Death on a winter's day
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Death on a winter's day
| Sun, 02-27-2005 - 6:44pm |
The neighborhood tomcat caught himself a juvenile bird and came prancing into my yard with it this morning. He dropped it and began mauling it with his claws and teeth. The poor little bird was still alive and I kept trying to shoo the cat away. I ran and got my ax, intending to cut off the bird's head and put him out of his misery but couldn't quite manage to go through with it. I picked him up and put him in a shoebox with some leaves for a bed, hoping that he was just stunned and that he would eventually recover and fly away. At first he was sitting there holding up his head and breathing, but his head kept sinking lower and lower until it was resting on the leaves. His breathing eventually slowed to a stop. He only lived about an hour and a half after I put him in the shoebox. Later I buried him amongst the hydrangeas, because they, too are in slumber.
I love my cats but I hate the way cats catch little mammals and birds and seem to take delight in tormenting them before killing them. Sometimes they don't even kill them. They just bat them around until they are too wounded to provide with cat with any further amusement. Just wanted to vent a bit, because the whole incident with the little bird made me sad!
Thanks for listening-
Iri
I love my cats but I hate the way cats catch little mammals and birds and seem to take delight in tormenting them before killing them. Sometimes they don't even kill them. They just bat them around until they are too wounded to provide with cat with any further amusement. Just wanted to vent a bit, because the whole incident with the little bird made me sad!
Thanks for listening-
Iri

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Remember, it is we humans who have created this situation. Cats only do what they are programed to do. They are hunters and simply because they are getting fed by humans doesn't change that fact. A cat's instincts don't change. This creates the problem. We let our domestic cats roam around with their instinct to hunt but they are no longer hungry enough to finish their kills. To us it just seems like the cats are playing and torturing their prey. To the cats, they are hunting.
I am really on my soapbox about this, because it is happening in my backyard too. I get mad too. I don't like to see little birdies hurt but I can't really blame the cats. It is their owners who deserve the blame.
Okay, I will hop of my soapbox now.