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This harrowing story was submitted by Elizabeth and Vernon Soloman, Arlington, Texas.  July 3, 2003

"A week ago Sunday, we had a bit of excitement.... It was unbelievable!!!  We have 4 kittens in the backyard...all wild, but we watch them play on the patio and of course, feed them.  A week ago Sunday,  I heard one of them scream....told Vernon, so he'd go check on it.  Thought it was probably a Tom...they sometimes bother them....Vernon came around the side of the RV and was holding this monstrously huge hawk in his hands and the hawk was holding a baby kitten in its talons.  When he got out there, the hawk was under the RV and was already pecking at the kitten getting ready to make it his dinner....Vernon climbed underneath the RV and drug it out....could not get the hawk to release the kitten, said he could not get the talons to budge...he brought it around to the water bowl, and started splashing water on the hawk....it finally released one talon and then the other....the little kitten jumped up and ran off!!  Then Vernon told me to get the camera...so I took some pictures to prove the size of this bird....it was beautiful....and huge!!!  He threw it into the air and it flew over to one of the tree stumps and sat up there watching the yard. Later he was in the backyard 'eating'....he had gotten a bird...and then he was on the patio again, just sitting there waiting for another kitten, I guess.....he finally ended up on the roof across the alley just watching.....next day we didn't see a cat....not even the big ones....but by the next morning, Mama Cat was laying out back with all the babies and they are all out again....the one the hawk got, seems to be just fine....and thankfully, we have not seen any sign of the hawk since!!   It was all so strange....the bird did not try to get away from Vernon, did not try to bite him....acted like he was very used to having his picture taken!!   Could be he escaped from someplace, and I hope went back there.." 

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