"'Mike'" wrote in message
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"Graham Harrison" wrote
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"Mikesndbs" wrote in message
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Hello

I know this is an emotive subject and indeed I have already had my
fingers burned when I added a link to an official government petition.
However as this thread already exists I don't see that it would do
harm to add it here!

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/control-pet-cats/

This is a much more level headed one from some of the extreme ones to
be found and as such may get more attention.
If you agree please vote.
If you don't then you need do nothing.

For the record I don't hate cats, I dislike the owners who buy/get
cats for the kids and then leave the cats to roam free.
I do indeed hate it when well fed cats kill the wildlife in my garden
that I strive so hard to promote.
I also do hate getting cats mess on me and finding my plats uprooted.

I have raised the concern, lets see if those in charge of our destiny
can come up with an answer.

Thanks for your time.


I have a cat. I've recently moved it (and me!) from an urban to a rural
location. In the urban environment we would get very occasional kills
(usually mice/shres/voles but one or two small birds).

Since we moved the kill rate has increased. Now, if she was killing
lots of birds I would be worried. However, the majority of her kills
remain mice/shrews/voles. She has also had 3 small rabbits and 1 mole
(at least we think she had the mole, we found the body where she has
taken the rabbits previously and we've seen her catch and eat a rabbit
there).

The rabbits are a real nusiance. They damage plants. I don't want her
to kill birds (well, I might not object to some wood pigeons) but if she
can keep down the rabbit population I'm cheering her on. I don't want
her hobbled by having to wear a bell.

But I also have sympathy for people who object to cats. We have some
beds we don't want her to use so we use cat pepper and, as someone else
suggested, short sticks at close spacing.

In the end, I don't know the answer.


But whatever the answer is, .............. it has to please you :-((

Had you thought of ,.... get rid of the cat?
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Oh silly me, that would not please YOU :-(

Mike

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I think it's more a case of what to do when she pops her paws (which despite
her recent increase in activity is probably not that many years away).