I wanted to film the cats doing something wicked cute and funny in the early morning yesterday, Tuesday, but I don't own one of those digital camcorders, so I totally missed it.
About 2 hours later, I remembered that my digital camera can make movies.
D'oh!
What were they doing that I wanted to film?
They were playing lizard hockey.
This is a game that only cats can play, and all 4 of them were in the house and playing, so it was 2 cats per team.
The game is pretty simple, catch any lizard that comes in the house, doesn't really mater what size, although a full grown adult works best because they can survive a few minutes longer than the babies.
Once the lizard has been properly scared for it's very life, the cats simply whack it back and forth, toss it up in the air for a few extra points, torture it by ripping off various legs and it's tail, and continuing to smack it back and forth to each other until the lizard is completely exhausted and can't try to run away any longer, or until one of the cats has fatally wounded it with a claw.
Once the lizard is dead, the winning team gets to eat it any way that they choose.
Nova likes to eat all of the body parts that got ripped off early in the game.
Kali likes the stomach area, it's soft and squishy which works well for her because of lost teeth due to her old age.
Carmine liked to eat the ends, or the butts if you want to be specific about it, and Shahiro is a fan of the heads, she will bite off the head and chew it up for about 3-4 minutes until she has chewed her way through all of the bones and cartilage enough so that it can be swallowed.
You can actually hear her crunching it between her teeth which is a really nasty sound.
They caught a HUGE one yesterday morning and they "played" with it from start to finish for a good 20 minutes or so until they had fatally wounded it and the winning team ate it.
The cats simply love the lizards that get in.
I really don't have to worry too much about lizards being in the house and crawling around or up my legs.
YES!! This 1 time I was sitting here late at night, and 1 was making it's way up my legs!
I freaked out, flicked it off, all of the cats saw it and began playing it as soon as it hit the ground.
It's really great having 4 cats that love to chase and catch bugs, lizards, spiders, and cockroaches etc, I don't have to use chemicals to spray to try to get rid of any bugs, my cats do it for me, they are my own free pest control.
There's been a few times that I have had to physically grab a cat and show them the bug, usually this is in the bathroom when I am in there and the cats are outside the door, but 99% of the time, they see, catch, play, and then devour any bugs that make the mistake of coming in the house.
I love that no matter what size or kind of spider it is, that they will try to get it with only 1 exception.
There's only 1 kind of spider that they will not go after, and that is the wolf spider.
You're gonna have to look that up for yourself, I cannot stand even seeing a picture of those!
They will go after pretty much anything but those.
Those spiders, they back up and watch them walk around from a distance.
Shahiro is a bit more adventurous, she will get within, I'd say, about 7-10 inches away from it, and she'll just watch it and follow it around the house until it goes someplace she can't fit into.
Then she'll sit and stare at the exact same spot for hours waiting for it to come back out.
She once sat in front of the fridge and staring underneath it for 5 straight hours.
Even when we had to open the fridge door, she would not move.
She fell asleep watching and waiting for whatever it was that went under the fridge to come back out.
It was so cute, so one of these days, I need to film the kitties playing hockey, and also film here falling asleep waiting for a bug to come back out of the hole, and then edit it in WMM to do like a time laspe/speed up of the film in case it takes hours and hours again.
It would be so terribly cute.
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About 2 hours later, I remembered that my digital camera can make movies.
D'oh!
What were they doing that I wanted to film?
They were playing lizard hockey.
This is a game that only cats can play, and all 4 of them were in the house and playing, so it was 2 cats per team.
The game is pretty simple, catch any lizard that comes in the house, doesn't really mater what size, although a full grown adult works best because they can survive a few minutes longer than the babies.
Once the lizard has been properly scared for it's very life, the cats simply whack it back and forth, toss it up in the air for a few extra points, torture it by ripping off various legs and it's tail, and continuing to smack it back and forth to each other until the lizard is completely exhausted and can't try to run away any longer, or until one of the cats has fatally wounded it with a claw.
Once the lizard is dead, the winning team gets to eat it any way that they choose.
Nova likes to eat all of the body parts that got ripped off early in the game.
Kali likes the stomach area, it's soft and squishy which works well for her because of lost teeth due to her old age.
Carmine liked to eat the ends, or the butts if you want to be specific about it, and Shahiro is a fan of the heads, she will bite off the head and chew it up for about 3-4 minutes until she has chewed her way through all of the bones and cartilage enough so that it can be swallowed.
You can actually hear her crunching it between her teeth which is a really nasty sound.
They caught a HUGE one yesterday morning and they "played" with it from start to finish for a good 20 minutes or so until they had fatally wounded it and the winning team ate it.
The cats simply love the lizards that get in.
I really don't have to worry too much about lizards being in the house and crawling around or up my legs.
YES!! This 1 time I was sitting here late at night, and 1 was making it's way up my legs!
I freaked out, flicked it off, all of the cats saw it and began playing it as soon as it hit the ground.
It's really great having 4 cats that love to chase and catch bugs, lizards, spiders, and cockroaches etc, I don't have to use chemicals to spray to try to get rid of any bugs, my cats do it for me, they are my own free pest control.
There's been a few times that I have had to physically grab a cat and show them the bug, usually this is in the bathroom when I am in there and the cats are outside the door, but 99% of the time, they see, catch, play, and then devour any bugs that make the mistake of coming in the house.
I love that no matter what size or kind of spider it is, that they will try to get it with only 1 exception.
There's only 1 kind of spider that they will not go after, and that is the wolf spider.
You're gonna have to look that up for yourself, I cannot stand even seeing a picture of those!
They will go after pretty much anything but those.
Those spiders, they back up and watch them walk around from a distance.
Shahiro is a bit more adventurous, she will get within, I'd say, about 7-10 inches away from it, and she'll just watch it and follow it around the house until it goes someplace she can't fit into.
Then she'll sit and stare at the exact same spot for hours waiting for it to come back out.
She once sat in front of the fridge and staring underneath it for 5 straight hours.
Even when we had to open the fridge door, she would not move.
She fell asleep watching and waiting for whatever it was that went under the fridge to come back out.
It was so cute, so one of these days, I need to film the kitties playing hockey, and also film here falling asleep waiting for a bug to come back out of the hole, and then edit it in WMM to do like a time laspe/speed up of the film in case it takes hours and hours again.
It would be so terribly cute.
Gah,I HAD to look up a wolf spider. It gave me goosebumps.
I didn't look up the wolf spider, I'll pass on that one! But another bug that you have down there that grosses me out is the palmetto bug. Ugh, I've seen pictures of them, they look like giant cockroaches. If I lived down there, I'd be happy to have my cats eat those, for sure.
Here, we only get flies during the summer, and the occasional spider. So our kitties don't get to hunt very much. They have to settle for the DVDs with bugs and birds and stuff on them, and try to catch them on the TV screen. Oh well...