Wow... the same thing happened to me a couple of months ago.
I was woken up by my cat (nothing unusual there, lol). I didn?t think anything of it, she makes strange noises every night, and tried to go back to sleep. I heard her go under my bed and she kept playing with something, throwing it around, so I peeked under the bed to take it away from her so I could sleep. This time it wasn?t a piece of paper or a sock. I had to stare at it for quite a while to realise that she was holding a bird in her mouth. A BIRD.
Now it wouldn?t be such a big deal if I lived on the countryside and the cat could run free, but at the time I happen to live on the fourth floor, and the only place she could have catched the bird was this tiny window in my kitchen. I tried to get hold of the bird but I had no luck at first - she was very proud and protective of her first catch
It looked just like in cartoons really, the bird was so tiny the only thing I could see was a few tail feathers poking through my cats teeth! When she finally gave me a chance to see her precious toy I picked it up and saw that it was just a baby
It must have flown straight into her mouth! They can be very stupid and careless when they are babies.
I felt sorry for the bird but it was already dead so I threw it on the balcony and went back to bed. My cat soon followed me - without the corpse. I figured she got bored of her toy, but then I heard some noise on the balcony and saw a shadow in the corner of my eye. So I got up again and went to inspect the balcony. The bird was gone! I could have sworn it was dead when I was holding it in my hand.
The only thing left of it was a couple of tail feathers on the floor. I hope it survived but it might have died of shock after making the lucky escape. I wish I had taken a photo when I had the chance!
