General Chat

StaffyKnot,

Before I moved to an high rise apartment free from cats, I lived in a cottage with a garden that at one time also was used as a toilet by bloody cats.
Some batty old woman who lived up the road had loads of them, well I purchased one of those electronic devices that send out some kind of high pitched noise that gives the unwanted pests ears a bashing, worked wonders, garden free from dirty cats.
It is an American device that one can get from the net.

George

Thanks for keeping the debate emotion free - but I still don't like cats.

Its all part of the food chain. Birds eat worms, but no one ever says poor little worm. :-D :-D
Will definitely be watching it, just the sort of thing i love.

Sue

Staffy, maybe you will see something new, if you watch the programme that you didn't know :-D
On the radio programme I listened to said we will learn something new about cats.

Cats are predators, I know a couple that kill rabbits frequently, but I look upon that as being nature, it seems cruel. I don't like seeing cats catch birds either, but they eat worms and insects, that's nature too as I see it.

No need to be a college professor or track felines with specially adapted cameras, I could have told these experts years ago what cats do. They are basically a wild animal and their instincts tell them to leave their own territory to defecate, preferably in someone else’s well tended garden, and also to stalk and kill birds and other wildlife.

Being a bird watcher, I cannot stand cats but before emotions enter the debate, (as always happens when discussing feline domesticus), let us look objectively at the subject.

In a recent “Birds Britannica” show, the presenter said that cats were responsible for killing 50 million birds a year. Immediately cat lovers declared this figure to be ridiculous and “plucked from the air” by wild life organisations. But let us look at the figures with our brains instead of our hearts and this figure is quite feasible.
There are an estimated 10 million cats in the UK, (based on government figures). Admittedly some cats will not hunt birds but but if we say the average is only 5 birds per cat per year, (which is one bird per cat every 10 weeks), then 50 million bird kills a year is certainly not a fantasy figure plucked from nowhere.

I have had my say, off you go cat lovers! But no mud slinging please, let us have a serious debate.

(And keep your cat off my garden, let it do its business in your own patch).

I've set it to record - it's a series - apparently they have cameras following cats around at night to see what they get up to

I'm not a cat person really, but just been hearing about the programme on the radio, sounds intriguing, they were saying that they found out more about cats than was previously known.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2013/secret-life-of-the-cat.html