Every day, a cat arrived. It was not mine. Even when my cat saw this stray cat inside my garden, my cat would get upset. He would meow loudly, so loudly that I came to think that his meowing was to let me know that this stray cat was back in my yard.
I didn't want to pay much attention to him. So I saw the cat several times sitting on its two hind legs in my garden. Always looking towards one of my bird cages. It didn't worry me as he never did anything wrong. It was just watching.
As the days went by, I became curious about his behavior. What is wrong with this cat? The times I have found him in my garden, hidden among the plants, he is always sitting and looking at the cages. I have chased him out as many times as I have found him in my garden. I don't want any surprises with a cat that I don't even like, since he gets along badly with my cat, too.
I think I should have taken more drastic precautions. One fine day, when I got up and went to feed my birds, I saw that one of them was missing, and many feathers were around. Later, I saw the stray cat that I had only seen. Now he didn't look; he went straight to the cage, climbed up quickly, and held another of my birds by the head.
Now I understood everything. The cat was coming to study the behavior of my birds. He watched as the birds stuck their heads out of the cages to drink water and eat. He was doing his calculations until he found the right moment, and he put it into practice. He took my birds.
I had no choice but to put a fence around my house. I did it with netting so that this stray cat would never return to my garden. Since then, none of my birds have disappeared.