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How can I stop my cats killing birds?
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Does anyone have any ideas how to stop my cats from raiding nests and killing the baby birds?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Yep - a bell'd work, but wouldn't be of much help to chicks, as the parent bird'd just leave the nest if it sensed a cat was near. Unfortunately, it's nature, although i have 4 cats, and they don't seem to be great hunters. Pigeons can land within easy reach, but they just sit there watching them!!!
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I have heard that the bell on the collar will alert the birds, but I have always worried about my cats getting caught somewhere by the collar so have never put one on them. It is not just your cats you have to be worried about, but all the other cats visiting your garden as well. My next door neighbours cat, caught a bird in my gaden by leaping up from the ground straight up to the bird feeder handing from the tree about 5 foot up and grabbing the bird! I thought that I had placed it high enough off the ground to keep the birds safe, but obviously not! As paddywak says they are hunters by nature and nothing that I know of will stop them. My cats are getting on a bit now, so don't bother hunting birds, but still bring in the odd mouse to me as a present.
Cheers, Sue.
Cheers, Sue.
Sue11,
Those collars are ok as long as you get the ones with a piece of elastic in. If they are snagged the cat can wriggle it's head out. My burmese wore them for years, but it did not seem to hinder their hunting. And when they realised they could catch them on something and extricate their heads they did so. I kept finding their collars hooked over the same branch on a bush.........eventually I gave up putting them back on.
Those collars are ok as long as you get the ones with a piece of elastic in. If they are snagged the cat can wriggle it's head out. My burmese wore them for years, but it did not seem to hinder their hunting. And when they realised they could catch them on something and extricate their heads they did so. I kept finding their collars hooked over the same branch on a bush.........eventually I gave up putting them back on.
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