Is it really true that cats leave mice or whatever they catch

My indoor cat has brought me mice. Once I as sitting on the floor sorting stuff, and she came over with something in her mouth. I told her to drop it and she dropped a mouse in my lap. I went to pick it up and it sprang back to life, and we spent a good 20 minutes chasing it.

Another time I had left a bowl next to my bed before I went to sleep. When a woke up, she had left a dead mouse in it.

>>2170961
There's a theory that they do it to show us that we're terrible hunters.

>>2170961
your cat is trying to better you. It's showing you what you COULD have if only you'd get up and take it

>>2170961

My cat was on heat yawping, indoors to a male cat which was outside. The next morning a bird was placed on our doorstep, which I can only assume was a gift to placate my cat. Kinda cute.