Something the cat dragged in (1921); Shooting fish in a barrel (1911)

[Douglas G. Wilson]

>SOMETHING THE CAT DRAGGED IN
>....   I had a cat, but all it did was sleep and eat.  It didn't drag in
>anything.
>    Do cats drag in a whole lot more stuff than dogs?  I've heard that dogs
>will get your your newspaper, frisbee, maybe even slippers.

Cats bring home the mutilated corpses of mice and other small creatures
sometimes, and I suppose this is the basis for the expression.

-- Doug Wilson