many years ago I was in hospital for a month and the cat started to bring rats into my DH everynight and wake him up to let him know what a good boy he was, DH would say good cat charley eat him up charley and he would.
1 night when DH was visiting me he took the rat into our neighbour and woke him up, he was quite amused by that haveing heard from DH what the cat was doing. when I came home from hospital I found lots of half eaten rats under the bed. ugg not a pretty sight to come home to from hospital to that,