My cat just attacked a bird...?

Keep the bird in a warm and quiet area till morning, and then if it's still alive, take it to the Vet's and they will decide what to do.

If it can be helped, they will do so, otherwise, sadly, they will euthanize it, which is a painless way of putting it down.

This does not add up!!!

What are you doing with a cat and a bird in a room with the bird out of the bird cage or no bird cage at all? Of course the cat will hunt it. That is what cats do at night in the wild. Don't you know that you silly girl.

If it is your pet bird why don't you have bird food for it and why in the name of fortune are you feeding it rat poison? (Rat pellets are rat poison in Australia) If the cat doesn't kill it you will with rat poison. It you are afraid of the bird dying I don't think it will have much chance of living in your care.

Put the bird in a box in a dark place and take it to the vet to see if he/she can attend to it. I doubt that it will live though as it most probably has cat claw and tooth wounds and is in shock and will die from these as well as infection.

Get a cage for it if it lives and find it a home away from your cat as the cat intends to keep on trying to kill it and any other bird it sees no matter how much you feed it. You have an aggressive cat that is a killer by nature and it is not going to change. You will not be able to keep that bird or any other while you own it.

I know that you won't like this answer and it won't get me 10 points but it is the truth. You have to face the fact that cats are animals and hunters by nature. Birds are their prey. Then you have to decide which you want as a pet. You can't have both.

Good Luck!!!

Poor cat ............ goes to all that work to catch a snack and some interloper comes along and steals it from it.

Feel along the birds wings again and you will probably discover a tooth hole near one of the wing joints. If you do find such a hole just give the bird back to the cat because this bird will never fly again and is as good as dead. Cats disable birds by biting through/crushing a wing joint.

I have stopped taking birds from my cats. The birds cannot fly after they have been attacked and the cats can use the protein.

Well, it all depends on how far your cat got with the attack - my friend and I have found injured birds that i guess were just stunned because after a couple of hours of giving it some water and feeding it moist bread, it flew away. Just whatever you do, don't give it rice, grains or seeds, because some of them can swell and kill the bird. You should just hope for the best and wait till morning.:) Don't blame your cat - it doesn't know better.

I would just like to answer to correct what another user said. Karen, your answer is horribly wrong. Yes, there is a food chain, but domesticated cats don't have a place in the food chain. They do not have a niche in the ecosystem here, and they never have. Cats have been domesticated for a long time, so they never had a niche here. Also, you do realize there are other non-domesticated animals that actually have a place in the food chain here and actually do control the bird population? Cats aren't maintaining the bird population, they are destroying it. Get your facts straight.

trust on me.. forget about it.. the bird will die. I never saw a bird surviving after being attacked by cats.

it its not any kind of special bird .. I mean.. if it is those birds that you see on every corner don't worry about it... but take it to a sanctuary like people suggested before if it is something exotic.

Try giving it some pieces of bread soaked in milk. You will soon know if the wing is damaged and if it can fly.

Cats are experts at being able to run long distances and not let any bells around their neck make a sound.

My cats attack birds too,and mostly its gonna die,im sorry for saying that but its a possibility.

noo its hurt

birds dont really survive after a cats attack

try givin it sum water with ur finger n some bread

take care of it

the bird died in my case

hop it gets better

luv

jennyxxx

Poor little one!

I have seen it happen where birds couldn't really move effectively because they were scared.

Your cat's a hunter: It sees the little bird and thinks, "Food!". You may want to put the bird where your kitty can't reach it.

Good luck!