Maybe try a collar with bell on? Works for birds..

Realistically though, you can't stop a cat hunting except by keeping it indoors. It'll soon stop hunting them when/if it gets stung!

hahah yeah that's true, it could be far worse!!! Rather bees and worms than birds and mice, for sure. I don't even mind worms cos they carry on living as long as she doesn't bring them to me while i'm asleep...

She doesn't seem to be particularly choosy about what she hunts though, she seems to enjoy hunting socks, wristbands, and small cuddly toys just as much as living things. She even hunted a pack of her own meat out of the cupboard the other day and layed it proudly at my feet .

Maybe i can teach her to hunt leaves and sticks and bring them to me or something instead.....

p.s. she does have a bell but we had to glue it up a little with bluetack cos she kept fighting her own neck. Not the cleverest cat i've ever had...

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get something bigger than the bees that distracts the cat. like mice

My cat has been hunting bees and wasps lately too. I am not too fussed about him hunting them but I'm concerned that he will eat one and get stung and have a bad reaction. He will eat worms, flies and spiders and the other day attempted to eat a ladybird but recoiled in horror at the taste and had no interest in it after that. I have witnessed him try to eat a wasp but manage to shoo him away and scoop the bugger up before he could get it in his mouth. There was a half-dead one on the patio the other week and he was batting it around for about half an hour without attempting to eat it.

Sorry, I don't really have any advice, cats will be cats I think, and unless you keep her indoors all the time she will hunt. Maybe if she gets stung by a horde of angry bush-dwelling bees she will stop. XD My cat is an indoor cat but I let him in the garden because he loves it out there, personally I can't deprive him of that. I think he would get depressed if I kept him in. He never tries to jump over the walls thankfully.

wellllll..... i heard a sort of strangled miaoyelp coming from the bushes where the bees were the other day, followed by a ball of fur running as fast as she could into the house where she stood looking like she was trying to get a horrible taste out of her mouth. My guess is that she got a little stung.

... since then, she hasn't seemed nearly so interested in bees, and watches them from a safe distance instead.

and she's not nearly stealthy enough to catch any squirrels (she has been practicing sneaking up on me, but it's not very difficult to know when shes coming). So maybe i do get off light and she'll stick to worms and leaves?? (i hope!!)

@Somecallmechris: that's interesting!!! yeah, she was a rescue cat, and i don't really know much about her background except that they rescued 20-30 animals from this place. I don't think she has ever learned how to hunt, at all. I'm pretty sure she should know that i'm quite capable of hunting packets of meat from the cupboard by now though, so maybe that strategy wouldn't work hahah

ah, it's ok, she doesn't actually take the bell or collar off or anything . She just stands on her hind legs and trys to get at it with her front paws, wiggles her head around trying to bite at it, rolls around on the floor madly kicking her back legs at it and jumping around like she's being electric shocked or something.

It's one of those auto unlock "i am microchipped" collars that do come off if she gets it stuck in anything, but she can't take it off herself. Also, those collars come with extreeemely sensitive bells, which make a noise at the slightest movement. Which is great for birds, but not so great if your cat is dumb enough to constantly try to attack her own neck and generally go crazy. Or, in fact, if you ever want a decent night's sleep again. (so i can't really blame her tbh.) So we just put bluetack inside the bell to dampen it a bit.

She's probably around 2 and a half, so if she does ever learn cat-stealth moves, i'll have to get a different type of bell for her collar. Right now her idea of stealth is walking within half a foot of something, huffing at it through her nose, and wagging her tail wildly like a little dog Only bees, worms, and inanimate objects fall for those tactics aparently...

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