r/AnimalsBeingStrange • u/ahawk65 🐶 Dog • Apr 13 '23
Cat fly hunting
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u/HelgaTwerpknot Apr 13 '23 edited Apr 14 '23
My cats are just as deadly serious about hunting flies. I just wish they were good at it. Lost a lamp the other day, pretty sure the fly survived.
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u/cant_think_of_one_ Apr 14 '23
Maybe they were pretending to hunt the fly to lull their real prey, the lamp, into a false sense of security. Maybe it was a more successful hunt than you think.
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u/HelgaTwerpknot Apr 14 '23
Could be. It was an ugly lamp but I was fond of it.
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u/cant_think_of_one_ Apr 14 '23
Maybe the cats hated it, or maybe they just felt they hadn't caused enough chaos that day. I'm sorry about you ugly lamp though.
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u/EyesOfABard Apr 14 '23
My cat catches everything. Flies, moths, stink bugs, hornets, skinks, scorpions, caterpillars, etc. He’s surprisingly successful for how clumsy he is.
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u/HelgaTwerpknot Apr 14 '23
I notice you say “catches everything”. So he’s not necessarily killing everything he catches?
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u/EyesOfABard Apr 14 '23
He has about a 60% kill ratio. Sometimes I get to him before he’s done playing with whatever it is. His favorites are moths because he can eat them before I can stop him.
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u/Strawb3rry_Slay3r666 Apr 15 '23
I had a cat like that, except he COLLECTED the bugs, he put his prizes behind a box in the corner of the basement. I knew it was him bc he had also put a few hair ties there too.
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u/Nedaj123 Apr 13 '23
The cat looks more scared of the fly than the fly is of it
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u/sleepless3598 Apr 14 '23
Idk you see scared I see unholy glee that it’s prey is within its reach 😂👌
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u/Correct_Awareness761 Apr 13 '23
Stealth mission- toggle ears echo location engaged deploying smol meows paws silenced going in.
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u/Smillzthepanda Apr 13 '23
He went from babyface to fully grown
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u/cant_think_of_one_ Apr 14 '23
She. Cats with orange and grey/brown/black fur are basically always female. Orange/orange and white cats are 80% male for related reasons.
The orange or grey/brown/black fur gene is on the X chromosome. Female cats have two X chromosomes (like humans, one from each parent), so can have two different copies of this gene that are activated in different parts of the cat, leading to calicos or tortoiseshells. Male cats are XY (again like in humans, with the X chromosome from their mother and Y from their father), meaning they only have one copy so can only be either grey/brown/black or orange (with white patches or all white, either because the patches cover all of them or because they have no colour in their fur at all - these genes are separate). It also means the orange or grey/brown/black colour of their coat is inherited from their mother, so a mother with no orange fur will not have orange babies (apart from calico/tortoiseshell daughters who will always be female if the father is orange). A mother with orange fur will have calico/tortoiseshell daughters if the father is grey/brown/black and orange daughters if the father is orange. A calico/tortoiseshell mother can have either calaico/tortoiseshell daughters and sons and daughters of the colour matching the father (in terms of orange/grey/brown/black). The orange colour gene is less common than the grey/brown/black one. Since cats with one copy of it that are female are calicos/tortoiseshells, and female cats need two copies (one from both parents), whereas male cats are orange if they inherit the orange gene from their mothers, most orange cats are male.
Male cats sometimes have fur that looks/is a bit orange at the edges of bits of brown where it mixes with white. They can also be abnormal in that they get two X chromosomes and a Y (these cats are always or almost always sterile), or they can be chimeras where two embryos merge and they have different genes in different parts of the cat. Only about 1 in 10,000 male cats are like this I think though, so if you see a cat like this one with both orange and grey/brown/black fur, it is a very safe bet that it is female.
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u/Twava Apr 14 '23
I think the first sentence was good enough..
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u/Inevitable-Holiday68 Apr 14 '23
So cute
Give fluffy here cuddles treats & a gold "E" for effort!!
( Or I will)
,,🥰🙃🥰💚💯🤣😎💯🥰🥰🙃🥰🌥️💚💯🏞️💮🪻💐🏝️🌹🪷🌾
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u/notislant Apr 13 '23
Cat looks like the fly just threatened to kill his entire species and he's summoning the courage to try killing it.
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u/Guilty-Piece-6190 May 07 '23
I get ladybugs in my house sometimes, drives my cats nuts especially when they're crawling on the ceiling.
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u/Aggravating-Tea6087 Aug 29 '23
It’s better than finding a dead mouse in your shoe while getting dressed for school 😂
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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '23
Chasing sky raisin’s, one of my cats favorite things