To Kill A Cat

I am so mad as I post this and I know some of you can relate (especially my sweet neighbor since she has just dealt with the same thing)!

Let me calm down and start over. For Mother's Day, I got two pretty hanging plants for my front porch. Within 2 days, a bird had already built a nest in one of them and for the last 3 days, each time I look in, there has been a new egg. This morning there were 3. Tonight, as I was on my way up to bed, I looked out the front window and there was a cat sitting on the ledge of my porch standing up to get into my plant. I ran outside and scared him off and looked in the nest. There is only one egg left. I looked around and there are tiny broken egg shells on the rail and on the floor of the porch. If I had a gun, I would have killed the cat then and there! (sorry all you cat lovers!) This black and white cat has tortured poor Sophi for months now and will sit in our yard and look at her knowing that she is locked up in the house. That was bad enough but now this??

Besides just being absolutely angry at this cat, I also just wonder if Mama bird is now mourning her baby that was yet to be hatched... I don't know if animals have feelings like that or not. I know that God cares for them too but I'm just so sad for mama and papa bird.

Sorry about my ranting. It has been a while since I posted and I needed to get this out of my system. Everyone else in my home is asleep right now so I needed an outlet! I'm also going on about 5 hours of sleep which I don't handle very well. Maybe I can borrow another trap and catch this cat and take it far far away....