Dog's new friends

DD1's cat who is staying with us just now brought in a baby bird earlier. I managed to capture it and thought putting it high up in a conifer hedge would be a safe place as I didn't want to,leave it on the ground or exposed. The cat brought it back into the house an hour later, this time, dying. It is presently in my utility room in a shoe box waiting for the inevitable to happen. I know,it's nature etc but it is really upsetting.

Oh, no chance of red ones [I've never seen one, even when I go to Cragside they hide away from me]. But, blow me, when I was getting in the car this afternoon one ran along the fence. I've always had grey ones in the garden [squireels; another typo..they're getting worse].

Are you hoping for red or grey ones, Tegan? Does your area still have red ones? They prefer pine woods.

At the [earlier] mention of squirrels I was only saying the other day that there are no squireels in my garden. This is unheard of and I'm quite confused by it as I'm surrounded by pine trees.

Foxes, badgers, muntjac and my cats all hang out together in my garden. They seem quite comfortable in each others' company. Who needs a TV when they set off my outside light?

Reminds me of some of our neighbours when we first moved to Cornwall. House Martins used to nest on some of the houses - never on ours though and I was so appalled by the number of people who just used to knock the nests down.
I'd pay money to have fox cubs in my garden (think some of the cats might leave home though!)

Good thinking, vegas. I'll claim to have seen a rat if he objects to the fox cubs!

What a miserable so and so. Perhaps tell him that all the while the foxes are there, they will prevent rats from nesting under the decking.

Don't know, vegas. I would have thought the vixen would be there with them at midday and put a stop to it by shifting them, but obviously not. My next door neighbour isn't a great nature lover - he cut some low branches from the ancient oak tree at the end of our shared path because he didn't like the spiders webs on them. They were beautiful! I hope he gives the cubs some space for a few weeks.

How lovely! I wonder what on earth the fox cubs are making of her ...