Thursday 31 October 2013

Spooky cat and bird

Many, many years ago my Mum, Sister and myself were watching a spooky film and as the tension in the room was rising our old cat, who was lying sleeping along the top of the sofa, clearly thought she'd show a wee bit of solidarity and support for her scared humans. So she silently and slowly reached out and gently popped a reassuring paw on my sister's shoulder which nearly caused her to hit the ceiling and her shrieks scared the hell out of my Mother and myself. The cat was most miffed at the stupid humans reaction!

At the same time as the old cat was alive we had a budgerigar who was normally one forceful package of feathers. He was a sweet soft green boy budgie who was mine but oh heck did he have a temper especially if you didn't go to bed by ten pm. This wasn't great for a family of late bedders and many-a-night we'd end up going because he set up such a racket that the tv couldn't be watched, or more correctly heard.

Anyway, one night we were trying to watch Hitchcock's The Birds and as usual by 10pm he was doing his go to bed antics quietly, then more loudly as we weren't budging. So one trick was to pop his cover over him which sometimes fooled him. And on this occasion it worked but only for a short while. In the scene where the birds are attacking he decided to chirp up by shouting "Good boy" and  "who's a Good Boy" which totally ruined the film as we were laughing so much at him. My little palm sized bird-brain could not have been any match for Hitchcock's birds.


11 comments:

  1. We had to laugh about your budgerigar taking on Hitchcock's birds!
    Luv Hannah and Lucy xx xx

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  2. Those are such fun stories! Love them both!
    Happy Halloween!

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  3. Great stories!!

    Happy Halloween!

    The Florida Furkids

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  4. Fun stories..Happy Halloween, sweet friends=we missed you guys and are very glad you're back!...kisses...Calle, Halle, Sukki, Mommy Cat, Daddy Cat

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  5. Those are such great stories! I especially loved the one about the cat's scaring your sister half to death. It was just trying to help. :)

    Happy Halloween!

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  6. What great stories! Happy Howl-o-ween!

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  7. BTW, you'd get more comments without the capcha thing. Most bloggers object to it cos it's hard to read. Just meowin'.

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  8. What fun/scary stories "The Birds" one totally had me MOLing. Happy Halloween

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  9. MOL! Great stories! 'Specially the birdie one. Silly birdie.

    Hope you had a Happy Halloween!

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  10. MOL! I'm not surprised your budgie ruined The Birds!

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  11. Always wondered what a live birdie would do when humans were watching that film. Better to laugh than be scared....Mommy still doesn't like to be close to wild birdies much. Scary kitties don't bother her, thank cod!
    QUINN

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