DAD!!! The bird won't come down here and play!!!
By JJ
@JolietJake (50190)
May 19, 2016 2:55am CST
This has been going on for several mornings now. Sparrows have started another nest under the carport, and he is really interested in meeting them. 
He'll sit out there for a half an hour and just look...and look...and look.
It's a good thing he can't climb those metal poles, or the birds wouldn't be birds anymore...they'd be breakfast. 
I'll have to keep a close eye out when they get big enough to leave the nest, they'll be right in the area his lead covers when they do, and I'd rather watch them feed at the feeder, not watch him feed on them. 
But he's a cat...they're birds...it's the natural order of things.
Maybe if I got him some bacon he'd be too busy to notice...
He'll sit out there for a half an hour and just look...and look...and look.
It's a good thing he can't climb those metal poles, or the birds wouldn't be birds anymore...they'd be breakfast.
I'll have to keep a close eye out when they get big enough to leave the nest, they'll be right in the area his lead covers when they do, and I'd rather watch them feed at the feeder, not watch him feed on them.
But he's a cat...they're birds...it's the natural order of things.
Maybe if I got him some bacon he'd be too busy to notice...12 people like this
13 responses
@JudyEv (356255)
• Rockingham, Australia
19 May 16
@JolietJake We used to do that with just a rolled-up piece of paper on a string. The kittens - and cats - were happy to play along and try to catch it.
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@JolietJake (50190)
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19 May 16
Or put it on a string and twirl it around so he can leap and catch it.
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@hereandthere (45635)
• Philippines
19 May 16
he will slide down like a pole dancer
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@purplerose (413)
• United States
21 May 16
I know he won't hurt the bird's, he's just curious to see what they are doing. he might even help protect the babies when they are hatched, animal's are know to do that.
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@purplerose (413)
• United States
21 May 16
@JolietJake Well tell him bird's are for watching, not eating.
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@JolietJake (50190)
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21 May 16
Naw...he'd have breakfast...he's always trying to catch them
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@JolietJake (50190)
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19 May 16
Yeah...laser-sighting...it helps him aim when he pounces
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@Jackalyn (7558)
• Oxford, England
23 May 16
Dear Cat,
If you are anything like me you will get to play with a bird eventually.It drives Human 1 nuts when I do and she gets ever so upset. I don't know why we are not allowed to play with birds in the living room. It is not fair. Love fom Freya, the Catblog Cat
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@JolietJake (50190)
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23 May 16
I had 'fun' last summer when a finch got in the house...he was hanging from the curtain trying to catch it before me.
I don't think he was going to take it outside though
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@JolietJake (50190)
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19 May 16
Scar tries to sneak up on the birds and squirrels while they feed, but they are too quick for him.
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@LovingMyBabies (85296)
• Valdosta, Georgia
21 May 16
Bacon would get anyone's attention! 
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@Chellezhere (5940)
• United States
20 May 16
We had a cat back in the 1970s who would sit or lie down in the grass just out of our neighbor's dog's chain, and as he taunted the dog, mockingbirds would divebomb him.
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