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---
title: "Cat Kill Log"
date: 2021-06-21T18:30:49+01:00
draft: false
categories: ["Cats"]
---
Ah, springtime! A time of awakening, rebirth, burgeoning buds - and avian
bloodshed. And a good deal of mammal death, too.
This year we are taking account of the savagery, perhaps to try to atone for the
guilt we suffer for allowing [Sadie, Cinnamon and Bob]({{< relref "#the-perpetrators" >}})
to exact such terror on the local wildlife.
Here then is a simple list of slaughtered fauna for 2021.
#### UPDATE: 2022
I have decided to resume updating this. Best way to do it is to include a new table for 2022. As of 17 July 2022, I've missed about two hundred kills this year, but what the hell - no time like the present.
Chris Packham - if you're reading this, you're right. Locking the cats out at night *does* result in a higher kill-rate. It's less hassle for us but more hassle for the birds. Lesson learned, but we're not doing anything about it yet. Let's watch the numbers.
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<tr class="header">
<th>Date</th>
<th>Super species</th>
<th>Specific species</th>
<th>Kill Type</th>
<th>Killer</th>
<th>Suspect Killer</th>
<th>Comments</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>18 July 2022</td>
<td>Rodent</td>
<td>Shrew</td>
<td>Alive</td>
<td>NA</td>
<td>NA</td>
<td>No remains upon waking this morning but a shrew trotted into the living room at about 8am, remarkably unaffected by its unwilling invitation into the house. The cats eventually coalesced around it's hidy-hole before being locked out, unimpressed. Eventually we trapped the little guy under a plant pot and released him into the blistering heat and the verge opposite the front of the house.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>17 July 2022</td>
<td>Bird</td>
<td>Sparrow</td>
<td>DOA</td>
<td>Unknown</td>
<td>NA</td>
<td>Mullered corpse lying in bloom of feathers on the utility room floor upon waking this morning. Do most of my hoovering in pyjamas nowadays.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
#### Current analysis as of 21 June 2021:
<p><em>After an active period in May, the kill-rate has slowed a bit, but we
suspect we're not seeing the victims...</em></p>
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<tr class="header">
<th>Date</th>
<th>Super species</th>
<th>Specific species</th>
<th>Kill Type</th>
<th>Killer</th>
<th>Suspect Killer</th>
<th>Comments</th>
</tr>
</thead>
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<tr>
<td>21 June 2021</td>
<td>Bird</td>
<td>Sparrow</td>
<td>DOA</td>
<td>Sadie</td>
<td>NA</td>
<td>As I was updating this page, a corpse was found on the
vestibule carpet. Into a nappy sack it went.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>20 June 2021</td>
<td>Bird</td>
<td>Sparrow</td>
<td>Survived</td>
<td>Bob</td>
<td>NA</td>
<td>Bob caught a bird but couldn't get into our house to "bring
home", so presented to our neighbours having entered the premises via their
front window.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>1 June 2021</td>
<td>Bird</td>
<td>Sparrow</td>
<td>Dead</td>
<td>Cinnamon</td>
<td>NA</td>
<td>Cinnamon spotted rolling around and tossing the corpse in the
air in the garden. Cadaver still warm on disposal; assailant made off
over next door's garage.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>28 May 2021</td>
<td>Bird</td>
<td>Unidentifiable</td>
<td>Total dismemberment and partially digested</td>
<td>Unknown</td>
<td>Sadie or Cinnamon</td>
<td>Head, wing, some feathers. The rest simply piles of <em>reguritate</em> like
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glamorgan_sausage">glamorgan sausage</a>.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>27 May 2021</td>
<td>Bird</td>
<td>Sparrow</td>
<td>DOA</td>
<td>Sadie</td>
<td>NA</td>
<td>Deposited at the next door neighbour's back door.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>27 May 2021</td>
<td>Bird</td>
<td>Sparrow</td>
<td>DOA</td>
<td>Sadie</td>
<td>NA</td>
<td>Deposited at the next door neighbour's back door. Two in one
day.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>21 May 2021</td>
<td>Bird</td>
<td>Sparrow</td>
<td>DOA</td>
<td>Sadie</td>
<td>NA</td>
<td>NA</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>17 May 2021</td>
<td>Bird</td>
<td>Sparrow</td>
<td>DOA</td>
<td>Sadie</td>
<td>NA</td>
<td>NA</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>16 May 2021</td>
<td>Bird</td>
<td>Sparrow</td>
<td>DOA</td>
<td>Cinnamon</td>
<td>NA</td>
<td>NA</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>30 April 21</td>
<td>Mole-like</td>
<td>Shrew</td>
<td>DOA</td>
<td>Sadie</td>
<td>NA</td>
<td>NA</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>19 March 21</td>
<td>Mole-like</td>
<td>Shrew</td>
<td>DOA</td>
<td>Unknown</td>
<td>Unknown</td>
<td>Dead on utility room floor</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>23 Feb 21</td>
<td>Mouse</td>
<td>NA</td>
<td>Alive</td>
<td>NA</td>
<td>All 3</td>
<td>Mouse suspected in utility room day before and hid.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>20 Feb 21</td>
<td>Bird</td>
<td>Robin</td>
<td>DOA</td>
<td>Unknown</td>
<td>Sadie</td>
<td>NA</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
## The perpetrators
{{< figure src="sadie1.jpg" alt="Picture of cat Sadie" title="Sadie" >}}
{{< figure src="cin1.jpg" alt="Picture of cat Cinnamon" title="Cinnamon" >}}
{{< figure src="bob_bag.jpg" alt="Picture of cat Bob" title="Bob" >}}
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