The Mouse and His Child v Female Blackbird

Mouse & His Child after a Bird-Washing

Owner sat relaxing in her bath and heard sound of my delicate footsteps thundering back inside the house.  Shortly afterwards she heard a noise of something falling, soon followed by what sounded like me rushing about attacking something.  "Ppff, she thought, I don't want to be dealing with large spiders or small rodents dripping wet and barefoot in a towel" and so she ignored it, even though the crashing continued.

Having re-dressed she went upstairs to where she thought the sound of the noise was coming from to find me lying on her bed calmly dozing so she re-traced her steps downstairs to find a large female blackbird perched on the kitchen counter looking quite nonplussed by her arrival.  On closer inspection she found her Mouse and its Child toy that normally sits atop the windowsill floating in the washing up bowl and a piece of my Hill's dried cat food sitting on the windowsill where the toy had been.  OUTRAGE, this pesky blackbird had obviously decided to come a-thieving in my food bowl and had tried to carry off some of my food.  Does it contain essence of worms or slugs to make it so appetising to non-felines?  I heard my owner trying to shoo it out the window and immediately charged down the stairs as I wished to reprimand this brazen criminal and chirruped loudly at it whilst it flew around the kitchen.  Unfortunately it escaped out the velux window before I could catch its fluttering self in my mouth.