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A lot of farms, and particularly massed animal farms such as poultry or pig farms, keep cats to control the mouse/rat population. While these cats will "group", it's not so strange because they are usually related. Matilda is a farm cat from Kingsthorpe, and she's a stone killer. From where I'm sitting in my office now I can see three, count 'em, mouse carcasses on the lawn which I'm going to have to go and clean up! At Kingsthorpe the cats are not fed unless they are pregnant or are nursing mothers. They have to find their own provisions. Kingsthorpe has thousands of free range hens so they're never short of tucker ...
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I'm not a cat person at all, but we've owned a number of cats over the years (while I was growing up). Cats are providers. My mom's cats (which are sisters) leave a dead mouse or mole at the doorstep several times a week. (Sometimes even a dead groundhog or a nice, fat rat.) They get along okay with the dogs, but they avoid the bigger ones. My mom's chihuahua, however, they will swat on the rump as he passes - not from meanness, but just because he's there. I've a feeling if the big dogs died, the cats would be indifferent. But something tells me if the little bugger died, they would mourn him.
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And the important thing is not that they have 100 words for it in its different aspects, but that they don't have any words for it generically.
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