Today, I witnessed the beautiful sight of a tiny baby bird struggling to take flight from its nest. "You can do it," I muttered, which I guess my asswipe of a cat heard as "Quick, go kill that bird and scar me for life, please." FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I watched a cat pounce on a small bird and rip it to shreds, feather by feather. It wouldn't have been any worse than mildly disturbing, had I not just spent the last 4 weeks nursing the bird back to health from a broken wing. FML
Today, I was woken up by a bird screaming its guts out. My cat had somehow managed to catch a bird and bring it inside. My 9 a.m. morning began with trying to catch a bird in my own home. FML
Today, my brother and I found a little bird that couldn't fly. While trying to convince my mom that it couldn't fly so we could keep it, I lightly tossed it in the air and it landed a few feet in front of me. Then my cat grabbed it and ate it. FML
Today, I'd had enough of the annoying bird constantly singing in the shrillest bird voice possible outside of my window, so I chased it around the yard, shooing it away, as my cat sat there and watched. FML
Today, I found a tiny, featherless baby bird. I knew it was impossible, but I tried to keep it alive through the day. Before I could get it to the wildlife center, it died, and when I got all choked up over it, my mom started laughing at me and saying how "weak" I was. FML
Today, I was caring for a bird that had flown into my window. I thought the poor thing wouldn't make it, when it shit in my hand, flew into my neck, then around my living room for ages before I could manage to get it out of the window. FML
Today, I saved a bird from being run over as it lay in the middle of the road. Thinking it had a broken wing or something, I started carrying it home, intending to take it to the vet later. It crapped in my hand and flew away. FML
Today, I found the eggshells from the nest belonging to the little bird that lives outside my house. They were covered in blood and it was quite obvious that they had been eaten. While I was looking at them, the mother bird came over and attacked me. FML
Today, I was with my 14 year-old son when we saw a baby sparrow being attacked by four or five blackbirds. We rushed up, waving our arms and scared away the much bigger attackers. The baby sparrow ran toward us for protection, then went past both of us, and ran straight down a storm sewer. FML
Today, I saved a baby bird from the site I work on. It was the runt and did not have any feathers and was neglected by the mother. I took care of it all day at work and planned on taking it to a wildlife reserve after work. Two minutes away from the reserve, we hit a pothole and I dropped it. It died. FML
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NodakN8V 25
Cats are assholes
Rawrshi 25
They might have thought you were staring at it because you were hungry but too stupid to catch it yourself. :D
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Comments (81)
iLikesOJ 13
**** dog lovers and cat haters cats ftw
MDoremis 38
That sucks, but cats are cats. It's in their nature to hunt.
Eyalsh 32
tell that to my cat, who watched a rat run from the door to the bathroom while sitting under the christmas tree. his only reaction was to lick his junk and destroy some more ornaments afterwards.
MDoremis 38
What a lazy bones cat! I used to have a cat who would go and catch chipmunks in the backyard and put them at my feet (still alive!) and catch it again when it ran away.
Bragi 12
Cats are predators; what did you expect?
somechick8266 14
aww poor lil birdy
gracehi 33
If you wanted an animal that sucked at hunting, you should have gotten a dog... or a toddler.
tournamentdecide 33
Not all dogs are bad hunters
gracehi 33
But few are as good as your average cat.
withered 30
Dogs are good hunters and can catch way bigger animals than cats can. The difference is that dog owners usually train their dogs not to do that and teach them how to behave whereas cat owners usually don't put any effort into teaching their cat anything.
asm9296 3
theres like a foot of snow in Virginia now. how are baby birds there now?
Arwen_Evenstar 37
People should stop letting their cats outside then. So many problems solved at once.
WattledParsley 11
Actually only one problem would be solved; and that would never happen.
bleedingglitter 24
It's a predator. Dogs will do the same thing.
StickyPickles 33
Nature can be cruel