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How to Stop a Bird-Murdering Cat
The Atlantic ^ | Dec. 9, 2015 | Conor Gearin

Posted on 03/02/2019 12:29:49 PM PST by Albion Wilde

Here’s an alarming but little-known figure—stray cats and pet cats allowed outdoors kill 3.6 million birds every day on average in the United States, for a total of at least 1.3 billion birds per year. That’s most likely a sizable chunk out of the U.S. land-bird population, which the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center estimates is around 10-20 billion....[snip]

But some cat lovers are also bird lovers. Two of them, a birdwatcher named Nancy Brennan and a bird biologist named Susan Willson, have developed what they believe is a solution...

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Gardening; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: 2015; birds; cats; kittyping; ohnoes; oldarticle; predatorcats; prey
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Interesting development of a helpful product that the developers field-tested in several countries, markedly reducing bird murders by domestic cats wearing the affordable devices they created, based on cats' superior ability to see color.

Note: I am not affiliated in any way with these developers or the company or product.

1 posted on 03/02/2019 12:29:49 PM PST by Albion Wilde
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To: Slings and Arrows
Here is the web site of the device, where you will find a 2-minute video of birds and cats.
2 posted on 03/02/2019 12:32:06 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("The twilight hour of socialism has arrived in our hemisphere." --Trump to Venezuelans, 2/18/19)
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To: Albion Wilde

Our cats just LOVE Costco rotisserie chickens. ! And their roast turkeys too


3 posted on 03/02/2019 12:33:46 PM PST by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Albion Wilde

The daughter’s cats have moved on. I plan on getting a kitten in a few years, and cats here live outside a lot. I do have a large bird feeding station, so I will definitely get the collar for the new cat.

Need outside cats to catch the mice before they come inside.


4 posted on 03/02/2019 12:34:59 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Albion Wilde

1.3 billion? Whatever....calling bs.


5 posted on 03/02/2019 12:35:04 PM PST by waterhill (I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
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To: Chickensoup

Our neighborhood needs more cars. The squirrel population is seriously out of control.


6 posted on 03/02/2019 12:37:25 PM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: MrEdd

I never really gave it much thought.


7 posted on 03/02/2019 12:37:59 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Albion Wilde

Growing up decades ago, we had an orange tabby, kinda wirey in build, named Rusty.

Sweetest cat to humans. If you took your fingers, while standing straight up, and rubbed up and down on your chest, he’d jump right up in your arms to be snuggled.

Squirrels, birds, mice, rabbits, snakes......he’d take them all out. Very bad-ass hunter.


8 posted on 03/02/2019 12:38:12 PM PST by nesnah (Liberals - the petulant children of politics)
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To: Chickensoup

Apparently it isn’t a deterrent to killing small colorblind mammals.


9 posted on 03/02/2019 12:41:04 PM PST by null and void (If socialism is so grand, why are Guatemalans coming here instead of going to Venezuela?)
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10 posted on 03/02/2019 12:44:29 PM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73....8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: null and void

Thank God... all rodents need to go to Rat-Heaven.


11 posted on 03/02/2019 12:48:16 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Chickensoup

BS:

https://store.doyourownpestcontrol.com/victor-mouse-snap-trap-m325


12 posted on 03/02/2019 12:49:02 PM PST by Bell Bouy II
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To: Albion Wilde

We had a wonderful hunting cat named Dominic. My wife made a wall chart tally sheet for voles, chipmunks, rabbits, birds, mice, etc. for our young children to learn about counting things. He probably didn’t share all his kills with us. Unfortunately, he met his demise early due to a sad adventure hunting a road vehicle.

Our next cat, Martin, was more circumspect. However, when we went away (neighbor girl fed him). We found two dead full sized rabbits in the basement that he defeated, dragged through the pet flap and left in the basement as trophies.


13 posted on 03/02/2019 12:49:50 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: waterhill

I was wading though a foot high sea of bird carcasses today, as I do everyday, and I too wondered about that 1.3 billion birds getting killed by cats


14 posted on 03/02/2019 12:51:10 PM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: MrEdd

I have some sort of bobcat or in our yard that has slowly eaten its way through most of our burgeoning autumn squirrel population. All we have left is a couple of small reds. and I would be willing to pitch them TO the wild cat!

Memorably, last month it took out one fat grey squirrel slowly, first the tail...then...


15 posted on 03/02/2019 12:51:21 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: nesnah
Sweetest cat to humans. If you took your fingers, while standing straight up, and rubbed up and down on your chest, he’d jump right up in your arms to be snuggled.

Sounds like Tasha, my little calico, although she wasn't a hunter. I mostly kept her indoors as did her previous owner--this is coyote country. She passed away at 18 on Election Day, 2016.

16 posted on 03/02/2019 12:51:45 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Albion Wilde

Can these be put on Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib and Omar so we can see those birdbrains coming?


17 posted on 03/02/2019 12:51:54 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: faithhopecharity

Eww. Poor kitties! Those roissiere chickens are past due meat pumped full of nitrates to hide the foulness. Just sayin....


18 posted on 03/02/2019 12:51:55 PM PST by waterhill (I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
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To: Bell Bouy II

I have the rodent 5 gallon tightrope swimming pool that works well in the garage...but catching them before the enter is the cat’s job.


19 posted on 03/02/2019 12:53:09 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Albion Wilde

These work well:
https://www.walmart.com/ip/DAISY-PRECISIONMAX-BBS-177-BB-ZINC-PLATED-STEEL-6000CT/15729973


20 posted on 03/02/2019 12:56:38 PM PST by Bell Bouy II
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