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Anyone need cat repellent on their garden?
You wouldn't see weasels - I didn't know there were any around until one attacked my ducks in their house. They're very nocturnal, and they can get anywhere that a full grown mouse or small rat can get. I suspect whether you know it or not, they and foxes are causing depredation among your birds and rodents. A dog, and even more so, a couple of dogs together, will kill an entire flock of chickens or ducks within a matter of minutes, and leave the corpses lying there.
That's the point I was making, in response to your statement that you dislike cats because they're killers - it's true of so many predator species, that they kill for sport and practice.
But based on your poop comment, I guess your objection to cats isn't a *moral* one. Everyone poops - your flower beds are full of all kinds of poop, not just cat poop.
ETA: If there are dogs pooping in my yard, or cats, the blame is on their humans, not on them.
hungryraccoon
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Foxes killed the chickens then just left the bodies. Would've preferred if they'd eaten them! 
poor chickens.
poor chickens.Have we? I don't remember. I know I've had substantially similar conversations with lots of omnis though - it's a pretty common mindset arising out of a lack of knowledge about animals.
We put up a beautiful new bird feeder in my mom's backyard and she loves that she gets so many different species, especially the beautifully colored birds like the cardinals and goldfinches and such. One day we were watching the feeder and commenting on how lovely it was, when a cat came up to it and pounced on and subsequently ate one of the prettier birds. While the rest of us were thinking 'damn that's awful' my mom said 'well that's just the way it goes'.
Nice. Thanks...
Remind me to attack you when you post something that has truely upset you and caused an anxiety attack...
Lovely.
Remind me to attack you when you post something that has truely upset you and caused an anxiety attack...
Lovely.
I know its not logical to blame a cat for doing what it does in the wild even when domesticated.
I was/am very upset that it was attacking baby birds in MY garden...my enclosed garden. I wanted to rant and let of steam...and not be logical for just one moment.
I was/am very upset that it was attacking baby birds in MY garden...my enclosed garden. I wanted to rant and let of steam...and not be logical for just one moment.
I hope that wasn't directed at my post about natural cat behavior, because I would be quite worried about you if this is the case.
If you were having an anxiety attack about it, perhaps you should have posted about it another thread, like one of the mental health threads? Or perhaps even mentioned here that you were having an anxiety attack about it....
But that's probably not as fulfilling emotionally.
Cats at work killed a thrush today. I had a dog who hates cats with me so couldn't stop them (my arm was about to be pulled off).
They just left the bird.
I've seen one of them kill a baby rabbit too.
My dogs will jump up and pull birds out of the air in mid flight if I'm not there to stop them. Four legged little animals that get into the dog yard aren't safe either. They're predators.
FortyTwo
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Yeah, this is why we keep all our cats indoors. They're lovely creatures but when they're given the opportunity they go vicious. You can't fault them for their natural instinct but you also can't fault people for getting upset about it, because whether or not they fully understand it, the repercussions of their actions are real and have their own independent effect as well.
FortyTwo
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That was childish. Does this need to degenerate into the argumentative equivalent of name-calling?
