The local female cat guarding her patch. Little does she know that she's actually protecting the wounded pigeon in my garage from the black tomcat that I interrupted mid-kill, if only she knew.
Now I'm not a big fan of pigeons, infact I despise them I think they're flying rats so this just compounds the whole irony of this story.
So this god damn stupid Pigeon flys straight into my son's bedroom window scaring the crap out of him then proceeds to wander round our garden attracting far too much unwanted attention from all the local predators of the 4 legged kind. He should really be dead. And I was quite willing to let nature take it's course had it not been for my wife's objections. Mr tomcat turns up, doesn't **** around and grabs him by the neck. As I stood there listening to my wife's pleas I thought intensely of the several outcomes of the situation as I knew I'd only seconds to make a decision.
**** it, I went out and broke up the scrap. The cat scarpers but so does Mr Dopey, you little ****er! I thought. Of course he's scared we're the ones that come screaming at him if he doesn't stop eating the birdseed we've left out for the little ones. So that was that, back inside, another beer, some tunes and and and then the ****in' cat comes back with the pigeon in it's mouth, **** sake. Our garden is fenced off so he can't drag him away so I go out again and split them up. By this stage Mr pigeon is pretty roughed up and I'm wondering if he's still alive but he winks at me to let me know he's OK. So I need to get him into my garage away from danger if he's going to survive but the problem is it's locked and the key's in the house. It will only take seconds I thought he'll be fine. As I walk away I hear the thud of the cat's feet on the ground behind the bushes, I look under the tree line and he's there glaring at me as if to say, hands off, he's mine! I rush forward to scare him off but he makes a half hearted effort in leaving. He doesn't even jump up onto the fence hoping I'll walk away again so I come in close making plenty of noise forcing him up and out of the garden.
Now is my chance I thought so I ran into the house for the key and rushed back out again. Gloves on, basket out, bosh! In he goes and I drop him on the garage floor, there's still plenty of fight in him as I struggle to settle him so I let him flap for a bit and then he calms down. As I stood there assessing the situation Mr Tomcat turned up once again. By this stage I knew Mr dopey bollocks was safe but I was also intrigued to see just how far Mr Tomcat would push his luck so I didn't scare him away. I just made eye contact and stood motionless.
First he glared as before then he began to ignore my stare and advanced slowly in a zigzag while all the time sniffing and looking for clues. He knew I'd moved him but he couldn't see where I'd put him, the garage door was facing away from the garden so he couldn't see him.
I let him walk around for a bit to see how committed he really was but I closed the garage door just incase. Just as I was readjusting my thoughts on the realisation that I was going to have to protect this bloody flying rat, our neighbour's feline turns up and ****s Mr Tomcat right out of it.
So this is where I'm at, I need a another beer.
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