Re: cats living "at a regional rubbish tip"

To:	"Regan Scheuber" <>
Subject:	Re: cats living "at a regional rubbish tip"
From:	"Philip A. Veerman" <>
Date:	Thu, 2 Dec 2004 23:58:07 +1100

Thanks for raising that. Although I haven't seen this article, I suggest it is unsurprising that cats living "at a regional rubbish tip" would have a "tendency to scavenge in favour of catching live prey". That information may well be true but is it of much relevance to the whole issue, when most cats do not live at a regional rubbish tip.

Philip

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From: Regan Scheuber <>
To: <>
Date: Thursday, 2 December 2004 10:37
Subject: Re: [BIRDING-AUS] One lucky CP

Hi everyone,

For a paper on this topic available free online, try Susan Hutchings, "The diet of feral house cats (Felis catus) at a regional rubbish tip, Victoria" Wildlife Research. 30 (1):103-110, 2003 - http://publish.csiro.au/?act=view_file&file_id=WR99067.pdf . The study deals predominantly with the cats' tendency to scavenge in favour of catching live prey.

Regan.

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