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I'd never feed a random cat. Buggers end up coming back, and before you know it, you've fostered someone's pet. Plus you don't know if they have a particular diet.
 
Enzo - 8 weeks old tomorrow.
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Archie just over a year old
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Red_knight said:
If you can't get any friends, family or friends of friends to take them, your best bet might be a private shelter, though it would probably be good form to give them cat food at the same time too.

I think Cats protection mainly use fosterers rather than keeping the cats in a cattery.
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GF keeps posting it on facebook and no response yet :(

I think we woudl rather keep them than put them into any kind of shelter.
Got till the end of the year (baby on the way) to find them a home.
It's a real shame because they are awesome cats and as we have 2 dogs they get on with them (often fall asleep or play with dogs)

I am in Derbyshire for the record so Essex is a bit out of my way :p
 
MassiveJim said:
GF keeps posting it on facebook and no response yet :(

I think we woudl rather keep them than put them into any kind of shelter.
Got till the end of the year (baby on the way) to find them a home.
It's a real shame because they are awesome cats and as we have 2 dogs they get on with them (often fall asleep or play with dogs)

I am in Derbyshire for the record so Essex is a bit out of my way :p
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Why do you need to get rid of them if you're having a baby? They're no worse for babies than dogs.
 
We had to get a bell for this wee guy as he's a bit of a hunter and started bringing birds back to the house.

The final straw was when he took a crow back, which was honestly about the size of him. Unfortunately it was still half alive so we had to call the SSPCA to take it away.

Nevertheless, he's amazing.


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Chiz said:
We had to get a bell for this wee guy as he's a bit of a hunter and started bringing birds back to the house.

The final straw was when he took a crow back, which was honestly about the size of him. Unfortunately it was still half alive so we had to call the SSPCA to take it away.

Nevertheless, he's amazing.


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Wouldn't it have been easier to let him eat it - failing that swing by legs over a broom handle and bin it.

Our's came in with fledgling crow last week but it was dead - then 3 mice from field - Made big mistake of putting them in bin instead over over into field - Sun on a wheely bin with dead things in means loads of maggots.

Dave
 
DXP55 said:
Wouldn't it have been easier to let him eat it - failing that swing by legs over a broom handle and bin it.

Dave
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Usually I do mate, but he was nowhere to be found. We have a cat flap into the garage and that's usually where he leaves his presents for us. Plus it was a massive crow. There's no danger he could have ate it.

We live next to fields and farmland and he brings in mice and shrews pretty much every second day.. usually headless.
 
FoxEye said:
That's why I said I'm not looking to feed her ;)

But I don't think I single tasty nibble really counts. That's like saying you can't give a child a couple raisins from a van with a bear painted on it.
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Leave the children alone too :p
 
Chiz said:
We had to get a bell for this wee guy as he's a bit of a hunter and started bringing birds back to the house.

The final straw was when he took a crow back, which was honestly about the size of him. Unfortunately it was still half alive so we had to call the SSPCA to take it away.

Nevertheless, he's amazing.


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Responsible owner \o/ theres a cat that absolute loves our garden that belongs to our next door neighbour but is absolutely always killing birds (pigeons, blackbirds, robins etc.) which is never nice to watch especially when you're fond of birds. Seems the owner spoke to my mum but of course she didn't recommend a bell, to be honest if we weren't moving I'd post a collar with a bell through their letterbox. Only difference here is I don't intend on feeding the cat although she's pretty used to seeing me in the garden and I just leave her to it so she's pretty cool with me being right next to her :cool:
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our family cats always used to have bells, however as they still managed to catch a large amount of wildlife they weren't bothered with after a point :D
 
Having real issues with our one cat at the moment. We changed his diet and he has lost some weight and become a lot more lively. He has gone from sleeping all day and lazing about to a supreme hunter killer. :eek:

He has been through 2 collars in as many weeks. It never bothered him wearing a collar before, but this time he keeps losing them (getting out of them?) and as a result we are having birds and mice brought in and devoured all the time now. At least 2 a day usually :( But we are both out a lot with work and he also does it at night when we are in bed and we wake up to the mess :(

Cant seem to find anywhere that sells buckled collars, and even if I could I am not sure I want him in something that could choke him if he got caught up on it.

Anyone got any good ideas?
 
BuffetSlayer said:
Having real issues with our one cat at the moment. We changed his diet and he has lost some weight and become a lot more lively. He has gone from sleeping all day and lazing about to a supreme hunter killer. :eek:

He has been through 2 collars in as many weeks. It never bothered him wearing a collar before, but this time he keeps losing them (getting out of them?) and as a result we are having birds and mice brought in and devoured all the time now. At least 2 a day usually :( But we are both out a lot with work and he also does it at night when we are in bed and we wake up to the mess :(

Cant seem to find anywhere that sells buckled collars, and even if I could I am not sure I want him in something that could choke him if he got caught up on it.

Anyone got any good ideas?
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Change his diet back to the way it was? :-\
 
For those of you who walk your cats on leashes, do you get funny looks from the neighbours? And if so does it bother you.
 
Hyburnate said:
Responsible owner \o/ theres a cat that absolute loves our garden that belongs to our next door neighbour but is absolutely always killing birds (pigeons, blackbirds, robins etc.) which is never nice to watch especially when you're fond of birds. Seems the owner spoke to my mum but of course she didn't recommend a bell, to be honest if we weren't moving I'd post a collar with a bell through their letterbox.
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Neither of our cats wear collars/bells and I'm afraid they do both hunt now and again. It's not an "every day" thing, but they will bring back anything from moths to a rabbit.
We don't have any issue with them wearing a bell, however we will only ever use the collars that snap open - refuse point blank to use the secure fastening ones as we do not want our cats caught on something. The fact they have both lost 3 of these snap-release collars shows that they are getting themselves into situations where a "regular collar" could have proved deadly to them.

There is the initial safety issue followed by the cost issue. I'm sure it can be distressing, but if you "shoo" a cat away from your garden they are less likely to come back - they don't like hassle.
 
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Red_knight said:
Why do you need to get rid of them if you're having a baby? They're no worse for babies than dogs.
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Partly selfish reasons, partly for the benefit of the cats

1 - cost (running 2 dogs, 2 cats and a baby is expensive)
2- time ( cats whilst not neglected at present don't get as much attention as I would like them to have and this will only get worse when baby arrives
3 - next door neighbour has a bird table, cats constantly killing the birdies
4 - 1 of my dogs is super super energetic and wants to play with everyone and everything ALL of the time, it is stressing one of my cats out (the one who prefers to be in the house most of the time) the animals do all get along but Bailey (the hyper-active Plummer terrier) does often get a bit much for the cats.
 
MassiveJim said:
Partly selfish reasons, partly for the benefit of the cats

1 - cost (running 2 dogs, 2 cats and a baby is expensive)
2- time ( cats whilst not neglected at present don't get as much attention as I would like them to have and this will only get worse when baby arrives
3 - next door neighbour has a bird table, cats constantly killing the birdies
4 - 1 of my dogs is super super energetic and wants to play with everyone and everything ALL of the time, it is stressing one of my cats out (the one who prefers to be in the house most of the time) the animals do all get along but Bailey (the hyper-active Plummer terrier) does often get a bit much for the cats.
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Which came first? The cats or the dogs?

I have to say from what you describe it sounds like Bailey is the main problem, and dogs are far more time consuming to young families than cats are (not to mention the potential danger to a screaming newborn).

Easy for me to sit here and make comments, so forgive me if I have the wrong end of the stick here, but it does seem like the cats are being rehomed because you have a dog problem?
 
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