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Secret life of domestic cats revealed BBC2 9pm
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RolloTheRed | Report | 13 Jun 2013 15:17 |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2013/secret-life-of-the-cat.html |
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~Lynda~ | Report | 13 Jun 2013 15:29 |
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. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 13 Jun 2013 15:37 |
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 |
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BarneyKent | Report | 13 Jun 2013 15:47 |
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. |
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~Lynda~ | Report | 13 Jun 2013 16:08 |
Staffy, maybe you will see something new, if you watch the programme that you didn't know :-D |
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Sue | Report | 13 Jun 2013 16:20 |
Its all part of the food chain. Birds eat worms, but no one ever says poor little worm. :-D :-D |
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BarneyKent | Report | 13 Jun 2013 16:22 |
Thanks for keeping the debate emotion free - but I still don't like cats. |
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George | Report | 13 Jun 2013 16:29 |
StaffyKnot, |
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BarneyKent | Report | 13 Jun 2013 16:49 |
I had one a couple of years ago George but after about 6 months the cats must have got used to it - back they came and as I was weeding I got a handful of cat pooh UGH! |
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jax | Report | 13 Jun 2013 16:50 |
I love cats and have one...She does not go out so does not kill birds or poo in anyones garden....I wish something could be done about these pidgeons that seem to live in my garden that make a mess all over my washing and garden furniture. |
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BarneyKent | Report | 13 Jun 2013 16:51 |
Thank you Jax, I wish other cat owners were as responsible as you. And I agree - pigeons are a serious pest, they are no more than rats with feathers. |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 13 Jun 2013 17:06 |
The hi pitched anti-cat sound devices are ILLEGAL for the very good reason that human beings up to the age of 20 can hear them all too well. For babies they create real distress. |
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BarneyKent | Report | 13 Jun 2013 17:13 |
Why should I have to go to the expense of buying plants or go to the trouble of spreading pepper all over my garden just because irresponsible cat owners will not keep their pets on their own property? |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 13 Jun 2013 17:33 |
The commonly bandied about figure that cats kill 50 million birds each year is indeed fantasy concocted by the same RSPB which saw to the extermination of the harmless and beautiful ruddy duck. |
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BarneyKent | Report | 13 Jun 2013 17:47 |
Sorry Rollo, the figure of 50 million is entirely believable. Your cats may not catch birds but most do. Where I live, at the present time not a day goes by without the distress call of a blackbird as one of its fledglings is stalked by a cat. And the evidence is there to see, pitiful traces of feathers are to be seen every morning. |
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Annx | Report | 13 Jun 2013 18:40 |
Rollo, sadly the birds most cats go for are the fledglings like Staffyknot has just mentioned......they don't stand a chance. A neighbour across the road once told me how lucky I was not to have all the 'gifts' hers brought home. She was really shocked when I told her a lot of her cats' kills didn't make it to her home and were 'enjoyed' on my patio instead.!! So you see owners may have no idea what is being caught. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 13 Jun 2013 19:48 |
I have a giant litter tray in my garden for my cats - a barked area!!! |
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LaGooner | Report | 13 Jun 2013 21:32 |
Loving this and so is our youngest cat a 2 year old Siamese/Bengal cross. He has hardly taken his eyes off the screen :-D |
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MarieCeleste | Report | 13 Jun 2013 22:05 |
Will have to watch this on Iplayer and, as a responsible cat owner, make up my own mind. |
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LaGooner | Report | 13 Jun 2013 22:09 |
We have 4 cats, 1 Black American shorthair the old lady of 16, fenix a very norty torty of 10, Tigger a ginger abysynian of 6 and Chico the cream coloured cross who is 2 in July. Last 2 are owned by my youngets daughter but they are lodging with us at the moment |