Patience and training! 🤓
Sometimes it's from an act of kindness, like saving a mocking bird nest from a snake. They were quite friendly after that.😆
Throwing them bugs and other tasty morsels when I'm working in the garden has them convinced that I can just make tasty treats appear from thin air.
I might be a bit gifted.😇 Not to boast, but I have the only cats, ever, that have come to an agreement and live peacefully in the same area with the mocking birds and there are no casualties.😸😸🤗 The birds perch just feet away, no dive bombing, no alarms.
I had the wild rabbits trained for a while, but after I got Mamakitty that kind of fell away, very abruptly.😼