So this cat of mine....

[piskieinboots]

.....came in just now with a bird in his mouth – it was a 3-way fight!!

Actually it was amazing, it was the most beautiful Starling – I phoned Snowdrop for help (his office is only yards away from here) and up he screeched in a police car, ran indoors looking all copper like - hehe

Anyway, the poor bird was up on the picture rail after having being dragged indoors by the Fat Ginger One (!), the bird attempted to get through three closed windows!

Then he just flopped onto the curtain and Snowdrop gently put his hand out and Mr. Starling gingerly (bad choice of words!) walked onto his hand – amazing – then Ian put him on my hand, I gently took him outside and he stayed there, being stroked, so lovely – then the sod pooed on me and p1ssed orf!!

[Alison C]

In some places excreting on somebody can be a term of ednearment.
No Im only joking.

This story makes me feel uncomfortable especially with the other thread about cats. I am an animal lover but I really don't like cats. I wouldnt wish any cat harm but I really cant see why people like them. It is in a cats nature to hunt and kill but really I think there are just so many of them. I've noticed that most cats dont seem to eat a bird after they have caught it, they just leave them dead after playing with them a bit.

My sis has two cats and they used to bring all sorts back to the house, toads, frogs, birds, field mice. My sister put bells on their collars and they havent come back with a single dead creature for months.

I think the reason I don't like cats is that I cant see the point in them, I know they make people happy etc but as for them killing other creatures in the wild thats fine as every animal has a place on the food chain and the top of the food chain (the top carnivore) will eventually die and give back the energy of the animals its eaten to the scavengers that will consume its body.
However, cats have no place and will never give back and they dont live in the wild but can take what they want. Im sorry but it doesnt seem right. We all dislike poachers who pray on elephants and the like.

Put a bell on them all I think.

Oh and poor bird, it probably had a heart attack five minutes later.

[piskieinboots]

I didn't mean to make you feel uncomfortable Alison, I apologise for that - if this post offends you report it to the Mods and have it removed.

Nature is indeed odd, we love some bits, we hate others

....I think the reason I don't like cats is that I cant see the point in them....

I feel the same about slugs

[Alison C]

Dont be sorry I meant uncomfortable in the fact that I felt sorry for the poor bird. Im certainly not offended by your post. I think a thread should only be deleted if it is offensive in language or rasist etc. Other than that I dont think people should be allowed to sensor things just because they dont like it unless like I said it is truely offensive. I think we are all entitled to an oppinion!

[areia]

my moms cat is like hanibal lector he catches it kills the somhow carefully lays it out plucks it, then carefully eats it all licking the bones clean and what you are left with is two very neat piles of feathers each side and what you are with is a perfectly laid out skeleton and a very fat cat that wont eat for 2 days all he needs is a bottle of chianti, its very eeire.
Shes had 9 cats in all, all displaying differant traits my one used to play footie with mice before killing them, he didnt really eat them though, then there was the one time we woke up to a mapie that had be dragged through the cat flap gawd knows how he did it, then you'd open the back door and you'd see "presents on the mat with a cat sitting there with a smug grin on his face then wondering why you have told it off, we do try our hardest to stop them from eating birds especialy in the spring as we get loads of pairs coming into the garden, i love cats because they are easy to look after, i like dogs but i wouldnt have one i have a child and thats bad enough, no cats in my new place though i'm the bunny fosterer now

[piskieinboots]

Thank goodness we are all allowed an opinion, it would be a dull site if not!

I found it a draining experience, firstly I was shocked because he has never ever done anything like this (Charlie is 12 years old) , then scared, then pleased cos the bird got away straight away - albeit away inside my sitting room, which is where we stepped in.

I do honestly believe that Mr. Starling is fine now (even if I'm not!) cos when he was on my hand he had his beak open at first, which I understand they do when stressed - then after a few moments he closed it and sat looking around, he looked a lot calmer than I felt.

We watched him fly to the obelisk and sit there for a moment, then he flew to the bird table and started munching on the fat slab

[Alison C]

Then fell over and had a coronary.
HeHe sorry I am naughty. Im sure its fine and will flinch every time it sees something ginger

[Geo]

.....came in just now with a bird in his mouth – it was a 3-way fight!!

Actually it was amazing, it was the most beautiful Starling – I phoned Snowdrop for help (his office is only yards away from here) and up he screeched in a police car, ran indoors looking all copper like - hehe

Anyway, the poor bird was up on the picture rail after having being dragged indoors by the Fat Ginger One (!), the bird attempted to get through three closed windows!

Then he just flopped onto the curtain and Snowdrop gently put his hand out and Mr. Starling gingerly (bad choice of words!) walked onto his hand – amazing – then Ian put him on my hand, I gently took him outside and he stayed there, being stroked, so lovely – then the sod pooed on me and p1ssed orf!!

Your for it now piskie..wait till Soomai see's this thread..

He/she will report us to the R.S.P.B.

Geo..

[piskieinboots]

Your for it now piskie..wait till Soomai see's this thread..

who? ...........

[terrier]

Piskie, now that Fat Ginger One has got the hang of it, I wonder what he'll bring in next time

I call our cats 'the workies' 'cos thay do a professional job keeping our outbuildings vermin free and they're NOT allowed in the house. I just have to turn a blind eye to nature when they decide they need something a little more colourful in their diet.

[piskieinboots]

odd how it's taken him 12 years to give it a go!

I've had a word with him and said 'you even think about that again BFGT and you will be sold to the local Chinese - got it? Good!'

[HeyWayne]

The chuffin' cats round our way are rubbish hunters. I'd have no mices in me shed if they weren't.

Can I borrow ginger piskie?

[nelliegemini]

A cat we used to have enjoyed a challenge, once getting a wood pigeon in through the catflap (very loose feathered thing, your pigeon...).

He liked the chase but quickly got bored, we had a starling locked in the house all day, traced it to our bedroom by following the bird poo (very loose bowelled thing, your starling ...), then let it out through the window (and washed the carpet, sheets, curtains etc.)

He used to bring in mice and forgot where he'd left them, and seem to have the idea that once in the house they were a pet. We'd be sitting in the lounge, watching TV and a mouse would skedaddle across the carpet in front of him, we'd point and shout and get this 'and your point is?' look. We ended up feeding one of his mice that lived behind the bookcase, as a reward for it eating the ginormous spider that lived there before and had me, the OH and the cat terrified!

[Geo]

who? ...........

Cats and bad owners thread..

Post 112..

Geo..

[piskieinboots]

Naming and ashaming....if you don't like cats please look away now

This - folks - is BFGT.....