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
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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 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
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 came home to find that my sweet kitten had gotten out and dragged a bird inside, where he ripped it to shreds. I found the bird's head in my underwear drawer. 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, I was sick in bed with a nasty flu. It was also the day my bird was eaten by an animal that had silently burrowed into the cage while I was recovering. 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 tried to help a bird who had broken his wing. I walked straight into a door while looking down at him in my hands, and ended up all but breaking his other wing. FML
Today, my cat thought it was appropriate to bring a bird into the house at 4 a.m.; the bird thought it was appropriate to attack my mom. FML
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marinus_fml 20
Should have given it a redbull.
StoryOfTheYear 15
Sounds like what happened to the Atlanta Falcons last Sunday.
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StoryOfTheYear 15
Sounds like what happened to the Atlanta Falcons last Sunday.
xlord 27
Sounds like an animal version of final destination??
fthislyfe 22
When I was a kid, my dad unintentionally hit a bird with his car. I cried for a month...
enonymous 9
I was expecting Panthers vs Cardinals reference since it's cat vs bird but the cards won
StoryOfTheYear 15
It would've been nice if Newton had added just two more yards or so to his record breaking performance so I would have been able to use that. But oh well, Falcons made it work.
RandomBlackMan 0
but will it blend?
omar888 2
Sting!!!!
ThePokemonMaster 5
Sounds like Meowth killed Pidgey.
stro88 6
Circle of life dude. Just like when mufasa died in the lion king.
Keyman1212 14
Mufasa wasn't a bird mauled by a cat... You could have worked a little harder on that metaphor.
Neorecon19 18
My friend and I found a young bird once that was too young to fly and had been abandoned by it's parents. We made a neat on the ground for it then less than my minutes later my brother went over and stepped on it, killing it.
hercs95 0
Y u no kick cat?
marinus_fml 20
Should have given it a redbull.
StoryOfTheYear 15
I'll give you props on that one, my friend. XD
EvilPotato 15
2 or a shotgun.
mohammadkm95 6
I agree with 17
Iheartfunny 1
I have days like that when everything you work on and put your heart into goes up in a feathered bloody but slightly humorous mess
obamathellama 0
OP should make a movie. And then it should end in slow motion with dramatic opera music as OP watches the bird get ripped to shreds.
enonymous 9
Comment moderated for rule-breaking.
Did you bathe it in butter and add some salt and pepper to it?
BOOSCAREDU 0
No, just no.
Arsonnist 3
Well...you win some, you lose...all of it.
RA661 8
And how did the cat manage to do that?! poor birdie..
dd809 9
It's a cat. Why is it shocking that it caught a bird?
BriBeHyper 2
^^hahahaha
StoryOfTheYear 15
5- I'd like to know what your thought process was before you posed that question...
RA661 8
Well, what I meant was, if OP was nurturing it, how did the cat get it? ( keeping in mind that he was taking care of it and probably had it somewhere safe)
MerrikBarbarian 9
I assume op had just released it, part of what you do in wildlife rehab when the animal recovers ;p
enonymous 9
Maybe the cat had a hard upbringing. It's mom fell on hard times and was hitting the milk bottle pretty hard. It abused catnip and lashed out on the cat. Turning this adorable beast into a killing machine. Also wtf is that a dog in a full body costume? It's eyes are telling me that it wishes it was the bird.
sydie5 12
enonymous, you never fail to lessen my boredom.
enonymous 9
65 - no problem. You may now go about your day. I'm like a cup of coffee in the morning... Except my cream penetrates your soul.
GardeningHoes 0
77- I don't think I'll be able to get a coffee now without thinking about soul penetrating cream.
enonymous 9
78 - I had the opposite reaction. I wanted to Bukake my Starbucks creamer today.
a_nutritionist 10
if you just finished nurturing a bird back to health why would you stand there want watch a cat rip your bird to shreds "feather by feather" and not do something? ydi for being an idiot.
nadhirah 4
I'm sorry :( why didn't u try to chase the cat away, at least it'll leave the bird and you can nurse it again.
liontigerfan 0
Why didn't he put the bird in like a small tree???
ugliness 6
cats kill quickly and efficiently, its very likely the bird died shortly after being caught :( i also doubt op could get a cat to drop its prey or chase it away
delude 26
This is why I'm a dog person
jswizzle_ 6
wow that sucks. :(
kareltje 17
And you stood there watching and doing nothing? In that case YDI (= not only You Deserve It, but especially You Dumb Idiot!)
BrittyBFMV 0
that was my question. why would u just stand there and watch...?
sadistmonkey 19
Probably because a cat can kill a bird faster than a human can reach the bird to rescue it?
Arsonnist 3
It probably wouldn't have been worth another four weeks of help if it was probably just going to kamikaze someone's door eventually. Maybe OP's. Then we would have an FML either way.
missbadluk 0
Not really. I have 3 cats and have had pet cats all my life. Cats "play" with their prey first. That's usually what eventually kills it. I highly doubt the op "didn't have time" to simply go over there and scare the cat away. Poor bird.
sadistmonkey 19
Shows what little I know about cats I guess. I just assumed a cat would simply pounce and kill the bird right then and there.
StoryOfTheYear 15
14- Feather by feather is quite a process.
aback 5
Yeah, makes me wonder what he was doing during all that time, beating off?
MerrikBarbarian 9
some cats play if they aren't hungry. a feral cat who is will kill as soon as they hit it, then maybe play with the corpse.
Allyrocks113000 0
Maybe they knew they couldn't reach it.... Or,of course, they didn't see it until later when they got home from work or something..... She ABSOLOUTLY DOES NOT DESERVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Freeze_fml 17
Circle of life is a bitch.
StoryOfTheYear 15
Simba learned that the hard way.
yoshivar2002 0
Well played, hoped I could drop the first lion king reference.
wh0teva 6
Or in this case, Zazu.
nightslayer 6
Fatality!!!