Cats everywhere!

I don't like them, trawling all over my garden and shitting everywhere, We wouldn't put up with dogs doing it, so why cats?!

I do prefer dogs. We’ve had cats as well, and I’ve loved them, but never as much as I’ve loved our dogs. I hate to see them catching birds, but OTOH I think it’s cruel to keep cats permanently indoors.

Still, at least we don’t routinely de-claw them - to stop them damaging furniture, like they do in America.

Another misery guts moaning about cats yet the UK would have a much bigger rodent problem without them.
Lots of bigger birds attack other birds and wildlife too.
And it's always the lazy people who never bother with their shit holes of a garden that moan the most.

Cats are very useful. My mum's cat saved her neighbours' rabbits from being eaten by a fox. And Pusheen is one of my favourite things ever. Cat owners don't expect everyone to put up with their cats and drag them everywhere either.

I do like cats, but I do think there are possibly too many. My mum is a pretty responsible cat owner in that she has always got her cats in at night, partly so they have less chance at decimating our small bird and mammal population, but even so she seems to be in denial about cats crapping in other peoples gardens. Also, me and DH once saw one of her cats kill a bird by the bird table in her garden, only to have her say, 'that one never goes after birds,' in disbelief when we told her 😬

You’re quite a disgusting person for wanting to harm an ANIMAL who is behaving like an animal. Maybe direct your white hot rage at the real culprits who are knowingly destroying the planet - humans

I have three rescue ex battery hens and they love spreading their wings wide and running together at the cat! It used to freak him out but now he just stays put and they whoosh past him and make their bwark bwark noise! I think the cat thinks he's supposed to guard them! They've reached an uneasy truce anyway!

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Cats are great. Couldn't be without them, or dogs. There's something quite sinister about people who dislike animals.

My cats are all terrified of my littlest chook Gracie - she chases them for their lives if they get too close 😂

From someone who's garden keeps getting shit on by a cat I agree with OP.

I don't think it's too different from a dog killing a cat to a cat killing whatever the hell they want to but some people seem to think that's horrible of the evil dog and just nature for the cat.

I don't hate cats in the slightest but I don't understand why they are 'let off' with everything because they are cats when dogs are expected to not have their instincts also.

I much prefer cats to most people. And I'm guessing @Toottooot is from my part of Scotland where a dog is a dug.

Cats stop overpopulation of mice and birds in the same way that ladybirds stop the overpopulation of aphids and spiders stop the overpopulation of flies. Humans have become so divorced from the reality of life cycles. Even my chickens love my cat!

Dogs kill wild birds too.

Do you let it roam into other people’s gardens and garages and sheds etc though? I hate it and I hate they way they wind up my dogs!!

How very dare you! Cats are a superior species. The Egyptians had the right idea.

Lots don’t, mine included, not keen on vermin and birds

I could not agree more OP. The bloody evil little shits are everywhere. Sometimes I can't even find a place to sit on my sofa for all the little feckers snoozing away😂

Our local council refuse recycling centre has about 6 cats mooching about apparentlly they like them because it keeps the rat population down,....

I'm a massive cat lover. My two are indoor cats, so no threat to wildlife here. But I do agree with you, OP, that parts of the UK have too many cats AND dogs.

Where I live (London) there are just too many dogs, especially badly trained ones, and they cause real problems. Just today there's a video posted on my neighbourhood website by someone who opened her front door to find two dogs there. Her cat ran out and the dogs absolutely savaged it - the cat is now missing.

The overpopulation of cats is less a problem to humans, but it is to cats themselves. They have to fight for tiny pockets of territory, and lots of them go missing or get run over.

So I kind of agree with you, though not with the hate. I must say, though, that it is rank hypocrisy to hate on cats for the loss of wildlife. Humans are responsible for far, far more wildlife devastation, even leaving out our meat consumption.

Here in Australia, feral cats (descended from domestic cats) kill an estimated 2 billion native animals per year.

In turn, the cats are killed in their millions by shooting, trapping and poisoning, but the problem persists.

I don't think owning cats is ethically responsible in this country, but obviously many disagree.

We have a nesting box in are garden and we were looking forward to a pair of bluetits breeding again…….sadly out neighbours cat has killed both adult birds. I detest cats…….I wouldn’t hurt one but I certainly DO NOT want them in my garden, shitting in the borders, digging up my plants and generally being a destructive pain in the arse! I have tried several methods of deterring them, some successful for a short time, others a failure. We have several around us, all very aloof and having total disregard for anyone’s gardens and the wildlife.

Why do cat owners consider that it is acceptable to have such a destructive, murderous, creature and why can’t you keep your cat in your garden to do its shitty business?

Mine are indoors only.

I grew up in the countryside with feral/rural/farm cats and I can honestly say I have never found something the cats had killed. I know they did hunt (thats what they where used for) but they hunted to eat, I have literally never come across carcasses of dead animals from cats and we had like 20 on our land.

My dog brought home more things than the cats ever did (although alive, she was a collector of any little creature she came across... think she wanted puppies).

Living in the rougher cities there was always dead birds around, mainly pigeons. It was people killing them for 'fun' (what possible fun you can get from torturing an animal I will never know) not cats though.