When I was a kid back in our house in Laos, we had a cat that was always after the rats in the holes around the house.
But they like to play with their foods before chomping on them. You usually see a cat poke its foods before mouthing them.
So, one afternoon, our cat had caught a rat and somehow has exhausted the rat enough that the cat could just toss it around for fun.
I was roasting a sticky rice patty at our fireplace and watching the cat play with the rat.
The cat would swing the rat into the air onto a place on the dirt floor and then the cat would wait a little bit and would run to grab it again for another toss.
I could tell the cat enjoying that game.
Then this time the cat tossed it and accidentally swang it onto the mount of a rat hole on the ground. Just as the cat was about to run to it, the rat slipped into the hole and disappeared. The cat rushed to it and dipped it a few times with its right paw but nothing came out.
Cats eat rats, mice, birds, and other smaller animals or any kind of meat given to them. If Duckwingduck had not removed that bunny outside, Kitty would have devoured it after playing with it.