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

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From: "Geoffrey Dabb" <>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:46:08 +1000

Borrow or hire a Little Eagle.  Excellent also for Chihuahuas and Belgian Lop-ears

 

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Subject: [canberrabirds] 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




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19/08/2007 07:29 PM

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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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