and a yard across the street which was left outside during the day, got bored, and visited our back yard to hunt, too.
I and my husband chased one cat up a tree and called the owner to come and get it. He climbed our tree, the cat wouldn't budge, we got a blanket from inside and stood under the tree while the owner pursued the cat which leaped from the tree into the blanket which we slammed shut until he could climb down and get it.
Our next door neighbor had been in the aforementioned cat owners' house once, and their cat brought a live bird from our yard into their house, and they all ran around trying to catch the bird until they opened the door and the bird was able to fly away and save itself.
I was absolutely furious at the owners, but too timid to really yell at them about letting their cats destroy birds. I believe it's so obvious people should grasp how to do the right thing instinctively. It seems clear to me they just don't give a #### about inflicting pain and suffering through their cats.
Also, when I was a child, my parents kept a cat outdoors in California, and they had been raised around people who didn't seem to understand much, either. They didn't get a cat again until much later, by which time they finally had figured it out.
I personally saw a group of neighborhood dogs tearing a cat at our house and became hysterical, of course, and could never, never forget it. I am horrified that people will expose their pets to predators which will clearly go after them, as well.
It's all so damned unbearably sad, and it all could be avoided if people took the time to be responsible for the little creatures they take. Why wouldn't they protect them when they bring them into their lives, and respect the other creatures, also? God knows the bird population, along with all others, except for humans, of course, is rapidly disappearing.
Monstrous.
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