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[la_belle_laide]

Last night, the stray cat (or neighbor's cat, or feral cat, I have no idea,) pushed through the crack in the bottom of my aviary door. Or maybe it was this morning, while I was in bed. It usually starts to lurk by around 1 AM. I heard it howling first thing when I got up this morning and I immediately had a bad feeling. I didn't hear any of my birds.

It's trapped inside my aviary. It killed all of my birds. Morgan, a robin I was going to release today; Hotch, a non-releasable robin with a missing wing-tip, and Car, who I had for 4 years. Car was my surrogate to all of the aviary birds, teaching them how to eat on their own.

Their bodies are all still inside the aviary and I can't get them out yet, because I don't know if this cat is feral or has mites or what. I'm just waiting for a word from animal control. Maybe they can come and take it away forever.

And maybe it gets a nice indoor home from now on, or maybe it has Fe-Leuk and they put it to sleep or something, I don't even care. I just hate it and I want it gone and I want to bury my birds.

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so sorry

[just jenny (from livejournal.com)]

I'm sorry to hear about your birds. It seems to be one of those days I guess.

I saw a deer get hit by a car this morning and there was nothing I could do. No way to help. It was awful.

Hang in there.

Re: so sorry

[la-belle-laide.livejournal.com]

Ugh, that is also awful.

I did manage to bury my birds though. The cat is still in there, hissing and growling.

Re: so sorry

[just jenny (from livejournal.com)]

If you can, try to toss a moth ball into the shed. It won't hurt the cat but the smell will make it run away.

[fierynotes.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry.

[la-belle-laide.livejournal.com]

Thanks; it's so horrific and ugly.

[danalwyn.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry this happened.

[la-belle-laide.livejournal.com]

Thank you. The worst of it is that I should have repaired the door after the storms, but never got around to it.

[spatterdash.livejournal.com]

Oh god, i am so so sorry. That's horrible.

[la-belle-laide.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was/is pretty bad. Those were awesome birds and one was set to go free today. It's so quiet out there now. But anyway, thanks so much.

[la-belle-laide.livejournal.com]

Thanks. It was really, really crappy.