A Cat Friends with an Owl: Fum and Gebra the Barn Owl from Catalonia (Video)
An amazing thing happened in Spain: a black cat became friends with an owl!
The cat is called Fum, Catalan for “smoke,” and the owl is Gebra, from the Catalan “gebre,” meaning “frost.” Gebra is a barn owl born in Andalusia, and both live in Tarragona, Catalonia. They met in May 2010, when they were just a month old, and have been friends ever since.
How they play together
Gebra was trained in falconry, an art practiced in Europe and Asia for centuries. Every day she flies free for about half an hour; sometimes she goes farther, but she always comes back home.
Fum and Gebra don’t play every day: sometimes the cat wanders and hunts on his own, and sometimes they spend time together. In the video the owl swoops low over the cat, and he leaps up to meet her. It looks like an attack, but it’s actually a game.
Since April 21, 2012, Gebra has been hunting on her own, although people still provide part of her food. Meanwhile friendly, sociable Fum keeps living on the farm and catching pigeons and insects.
A truly touching story of friendship between a cat and an owl.