What do you come up with around cats free range?
I'm not a cat person, as I love birds and cats have always tried to chomp through the birds I love. So if you let your cat out at night to prey on animals do you watchfulness about it or do you just think its a pure thing?
I wouldn't vote we let our cats out to prey on animals and of course we care but yes it's unprocessed,it's Nature's way of weeding out the weakest who may otherwise die a slow death from cold or starvation. Would you similar to cats to stop catching mice and rats ? We'd soon be over run.
It's the basic instinct and right of cats to go out and hunt, matching as it is for birds to fly. I often wonder if the people who revulsion cats catching birds, sit down to a roast dinner of chicken which was slaughtered horribly by a human.
Whilst I believe that cats should be allowed to budge outside during the daytime, I have always preferred to hold on to them indoors overnight for their own safety.
Cats are predators by nature and domestication hasn't eradicated their instinct to hunt. Keeping them indoors at dusk and daybreak when birds are most vulnerable, is one way of reducing the amount of birds they catch.
In the UK, the RSPB do not believe that cat predation is have any impact on bird populations as they tend to catch mainly weak or below par birds which wouldn't have survived anyway. Sadly millions of birds die naturally every year, through starvation, disease etc.
http://www.rspb.org.uk/advice/gardening/...
As a bird lover, you may want to check out the RSPB pattern site as they offer advice on ways you can protect them from cats in your garden.
If a dog was allowed out to do the toilet in peoples garden there would be complaints, but whether a cat does this it is natural. Well it is natural for dogs to chase cats. If people love cats why do they agree to them wander onto roads?
I own two cats and they are strictly indoors. My In laws have 4 cats who are aloud to wonder external at their leisure. I can't stand that. As much as I love my cats, people who let them roam around external are very irresponsible. I grew up with an aviary full of native Australian birds and I once watch my sister in laws cat kill a bird that he played next to for ages. I thought I was going to be sick. Yeah, ok, its natural - not really. When you have a domesticated cat, it is NOT unconscious for it to kill the native wildlife where you live. Feral cats who own not been domesticated are out there, we don't need our domesticated cats to be killer as well. Wild dogs will hunt and kill fully grown horses, but does your average house dog go out to hunt? No! Also, within are so many things out there that can harm cats resembling infections, disease, other cats, some dogs, cars, the list goes on. Why would you subject your loved house pet to those kind of things? Like I said, my cats are strictly indoors and gain a lot of love and care. The only piece they will kill is the occasional cockroach that will come into the house. (We had a mouse in the house once and the cats be more scared of it!) Sorry to all those who think letting cats outdoors contained by 'natural', I can't stand it!
its just nature. a cat is an animal and should be allowed to jump out and explore. although saying that i don't let my cat out at night due her going hunting, also in that are some sick people out there!
I think it's natural, unless it's my damn foot when i'm walking down the audience on the way to the toilet in the middle of the night, afterwards it's not natural...lol
cats will be cats!
its in the make-up!
have you heard the saying 'personality, nurture'? you cant teach them not to do it!
Cats should be allowed to roam, as it is their natural intuition. They also help to thin the mice and rat population.
Answers: It's a natural thing. At smallest they're not preying on small children like most dogs seem to be doing these days!
Mmmm . . . cats. Love them with BBQ sauce . . . Rrrrrgh!
