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Cat bringing dead animals and bugs inside the house

Indoor-outdoor cats frequently leave behind unwanted remnants of prey — such as heads, internal organs, or piles of spiders and stink bugs — on carpets or next to food plates overnight. This behavior results in messy cleanups for owners and leaves bugs getting stuck in hard-to-reach places around the bedroom.

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r/cats2 people · September 2026

Major(our resident goober) has gained a habit of killing- SPECIFICALLY spiders, and putting them next to his food platesource ↗

he's been amassing wolf spiders next to his plate for about a week now, and as cute as it is the stink bugs have started crop dusting my room and getting stuck in hard to reach places, in my room.source ↗

ToasterGunWhen · r/cats · 7 upvotes

My 10 year old void occasionally brings in a kill while I'm sleeping. Typically I'll find "remnants" on the carpet the next morning. I usually find a head and 2-3 internal organs. Rarely there is a tail.source ↗

crashathon · r/cats · 6 upvotes

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