Re: Cat and gull


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A major newspaper here publishes pictures sent in by the readers. They elected this the reader picture of the week.

http://lukijoidenkuvat.hs.fi/kuvat/elaimet/38437/2/#top

I'm thinking that cat is lucky there's a window between them. Long, long ago, when Frank was a young cat, I lived in a flat where one of my windows gave onto a roof where a lot of gulls used to hang out. Every now and then a gull would come and look in the window. Frank would be all puffed up inside on the window seat and 'protect' his home and wimminfolk.


Birds that are bigger than you can be very disconcerting. Birds have no business getting that big. ;)


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Theresa and Dante

Stinky Forever: http://pets.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh



LOL Tell that to Persia. I get huge black crows (probably ravens) landing in my back yard. Doesn't stop Persia from posturing if she spots them. Of course, they don't come right up to the window like that gull did :)

Jill

LOL There used to be a big bird store in Greenwich Village, that had a lot of very exotic and big parrots-- and a family of cats. I had some interesting adventures there-- once a lovebird landed on my shoulder and pried my earring out of my ear. ;) And I was there one day when a new litter of kittens was first allowed into the main room with the birds. Those were some confused kittens!!! They all clearly had the notion that something wasn't right, there. But soon, they got as comfortable with the birds as the grownup cats. One of the things I ofen saw, passing that store, was a gigantic, gorgeous blue macaw and a grey cat, asleep in the window together.

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Theresa and Dante

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Birds do love shiny things (hence the earring)! All of my parakeets (I had many before Peaches the lovebird) were fascinated by my earrings, necklaces and eyeglasses). I don't know why shiny things fascinate them so much.

I have a three-tierd copper fountain on my patio filled with shiny "pebbles" (they aren't really pebbles, the sort of thing a florist might add to a clear vase of flowers). The larger birds and squirrels keep taking the pebbles out of the basin and leaving them around on the patio. LOL

Jill


Yes! There's a parrot aviary in South Florida that I sometimes visit when I'm down there, and they always instruct people to take off their watches and jewelry before they go in. The parrots are so eager to check everybody out, and I guess you don't need them trying to pry everything off you with those sharp beaks and claws. A pet macaw (he went birdwatching with his slave!!) tried to lift my dad's watch in a bird sanctuary.

My family really likes birds, BTW.


Oh no, I almost forgot the funniest part of the story! The bird sidled up to my dad, gave him one of those sideways, beady-eyed looks, and said to my Dad, very casually, "Hello!"




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