.
). A morning, when I was 7 or 8, I saw a big rat eating something on the pavement when going to school. I put loudly a foot near its face to scare it and... it jumped on my shoe. The one scared was not the rat. I ran to the school without looking back to check if it was running after me like in the video. Since that event I consider that rats are dangerous.1 person likes this
@much2say (53959)
• Los Angeles, California
19 Nov 18
That rat was a bully! I guess the cat was truly a "scaredy cat" 
. Out here, most people keep their feline friends indoors - they don't get to use their instincts, so perhaps they lose it. I see loose cats here and there but I have never seen them with a rat catch (and I hear there are plenty of mice/rats running around outdoors at night!).1 person likes this
@much2say (53959)
• Los Angeles, California
19 Nov 18
@topffer Ah, how rats have become intelligent too - this one knows how to use social media .
I think of my mother in law's neighbor's cats. The neighbors put them outdoors for the day and they'd go to my mother in law's house as she would let them indoors for the day .
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I think of my mother in law's neighbor's cats. The neighbors put them outdoors for the day and they'd go to my mother in law's house as she would let them indoors for the day .1 person likes this
@topffer (42156)
• France
19 Nov 18
This rat wants to be respected, he posted himself this video online to ruin the reputation of this poor cat.
My cat was living outdoors when he adopted me, he would not be able to stay indoors long. I believe it depends of the cat, Persian cats can stay indoors without protesting, but for a tabby cat it is difficult.
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My cat was living outdoors when he adopted me, he would not be able to stay indoors long. I believe it depends of the cat, Persian cats can stay indoors without protesting, but for a tabby cat it is difficult.1 person likes this
@topffer (42156)
• France
19 Nov 18
@JudyEv "Tel est pris qui croyaIt prendre" The one caught is the one who wanted to catch. It is the moral of a fable from La Fontaine, "The Rat and the Oyster". A rat sees an opened oyster near the sea and wants to eat it but the oyster catches the rat.
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Maybe they are playing, but the cat does not seem to enjoy to play the rat.
@anya12adwi (6037)
• India
19 Nov 18
It's okay, they are also creatures!! They can have too defeats or get all sluggard
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@anya12adwi (6037)
• India
19 Nov 18
@topffer They have their fundamental rights to be coward.. And they are more cute when they are coward
They have their fundamental rights to be coward.. And they are more cute when they are coward1 person likes this
@Acefun (1220)
• Malaysia
25 Dec 18
Things does change a lot.
My cat in my house will treat mouse as their friend. They did not bother about the mouse when they passed in front of them. They sleep at day time even the sun ray shine directly on them. At night time, they will went out for "meeting".
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@popciclecold (35103)
• United States
25 Dec 18
Wow, had I not seen it I would not have believed it. Funny.
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@celticeagle (159058)
• Boise, Idaho
21 Nov 18
@topffer ......How funny! I saw it once when I was young. Didn't end well.
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@allknowing (130066)
• India
20 Nov 18
Cute video. The world is indeed changing. Women are chasing men these days
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@Tampa_girl7 (48958)
• United States
20 Dec 18
Our cat rules the house. She is the Queen.
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