I have three cats, all of which would make short work of rodents around. When I was letting Nathaniel, the cat pictured, out on a regular basis, we would find a dead rat or bird inside on the rug every other week or so. The best was the decapitated rabbit on the welcome mat. Sometimes he brings possums home, it sucks when they're alive and freakin' and ****ting on your floor at 3AM and your trying to catch them in a box, just like the situation below.
Anyway, last rat foray, I wake up to find the cat on the bed with this rat held gently in his mouth. I was a little groggy, and was like WTF? The cat drops the rat and gets this pissed off look on his face like "You suck for messing with my business" He then proceeds to ignore the rat for the rest of the night while I chase it around the bedroom and try to catch it in a box to take back outside. Seriously, this cat wouldn't budge, he just would calmly look at the rat, and then give me these looks of disdain as I clumsily try to corner this guy. Hard to do when they can run behind furniture and the like.
This is a pic of the rat sitting on my cat's ass.
Note the hairs on his back
Jason