I'm so glad you saved the rabbit, I'd do the same. I'd be flailing my arms and chasing it. I already looked like an idiot when I was out with my kitties last September...I was constantly looking in every direction in the sky and trees for the hawks like a paranoid freak, heheh. My new neighbors must really think I'm weird! They have HUGE dogs, so they have nothing to worry about.

Thanks everyone for your stories (albeit sad), but they made up my mind...I am definitely not going to take my kitties out on a leash anymore!!!! I'd rather have them po'd at me cuz they can't go out than being carried off by the hawk! And hopefully this will alert more people to the dangers of predators in the sky.

I will give the cage a try, but I'll sit right next to them the whole time, and keep looking at the sky and trees. And if they are around, kitties are going inside! They have plenty of toys to play with and I just bought them a huge 15 level, 2 housed condo on E-bay, it gets delivered tomorrow. I got it for $175 (including s/h & tax)! Condos that big go for $400 or so in a store! Check it out, type in "cat condo" and it pulls up all the cool condos!