Friday, June 5, 2009

Hunter lives up to his name


It was a beautiful morning. The sun was just coming over the horizon and I could hear the birds chirping outdoors. I heard our cat, Hunter, crying at the front door and went to let him in. Lo and behold he greeted me at the door bearing a gift for our family. Living up to his feline destiny he presented us with the remains of his latest conquest, a blue jay.

While my initial reaction was to scold him I remembered that this is just part of his nature. One look at his proud face and I could only accept his gift graciously. Keeping his family full of tasty blue jay was his job and he was as pleased as could be. Hunter brushed up against my leg purring and I brought him in for a treat to reward him for his successful hunt.
Shutting the door to give Hunter his due I was more than willing to let my boys take care of gift removal when they woke up.

7 comments:

  1. Good Kitty! :) Well. since Blue Jays steal and eat other bird's eggs...what comes around goes around? I'm just sayin. ;) LOL Hunter is a gorgeous cat.

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  2. I bumped into your link on PW. I just had to write and say you sound an awful lot like me on your profile...I'm a country girl locked into a home in the middle of town. I'm looking forward to reading more of your blog, if that's okay!

    One question...how do you get your link to show at the bottom of your comment on PW? When I try to add a URL, my comment doesn't go through.

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  3. WTG Hunter!! Cats are soooo cool!

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  4. You can explain to good old Hunter that there are some advantages to NOT living in the country. Around here, we have to worry about our cats being killed by coyotes and fishers (a type of weasel). It doesn't happen very often, though. Last fall, a couple of fishers even attacked a neighbor's old collie in broad daylight. Actually more cats are killed by cars than anything. So hopefully the "r" in Hunter's name won't be changed to a "d" in the too near future.

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  5. They do tend to look so proud when they kill! It'd be cute if they're weren't so mean abuot it, lol.

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  6. We had a cat that liked to leave mice heads on our welcome mat. Once there were three at one time.

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