When my work clo ed down, boss retired, i took him home. He sleeps on the foot of my bed now but also has a more healthy diet. No more breakfast burritos.
I've had a cat come home with pigeons and a small snake. One thing for sure it wasn't a gift for me. He comes home with his pray so stray cats from the neighborhood don't steel his catch.
Yea I think that gift thing is crap personally. Pretty sure my cat's thought process is more like: "This toy was fun, then it died and the fun stopped. You there, make it fun again."
Depends on the cat. Sometimes it genuinely is gifting but sometimes they bring you stuff like this because they think you're a dumb hairless cat that doesn't know how to hunt properly.
We had mice in my old apartment after bringing me like 4 dead ones my oldest cat that I got as a kitten from my cousins barn cats pointed me to a live one it had cornered. Lil fucker sits up next to it, looks down at it and meows repeatedly. Doesn't stop until I kill the mouse myself. After that he never brought me another mouse.