It’s Saturday, Caturday.
Warning: sensitive readers may want to skip this post; a couple of GIFs that some might find troubling.
Let’s start with some innocuous pictures. A staring cat, and a second one in the feeder, probably startled by some noise:
Pansy in the shop:
Pepper in the shop:
The alien orange cat, Pumpkin, caught a bird below the bird feeders. Rather than include a sequence of photos, here’s an animated GIF:
One of our feral cats was interested:
Raccoon vs possum at the feeder:
Another animated GIF, of a rather nasty encounter between Pumpkin and a raccoon inside the shelter. Pumpkin was inside the shelter, and saw the raccoon. The raccoon came running up, and after Pumpkin hissed at it a couple of times, the raccoon dove inside and attacked Pumpkin:
I suspect that was a female raccoon feeling like she was protecting a youngster:
One of our ferals checking out the shelter after that:
Let’s finish off with some more usual scenes. A couple of cats having dinner:
Three cats:
I hope those GIFs weren’t too disturbing. Let me know if you think I should avoid such content in the future. It’s all part of nature, as uncomfortable as it may be sometimes.
As you say, life’s like that. I think that I saw the real thing -not being on facebook. What sort of bird was it? Nothing too exotic I hope. Cats are really clever they way they can move into high gear to anticipate & catch things that move.
I couldn’t see the bird well enough, but I think it was a grosbeak, which is a fairly common variety. We don’t get anything too exotic here.