Story "The Cat with a bird in his mouth." This is a parable? What does it mean?

[Vladimir]

Colleagues, somebody knows where is the beginning of the plot of a cat with a bird "- literally a cat or a cat with a bird clamped between his teeth? Vladimir Yakovlev is a recurring theme. But there are actually many. Luxurious "wounded bird and cat" in 1939 by Picasso. Vladimir Shinkareva there is such a plot. In general, many. About Yakovleva I read that he saw the cat from the window of a psychiatric hospital - allegedly striking impression. But now there are doubts. Actually, this subject "field" or is there some kind of parable, a legend? Who knows?

UPDATE
May 4, 2008 I became known to the solution. Posted here: http://forum.artinvestment.ru/showth...=2145#post2145