Wildlife conservationists and bird lovers see furry killers. Outdoor Cats: Some find them charming.Unappreciated Importance: Researchers who work on the genomes of domestic and wild cats say their DNA holds clues to human as well as feline health.Naturally, I turned to YouTube.īetter Understand Our Mysterious Feline Friends That solution proved unsustainable - she’s heavy and I have things to do - so I had to come up with something else. For a while, we endured a morning ritual where I held her up to the kitchen window so she could see the outside world, cherishing this bonding time as she screamed in ecstasy. For a time, she tried to see the birds out of the kitchen window, but the windowsill was too narrow to contain her girth.Īs spring crept into summer, I could tell that she missed the birds. Over the course of a decade, I watched with pleasure as my silent cat found her voice and unleashed the predator within, chirping and trilling at the birds outside, her jaw moving like an animatronic character.īut then in August of last year, we moved to a different apartment, a place of our very own that afforded us space and silence but gave Daisy fewer vantage points for bird-watching. She is as low-maintenance as an expensive ottoman, but her passion for ornithology knows no bounds.
One of Daisy’s greatest joys was watching the birds on the roof of a neighboring building from the warmth of the radiator. For 10 years, we lived in an apartment in the middle of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, with two other people and one other cat. Daisy is an overweight tuxedo cat with a kind face and the patience of a saint her happiness matters to me as much as my own. Daisy and I discovered the birds in June.
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