@amalan11 wrote:
There is an interesting article on the ABC news site on a new finding that it is very effective to put a bright hair scrunchie on cats to stop hunting of wildlife.It says that a 2 year study has shown the bright colour can cut down by 50% the amount of dead wildlife.My boy is in disgrace over the killing of a dove and is now in a bell collar.I may try a bright scrunchie if he learns to quiet his bell.
Very interesting I thought
Interesting idea. First you have to have a cat that will wear one. Some cats hate collars of any kind. Scrunchies can be quite stretchy so they are probably safe to wear if chosen well....the problem being that they might be too easy to remove.
Cats can move very well without a bell making a sound. Sneaky creatures....which is why my cat is an andoor pet. I had one cat, pedigreed, who had spent most of her life indoors or in a large cattery with big enclosed runs. I let her outside a few times.....until she caught a bird. Being the 'posh' and tidy cat that she was, she immediately brought it inside and put it in her food dish! Luckily the bird was only stunned so I was able to put it outside where it immediately flew off. After that the cat was confined to killing spiders, moths and (the funniest sight of all) tossing thawed out chicken wing tips around the place until they were 'dead' then eaten. Sometimes she spent so much time hunting a chicken wing that at a lull in the battle my other cat would creep in grab it and eat it.
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