help! marauding cat.......Re: [canberrabirds [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Hi Charmian

A cow bell would slow it down.
Feeding it excessively would also slow
it down.
Buy a dog (not for me either).
Maybe it has a headache!
 
Sorry none of this is really helpful
but I do appreciate your frustration. Really need to track its owner. Perhaps
try attaching a message to cat's collar. It would be great to have a RFID
tag  on the cat (like on clothing at shops) that set off alarm when
in vicinity of your boundary or birdbath etc. Maybe Tony could upgrade
his firepower to an automatic sprinkler system, water cannon ...some thing
pungent/sticky (coke) in water pistol. It'll learn not to associate your
garden with pleasure.

cheers
Richard

"Charmian Lawson" <>

19/08/2007 07:29 PM

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Subject	[canberrabirds] help! marauding cat.......

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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