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Re: Top of the food chain

This is relative, as our, dangerous to rodents and birds, Calico learned yet again as a red fox chased her from the woods to the cat door. It was very close, and a dreadful noise, but I have seen been assured that foxes dont kill cats, and that Trudy must have gotten too close to her den. (great, there are going to be a family of foxes to deal with)

I am starting to instill this awareness into son of Tat, who will be moving to the West coast, escorted and introduced to the West by me on a ROAD TRIP! He needs to start understanding about not being the top of the food chain, rather than learning the hard way.

When young he used to enjoy chaseing birds, because they always ran or flew away. One day when he was 2-3 yrs we went to a park where there were ducks, geese, and swans. Clearly all fit nicely into the bird category and thus were fair game. I, with great interest and anticipation, watched him closing on them until one turned on him and gave him a most impressive full wingspread aggressive display.


The look on his face was priceless when he learned that all birds dont run , but I would rather he learn about cougars and griz etc in a less direct way.

TAT