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August 11, 2004
A bird in the house?
Came out of the bathroom this morning to find Madam Paddy Cat in "pointer" pose at the bedroom door. She makes one heck of a pointer since her bird detecting radar had a lock on a small bird clinging to the edge of the lightshade!
As I saw the bird, it fluttered away in alarm and made a rather pathetic attempt to find a safe place to cling to as far from me as possible. Madam moved like lightning, eyes locked on target, and I only just managed to grab her as she streaked across the bed! Shades of the CD a friend has given me in German translated from the book "Diary of a Killer Cat" sprang to mind as I ejected her. I could hear the Cat in the story, in a bored German drawl, saying "OK, OK, Ich bin ein katte!"
Shut the bedroom door, hooked curtains out of the way, opened window to its widest and then tried to shoo the bird towards it. Birds in a panic do some damned stupid things, don't they! Common weaver birds in a panic seem to take some prizes! It eventually got the message and took the gap, whereupon I secured the window and opened the door. Madam came in at the gallop and plainly thought that I had caught said bird, and would now share it with her.
Kitty treats just aren't the same!
Posted by The Gray Monk at August 11, 2004 12:10 PM