November 17, 2003
LET HER EAT!
My daughters' kitten has been licking her chops for the gimp parakeet for a year now. She's actually pulled the cage over a couple of times, but fate and my daughters intervened to preclude disaster.
The old tom wanted that bird at one time, too, but he's lost interest, preferring the fatter species of bird to be found in the back yard, corpulent on my avian granary, too fat to fly.
I don't care for the gimp anyway, and would like to make her free range. If you consider the environs of the Bat Cave free range. Let nature take its course.
Query: how do I sell this natural phenomenon to the kids? I'd just feed the bird to the cat, given my druthers, but that takes all the sport, and fairness, out of it.
Our new dog is set on getting a squirrel. I'm forcasting that he will climb a tree someday and swing from the branches like a squirrel.
As for the parakeet, I couldn't do what you are contemplating doing (feeding the bird to the cat). Doncha just love how cats move their mouths up and down while humming when they see a bird?
Posted by: Laura at November 18, 2003 6:58 AMSiiigh.
Leave the bird alone and go make Rob fix yer link, which I got here using and is still wrong.
Or...
Just....leave the bird alone.
Men...(shaking head)
Posted by: Stevie at November 18, 2003 9:17 AMFeed the bird to the cat, and the cat to the kids.
THEN explain to them how nature operates.
OR...you could tell the kids that it's either THEM or the PARAKEET -- their choice.
Posted by: David at November 19, 2003 10:09 AMLeave. Da. Widdle. Birdy. Alone.
Or, I'm gonna go tell tell Granny!
Damn it.