Proponents of keeping cats indoors offer several arguments to make their case. Roaming cats prey on birds and can get slammed by trucks, they say, and might eat rat poison or lap up anti-freeze.
Here’s another one, and it was broadcast live for all to see: They can be devoured — by birds.
[The cat people vs. bird people war has made it to federal court]
In this particular case, by what seems to be a very hard-core eagle couple that resides in eastern Pittsburgh, and whose domestic life is streamed live on a web cam. Mom and Dad have two young beaks to feed, and cam viewers learned Tuesday just how seriously they take that job.
Late that afternoon, one adult was in the nest with the shiny black babies when the other swooped down and dumped something. Clear as day, there it was: a small, limp, brown-and-white cat.
In a YouTube video of the incident, everyone looked a little puzzled for a minute, then one of the adults dragged the feline to the other side of the nest. The video cuts out at that point, so the dinner scene is left to viewers’ imaginations.
Here’s the video. Warning: It isn’t gory, but it does show the cat.
Edited by
mightymoe
on Fri 04/29/16 08:36 AM
