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Terry Bain's description at flickr (if there is one) » Swiper's most recent victim (discussed at greater length on my blog / My Cat Kills House Sparrows. Should I Let Her?. I caught her in the act here, and I simply can never allow something to be killed in my presence, especially when it looks as if she's just captured the bird and it might actually live. Of course, I don't know if the bird survived when I released it, but it seemed able to fly. It will likely end up a victim of some other predator, but at least this one seemed to have the strength to fly and move and escape, and didn't seem in pain. For now.
This always causes me a fair amount of distress, though it probably shouldn't. I just need to adopt a strategy... a philosophy... and stick to it until some better information comes along.
So long as I have an outdoor cat, she will hunt, and despite bells and whistles and requests not to, she will likely kill a bird now and then. Knowing more about the bird she catches helps, but it doesn't actually fix anything. I still can't watch her catch and kill a bird. And I don't know exactly why.
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Terry says » I do hope this little guy lived, despite the utterly overflowing nature of these birds around here. I think they only birds we have more of are ladybirds.Ha. Get it? Ha ha.
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