Granfalloon

Here's something I learned yesterday: If your cat captures a bird you should never release it back into the wild, even if it appears completely fine, because the bird will most likely have been infected by bacteria in your cat's saliva and will end up dying from infection within a day or so anyway. My cat captured a bird in the yard yesterday. As far as I know this is only the third thing he’s ever captured in his life. When he was probably only about six months old I saw him in my West Chester front yard with something gray and fuzzy in his mouth, but he ran off into the bushes so I never found out what it was or what became of it. At my old Wissahickon studio he caught a cicada and brought it inside. And now, we’ve reached bird status. My cat immediately ran into the house with the bird as I chased after him, probably shouting like a crazy person. I then grabbed his neck and tried to pry the poor thing, which I thought was surely either dead or horrifically injured, out of th