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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: net.pets
Subject: Re: Hunting instinct
Message-ID: <522@opus.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 30-May-84 00:25:40 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 30 00:25:40 1984
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>>	``the hunting instinct is as much a part of the cat's
>>	life as being outdoors.''
>[a cat which goes outside...]  He probably
>would not have kept this skill if we had not let him out, so letting
>him out keeps our house rodent free.

Not so.  Our cats are avid "hunters" of anything which moves, and they've
never been outside.  Hunting behavior develops almost as soon as the cats
can move around well - probably before six weeks.  They stalk and pounce
each other, mama (often good for a bat on the head), anything else that
moves and a lot of things that don't.
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Dick Dunn	{hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd		(303)444-5710 x3086
	...Are you making this up as you go along?
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Dick Dunn	{hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd		(303)444-5710 x3086
	...Are you making this up as you go along?