If you have a cat you have to stop it scaring and eating birds

[lasagnelle]

Get a bell collar or something. Give the wildlife a chance. Can you train cats to leave birds alone?

I’ll have a word with mine, explain the problem. See what he says.

It’s just what they do. 🤷‍♀️

Cats are predators it is inherent in them . You can get them a bell collar but not much else

I hate that cats kill so much wildlife, yes put a bell on it.

I hate it that my cat brings mice and birds back but he has removed every single safety collar that I've put on him. I'm scared to put a buckled collar on him because my sister's cat one nearly got strangely with one when he got caught on a tree branch. I know it's rare but its a scary thought.

If I do spot him stalking something, I will stop him.

What did he say?

Collars are dangerous for cats. Yes, it's unfortunate cats go after birds and frogs, but people don't seem to mind so much when they keep the local rat population down too

"whilst cats are not threatening any species with extinction, they do kill in excess of 50 million birds each year as well as frogs, slow worms and various small mammals."

https://community.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/f/ask-an-expert/96132/ask-an-expert-cats-and-wild-birds#:~:text=In%20gardens%20here%20in%20the,worms%20and%20various%20small%20mammals.

Are they allowed to kill rats and mice? I need to know before I sit down with them and put boundaries in place.

I asked mine, he said 'nah'.

Cats don’t actually upset the bird population, if anything they help to strengthen it. They only catch the weak/sick birds that wouldn’t survive anyway. YABU.

I tried talking to my cats and they explained they don't smoke or drink alcohol, they have to have some pleasure in life. Their thing is catching and torturing smaller creatures.
How about yelling the birds to be quiet and stop taunting them with their juicy breasts?

‘Please can I have a collar with a bell on it? I’m a predator but I don’t really want or need to kill any wildlife.’

Thanks for this
i have told my cat if he’s hungry he needs to have a massive salad and not pick up a bird shaped whilst out and about

The effort is appreciated

What about all the baby blackbirds that spend a few days in the hedges before being able to fly properly?

Funny isn’t it, no one really seems to mind them killing these creatures…

Cats don’t actually upset the bird population, if anything they help to strengthen it. They only catch the weak/sick birds that wouldn’t survive anyway.

They also kill a lot of fledgelings that would have survived perfectly well without an introduced predator taking them.

My cat has as many bells on her collar as I can get on it. Her brother takes his collars off. What the heck do you expect me to do?

If it makes you feel better I say sorry to any bird I have to clean up and stopped feeding them so they weren't bait. They still kept coming for a really long time looking for food. Broke my heart. Mostly it is mice I'm presented with. That ok?

@Hunglikeapolevaulter birds have large broods specifically for this reason.

I’m sorry I agree with your opinion's about wildlife but you can try until you are blue in the face certain cats just won’t listen! If they want to hunt they will and absolutely nothing you can do except for literally keeping them in will stop them.

I had a cat that no matter how big a bell or how sensitive a bell you put on it learned to adapt and move in a way to silence it. It taught itself different versions of that with each different bell.
He nearly lost an eye after getting into an altercation with a bloody squirrel who then Tried to and was quite successful in battering him!

I had another (indoor) cat who loved to watch the birds but wasn’t interested in trying to get them but would try to break a window in furious rage to get to it every time it saw another cat!

other cats are quite happy to just lie and watch the wildlife so part of it is a personality thing I think.

there honestly isn’t an answer to it apart from not having cats in our society which I think you will agree won’t happen.

How do you know they would have survived? Other things predate fledglings.

Ours have never really bothered with birds? Mice mainly, rats and the odd squirrel. We did have one that dragged in a snake.

They also kill a lot of fledgelings that would have survived perfectly well without an introduced predator taking them.

Introduced from where?

Are we to stop Lions killing Zebra?
Crocodiles lining up for the annual wildebeest migration, penguins swiping fish, or humans slaughtering animals

Mine are indoor cats.

I now expect an absolute pasting for that!!