In message , Sacha
wrote

Lots of cats are house cats and never, ever go outside. Dogs are either let
out or taken out, I agree. Personally, I think it's cruel to keep cats
cooped up in a house all the time, looking through the window at the
wildlife! However, friends in e.g. USA have explained to me that their cats
are house cats because of the number of predators that can harm them. Here
- apart from man, there are only two dangers I can think of for cats, dogs
and foxes.

Foxes are not a problem for cats otherwise there would be no problem
with the number of cats in my neighbourhood. There was a documentary on
TV some years ago about the urban fox. It showed a few encounters
between cats and the fox. They either avoided each other or the cat
always won.

I guess that most dogs kept as pets wouldn't know what to do with a cat
if they actually caught one.

Cats are said by some to account for the loss of millions of songbirds in
Britain every year.

I find the remains of a bird (lots of feathers) in my urban garden about
once a week.

While a few years ago I had many birds visiting my garden I hardly see
any now. The number of problem feline pets has increased dramatically.

Apart from killing birds, shitting in newly planted flower beds they
also **** on everything to mark 'their ' territory. In an urban
environment the territories are on 'time share' so many cats will ****
on the same plants.

Why cannot antisocial cat owners see that their pet is _always_
someone else's problem! I bet that if the same owners were infested
with roaming rats they would be the first to complain. For their
neighbours the roaming cat is often the problem!

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Alan
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