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Darned Creatures!!
sam bevington
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I love animals and have just about got over wild rabbits using my garden as a salad bed when something got in the greenhouse and munched the tops off my newly sprouted Lilies. Blood boiling as I had just come back from a Plant Fair where same such were being flogged for a fiver each! Are they beyond help? My newly planted cypress trees have also been nibbled - will they die too?
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A cat will dispose of the rabbits, or at least help. Bit of a pain losing stuff in the greenhouse - my first thought there is slugs.
As far as the cypress are concerned... well let's just say I spend a lot of time trying to get rid of them!
It doesn't really matter what your cat does or doesn't do.
If its out in the garden , birds will see it as a mortal threat.
Obviously there are exceptions to the rule
I've had cats since i was 11 years old in 1989
The diversity and quantity of wildlife is overwhelmingly poorer with cats and dogs in a garden.
Can you vouch for your cats behaviour when you are not around?
Of course, my cats grew up and got lazy, they couldn't be bothered to chase birds, but a mistle thrush doesn't know that. They'll opt to leave your fat snails where they are.
Please note that I am a life long cat lover, and miss my 4 deeply and profoundly, but the two things don't mix.
My friends have had a cat for years. It catches rabbits and mice, but their bird feeders are always covered in birds, from goldfinches and woodpeckers to (unfortunately) pheasants, magpies and woodigeons.
Same here Steve. I don't have cats now but used to have two and they were only interested in furry things and were especially good at rabbits which they would eat completely except for the ears. I guess they didn't like the taste of feathers as much!