Cat's are killing everything!
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TwigtheWonderkid said:
I don't get this thread. You bring a couple of killing machines into your home, finely honed to inflict death and misery on small creatures thru hundreds of millions of years of evolution, and you moan when they kill stuff.
I don't mind mine killing the bleeding rabbits - I just don't understadn why he has to bring them in to eat them!
Eventually they will exhaust the supplie of rodents, eventually.
Until then good luck, my top three cat presents have been a live and uninjured squirrel (vicious little
s), a large rat at 4 am and a startled Magpie that recovered on top of a bookcase and then shat all over my windowsill before one of the buggers caught it again and took it outside to play with.
Until then good luck, my top three cat presents have been a live and uninjured squirrel (vicious little
s), a large rat at 4 am and a startled Magpie that recovered on top of a bookcase and then shat all over my windowsill before one of the buggers caught it again and took it outside to play with.Mine have grown too old or fat to catch things these days. They try bless them, but a black and white overweight cat with all the grace and stealth of a rampaging bull is easy to spot for even the dumbest of birds.
The have tried to catch frogs, one of them was circling one in the garden until it jumped at his face, never seen anything move as fast, I don't think he came from under the bbq for a few days after that bless him.
The have tried to catch frogs, one of them was circling one in the garden until it jumped at his face, never seen anything move as fast, I don't think he came from under the bbq for a few days after that bless him.
Jasandjules said:
That was nearly a coffee over keyboard moment but it went back in the cup luckily...
I am aware the cats get spoiled as they have sadly taken the place of children. The wife has never been impressed with the Freddie Starr impression or the live gifts.
Dog next, once I don't have to go and play in far off lands.
JD84 said:
I am aware the cats get spoiled as they have sadly taken the place of children.
Nothing wrong with spoiling them, I think we spoil our pets. But pretending to eat their gifts is beyond me (I shoo the feckers away from the mice and then release the recently rescued back down the bottom of the garden)Mr Pies said:
Firefoot said:
Is it true that cats catch less prey if you avoid letting them out around dawn or dusk?
Since keeping Whitney in over night, I haven't had any "presents" for over 18 months.omgus said:
Eventually they will exhaust the supplie of rodents, eventually.
No they won't. The simple maths doesn't add up: you have (say) one cat and it brings in a mouse. That mouse has come from a litter born locally, it's not just a single roaming mouse. The average litter size is between 10-12 and that could happen every 20 days from when they are 50 days old. This will typically happen for a couple of years (subject of course to a cat curtailing the lifespan). That's a lot of mice!Short story: there are more mice out there than your cat can deal with.
We have one cat, he brings us a variety of gifts from mice, voles, shrews, birds (finches through to ring-doves) in a range of states of life. Sometimes he'll play, sometimes he'll sit ont he front door step and munch, sometimes we'll just find a bloody mark and a stomach on the carpet. Last year his tally was into the 20's over the summer, this year he's been thwarted by the bad weather (he is a cat after all). But when dry, he's most effective. Our view is that one mouse in him is one less in our house. But I'm under no illusions that he's winning.
Dr Rick
It may not exhaust the supply of rodents but there will be a predator/prey balance.
Then again, around here I'd suggest that the supply of rodents is exhausted because it's an estate with a high cat density - and unlike nature, when the prey population reaches zero, cats don't starve to death to redress the balance as in nature, but just go in for some nosh.
For people who really can't stand the prospect of Tiddles mixing it with the big bad world, how about a cat run? www.catchat.org/colchester/cgibin/prview.cgi?id=20...
Then again, around here I'd suggest that the supply of rodents is exhausted because it's an estate with a high cat density - and unlike nature, when the prey population reaches zero, cats don't starve to death to redress the balance as in nature, but just go in for some nosh.
For people who really can't stand the prospect of Tiddles mixing it with the big bad world, how about a cat run? www.catchat.org/colchester/cgibin/prview.cgi?id=20...
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