Pigeons have as much right to exist as cats do.
maybe but my money's still on the cats. The pigeons do have a defence, they can fly away. Its not entireley senseless, its keeping their skills honed. Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
but to say you're cheering the cat on to kill pigeons is something entirely different
maybe it's because all the neighbours had lived in war-torn Europe prior to living in Canada, but nobody, and I mean nobody, thought that animals should be killing other animals if it could be prevented. And it can. Very easily.
thought that animals should be killing other animals if it could be prevented. ;And it can. ;Very easily.
How? supergluing their paws to the ground is about the only way I can think of stopping them from hunting. Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
(a very good idea with all the feline leukemia going around, which cannot be prevented by vaccination)
FLV vaccination is about 75-85% effective, which is reasonably good as animal vaccinations go.
Bell collars are laughably innefective, and keeping cats in a closed area, is a big cause of feline obesity and so would be equally cruel Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Bell collars are laughably innefective,...
Citation?
(Jus' kidding.) Member of the Anti-Fabulousness League since 1987.
and you know this how?
Birmin(g)am Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
You stud. Member of the Anti-Fabulousness League since 1987.
of course, you have to take it off at night if you expect to get any sleep.
I am seriously surprised by the reaction of the people here - like talking to people 20 years ago about paper recycling or something. really, really backwards!
I have a wildlife-friendly garden. It's taken years of neglect work to get it that way. I've got hedges, trees, nestboxes, a wildlife pond and buy local organic birdseed in 30kg sacks.
I like the birds in my garden. Really.
But bells don't work, because cats don't hunt by running after birds. I used to have two bells on the collar of one of my cats, and, as ceebs said, it was an exercise in assuaging guilt. A tabby, he was invisible when lurking under a bush, and all he had to do was wait for a bird to come within range and pounce.
What the bells did do was irritate him. And with hindsight, I think it may have been rather cruel as well as pointless to attach an annoying noisy thing to the neck of a creature with far more sensitive ears than ours.
Or did you mean domestic animals?
same with cats - unless you don't feed them, they have no need to kill birds
look at the audubon sites where they BEG people to keep their cats indoors so they don't kill ANY birds. or to put a bell on the cats' collars so the birds can hear them.
Cats are destroying the bird population which is already at risk.
The Effects of Cat Predation on Wildlife from the USFWS Migratory Bird Mangement Office Americans keep an estimated 60 million cats as pets. Let's say each cat kills only one bird a year. That would mean that cats kill over 60 million birds (minimum) each year - more wildlife than any oil spill. Scientific studies actually show that each year, cats kill hundreds of millions of migratory songbirds. In 1990, researchers estimated that "outdoor" house cats and feral cats were responsible for killing nearly 78 million small mammals and birds annually in the United Kingdom. University of Wisconsin ornithologist, Dr. Santley Temple estimates that 20-150 million songbirds are killed each year by rural cats in Wisconsin alone. Feline predation is not "natural." Cats were domesticated by the ancient Egyptians and taken throughout the world by the Romans. Cats were brought to North America in the 1800's to control rats. The "tabby" that sits curled up on your couch is not a natural predator and has never been in the natural food chain in the Western Hemisphere.
from the USFWS Migratory Bird Mangement Office
Americans keep an estimated 60 million cats as pets. Let's say each cat kills only one bird a year. That would mean that cats kill over 60 million birds (minimum) each year - more wildlife than any oil spill.
Scientific studies actually show that each year, cats kill hundreds of millions of migratory songbirds. In 1990, researchers estimated that "outdoor" house cats and feral cats were responsible for killing nearly 78 million small mammals and birds annually in the United Kingdom.
University of Wisconsin ornithologist, Dr. Santley Temple estimates that 20-150 million songbirds are killed each year by rural cats in Wisconsin alone.
Feline predation is not "natural." Cats were domesticated by the ancient Egyptians and taken throughout the world by the Romans. Cats were brought to North America in the 1800's to control rats. The "tabby" that sits curled up on your couch is not a natural predator and has never been in the natural food chain in the Western Hemisphere.
if you feed your pet spider, then it has no need to kill flies
I don't get it. Is this some kind of joke on me?
Why don't people want to help the bird population because cats don't only kill pigeons, you know. They kill any bird they can get their paws on.
And the number of these birds is dwindling every year.
And you guys are worried about your cats not playing enough?
This has got to be a joke...
