Secret Life Of The Cat

[***super_nova***]

Last night I watched interesting program about domestic cats and their behaviour, if you missed it well worse looking up on line

" In The Secret Life of The Cat, a team of leading scientists stake out a community of cats to explore what our feline companions get up to in their personal time.

In a groundbreaking experiment, fifty cat residents from Shamley Green, a quaint village in Surrey, UK, are tagged with GPS trackers and collar cams for 24 hours.

Collar cam gives a somewhat edgier, unseen insight into a gypsy life on the streets and alleyways, patrolling territories, scaling fences and scavenging for food."

[***super_nova***]

Yes, well if those estimates are based that every Australian cat kills 3 animals a day, then I am sure there are way out.  My cat is 12 now and all what she kills are baby rats, usually in the spring.  This spring we so far had 3.  In the past she also used to kill adult rats but she is getting bit lazy, and she never got a bird.  And as she spends most of the day on the sofa or sitting on the window, i doubt she does kill other animals that i do not know about.  of-course, she is not allowed out at night.  My previous cats were kept within my property = a large cat proof garden, and their hunting "achievements" were even less.  The only rats they caught were baby pet rats that escaped from next doors.  They did stalked the doves, but as the doves can fly they never caught one.  Those cats were burmillas. 

[aps1080]

You sound sounds like the complete opposite to the millions of cats that live in te bush.

They catch and kill natives day in, day out.

[***super_nova***]

Well, feral cats that depend on hunting for survival, yes they probably kill several little critters a day, if they did not they would not live very long.  🙂  But even on a farm the cat is more likely to get mice and rats and even rabbits than birds.  And as rats also damage native animals.  Cats have been here for a long time; recent genetic test show that some of the feral cats came here from Asia long time ago. 

But well fed city cats do not, at least in my experience and as supported by this documentary, do not make as damage as some would like us to believe.  🙂

[***super_nova***]

I think I better go and have some rest     Or at least read what I have written   ooops

[bright.ton42]

I thought they said the kill they showed on the documentary  was divided among 20 cats for the week, and they were surprised how few they had killed?

edited to make sense