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A black bird swoops down, deliberately splattering its droppings at a pet cat pawing behind windowpane. What sounds like a Tom and Jerry scene is, for some pet owners in China, a real-life nuisance. From east China's Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui provinces to central China's Hubei Province, many have recently shared videos of pets, homes and even people being "bombarded" by birds, not as isolated incidents but as repeated, targeted encounters.