Recently I was at a friend’s house when right in the middle of dinner, their cat brought a rat in through the cat door! “Oh Charlie!” This, apparently, is not an unusual occurrence.

Pat explained to me that Charlie was the best hunter of all their cats, even though he’d been blind in one eye since a knock-down-drag-out fight with another tom cat a year before. “Maybe losing some sight perception has increased his other senses,” I mused. I’ve heard, and believe it’s true, that blind people are extremely developed in touch, hearing and so forth. Why would it be any different for an animal?

Anyway, I liked the nonchalance with which Pat ushered him back out the kitty door with his still struggling prey. How can you complain about a cat that catches rats? Not only that, but according to Pat, he has never, to her knowledge, killed a bird. Good Kitty!