My two loving baby black kittens that I got from the APL in Sep. are grown now. They still love human contact and can't get enough. We've had crews out in the yard for the past two days doing clean-up. The two sisters, that just cuddle and love on everybody got their first real taste of the outdoors...all the doors are open. The two have co-operatively and systematically decimated the bird population in short order. They have been seen jumping from a stand-still 8 feet straight up and catching birds on the fly. One herds the birds toward the other and they take turns. It's unbelievable! The guys in the yard and I, stand in horror watching the carnage. One almost got a double-header. One of the guys said to me: "If they were any bigger, I would be afraid of them!" Debbie, my production manager, feeds and dotes on her little girls so the cats keep bring their kills to her and piling them up on her desk...she is mortified with their glee for the hunt. I told her she's been training them unconsciously for months now with her cat toy that is a brightly colored clump of feathers on a string tied to a stick. She looks at me and breaks out in tears sobbing: "I've created little MONSTERS!"
We haven't seen a mouse or such (alive, anyway) since September. Coincidence? I think NOT!