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