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I have two indoor only cats that I allow out on an upstairs balcony (fully protected against jumping off) while I am home. Birds will alight on the tree and railings and I have a birdbath out there as well.

One of them got a bird out on the balcony yesterday. Pretty amazing how he jumped it---I wonder if it was already sick. Anyway, I intervened, brought him inside, the bird sat on the balcony and when I went out again to check on it, it flew away and seemed OK. It was a mourning dove. So he now has two to his name and the other cat has one.

Funny, but for a split second, I thought about just letting him finish it off, for sport, letting him get his fully jollies and blood lust out. Would that have been a bad idea?

I wouldn't let him to it. Birds carry so many dieases.
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Jaime owned by
Mya the dog
and the cats:Crash, Moxie, Gabby and sometimes Tucker

Birds are not the brightest of animals. I have seen them literally fly right into a cats paws. Jaime is right though they are little germ carriers and it isn't a good idea to let him chow down, if you can prevent it. Not only that, but mourning doves mate for life, so if he had killed it there would be a mate somewhere with a broken heart looking for her/his mate.
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