Just sitting down or ready to pounce? Do your cats do much hunting Mary. My Sheba used to be a great shrew catcher, and she brought a rat into the bathroom once.
Mary MacADNski: I have trained my cats since birth to get along with birds and bees, etc. They sit beside the bird feeders in winter and the birds sit right beside them. I have tried to tell them that they are allowed to kill mice but they don't. They do corner them though and I pick them up and flush them. My last cat was a mighty hunter.