The Nature of the Beast

[andygates]

It's feed-the-birds season, so I spent some time on Sunday resurrecting the bird feeders: a tower o'peanuts, some fat balls and the table for scraps.  Mr Sandwich the rook, or jackdaw depending on who's dropping bread on my garden, will be delighted.

To make this fair on the birds I also got Bel a bell.  She reacted by pulling her best disgusted face but it's supposed to help reduce birdy carnage.  After all, this isn't bait. 

Today I come home to a carpet full of feathers, one little foot, and some red jibbly bits.  Bell, schmell.

Comments

[lurkingcat]

The first time we put a collar on Shadow he "lost" it. Under the futon. So we put it back on. Whereupon he took himself outside and lost the collar more thoroughly. So we replaced it. He spent a happy evening under the futon very carefully removing the bell and making sure that it was in no fit state to be re-attached to the collar. Several years later he's still wearing the collar and we seem to have come to an agreement about not bringing prey into the house.

That said, Kheldar managed to catch a fine specimen of a pigeon whilst wearing a bell. I think we've also come to an agreement about not bringing prey into the house, although that could just be because swallows his whole and there's nothing left to bring in...

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Perhaps I should add a little drum and cymbals?

[lurkingcat]

*amused*

Why not go the whole way and add a drum machine? And a collar-mounted webcam so that you don't miss out on the fun ;)

[andygates.livejournal.com]

CatCam, for all those hunting dramas... and hours of sleep. But I'd see that she's up on the kitchen worktops and doing foul things! Ignorance is bliss.

[flitljm.livejournal.com]

Aha, but do you dare try Catbib?

Positively reviewed in 'Conservation'. I think my cat would leave home.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

There are limits, you know.

If there was a Hello Kitty Catbib, it might be a different matter...

[flitljm.livejournal.com]

I'm trying not to imagine the bits of bird smeared over the bib.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Mostly feathers. It's always mostly feathers.