Today was one of those days where we had soccer practice and wouldn't be home until well after dinner time. Using some foresight I decided to let the kids run amok while I prepared dinner. Trevor comes running in to tell me that Lucky, our cat, has caught a bird. "Come quick, you have to see this Mom!" he tells me. Knowing that Lucky is very much a bird cat I went outside. I was expecting to see an adult bird with puncture wounds. This is what I found:
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This is what I found. Lucky had been "toying" with it like it was a mouse or vole. So I rescued it.
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And put it in a shoe box on
Julia's counter so she could figure out what to do with it.
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We think it came from the nest in the picture above. Trevor found another baby bird that was dead just below the nest.
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And this? This is our bird cat.....Lucky.
6 comments:
So I called the animal rescue and they wont take this baby since he's too big... Parents have to step it up and feed him on the ground. I put him on the outside of the fence where THE CAT can't get him.
My cat does the same thing. I used to feed the birds, but my bird feeder
became more of a cat feeder. I had to quit...it just didn't seem fair.
OMG that is amazing.
Ohhhhh, I dont like birds and even I think that is the sweetest little thing!
I heard that birds won't take care of their babies if humans have handled them. Something about the smell? I don't know, maybe that's a wise tale.
Oh, I hope the baby bird will be okay!
Although we have a cat that looks JUST like your Lucky, he doesn't catch birds. We found a few baby blue jays once in our yard and we were instructed to put them in a safe spot close to where the nest was and that the handling them really makes no difference to the mama bird. A few hours later they were gone, so hopefully Mama came to the rescue and this one will, too!
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