Eagle Cam Catches Eagles Feeding A Cat To Their Young

Eagles doing what comes naturally. Sorry that someone's kitty is no more, I worry about local bird's-of-prey getting my sweet doggies, but that's why my kennel area is chain-linked overhead as well.
 
If you live in the country you see that kind of stuff all the time. Smaller cats are picked up by hawks often. The cuyotes have wiped out the rabbits. I usually root for the species of which there are fewer individuals, because I don't like to see species eliminated from an area completely. But there isn't much you can do except protect your own pets and animals. Try to maintain balance.
 

I wish the Washington Post had chosen not to publish this. There is an Eagle Cam in Florida (set up by a local realtor) that captured several years of a pair of eagles parenting their newborn. During lunchtime at work, we would pull up the cam and watch the progress, from egg, to eaglet to when they flew off. Fortunately over those years, we never saw a cat or other animal except fish...that is what they would feed the young. It was enjoyable to watch. Not sure how we would have reacted if we saw a family pet in the nest.
 
Eagle with cats
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Shalimar said:
Why on earth would anyone post this on a forum full of animal lovers? Surely a little sensitivity is warranted.
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The video isn't even graphic and all sorts of warnings are in the article from a paper that one would think animal lovers would gravitate to, HuffPo even noted this. But it's nature in all it's agonizing glory. We've had Hawks hanging around here several times a year, much more often than in decades/years past. It's an amazing sight to watch a Hawk snatch prey and watch them fly/glide away with their magnificent wings/span. Watched one take a squirrel to a tree branch and feast. It's not the Discovery Channel it is real. To top it off many of the commenters on the original articles/area seem to feel that the cat was already dead or road kill of some kind, apparently eagles will scavenge.
 
Yeah in the grand scheme of things, the grainy images were pretty innocuous.

To your point about eagles being scavengers WhatinThe, I watched a documentary a few weeks ago that was filmed at the Vancouver, BC garbage dump and that grand and noble bird was anything but grand and noble as they scrapped with the seagulls over who was going to get the scraps there! The dump actually has a huge number of eagles that do nothing but forage there. It was quite amazing to see.
 
NancyNGA said:
Life happens. Last I heard no one is forced to look. Or comment.
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I agree Nancy, just watch a NatGeo show and you'll see the harsh realities of nature all the time. I watched that video and it was not gory or anything. My cat doesn't go out for long periods of time and only during the day. And he is outdoors when we go on camping trips. I have some red tailed hawks that visit my yard sometimes, and I do have some concern since he's not a large cat. Also coyotes on the other side of my back fence. Hopefully my furkids will stay safe and unharmed.
 
People let their pets become prey when they don't keep them indoors or provide secure fencing & top coverage in outdoor pens. & alast the neuter & release programs for ferals don't make a dent as hard as they try. I live in coyote country with other wild animals & birds of prey. Famous tearful last words :: he was only outside for a minute. You're taking risks with them Seabreeze but that's your business.
 
:)Nope. I keep my cats inside, even though we have issues with window curtains, shower curtains, leg-climbing, head-bonking, hallway-surfing, chair-bouncing and stove-boinking.

I just let them knock their little selves out inside.

Sure it's a lot of noise, but eventually they pass out ... and so do we. It's all good.:eek:nthego:
 
Birds of prey will do that. I don't need to watch the video because I can't even stand to see a hawk or an owl grab a rabbit. It happens where I live. It teaches us pretty graphically what can, and does, happen to our pets if we leave them outside for too long unsupervised. It's better to learn from a graphic video than to lose a beloved pet to a bird of prey IMHO.
 
The cat meditating looks more like a cat doing what comes naturally on a patch of soil, they often close their eyes.;)
 

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