Croatian Cats and Birds

We saw a mother cat lying in a scrapyard with a few little kittens nursing.

The tabby in front is an older kitten that I named Pumpkin Spice because of his coloring. You can see some kitten ears poking up from the mother cat, although the picture is a little blurry.

 

Now we will move on to the birds!

 

There are a ton of pidgeons and sparrows around Dubrovnik. This morning, Graham and I went to the scrapyard with bread to find the kittens, but all we could see was their little feets hiding under some hollow scrap. We had bread, so we sat down in front of Oldtown to feed the pidgeons.

We got generally swarmed as pidgeons and sparrows alike competed for some bread. Birds in Croatia are really pushy.

In Oldtown, there is a lady who lets people hold birds that she grew up with. It’s entirely free and really cool.

In that picture I was pulling my necklace away because Cheeky was trying to eat it. (We know his name is Cheeky because he kept saying it when he was on the perch or on other people’s shoulders).

I also got to hold an African Gray Parrot, which was cool. He seemed to really like me and wouldn’t get off me, no matter how much people tried to remove him.

I was super excited to hold all the birds. Birds are my spirits animal.

Other than cats and birds, there is this one really fluffy stray dog that we have seen every day that we’ve been here so far. We talked to a family that’s been in Dubrovnik a week after the dog ran past us, and they said they’ve seen him every day. We were warned by locals not to touch him, as he is supposedly “bad news.”

 

Although it’s blurry and you can’t see his face, you can tell he is ADORABLE. He patrols all of Dubrovnik, and we are always seeing him giving the stink eye to people who get too close.

 

By Piper, The Most Amazing and Coolest Person Ever.