@jeridansky A friend and his wife used to live in Albany and had 3 cats. One had the cut habit of bringing in flowers from their camellia plants as "gifts". She like that so much better than turning the kitchen into a CSI crime scene. They moved and rehomed the cats but having met those cats.
I think my mom would have appreciated camellia blooms over half a gopher that our "might hunter" would leave in our garage.