Aaagh Dunnocks And The Cat.....

[Mosaic]

They have to be the stupidest bird ever. Of all the possible locations to nest, they chose a bit of hedge conveniently at cat observing height in our garden. Bleddy cat's simply watched them like a soap opera and as they started to fledge about two hours ago......
I'm keeping her indoors for a while, but she's only doing what she's programmed to do. I think she only got the one before I steamed in and confined her.
I've been watching the dunnocks, and I've concluded that baby jesus designed them to be a cat toy. ground-feeding, move like a clockwork fluttery thing.....
How any of them survive is beyond me.
Gaaaaagh!

[redman41]

LOL Mosaic !
Nature can be very cruel at times...

[wolf63]

My two are indoor cats but whilst Frankie loves his hobby of ornithology his sister, Merlin, is scared of the noise (she is incredibly stupid).

Your cat will be climbing the walls by night time. It is such a hard life being a cat.

[dunnitall]

Good to see a cat owner trying their best to stop the bird carnage. I do realise how animals are programmed but still don't like the way cats "do their thing" and this is me a previous cat owner and who feeds a stray cat even now. Yes nature is really cruel, but it would be nice not to have to witness it at close hand - oh for the perfect world lol.

[DrFilth]

buy it a nice piece of steak and a new toy to play with

[DrFilth]

when i first saw your header i was thinking of these

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=dunnocks+caramel+photographs&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&;sa=X&ei=f56RU9PoCuSJ7AbbjIGYCg&ved=0CCcQsAQ&;biw=1047&bih=466#q=tunnocks+caramel+photographs&;spell=1&tbm=isch

[wolf63]

DrF - there is no way that I would waste chocolate on a mere cat. I was just asking them if they wanted roast beef from Tesco - they can make do with that.

[Mosaic]

She can have some tuna and a good sleep.

[wolf63]

Mosaic - has your young lady made your life miserable for restricting her to the house? They are capable of some very effective nagging when they are not getting their own way. :-)

[Mosaic]

Wolf, she's a very needy personality at the best of times, and expresses her deep love of her slaves by following us around, climbing onto laps, giving very wet kisses (eeew cat dribble) and kneading with sharp claws. If you ignore this she will hook you - once got me in the lip when I wasn't being sufficiently attentive. She'll manage being kept in a bit, but we might have gone totally off our rockers after 24 hours.

[campbellking]

They may have been fooled by watching cats like my cat Robbie who in his eight year existence has never come anywhere near catching a bird (much as he would love to) quite simply because he is too dim to have any hunting skills.

[wolf63]

Cats really are strange animals. They are unpredictable too. My two have sussed out that there is Tesco Roast beef in the fridge - Frankie is trying the old 'stare at the fridge and see if the door opens trick'. Princess Merlin is draped over the back of the armchair.

[askyourgran]

It is a fact of life, but not much you can do. My moggie came home with a sparrow in its mouth I managed to get it off him, he was mortified and tried to follow his prize. I took it upstairs out of his way, put it in a dish lined with an old sports sock and hoped it would be able to sort itself out on the windowsill outside. I kept checking on it for about an hour then the bird rallied round, I was thrilled, it then took off like a kamazi pilot and fell flat on it's beak on the flat roof below the window. End of sparrow and I couldn,t get to it to clear it off the roof...the cat slunk off.

[Mosaic]

AYG, that's bleddy sodden nature just winding you up.