gooeydog Posted July 3, 2004 Posted July 3, 2004 We went to the drive-in movies tonight, didn't get back until about 2am, so after we unloaded the truck, I grabbed Goo to walk home a friend who went with us. We were almost to her house, when we noticed a white-ish looking shape over on the ground by the other side of the road, and my friend went to check it out. Turned out to be a cat with a baby bird, and the cat was NOT looking to let the bird go. My friend was tryign to shoo it off, but it just hunkered down over the bird and looked at her. We thought the cat was a pet we've seen around, but there's a lot of strays around here too, so we weren't about to just reach down there unless we knew it was safe, and Goo was growing antsy watching the exchange between cat and human. I thought maybe if I walked Goo over towards them, the cat (it wasn't actually holding the bird right then, just laying and kinda hovering over it) would move away, and sure enough, it worked. Then I stood right by the bird as my friend ran into her house to grab a towel to pick him up with, the cat was kinda wandering around us, but wouldn't come too close with Goo standing there. At one point, the bird peeped, and the cat started to get closer... Goo sniffed the bird, then gave a little hop at the cat like, "back off, this is MY bird!" (now whether she'd decided to adopt him as her own, or to have him later as a snack could be debated upon :roll: ). We ended up taking the little bird over to my aunt's for the night, he's got some missing feathers/fur and a few scrapes, and was scared out of his mind, but he ate a bit, and is staying in a box with some towels and a hot water bottle. My aunt's going to try to get ahold of the bird rehabber tomorrow before they go away, if they can't, looks like we may have a little visitor until she gets back to contact her to take him. He was so ugly-cute that I had to take a pic of him, here he is: Quote
StarFox Posted July 3, 2004 Posted July 3, 2004 Aww Good job Goo!!! Hope the little bird gets better soon as possible. Quote
mouseatthebusstop Posted July 3, 2004 Posted July 3, 2004 aaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrhhhhhhhhhh so cute Quote
Carolk9s Posted July 3, 2004 Posted July 3, 2004 Good for Goo and you and your friend! Just this morning, Candy flushed a bird in the back yard, it probably has a nest because it went into the broken wing act. As soon as Brittany saw it, she started to pounce. I had to yell quite harshly at her, finally the bird hopped across the grass and went under the fence. It might have even been injured, Brittany got QUITE close to it. Quote
imported_Kat Posted July 3, 2004 Posted July 3, 2004 aww Goo you are such a sweety pie. GIve her a great big huggle from me :D Quote
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