Hunter S. Thompson has
vowed to take his revenge on the dogs that killed four of his prize peacocks (link via
Bookslut).
Once, when I lived in someone else’s house in Washington, D.C., I came home to find white feathers all over the dining room. Not my house, not my cats, not my headache, so I turned around and went to visit a friend until the roomies returned.
When I got home, I found them telling the neighbor, who was asking whether they'd seen his pet dove, "Oh, no, but I do hope it's all right."