Friends???

I am watching Rae's two youngest kids and her bird "Frodo" this week while she is in Utah for a Dave Matthews Band concert (that got cancelled, but that's another story). Now the back story about the bird is that when Rae graduated from College I gave him to her as a grad present (yes, she wanted a bird, I didn't just randomly think " Rachael needs a pet bird"). I have always wanted a bird...I had one in Austrailia, a Galah, and I loved him. So I have taken the opportunity this week to play with Frodo and start training him, mostly just locking him and me in my bedroom and letting him out to play away from the kids. Wicket ,our cat, has mostly ignored this newcomer in the distainful way only cats and royalty can do but tonight when we went to put Frodo to bed (aka, put a sheet over his cage) this is what we saw.


Now I have seen Wicket take down good sized Robins and other birds in our front yard and she is MEAN about it, so to see her sitting there all calm and for the bird to be all calm and not running away or trying franticaly to call for help seemed a little strange to me. I just hope Frodo never figures out that Wicket was casing the joint for when she knew we weren't around.