One More Nature Note

[poliphilo]

This bright spring weather that has the birds all excited also brings the cats. I see them stalking along the back wall like they think they're untouchable.  Sometimes they come down into the yard.  I don't welcome them- and if they show any signs of lingering I bang on the window. I love my little feathered dinosaurs- and I do not take kindly to them being harrassed or attacked.

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Our cats killed all sorts. I once found a bird- still alive- that had been stripped of all its feathers- and another time I had to put a badly mangled sparrow out of its misery. That was very unpleasant.

One of them used to line up her catches- mice mainly- in the neighbour's yard. Poor woman, she (a) hated cats and (b) was terribly squeamish and went into a panic when faced with dead things.

Mind you, we had one cat who never caught anything more challenging than bugs and worms.

A couple of our cats died on the road. Another broke its neck falling off a roof.

I'm allergic to pet fur too- and take tablets for it. It's amazing how much fluff the average rabbit produces.