Cat under house arrest-baby gull with v.protective parents outside, he's going to be pissed off!

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Bloody gulls nesting on next door but one, baby has just come down today but can't yet fly so dcat is shut in because he will try to hunt it.

Thankfully it's older than last years which was still fluffy and insisting on staying in our garden, dcat got out and pinned it against the fence, this resulted in parents trying to kill cat, me trying to get cat off baby while parents dived at me and dd1 waved a bright pink trying to fend them off-just glad nobody saw us or filmed it.

Dcat is going to be very pissed off tomorrow when we don't him out tomorrow

By the way last years baby survived, it was picked by a local bird rescue as it was far too young to survive out of the nest and far too many cats in our area.

😂 best of luck, please film any of your rescue attempts this year and post them here, please 😁.

In my limited experience, umbrella is defence weapon of choice. Years ago, I had a similar situation with baby in gull in yard, cat wanting to go out and gull parents, plus a couple of gull mates out for the kill of anything entering the yard. Ended up with two of us going out, 1 the protector armed with umbrella and the other with a box. We got baby gull into box, put box on top of garage roof away from house. Cat got his yard back. 😺

We have seagulls nesting on our roof. On average, a chick will fall every other year.

One year, we came downstairs to a very sooty lounge after the chick had fallen down the chimney and then wandered around the room.

At least that one landed in the open fireplace. Another year, a chick landed behind the gas fire that the previous owner had put in. We had to take the fire out to rescue the chick.

The first year that we tried to put a chick in the garden for its parents to find, the adults got so panicked that they used an alarm cry and we ended up with dozens and dozens of wheeling, dive bombing seagulls overhead. That was pretty scary.

Unfortunately we don't have a garage or anywhere to put the baby and the wild bird rescue can only take ones which are too young or injured

The parents just attacked neighbour from a few doors down as he walked to his car, thankfully although they hit him the head they didn't hurt him, I've got to go to my car which is parked next to his later!!