Our cat is killing far too many birds

Leave him to it. It's nature. Putting a collar on isn't very nice for it, it must irritate them like crazy. They're already far from a 'natural' life, don't take the other formalities of it away.
 
Mine catches loads of field mice and birds, but does eat them. Watchng him crunch through a mouse head to tail is gross but fascinating. He did drag in a magpie through the cat flap onc, which, when free, flew around the living room pooping everyhwere, so that wasn't so cool.
 
It's just natural for them. Our two year old female is a good hunter but this month she seems to have declared all out war on the local wildlife population. So far we have had:-

12 voles.
2 shrews.
2 field mice.
7 birds.

Yesterday she was busiest with 2 voles, a bird and a field mouse. The thing is that most of these are alive and brought into the house. The rodents are easy to catch as she usually have them cornered and it's just a matter of picking them up and letting them go back into the field. The birds though are a completely different matter. She comes through the kitchen door into the hallway and drops them on the front door mat. You can imagine the chaos that follows. Poor terrified little bird flying around the house with me and a manic cat trying to catch it. :D
 
A few years ago one of our cats decided to bring in a rabbit, eat half of it and leave the other half as a gift on the floor...

Our kittens are just recently becoming good hunters, we've had quite a few shrews running around the house or dead shrews on the floor in the past few weeks.
 
My cat couldn't catch a cold. I think the best he's done is taken a couple of feathers off a bird :p These days he doesn't even both trying.
 
I was talking to my father on the phone last night and was telling him about Abby's antics with the wildlife. You will never guess what their cat caught and took home the other day?












































A lower set of false teeth!!! :D Wher on earth he got them from they do not know but some poor bugger is rather gummy at the moment. :D:D
 
Cats actually aren't giving you a present when they do that. They are actually saying they are better hunters than you. Basically, your cat is trying to say you're a b***h
 
Shock horror as expert predator catches stuff.

The fact he/she is bringing them home is a good thing :) Might be slightly inconvenient at times but in comparison to dogs you have a lot less hassle overall! :)
 
A bigger bell on its collar would probably do the job


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spend sometime with the cat and fuss it, mine used to bring and kill a hell of a lot but since spending time and fussing her she doesnt tend to bring home pressies , either that or just keeping your garden clear but bringing home takeaway so to speak :P
 
i have 2 killer cats but no cat flap so they have to leave them outside if they want to come in, a full range of dead animals they always bring us including a huge rabbit which one of them then ate leaving just it's head and a very bloody faced cat
 
pastymuncher said:
It's just natural for them. Our two year old female is a good hunter but this month she seems to have declared all out war on the local wildlife population. So far we have had:-

12 voles.
2 shrews.
2 field mice.
7 birds.

Yesterday she was busiest with 2 voles, a bird and a field mouse. The thing is that most of these are alive and brought into the house. The rodents are easy to catch as she usually have them cornered and it's just a matter of picking them up and letting them go back into the field. The birds though are a completely different matter. She comes through the kitchen door into the hallway and drops them on the front door mat. You can imagine the chaos that follows. Poor terrified little bird flying around the house with me and a manic cat trying to catch it. :D
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My step-moms cat has brought a carp out of some guys pond before :p its just somthing they do cant do much just leave em to it
 
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