:o( My cat killed and brought down THREE poor sparrows from INSIDE our house!!!

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What a sad evening. My whole family was so baffled. Our "youngin'" (5 year old) cat brought us some 'treasured' gifts. She was in the house, and I heard the creek of a door upstairs, which I thought was either my sister or her long-timer, who had just arrived today for the weekend. When I opened my bedroom door, right outside my door, in the middle, top of the stairs, was a loving but heart pinching gift from my sweet cat. A beautiful, poor, dead sparrow! Oh no! I called out for someone in my family to come over and help. Father came over, as I yelped the news, asking him to come clean up before it was eaten up. Well, she (kitty) was already right in front of him, and he said she's already eating antoehr bird right in frotn of her, placing her paws on, claiming it possessively. I coudln't believe it. But I found that the creeky sound had been the attic door, which my sister had closed (but not with the tricky click to seal shut). We don' go up there often at all, as it is a storage place. Has windows, but none were open. My father went up to make sure of all of that. He wanted to make sure that nothing was open. But couldn't find our cat, so worried she was still up there, so left door open. Boom, a third bird, this time ALIVE, poor thing was caught and brought down! This was almost too much for me. :o( We later realized that it must be all of the insulation padding that is around the edge all over the attic where the roof slants down to the floor of the attic. it is like big huge, pinkish poof-balls, that have been there to keep it insulated, ever since we moved here about 25 years ago. Most likely, if you dig past it all, then there are small openings, which is how the poor birds probably thoguht it was a heavenly nesting place. Well, now the rule is that our cats are never allowed in the attic. This was such a shock though, as they've gone up there before to play, but nothing like this (and we mainly go up just at holiday season to bring down Christmas decorations and such). Has anybody had any similar problem or experience to this? Or any thoughts are very much welcome! Thanks, friends!