These two links might be useful for us to understand and appreciate why cats do what they do:
http://www.healthguidance.org/entry/15261/1/Why-Cats-Bring-in-Dead-Animals.html
http://www.our-happy-cat.com/cat-hunting.html (but we don’t recommend the “wearing a bell” part, though)
I don’t understand, what’s wrong with wearing a bell?
By the way, Gong Xi Fa Cai!
Hi Koo, Cats, unlike dogs, should not wear collars (with or without bells) as it’s prone to get entangled (there are cases of deaths because of it). Cats jump. Dogs don’t. Detachable collars are okay, though.
Zeno, my Singaporean, loves to bring home crocoaches. She would drop them on the living room floor. Watch and then dance with that weired straigh-legs dance. That I supposed is normal cat behaviour?
But then she also loved to bring ‘things’ home from our neighbour (then our landlady who lived next door). Zeno would sneak into their house, picked up a paper cup, or a piece of screwed-up paper, jumped over the fence and would drop on the floor, and dance around the objects she brought home. I always told her: Zeno … go get mommy a 100 Sing dollar bill
When we moved back to NL, she carried on her loves of giving us presents. Now she comes home from the nighbour with socks!
She is also very intelligent in communicating. I took a job with a company in the north of NL which means I would leave on Monday morning, and home Friday evening. Every Monday morning, my husband told me, soon after I left, Zeno would go to my closets, picks up my petticoat, or socks, bring them to the living room, drop them in the middle of the room and walk away. NO DANCE. It was as if she wanted to make me angry, and I would come out from wherever I was hiding! And she did that for more than a year. Every Monday morning!
When she wanted to go out, she would bite me on my shine, I ran after her, and she lead me to the door leading to the gallery!
I have other cats that are equally as intelligent as Zeno but differently. If we observe and sync with them, they tell us many more stories with their actions.