> Cats play with their food

oh my cat don't even eat the animals it brings back inside the house. Birds, baby rabbits (these ones survives for it can catch them but not kill them), lizards by the metric ton, spiders, mice...

It brings them back to me and let them in the living room.

Sometimes I get two animals a day.

I don't know: maybe the cat understood we do the cooking and somehow thinks we're going to cook all it brings back.

I remember an old blog where some coder who also had a relentless cat (I'd say at least 10 years ago) set up face a webcam and face recognition for its cat inside the pet door and wouldn't let the door open if the cat had something in its mouse.