For APR this week
the prompt is ‘what do you overlook!’ I
adore my three cats, but there is a feature of their makeup that sends shivers
down my spine. They have an inherent
cruelness when it comes to bird’s mice, butterflies, in fact, anything that has
wings and that is smaller than them.
Several weeks ago I
did a series of drawings about my cat Bro, two of them are suitable for today –
Bro in bird hunting mode!
Bro and Lucy are
hunters and take every opportunity to hunt, they know I don’t like it and have
stopped bringing the live birds inside.
You see they don’t kill them, they play with them. If the bird dies of shock Lucy will play with
the body for hours, Bro starts to pluck them of their feathers! I have only just realized that he is
expecting me to roast it for him. The other day I was putting a chicken in the
oven for roasting and he materialized out of nowhere as cats do. He gave his little squawk that he makes when
he has a bird in his clutches. He loves
chicken and will sit in the kitchen till it is cooked and given some choice
morsels!
Zena on the other
hand prefers to hunt mice, birds bore her, and she will yawn when Lucy and Bro
are playing with a bird. But a mouse
sends her into frenzy. Unfortunately,
she is a lousy huntress, unlike her namesake, and has to rely on Lucy and Bro
to bring them to her for games.
One thing I am pleased about is that they finally have
realized that hunting native birds is a definite no no. I suspect that it because they realize that
is the birds run rings around them, the wax eyes dart about just out of reach
and the fantails tease them by flying very close and then hover just above
them, laughing I suspect!
The picture below is a picture I did in honour of the
games that my cats play, the thing I I have to overlook as I love them to
pieces.
