{"id":2011,"date":"2020-11-21T03:00:46","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T08:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/?p=2011"},"modified":"2020-11-15T17:02:02","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T22:02:02","slug":"its-zaturday-natural-born-hunters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/its-zaturday-natural-born-hunters\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Zaturday – Natural-Born Hunters"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Zaturday, the day we (Ziggy and Zorro) take over Mommy’s blog.<\/p>\n

Zorro here. Cats are natural-born hunters. Even if our humans feed us really well, we can\u2019t resist trying to catch little animals when we have the chance.<\/p>\n

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Ziggy and I don\u2019t get much opportunity to hunt since we\u2019re indoor kitties, but we still have that instinct. There are lots of lizards in Florida, and they\u2019re always hanging out on the windows or right outside the sliding glass doors. The first time Ziggy saw a lizard on the window, he almost gave himself a concussion. I think the lizard was smarter than Ziggy, because he at least knew we couldn\u2019t go through the glass.<\/p>\n

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In North Carolina, sometimes little mice get into the house. That\u2019s when we really go crazy. They\u2019re round and fluffy and run really fast, which makes them so much fun to play with. But they\u2019re a little bit too fast. I\u2019ve only been able to catch one, and Ziggy hasn\u2019t caught any. I\u2019ve caught several moths, though. They don\u2019t have much taste, but I eat them anyway. I\u2019ll even climb the walls of the catio to catch anything that flies in.<\/p>\n

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When cats bring home their prey, humans think that we\u2019re bringing them presents. But that\u2019s not true. We\u2019re trying to teach them how to hunt so they can fend for themselves. We sometimes catch lizards and mice for Mommy, but she hasn\u2019t gotten the hang of how to hunt yet. Any time we do catch something, like when I caught that mouse, Mommy takes it away from us so she can \u201crescue\u201d it and put it back outside.<\/p>\n

\"\"We have a bird feeder outside our catio in North Carolina. Last month, we were in the catio and a bird flew in. Ziggy caught it and it started making a bunch of noise. The next thing we knew, Mommy came flying out there screaming like the house was on fire. I didn\u2019t know what was wrong with her. Ziggy ran back into the house through the cat door, and Mommy chased him, still screaming. (She\u2019s too big to fit through the cat door, so she had to go the long way around.)<\/p>\n

Mommy finally tackled Ziggy in Grandma\u2019s living room and got the bird away from him. Then Mommy and Aunt Kim put the bird in a little box and took it outside. A little while later, Aunt Kim said the bird had flown away, and Mommy was really happy. That\u2019s totally not the way it\u2019s supposed to be done. We\u2019re trying hard to teach Mommy how to hunt, but she just doesn\u2019t seem to be getting it.<\/p>\n

I guess we\u2019ll just have to keep working at it.<\/p>\n

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It’s Zaturday, the day we (Ziggy and Zorro) take over Mommy’s blog. Zorro here. Cats are natural-born hunters. Even if our humans feed us really well, we can\u2019t resist trying to catch little animals when we have the chance. Ziggy and I don\u2019t get much opportunity to hunt since we\u2019re indoor kitties, but we still […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[42,29,45],"class_list":["post-2011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-its-zaturday-when-ziggy-and-zorro-take-over","tag-black-cats","tag-cats","tag-cats-hunting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2011"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2017,"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011\/revisions\/2017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}