My dog saw a raccoon duck into a juniper bush once on our neighborhood walk and she still stops and extensively investigates that same bush every time we pass it, 5 years later.
Now admittedly it’s a juniper so it could well be host to rats or mice. But she definitely remembers interesting spots she’s seen in the past and obsesses over them. She found a mouse stuck in one of our basement window wells and now she spends most of her days camping out observing the window wells, and she didn’t do that before that mouse.
you think she’s forgotten the raccoon, but for some reason has the urge to inspect the bush like “alright, bush inspection. can’t even remember why i do this, but by God this bush is important!”
Had a "mercenary" cat once when I was a kid. I think it was a neighbor's cat but dunno. Anyhoo, there was a cat that kept hanging around our garage for a week or two so one day when my parents were out I let it in to give it pats.
It went straight to our pantry where we had a small mouse family move in at one point. My dad had killed one with a trap but two or three were still back there somewhere but the cat managed to get them all. I think it took him two visits. He never came back to hang out as if he did his contract job and moved on.
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u/feelinzdoc 17h ago
That “random street cat” will now be waiting outside OP’s door every day, looking for an easy hunt and a full meal.