Yesterday morning, I awoke to rain and two dead baby bunnies on the sidewalk directly in front of my door. UGH!
On the other side of a partial brick wall, boxwood shrubs follow the sidewalk and connect to the front of the garage. Those shrubs create an area of seclusion where plants and rosebushes grow. One plant inside of that area is always home to baby bunnies during season.
Because it was raining pretty hard, my first thought was that the bunnies drowned. But how could that be? Baby bunnies don’t just drown on a sidewalk. Could they have been poisoned? If so, what if there’s poison of some sort in the backyard where my dogs go? I headed outside with my trusty Wal-mart bags and picked the little fellers up. No blood. None.
Then I remembered getting a couple alerts from my Nest camera in the wee hours of the morning. At the time, I figured it was just lightning. To solve the puzzle, I watched the video and found the culprit.
I posted on Facebook, “Will the owner of this cat please come get the dead baby bunnies on my front sidewalk? 
I don’t let my dogs run loose (day or night). Cats need to be kept home also.” Some said they had the same problem with cats and others said it should be killed. I got a private message on how to put antifreeze in meat so the cat would go home to die. The cat death threats spurred a response from another person letting everyone know that it’s not the cat’s fault.
Am I to let someone else’s pet kill smaller prey and leave them for me to pick up, allow them use of my flower beds as a toilet, and let my security camera wake me up all hours of the night? All because some asshole isn’t a respectful pet owner? I’m too soft to kill anything… even a murderous cat… but if you own a pet — any pet — it belongs on your property. If Mr. Kitty gets in the backyard when Dharma is out… I’ll be putting him in a Wal-mart bag.
TIL (Today I Learned): Before 9/11, FAA regulations allowed small knives to be carried aboard aircraft by passengers. So even if screeners had found the hijackers’ knives they would have still been allowed to board Flights 11, 77, 175 and 93 with them.