Killer cats

[GTIR]

Well strictly speaking catching birds and then he just plays with them while they flap around with broken necks.
The other week it was a chick, still with its eyes closed, then a massive pigeon. How he got it through the cat flap I'll never know.

What's the best thing to do?
Let cat carry on and, eventually, kill it or dispatch it ones self?

Poor bird today was flapping around so a couple of pellets to its head soon stopped its suffering. I don't like killing animals (unless they're ugly and no body loves) especially when its mate was sitting on the fence going crazy.

Naughty cat.

[steve j]

Don`t have a cat !!!! or get a dog.

[Jez m]

Put a collar on him with a bell for a start!
Should give you a week of no killings until he figures out how to remove the collar. ;-)

[MG CHRIS]

Cat is only doing what cats do catch things what did you expect it to do. You say you don't like animals being killed well in most cases if the cats had not killed it something else would of the natural food chain and all that.

Same as a dog it's instinct is to kill but haven't got the chance as its on a lead when outside there is normaly a story every few weeks or so of a dog killing kids when did a cat last kill a kid.

[Jasandjules]

It is sad. I usually take them away if they are still alive, if dead, then I let them eat it.

[Wigeon Incognito]

Learn how to neck dislocate. I consider it my duty if an animal for which I'm responsible causes a wild animal to be injured to the extent it is no longer viable. Clearly neck dislocation isn't appropriate for all but it covers mist birds a cat is likely to catch.

[Superficial]

I suppose I'm pretty fortunate that my hunters usually dispatch their prey pretty swiftly, I wouldn't be able to kill anything myself that's for sure. Plus, I'd always worry I was killing it prematurely; last year we had a seemingly lifeless baby blackbird on the kitchen floor, after a few hours of feeding him and keeping him warm he woke me up the next morning chirping his head off!

[TwigtheWonderkid]

I'm not sure even the collective genius of the PH forum can undo 2000 million years of evolution. Cats are killing machines. The fact that they're cute and cuddly is a useful sideline for them.

[telecat]

The Main reason Cats and Humans got together was that the Cats discouraged Rodents and Birds from raiding the Grain suipplies. Humans supply Meat, warmth and grooming for the cat. We also control the Cat population. Can you imagine the number of cats running wild if we didn't?