I have a cat. His name is Buddy. He'll be 3 years old in June. He's a bit on the crazy side. The girls love him. Well...Yesterday we had a bit of excitement that involved him in the Fireheart Household. I told Jeopardygirl about it on the IM today, and rather than type it all out again, I will just show you the IM log. It has been edited to take out some personal info that need not be broadcast. Like our IM names, etc. But altogether, a very exciting episode for a Sunday.
CissaFireheart : OMG
CissaFireheart : I have to tell you about my cat and the bird
CissaFireheart : holy carp I can't believe I didn't tell you yet (and yes readers, I did mean the FISH carp)
Jeopardygirl : what happened?
CissaFireheart : ok so yesterday I was getting dressed around 11:15 or so. Emily had a party at 12 to be at.
CissaFireheart : as I am drying off, I see Buddy is trying to get at something under the baseboards
CissaFireheart : well Buddy's a couple cards short of a full deck at times, so I passed this off as Buddy Being Weird Trying to get a marble or something from under there
CissaFireheart : but he's REALLY going at it, so I start to wonder to myself "Shit, maybe we have a mouse"
CissaFireheart : By now I’m ½ dressed, and I go around my side of the bed again to take a look at him and his going after this whatever
CissaFireheart : all of a sudden, he flings his head out from the baseboards, and there is something considerably good-sized and grey and has WINGS in his mouth!!
CissaFireheart : I yelped, ran out of the bedroom and slammed the door
CissaFireheart : somehow, a BIRD was in our house, under the baseboards!!!!
Jeopardygirl : holy carp! (she meant the FISH too)
CissaFireheart : I called Hubby frantically and he comes up I gave him a frenzied shrieky rundown
CissaFireheart : he's like "Why didn't you just take it from him?”
CissaFireheart : I'm like “DUH!! BIRDS HAVE DISEASE!!!!”
CissaFireheart : I closed the door because I was afraid it might attack me or the kids and we'd get the bird flu or rabies
CissaFireheart : lmao
CissaFireheart : Hubby thought it was funny too
CissaFireheart : so we go in the bedroom 
CissaFireheart : and Buddy is pawing at my slipper by my bed
CissaFireheart : SOMEHOW, the bird got OUT of Buddy's mouth, and had burrowed itself in the toe of my bedroom slipper
CissaFireheart : I was freaking out "Is it dead? Is it bleeding?!"
CissaFireheart : Hubby's like "No, he's alive and trying to hide"
CissaFireheart : So Hubby takes him downstairs and out the front door. As soon as Hubby taps the toe, the bird pops out and flies away.
CissaFireheart : I then direct Hubby to put the slipper in the washer because of germs
CissaFireheart : the end
CissaFireheart : lol
Jeopardygirl : I half expected you to throw the slippers in the garbage
CissaFireheart : lmao CissaFireheart : nah hot water will disinfect it
CissaFireheart : with bleach CissaFireheart : but now I have 2 questions
Jeopardygirl : Mo (her cat) caught a bird, once, but it was outside. She lunged out the front door after it, and brought it onto the front porch
CissaFireheart : 1.) when did the bird get under the base boards?? CissaFireheart : 2.) HOW THE HELL did the bird GET IN MY HOUSE and under the baseboards?!?!
And there you have it, readers...My Sunday Morning.....
$10 says Mimi freaks out and starts looking under her baseboards now! ;)
Monday, April 10, 2006
Buddy and the Bird
This Fire Sparked by Cissa Fireheart at 4/10/2006 10:12:00 AM
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My neighbor's cat left me with a wonderful present on my driveway last summer: a rabbit's head.
How thoughtful.
That story is for the birds. It is weird what birds can get into. Once when my office was under the organ pipes we heard walking around above us. To get to the organ loft we had to take a ladder and climb up through a trap door. What we found was a bird in the organ pipes. He knocked some over and messed on some. We got the bird to fly down through the trapdoor and out. Never did find out how it got in there. Cost a good deal to put the organ back in shape. We had no bird insurance.
Ihave never had a wild bird in my house. Owned two that were in cages. I have had a bat, fun was had by allws
Hah, reminds me of my mouse episode this week! Check out my blog on myspace for the scoop.
A bird in the house is supposedly a sign of good luck in some cultures. When cats bring things to you, it is them showing that they love you. I get lizards all the time from my cats
I once had a bird in my bedroom. It had come in through the open window and was very hard to get out again. But under the base boards? Very strange.
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