Comments by "Deborah Freedman" (@deborahfreedman333) on "The Dodo" channel.

  1. What a great idea. A lot of people find flying stressful, and petting a cat would be a good stress reliever, while not leading to tussles with flight attendants later, like drinking might.
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  2. When I was young, we noticed some cats very interested in a particular bush, so we checked it out too. There were two very young mockingbirds cowering under it, and their mother was nowhere to be seen. After shooing away cats, and waiting for mama to return, for a couple of hours, we took them inside and made a nest for them in our late magpie's old cage. We fed them chicken mash, with a little cat food added to it, and they thrived. We all took turns feeding and cleaning up. As they lived in the room with the only TV, they watched with us. When they began to fledge, we started taking them outside, and showing them how to dig for worms and insects, and what trees and bushes had fruit. When they began to fly around the house too much, dive bombing our indoor kitties, we removed the cage door, and hung it outside. We still put out food and water, but gradually they needed it less and less. When the other mockingbirds migrated for the winter, they went with them, and we thought our friends were gone. But, next spring they returned and sat at the family room window, watching TV with us. They brought their children to watch, too. And for several decades, every evening in the warm months, our family room window had several mockingbirds, watching TV.
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