I feel so stupid! All day long I kept thinking that this old blind cat that sometimes comes around starving had somehow gotten up into my car's motor and I've just been in tears because he has such a hard, sad life as it is.  During the ice storm, I actually prayed for God to just take him in his sleep because he can't tell where the predators are, and he just feels his way around, crying and hungry.  it's hard to even get food to him, because he's afraid of everything that moves.  This morning, I was sure I heard him crying from my tiny little Nissan Cube!  I opened the hood and I can't see how anything could fit in that tiny, cramped space but I'd heard loud "meowing" coming from there until I started trying to sweet-talk him and everything got quiet. 

Then about an hour ago, I heard it again, coming from the car and stopping again when I got close.  So I raised the hood, left it up and then got into the car and just sat there quietly for about 45 minutes, praying that God would let me hear him again so that I could tell exactly where he was.  When I finally did hear him, it seemed to be coming from somewhere else and fainter.  Finally, a suspicious thought came to me (I think it was God, feeling sorry for me) and I pulled up a YouTube video.  Remember how I began all this by saying "I feel stupid"?  Well, I do, because I think I've been crying all day, not over the plight of an old, blind, frightened, starving cat that was hung up in my car motor, but because of a catbird that was probably sitting in the bush next to it!

          

So the birds got you to feed them kitty treats?

Quote from: Solar on June 07, 2021, 05:31:41 PM         

So the birds got you to feed them kitty treats?

        

If aliens landed, they'd say "wait.... who's in charge??"

Quote from: Solar on June 07, 2021, 05:31:41 PM         

So the birds got you to feed them kitty treats?

I confess, I put a bowl of kibble under the car, in case "poor old blind kitty" could smell it and find his way to it. 

Quote from: taxed on June 07, 2021, 05:33:34 PM       

If aliens landed, they'd say "wait.... who's in charge??"

But y'all are not making fun of me, though, right?   

Quote from: Grammy on June 07, 2021, 05:33:52 PMI confess, I put a bowl of kibble under the car, in case "poor old blind kitty" could smell it and find his way to it. 

You should be happy, you got outsmarted by birds. That kinda stuff makes me grin ear to ear when the forest critters pull it off.
I have Blu jays that can bark or scream. Took awhile to catch on. But it made me laugh out loud.

Quote from: Grammy on June 07, 2021, 05:35:04 PMBut y'all are not making fun of me, though, right? 

          

Quote from: taxed on June 07, 2021, 05:33:34 PM       

If aliens landed, they'd say "wait.... who's in charge??"

         

I didn't even know that Tennessee had catbirds!  Apparently, we do (and they're very well fed).   

Quote from: Grammy on June 07, 2021, 05:40:46 PMI didn't even know that Tennessee had catbirds!  Apparently, we do (and they're very well fed). 

I didn't even know those existed... it's sort of freaky hear it sound like a cat...

Quote from: taxed on June 07, 2021, 05:42:58 PMI didn't even know those existed... it's sort of freaky hear it sound like a cat...

I didn't either, really, but it was somewhere in the back of my mind today that there was such a thing as a catbird, so when I looked it up, sure enough Tennessee has plenty of them! 

Quote from: Grammy on June 07, 2021, 05:51:47 PMI didn't either, really, but it was somewhere in the back of my mind today that there was such a thing as a catbird, so when I looked it up, sure enough Tennessee has plenty of them!

That would have freaked me out... my mind would have gone straight to thinking we had a "Pet Cemetery" situation...

Quote from: Grammy on June 07, 2021, 05:40:46 PMI didn't even know that Tennessee had catbirds!  Apparently, we do (and they're very well fed). 

         

Quote from: Solar on June 07, 2021, 05:36:50 PMYou should be happy, you got outsmarted by birds. That kinda stuff makes me grin ear to ear when the forest critters pull it off.
I have Blu jays that can bark or scream. Took awhile to catch on. But it made me laugh out loud.

We used to live out on a farm where we had llamas and while I was out tending to them one day, I started getting irritated at my neighbor.  He was always doing stuff to annoy me, like accusing my llamas of being gay, etc.  On this day, I was mad at him for whistling at me.  Once or twice I could ignore but he just kept on so I decided to march over there and tell him to grow up!  About halfway to his house, I realized the whistling was now coming from behind me, so I stopped and after a while, I found my "admirer". It was a cheeky cardinal.   

Quote from: Grammy on June 08, 2021, 05:33:33 AMWe used to live out on a farm where we had llamas and while I was out tending to them one day, I started getting irritated at my neighbor.  He was always doing stuff to annoy me, like accusing my llamas of being gay, etc.  On this day, I was mad at him for whistling at me.  Once or twice I could ignore but he just kept on so I decided to march over there and tell him to grow up!  About halfway to his house, I realized the whistling was now coming from behind me, so I stopped and after a while, I found my "admirer". It was a cheeky cardinal. 

       

So, was this before, or after you decided to get hearing aids?

When I played your cat bird video, Toy comes running out of the bedroom asking if I had a kitten.