What an unusual situation! I don’t know why the jay is interested in your cat, but you might try talking to a wildlife expert at a local nature center, or someone from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. As to training a wild bird to take food from your hand, the following page has some suggestions.
What an unusual situation! I don’t know why the jay is interested in your cat, but you might try talking to a wildlife expert at a local nature center, or someone from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. As to training a wild bird to take food from your hand, the following page has some suggestions.
http://www.almanac.com/content/rules-hand-taming-wild-birds
You might also be interested in this page, from someone who had earned the trust of a western scrub jay so that it took food from her hand:
http://www.birdwatching.com/stories/western_scrub-jay_jimmy.html