Chapter 1.
Urban, domesticated cats are usually very bad at killing birds. This is not their fault. Birds and cat toys hold very little in common. Cat toys have a great deal of stamina and die quickly. Birds have little stamina after the first successful blow, but make the most of their deaths.
The squawking was tangled around a small graveyard in central London and funneled into an orange skyline by the large buildings surrounding it. A library, a church, the back end of an office block and across the road, a terrace of three-storey victorian houses. Startled by the sudden violence of sound, the cat puffed up it's furr and started to hiss at the bird before retiring to a safe distance. More on this later.
The squawking was tangled around a small graveyard in central London and funneled into an orange skyline by the large buildings surrounding it. A library, a church, the back end of an office block and across the road, a terrace of three-storey victorian houses. Startled by the sudden violence of sound, the cat puffed up it's furr and started to hiss at the bird before retiring to a safe distance. More on this later.
