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From: denise@dadla.WR.TEK.COM (Denise Caire)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: birds threatened by cats
Keywords: cat prevention
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Date: 5 Dec 89 19:01:13 GMT
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In article <257498A5.4028@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> riehm@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Riehm) writes:
>some unalienable right to hunt and kill.  Perhaps others saw the article in 
>Time (or was it Newsweek) last summer that said that a study in England showed
>that the average neighbourhood cat killed about 200 birds and small animals
>each year.  And we're supposed to put up with this? 

No offense, but isn't England a much smaller mass of land, as in an
island?  Also, the attitude towards stray cats and cat control is much
different than in the US.  One really must take such things as cultural
differences into account when making comparisons.

  I became enraged last
>year when a nest of rabbits in our back yard was cleaned out by a neighbor's 
>cat.

It's funny.  I can't figure out why you are upset.  Is it because you
wanted nature to be so close you could see those bunnies from your
window?  Why not get down on farmers for killing rabbits in droves?
Instead you want to kill one animal to save another.  And, rabbits and
birds are pretty much fair game for a lot of preditors besides cats.

As much as I love all animals, I truely cannot stand the possum.  
(The raccoon is as big of a culprit as any also.)  These animals pillage
ground bird nests such as pheasant, chucker, grouse, and quail.
They don't just kill a bird.  They eat entire nests of eggs.  And, what
about Blue Jays?

  I must say that I really cannot see what would be wrong with killing such
I gotta go,
Denise "I love cats" Caire
denise@dadla.WR.TEK.COM