A few years ago I watched my housemate at the times cat hunt birds by holding
its lower jaw hard against its neck pinning the bells so they wouldnt tinkle.
As we were in inner Melbourne at the time and the only birds around were feral
i didnt mind too much. But yes... cats can learn to silence the bells...
probably need one at each side of the collar to be effective.
Cheers
Tim
-----Original Message-----
From: "J Rose" <>
To: <>
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 12:31:52 +1000
Subject: One lucky CP
My border collie (also a twitcher) and I rescued a crested pigeon from the
neighbour’s cat on Saturday evening around dusk. We live on a 2-acre block
at Highvale (around 35ks n/w of Brisbane cbd). The moggie was toying with
the capture up the back of our block and my dog came in the house barking
for me to take a look. Of course the cat took off as we approached and I was
able to rescue the CP. Unfortunately the dog was unable to catch the cat!!
The CP was missing all but 4 tail feathers and plenty of down feathers from
around the anal region. Very little blood though and no puncture marks so I
dabbed it with some Betadine in the appropriate places and took it off to
our wonderful wildlife carer for some R & R where it has lived through the
initial shock (which is the usual killer), and has survived to day 4.
Hopefully in around a month’s time I will be able to release it back in this
vicinity.
A peculiar aspect of this episode though is to attest to the fact that the
cat was wearing a collar with bells and serves to prove a suspicion that I’
ve had for some time: -
I’m certain that after wearing these bell collars for some time,
cats learn to hunt and stalk without them ‘ringing’.
Anyone have any comments in this??
Cheers
John
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