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help! marauding cat.......

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Subject: help! marauding cat.......
From: "Charmian Lawson" <>
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:28:57 +1000
Hi
 
I wonder if any of you bird lovers can help us with this. We are lucky enough to have many birds visit us every day. We are unlucky in that we have a cat which visits which loves these birds - to death.
 
The cat had a collar and bell - but we found it caught on the net protecting our fish from the white faced heron which visits us every year. I put it back on the cat (which incidentally is very appealing - and we had our own cats for years when we lived in Duffy, but cats and birds don't mix here) and it was gone the next day. I bought a double bell collar and put it on the little thing yesterday (which was pretty bad since it is not our cat) but there are more feathers in the yard today. I don't know what to do about this. We obviously love the birds and the cat is only behaving as one would expect of a cat.  I don't know the people who own it........
 
Do any of you know what we can do to discourage the cat? Tony is pretty good with the water pistol but that really doesn't seem to deter it.
 
Any advice would be really appreciated.
 
Thank you
 
Charmian Lawson
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