Cats everywhere!

[GoldfinchFeather]

Since we have plenty of threads to moan about dogs and dog owners, how about a bit of balance and a thread for the same about cats?

I, for one, am not a fan of the things and think there are too many around. And sure, while the problems they cause may be less obvious than dogs/dog ownership, I personally think they're worse in many ways. Particularly for the terrible effect they have on local wildlife and birds in particular.

On numerous occasions I've had the misfortune to come across birds and animals that have clearly been attacked by cats. One distressing incident occurred just a few weeks ago - on an evening walk I came across a domestic cat that had just attacked a tiny baby wild rabbit. Despite shooing the cat off and it still being alive when I got to it, it didn't survive.

Seeing that made me just want to go and give the bloody thing a boot up the backside.

Yet many cat owners seem to find this behaviour either a mildly amusing part of their cat ownership ("you'll never guess what my Tiddles caught the other day!"), or have no qualms about letting their cats roam freely and slowly kill all wildlife within a several mile radius. When really, they should just be kept indoors.

And if they were, there'd be far less of them that were always going bloody missing or being stupid enough to get themselves run over on the road.

Surely I can't be alone in my hatred of cats?!

Cats are amazing. I like them better than most people. People destroy more wildlife than cars ever will if that’s your argument.

Where I live they are building lots of new houses on greenfield sites not caring if there’s badger setts there and the poor deer have had their territory decimated.

Bloody cats!
I had to get an early flight last week…..a chorus of the bastards started meowing outside my bedroom window (when I was trying to sleep) and then it cascaded into a fight down the street.
A few weeks ago DH and I shot up in bed, rudely awoken by a massive cat fight at 4.30am. I look like shit, menopausal sleep issues bad enough without these pests.
Funnily enough, found an aqua blaster in the supermarket yesterday when doing my grocery shopping.
Was showing DH my new weapon, when cat turned up in my vegetable patch.
Used it, it went down a treat with me and DH, it reaches a great distance, and cat buggered off. Thinking of keeping a bowl of water and aqua blaster by my bedroom window every night now………only £3……absolute bargain.

Our local nature reserve has just done a fundraiser to buy local fields which would have gone to house building.
Their MAIN reason was if more houses were built it would = a rise in cats and living nearer to the birds/wildlife which would be , in their words, disastrous. This stops the houses being built and maintains the much larger buffer zone, keeping the wildlife safer.

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Humans don't need to kill animals to survive we just enjoy the taste of meat. Same as cats enjoy the taste of mice and birds.

I’d take cats and dogs, any animal over humans really. We are the most destructive of any creature.
When you say birds op, do you count chickens and turkeys? Do you eat them? I’ll park it there 🤣

Why do we trump every living creature? We don’t bring a lot to the planet do we and will be extinct at some point- if we don’t kill each other first.

Cat shit….
if you don’t want it in your kitchen then I certainly don’t want it in my garden

I don't deny that cats are by nature hunters. But we can't overlook the fact that huge swathes of deforestation are occurring to build farms that are raising cattle for human consumption.
How can we demonise cats and their owners but then sit and cheap meat.

You're not a fan of 'the things'? 🤨
Pretty sure that, cats being cats, they don't give a fuck

To add to this, the wildlife mine is currently busy eradicating is the rats, which are only here because a dirty arse human has decided to collect rubbish both inside their house and garden so no, I don't think this is a bad thing.
The other one can only catch flys bless him.