"animaux" wrote in message
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I would argue that urban sprawl has done far more damage to native species
of
all kinds than every cat on the planet. If you restore your gardens back
to
their native habit, the native species definitely show up and horn out the
invaders.

I never allowed my cats out, alone. Since neighbors around here do, from
time
to time allow their cats out, I have put up a cheap way to keep them out.
On
the top of the fence I nailed some of that cheap border wire fencing found
at
cheapo stores. The tines you stick in the ground I face upward, and bend
those
to face outside the fence. No cat can get up and around that. At the
bottom I
lay my rose trimmings where we hardly use the service gates, and where the
main
gate is, I keep it tightly fitted using stepping stones. Barely a mouse
can get
through that.

Problem solved.


But why should you have to go to all that trouble?

Graham