Cats v Wildlife

[sandspider]

One idea I've heard is putting a small bell on a cat's collar, especially during key nesting and fledgling months.

 

I heard that that just makes them better at stalking...

 

I dislike them. Had a PIR activated squirter hooked up to my hosepipe for a while, that got the cats moving!

[Spoons]

Is it not called a food chain......? (Even if they don't eat it.)

[john441]

I never used to like cats and we recently moved into a house where the previous owner had kept 5 of the damn things! The whole place stank of cat pi** so we took all the carpets up and even the gripperods were mouldy and knackered, the backs of the radiators were full of cat hair and the window sills are scratched to bits. Since then my hatered of cats has intensified...

 

I also know someone whose young boy was ill after coming in contact with cat sh*t in their garden

 

I'm afraid I view cats as potential targets now so they had better keep pout of my crosshairs!

[Matthew Storrs]

I like a cat if its curled up purring in front of the fire, but they are fickle creatures and I hate what they do to wildlife.

Unfortunately the bell on the collar does not work as well as some people thing. Cats often sit and wait for 'prey' so the collar is not effective.

My parents used to have a nice ginger cat but since he died I don't think they are keen to get another as he was forever trying to get the nesting swallows.

[Matthew Storrs]

If cats could just stick to rats and rabbits then everyone would be happy!

[roseyweb]

Is it not called a food chain......? (Even if they don't eat it.)

 

Cat eat mouse. Dog eat cat all seems fair

[Spoons]

Cat eat mouse. Dog eat cat all seems fair

 

Human eat Dog.

[mendiplogs]

This wee fella had been living down at the stream at the bottom of our garden all summer. Don't want to come over all soft but really enjoyed seeing watching him from the kitchen window. Found him today, 95% sure it was the neighbour's cat due to his condition and where I found him. Neighbours have 2 cats and say between them they bring back a small animal most nights

 

HI LUCAN i mate i think when weres too many cats in a small area thats not good i do not like cats doing this thing mate at all thanks jon

[Marc Lewis]

Cats, cats, cats, I bloody hate em, for all the reasons mentioned.

 

Woman over road has god knows how many and I'm sure if there were a lot lot less then my hatred to them may be lessened.

[arbmark]

i think there was a tv program about this and it concluded that dogs were a bit better than cats but habitat loss is still the biggest issue. most of the stuff cats kill (obviously because there is so much of it) is common species. are kingfishers actually rare? when i see cats scouring the hedgerows for things to kill it is a bit depressing, but hey urbanisation and modern farming processes forced on farmers by a growing human population and supermarket price lowering is the worst thing for wildlife. when you think that old countryside farming and land management ways actually benefitted biodiversity, the countryside we are left with now is far more depleted through this than because there being a few too many moggies