Posted on 06/02/2019 8:34:09 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
I collected footage for about 6 months. In that time, I noticed that Treacle vocalized less outside than she did in the house, and that the pitch of the vocalizations was different. She only caught one thing that whole time: a woodmouse. I began wondering if I could do this more scientifically, and follow a larger number of cats, to get a better sense of how they behave when no one is watching.
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Worse, a lost mate means four nestlings lost to feed Crow nestlings.
A neighbor asked me over for smoothies. In two hours, her cat had brought her dead two male cardinals.
The beginning of US Spring for many bird species’ migrations starts in Key West. Key West is home to 40,000 cats!
Someone wondered what his dogs did at home while he was at work, so he put a camera onto the living room. What did the dogs do? They slept.
[[I watched the video. Quelle surprise!! Cats behave as cats. They stare, prowl, catch bugs, poop, howl, stretch, touch noses with other cats, growl, hiss, and stalk things.]]
Yes but in the deleted scenes, they smoked, drank, played poker, and were into drug smuggling- and cursed a lot too-
The other 23 hrs and 54 minutes they sleep.
I have a huge bird population in my yard of about 5 Acres. I have ruby throated hummingbirds, painted buntings, pileated woodpeckers, bluejays, common crows, redwing blackbirds, cardinals, myrtle warblers, doves, swallows, brown thrashers, catbirds, tufted titmice, redbellied sapsuckers, some little bitty kinds of woodpeckers that are rather shy, barred owls, screech owls, chuck wills widows, sandhill cranes, assorted LBJs, eastern bluebirds, feral sun conures, quakers, several warblers I seldom get a clear look at, ibis, wood stork, tricolored herons, great blue herons, American egrets, swallow tailed kites, and red shouldered hawks... In spite of my neighbor’s two dozen or so feral cats. Most birds raise more than one brood here, too.
The lizards, citrus rats, squirrels and snakes have taken a hit, though... Which might be compensating since the last 3 are holy terrors to nesting birds. Of course the heat here makes most housecats sleep all day and play only at night when no birds are about.
Maybe since they are all used to escaping wild bobcats, snakes and transient Coopers’ hawks, the housecats just don’t compare. Also I leave a lot of brushy areas and plant a lot of fruit bearing trees and bushes.
LOL...do you think they might have also appointed a Special Counsel to look for crimes that the dog committed?
“She didn’t seem think the same thing about nature’s course whenever my dog chased her cat.”
Or better yet a coyote devouring her cat. That’s nature too.
Not really. The cats live near the dumpster behind the liquor store down the street. You know the one, "Leroy's Discount Liquor" with the big yellow sign "We Cash Checks".
That sounds like one of those painting on velvet showing dogs playing poker.
One early morning driving through suburbia a coyote went lopped across the road with a big cat hanging from its mouth. I had to laugh. The big cat was probably used to being king of his block. I like indoor cats. One - they don’t kill the birds. Two - they don’t get killed from coyotes or cars.
Researchers shocked to find cats engaging in cat-like behavior.
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