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It's mine!

Today was a special day. At 7:36pm, muffin came back home with a proud posture! She was wiggling the lifeless bird and somehow “presented” it to us.She was meowing so loud which we understood later that she was trying to get our attention to go see her inside the study room.
We finally did and there she was — showing her skill around the lifeless bird and perhaps was telling us:

look, look, look!! — here is my hard-won bounty, I got it with my own bare hands, I climbed many steep mounds and lots of tall grass, and I walked along many broken tree branches — just to capture this!”.

She is certainly behaving so proud — and she should be: this is her first REAL catch as the house lizards wont count.

Instead of throwing the carcass away and hurting muffin’s feeling, we graciously and very proudly accepted her present.. and by hugging her, to acknowledge that she is now a real headhunter (oppss.. bird hunter?) and is now welcomed as part of the family (ps: we kadazans were once headhunters and we were not the evil ones, hahaha).

To peak up the moment of her proudness, Sarah assumed the role of defeathering and roasting the tweetie-alike: a special dinner for muffin – on a ceramic plate!

We are so proud of her!

Just to make if clear to all animal lovers just like us: we certainly will try our best to revive any injured animals, including birds, and try to get the injured animal immediate medical attention.  It is always a difficult moment to see any animal die especially in the jaws of pets… this was one particular time when the bird was already dead.