Letter to Callie Cat

[amethyst73]

WARNING: Potentially trigger for small animal violence

Dear Callie Cat,

We are impressed with your hunting prowess!  Two nights in a row, you've brought us ..presents, the fruits of your mighty skill.

In the future, we'd really appreciate it if you made sure your prey was actually dead rather than stunned when you bring it by.  Watching the mouse get up and attempt to toddle off - with you following it - followed by a squeak that sounded _exactly like a squeaky toy_... well.  I'd just as soon not be so familiar with the sight of a cat pursuing its prey.

Sincerely, 
Me

Comments

[stolen-tea.livejournal.com]

Heh. I remember one time, senior year of high school, that one of our cats brought a live bird into my bedroom. It kept trying to fly out the window, and kept hitting glass and bouncing off. It was one of those windows where the top pane is fixed but the bottom pane moves up, and the bird kept trying to go out the top. We eventually got it out somehow... :)

[amethyst73.livejournal.com]

Our first summer of being married, we lived in a tiny little cottage that got no air circulation. We'd left the front door open one particularly hot afternoon/evening, and a bird flew in. It spent a good few hours perched on our chandelier, because it was having a hard time figuring out that it had to fly down in order to get out the door. We eventually turned off pretty much all the lights in the house and left the porch light on when it got dark, and the bird eventually got the picture.