Cats need their claws to capture and interrogate mice and birds, fight other cats etc.
I started off mothers day, by opening my bedroom door to see a dead mouse at my feet and my very happy kitty all purring and acting proud 
I used to pet my cat up when she did that. Then I would be sure that she was not around when I threw it away. 
They really get very pissed off with you if they see that.
I used to tell pat my neighbour cat, thank her, and tell her she could eat it herself. She used to wait with eating the mouse till I had told her that was OK. Poor mouse had to wait for the proper kill till I had told her to too. So, I tried to make it quick.
She hasn't brought me any, since we got Luna and Sirius living here.
That's interesting, Guinevere used to kill them before giving them to me.
The first one Pebbles brought me was dead. Then gradually they became more lively. Just like cats do when they learn their kittens to hunt. As if I was a trainee for her. Maybe she tried to fix my vegetarian habits?
Destiny has always brought them to me very much alive. But they play dead because she sits there and stares at them while they lay at her feet.
but she has a certain meow that when i hear it, I know she's caught something. Then a few months ago, she brought a live mouse and dropped it on my bed in the middle of the night and it rain up my arm in terror. I screamed.
I think she figured out that that wasn't the way to go about it. So now, after 15 years of not killing any mice, she brings them to me dead. EBM said I was fucking her up and raising a hippie cat. He's quite proud of her stalking and killing abilities now. :lol:
