Philip

Sigh. I guess it had to happen sooner or later, our local family cat has started finding the local fledgling birds that have started to hop around the area and bringing them back home to play/hunt with. Yesterday, we found a live one that he brought in which we put outside again to hopefully hop off somewhere, somehow he found it again and that time it didn’t make it. Today, we found another live one which he brought in. I guess we’re lucky he doesn’t eat them on the spot (though, he has been known to do this) but the question remains about what to do with the live fledgling afterwards while fending the cat off.

I moved it to my back yard after consulting guides online, unfortunately I can’t put it back out where we think it’d be from as I’ve trained my cat to roam around and he’s got a pretty wide range, not to mention there’s about 2 to 3 other cats that overlap the same parts of territory so I’d say the chances of this fledgling bird surviving out the front are pretty low if it’s on the ground. My back yard isn’t 100% cat safe either, but off the ground hopefully this fledgling will have some luck in attracting the birds passing overhead to figure out where it is.

I guess I’ll find out tomorrow.