Chatouille can now climb onto the fence and jump to the front of the house, where the traffic is :'(
Trave caught her on camera as she was walking on the (weak) fence on Sunday (you can hear the churchbells in the distance). She is much better at this now. We think that she wanders about looking for us when we are at work. Poor Chatouille!
Trave caught her on camera as she was walking on the (weak) fence on Sunday (you can hear the churchbells in the distance). She is much better at this now. We think that she wanders about looking for us when we are at work. Poor Chatouille!
Also, I am sorry to report that she caught her first birds at the weekend. We were still in bed on Saturday morning when we heard a loud bird-type shriek coming from downstairs: eeek! So here is, step by step, what we did:
- closed all the doors so that the bird could not fly anywhere else in the house
- took the cat away from the room
- opened all access to outside (windows & French windows)
- put some gloves on
- found the scared little bird, took it slowly in my hands, and took it outside on the grass
- made sure the cat was not nearby for at least 2 hours
So, we saved the first bird (female blackbird), but unfortunately, we saw Chatouille coming towards the house, towards the catflap, with a tiny little bluetit in her mouth. It was too late for this one.
Now we can see the truth: Chatouille is not a cute little kitten anymore, she is a KILLING MACHINE...
- closed all the doors so that the bird could not fly anywhere else in the house
- took the cat away from the room
- opened all access to outside (windows & French windows)
- put some gloves on
- found the scared little bird, took it slowly in my hands, and took it outside on the grass
- made sure the cat was not nearby for at least 2 hours
So, we saved the first bird (female blackbird), but unfortunately, we saw Chatouille coming towards the house, towards the catflap, with a tiny little bluetit in her mouth. It was too late for this one.
Now we can see the truth: Chatouille is not a cute little kitten anymore, she is a KILLING MACHINE...
1 comment:
Oh, little kitty - be careful! Despite myself I actually found that footage quite funny when she was slipping off the fence...
I know what it's like to worry about the little one. Balthazara (aka Shmooshy) is now wandering far and abroad into other people's gardens and, as you may have heard, she got lost a couple of months back - she was away for two nights when it was snowing! We eventually found her hiding under a bush in the road next to ours, mewing her little head off... When we brought her back she was jolly hungry and gave us much love that evening - including previously unheard of lap-sitting! I still worry about her but you know, you've got to set them free...
Hope you're both well xxx Gudrun
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