<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Courtesy of the Daily Mail (London, England) at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2649445/Real-life-Sylvester-Tweety-Pie-Baby-blackbird-squares-Britains-worst-bird-catching-cat-flies-away-unruffled.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2649445/Real-life-Sylvester-Tweety-Pie-Baby-blackbird-squares-Britains-worst-bird-catching-cat-flies-away-unruffled.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">-----------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div><h1 style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What kind of a scaredy cat are you? Ruggles the cat is beaten by a baby blackbird</span></font></h1><ul class="article-summary news" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style: none;"><b><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ruggles the cat squared up to baby blackbird in Cambridge back garden</font></b></li><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style: none;"><b><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></b></li><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style: none;"><b><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- Yet surprisingly, the fledgling featherweight refused to budge from spot</font></b></li><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style: none;"><b><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- Cat eventually gave up and left the bird to fly away completely unscathed</font></b></li><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style: none;"><font><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- Similar to escapades of Sylvester and Tweety Pie in Looney Tunes cartoons<br></b></font></li><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style: none;"><b><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- Ruggles previously came face to face with a mouse - and failed to catch it</font></b></li></ul><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px;"><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It looked like an uneven contest when Ruggles the cat squared up to this baby blackbird.<br></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px;"><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Yet, surprisingly, the fledgling featherweight came out on top.</font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font>The bird refused to budge when the large cat crept up on him in the back garden of a house in Cambridge</font></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As Ruggles went to pounce, the bird stood his ground, causing scaredy-cat Ruggles to rear up.</font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And when Ruggles tried again, the bird did a quick side-step and then flew off, in a scene like something out of the escapades of Sylvester the cat and Tweety Pie in the Looney Tunes cartoons of the 50s and 60s.</font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘It was amazing, the bird didn’t seem scared of the cat even though it was so much bigger and trying so hard to catch it,’ said photographer Geoff Robinson, who captured the scene in his garden.</font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘The cat had the bird in his sight several times but no matter what he did he couldn’t catch it.</font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘It was just like watching an episode of a Looney Tunes cartoon in my back garden.’</font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It is not the first time Ruggles has been left with his tail between his legs.</font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font>He once came face to face with a mouse – and failed to catch it.</font><br></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font><br></font></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font>--------------------</font></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font><br></font></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Rearing up in fright: Ruggles thinks better of a confrontation and beats a hasty retreat from his adversary.<br></span></p><div class="clear" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; clear: both; width: auto; padding: 0px !important; min-height: 0px !important; height: 0px !important; float: none !important; border: 0px !important;"></div><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"></p><div class="clear" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; clear: both; width: auto; padding: 0px !important; min-height: 0px !important; height: 0px !important; float: none !important; border: 0px !important;"></div><div class="artSplitter" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; 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