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Or bring it indoors for you to play with.

 

As with Terriers and Ferrets.

Ah, good point Phil (although I was actually thinking more of the toy
dogs when I said that if that still makes a difference)? I thought
they might still be at more risk of being hunted than hunters (if it
came to that sort of situation).


All the best ..

T i m

 

I've never, ever been bitten by a dog. Any dog.. (I'm excluding
puppy-mouthing here!).

Cats though - I've been bitten a few times.. Mostly by the tortie I
grew up with (had the standard tortie-schizo personality - one moment
purring and fussing you and the next trying to kill you..).

Cats are trainable (to a limited degree) - we have a signal to the cats
that it's food time and they respond every time. Of course this might
just be pavlovian conditioning..

Cats are pure-carnivors and not pack-scavengers/hunters like dogs.
Hence they have a different style of intelligence - one that doesn't
really include co-operation (which is what forms the basis of a dogs
trainability).

Phil.

 

Theres nowt like treading on a slug on the bedroom landing in the middle of
the night.

 

Ooh, I know this one.

"Because the Dangerous Dogs Act was a crappy bit of kneejerk legislation
that failed to address the problem and involves an entirely arbitrary
list of breeds and varities of dog resulting in omissions, farcical
inclusions and a grey area the size of Belgium"

I blame the dog owners for having dogs and Krusty for having a cat.

 

And I proved the opposite!

 

I'd have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for those pesky oldies.

 

And you're accusing Phil of being unobservant? Has it never occurred
to you that if they've eaten what they killed in-situ, you wouldn't
even know about it?

Ours nearly always tend[1] towards eating their rodent-kills, and
sometimes the birds, although they clearly notice that the lizards
aren't good for eating and let them loose in the house.

[1] Except when we get them first, dead or alive, and replace with
proper[2] food.
[2] Or at least our human view of what's proper for them to eat.
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No, it's because they've got a sense of humour & they go back and tell
their mates "You should have seen mine - he was dancing on that frog at
3am".

 

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Been thier too , took me hours to catch the bloody mouse , in the
meantime the cat pissed off out , im sure the bloody thing was laughing
at me

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You don't spend 3 years in the BBC without learning a bit about blame.

 

Pious bullshit.

 

Even the RSPB think that protected birds are being wiped out by (bigger)
protected birds.

Doesn't stop cats being shit, mind.

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Krusty wrote:

bag of arseholes.

sorry to hear that.

 

Little needles!

Yup ..

I think so.

Nice explanation, ta.

All the best ..

T i m

 

Hmm, so where do we find the actual same size of cat as what I see as
a typical domestic cat in the wild then? Or have they all since gone?
(I'm not arguing your info etc).

All the best ..

T i m

 

It really depends on hour observant you are , cats rarely eat the
feathers or head of larger birds they just gut them same with rats and
voles its quite common for the cat to bring the kill back to its home
turf so its likely if your cat is eating prey they have left the
evidence about

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You really are thick.

a) I've had cats all my life. I most *certainly* have seen them torment
small crunchies.
b) They don't do it because they are evil - they do it to reconfirm
their hunting skills.
c) My real point is that other animals do it (chimps, dogs[1], baboons,
humans[2], dolphins etc etc). To say that 'only cats do it' is wrong.

Again you are wrong. Most of the cats I've had in my lifetime have
eaten their prey (and not because we don't feed them well either!). Our
previous male[3] used to catch a mouse just before their feed time,
kill it straight away and then eat it as dessert.

The main male we had when I was growing up used to catch (and eat)
squirrels - all we would find left was the tail.

Phil.

[1] I've seen dogs worry at prey well before killing it. Including
throwing it up in the air (it was a rabbit and a farm collie), letting
it run away and then recapturing it. Just like a cat does.
[2] Humans are even better at it than other hunting species. And we
really *do* do it for fun.
[3] Only ever bothered hunting things he could eat. Once he discovered
that something was inedible (like shrews) or toxic (house martins) he
wouldn't bother hunting them afterwards. We always knew when he had
been hunting because there was a small pile of entrails under the
kitchen table.. He only ever brought one thing in alive - an adult
blackbird he brought in for the 4-month old young cat we had just got
(who is now 18). He dumped it down in front of her and stepped back in
a "go on then, show us what you can do" sort of way. I rescued it (it
was almost completely unmarked) and put it on top of the wire fence
where he could'nt get it. 5 minutes later it flew away..

 

You silly sod

Time heavy on your hands today, is it?