First of all, a little background:
Several weeks ago my daughter called me to ask if I would take in a stray cat dumped off at the school where she works in the cafeteria. I have an old vacant house on the back of my property, and I took the cat and set her up in the bedroom back there.
She was spayed last week, and yesterday my daughter came over and held her while I removed the stitches. So today was Lady Grey's first day outside. After spending more than a month locked up in a bedroom with only the occasional visit from me to feed her and clean up after her, with a little bit of petting and playing, she was pretty tuned in to me. She followed me around outside and when I came in the house, she hung around outside the door or by the kitchen window.
I was eating my lunch in my bedroom and the dog started raising a ruckus. I looked out the window and Lady Grey was all hunched up like a halloween cat. So I went outside to see what had her all upset. There was a hawk sitting on the ground just about 10' in front of the cat. I waved my arms at the bird but it just sat there. So naturally, I ran for the camera (that's natural, right? don't worry about the hawk making the cat a meal..run for the camera!)
By the time I got back outside the bird had flown up onto the roof of the tortoise house. Just inside this "gazebo" is a large flight containing a noisy blue crowned conure.
I don't know if the hawk was after the cat or the bird, but it kept eyeballing the wall where the bird was.
Several weeks ago my daughter called me to ask if I would take in a stray cat dumped off at the school where she works in the cafeteria. I have an old vacant house on the back of my property, and I took the cat and set her up in the bedroom back there.
She was spayed last week, and yesterday my daughter came over and held her while I removed the stitches. So today was Lady Grey's first day outside. After spending more than a month locked up in a bedroom with only the occasional visit from me to feed her and clean up after her, with a little bit of petting and playing, she was pretty tuned in to me. She followed me around outside and when I came in the house, she hung around outside the door or by the kitchen window.
I was eating my lunch in my bedroom and the dog started raising a ruckus. I looked out the window and Lady Grey was all hunched up like a halloween cat. So I went outside to see what had her all upset. There was a hawk sitting on the ground just about 10' in front of the cat. I waved my arms at the bird but it just sat there. So naturally, I ran for the camera (that's natural, right? don't worry about the hawk making the cat a meal..run for the camera!)
By the time I got back outside the bird had flown up onto the roof of the tortoise house. Just inside this "gazebo" is a large flight containing a noisy blue crowned conure.
I don't know if the hawk was after the cat or the bird, but it kept eyeballing the wall where the bird was.
