I adopted a young male rescue cat last summer. He’d been living stray and had a difficult start in life, so I thought I was doing a good thing.
About six months after letting him outside he began catching quite a lot of mice, which although not ideal, I could just about cope with.
However, he has now moved on to birds and has caught about four in the space of two weeks. I’m so, so upset by it.
This morning he came into my bedroom for a snooze and then went outside into the garden. I went down about 20 minutes later to find him in the kitchen with another dead bird in his mouth. I can’t believe he’s managed to kill another one just 20 minutes after being let out this morning.
He’s a lovely cat apart from this but honestly, I’m really regretting adopting him now.
I’m considering a collar with a bell but have read they can cause injury to cats if the quick release mechanism fails or doesn’t work fast enough.
I just hate to see all these lovely birds being slaughtered. What can I do? 