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My scaredy boy Casper has his own room and it is prime real estate for bird watching. He sits on his "perch" which is a small table covered with a nice warm fleece blanket and looks out the window. THIS morning - for the first time.. I actually heard and saw him chattering at the chickadees in the trees! This makes me feel good.... he was enjoying himself!
 

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Originally Posted by AddieBee

My scaredy boy Casper has his own room and it is prime real estate for bird watching. He sits on his "perch" which is a small table covered with a nice warm fleece blanket and looks out the window. THIS morning - for the first time.. I actually heard and saw him chattering at the chickadees in the trees! This makes me feel good.... he was enjoying himself!
he was really thinking about how good they would taste!!
sorry, could not help myself
 

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Awww, don't you just melt when they do something like that for the first time.
My cats are still suprising me with what they do.

I used to love it at my old place when the squirrel would taunt my cats and they would go NUTS. They could keep it up for a whole hour before the squirrel would go on its way.
 

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We have several familys of mockingbirds that nest here and they are very territorial. During Hunters years as an indoor/outdoor kitty he tried to catch a few hatchlings and has ever since drawn the wrath of the flock. If he stepped onto the porch they dive bombed him en masse, and now when he sees them out the window he quivers and chatters and snarls.
 

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I put a suction cup feeder on my kitties window. The birds are so used to the cats pawing the window, they pay no attention to them and continue to feed.

The birds aren't the only thing chirpping!
 
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Originally Posted by farleyv

I put a suction cup feeder on my kitties window. The birds are so used to the cats pawing the window, they pay no attention to them and continue to feed.

The birds aren't the only thing chirpping!
Do those things really stay put? My big concern with doing that is them... um... "doing" their business all over my courtyard.

One time early in the season when we had BIG fluffy snowflakes floating down, three of the cats were running from window to window downstairs, chattering their heads off at them!
 

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I remember in our old house we had a chipmunk that would taunt Sophie. He'd also scare away the mourning doves that were 3 times his size in order to get at the feeder.


It was always fun to see her chirping at the birds outside. Of course after we moved another chipmunk took it upon himself to taunt her by stepping up onto the porch steps and just sitting there.
 

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Ari is the main birdwatcher here and prefers the mourning doves. (SQUAB!!!
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Wished he could have seen the squirrel the day it clung to the window screen and chattered at me. ("Yo! Human! The feeders are empty! ")
 

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Originally Posted by Faerian

I remember in our old house we had a chipmunk that would taunt Sophie. He'd also scare away the mourning doves that were 3 times his size in order to get at the feeder.


It was always fun to see her chirping at the birds outside. Of course after we moved another chipmunk took it upon himself to taunt her by stepping up onto the porch steps and just sitting there.
Our dogs spend the day outside in a pen under a pecan tree. There is a sqirrel that tosses husks down on them from the tree and likes to run around the top of the pen teasing them. I pray he never misses a step, because I think my normally friendly dogs would tear him to pieces after a year of that.
 

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I love it when cats do that, theirlittle mouth moves like mad and the funniest off noises come out, its great. xx
 

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Abby, my Old English sheepdog,(
RB 11/06) had a squirrel that lived to mess with her. It would park itself on the porch and when Abby would go out she'd chase him and he'd go up the tree he lived in. I swear he loved to mess with her.

I'm sure he was greatly depressed when Abby went blind(at 5) and couldn't chase him anymore. Even of she hadn't gone blind she was mildly arthritic by 6 so she wouldn't of had much chase left in her anyways.

If he had screwed up Abby would have killed then ate him. There was a stupid cat that came into the yard twice, and this cat knew that there was a large dog in the yard. Either Abby or another dog got it because it was dragging it's legs behind it not long after that. I can see once, since Attitude and Nuts and the other cats have all messed with Mitzi's dogs, but they made sure they had an escape route. The first time it decided to rest in some brush in the garden. Abby walked over, her little stub started shaking taking the rest of her rear with it. She jumped the fence that separated the garden from the rest of the backyard(she could have jumped the fence in the backyard but guess he never had the desire) and went straight to the pile of brush, she sticks her face in and starts yelping and I think Abby got a nip in as the cat streaked out over the fence. It wasn't hurt and neither was Abby. If it came into her yard it was fair game. She met me at the back door at 4 months old with a dead rabbit in her mouth, looking very proud like "look what I got mom." I also once saw her jumped into the air and catch a bird in mid-flight so if the squirrel had messed up he would have been a tasty snack. Now she wouldn't hurt a fly unless threatened outside of the backyard, but she had to protect her backyard from anything threatening 'her flock.' I still miss her, she was a trip. She lived to 11 1/2 and never lost her spunk even after she couldn't see and was severely arthritic and couldn't move too well.

Taryn
 
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