Our cat is showing symptoms of duplicity of humankind like in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

Dr Jekyll

We found our Dr Jekyll 4 years ago. We heard some kitten softly screaming in a ditch, most likely abandoned by their owners who don’t know there are shelters that take in kittens for free.

Dr Jekyll was full with fleas and very malnourished, so my wife, a true cat lover, took her in, hand-fed her, kept her warm at night by changing a warm water bag every 2 hours…

As you can see in the picture, Dr Jekyll turned out to a quite healthy cat, and is our best weapon in keeping mice away from the corn and cereals we feed to our chicken.

Mr Hyde

Like any good feline, Mr Hyde loves to go out at night killing mice and roaming
around in the neighbourhood. So far so good.

But with temperatures below freezing last few days, Mr Hyde is no more hunting mice but bringing back big game like a squirrel and a bird of which the English name escapes me (is this really what’s happening past retirement: words you knew as a kid suddenly disappear…?). Anyway, it looks like a Thrush and it’s getting quite rare here…

Same with squirrels, there aren’t as much as there used to be when I was a kid, and with a cat like ours roaming around at night, things don’t look good for the "native wildlife".

Maybe I should go and buy him some mice and let them loose at night…