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Cat just brought me a dead bird...how best to dispose of it

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Startingagainandagain · 08/07/2024 10:24

My rescue cat seemed to have graduated from bringing me live insects to a dead bird just now.

She brought it into the kitchen , then dragged it back just outside the door to the garden...

How best to dispose of the bird? should I burry it (although I have foxes that visit all the time so I don't want them to dig it back up...) in the garden? put it in some kind of cardboard box first to avoid the foxes smelling it?

My neighbour also got similar 'presents' from her cat and the foxes have kept digging it up...

OP posts:
Dabralor · 17/07/2024 11:22

Startingagainandagain · 08/07/2024 13:27

'@Dabralor · Today 11:35
PLEASE PUT BELLS ON YOUR CATS!

Poor wildlife species are being decimated as it is without your errant pets slaughtering them for fun.'

'@NicoleSkidman You perfectly illustrate why domestic cats shouldn’t be kept as pets. OP, what are you going to do to stop your cat from killing our dwindling native wildlife?'

My cat stays out in my garden for a couple of hours during the day, that's it.

So she is not 'errant' and I doubt very much she is going to decimate the bird population in that timeframe...

She is not doing for 'fun', she is following the instinct that nature gave her.

I have foxes living in my garden, seagulls nesting on my roof, many insects making the most of the flowers, vegs and trees I planted so I think I am doing my bit for protecting the environment.

Putting a collar and bell on a cat is not something I will ever do. I would drive me and the cat mad and it is a risk to them if the collar gets caught in something.

I also have no issue with the cat and the foxes keeping the rodent population under control as I have vegetable raised beds and compost bins.

What, you honestly can't understand that your cat interfering with a complex and threatened ecosystem is a bad thing? Especially during a time when wild bird stocks are so depleted following a bird flu epidemic?

Pp is right, you must just not care.

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