I was busy typing away here in my conservatory when my next door neighbours leaned over the fence calling my name. They asked if I could see a budgie in my garden, so i tiptoed barefoot up the lawn and there pecking away at the grass and fallen apples was a pudgey budgie grey and white. I saw the same one a month ago fly over our garden which was odd. Anyway there we were debating on what we should do and worrying one of the local cats would get itowhen it flew onto my steamer chair. I turned to talk to my neighbours and in the next moment we heard a distressed squawk and a huge bird of prey flew off with the budgie into the high trees in the next garden. What idiot let their pet out? All that can be seen now are lots of little grey and white feathers fluttering to the ground from fifty feet up in the trees. Poor little thing - I can only hope the lack of sound afterwards meant the little bird died quickly. Its amazing because we never get birds of prey in the gardens. I'm kicking myself - if only I had looked up I'd have seen the stalking bird hovering high above and maybe could have save pudgey budgie who is no more.
But its life, I guess. Anyone else got experiences of pets being lost to other animals or pets taking other animals?
