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Oh dear is somebody in need of a humour transplant. My comments were supposed to be a bit amusing. I am sorry you took it so seriously. I am also sorry that as you so eloquently put it "you are getting pi**ed off at this site and others advocating violence to animals." You like everybody else are entitled to your own opinion & I respect that. Fortunately we are not all the same. However I have to say I don't agree with your sentiments about my OH being shot in the head. Is that the scottish way of dealing with ones OH, or is that the "action" you want the moderators to take against those people who post comments you disagree with. If so I must be honest & say it seems a bit OTT. (hee hee) However I must admit there are times I would like to kill him, so if ever I am really tempted & need an assasin I will give you a call. (humour,chuckle,jest,joke)
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We had a stray cat appear in our garden, it looked at the chickens and completely ignored them. However the neighbours dog got in one day we were out and killed 4 of them, and came back the next day with blood round its mouth looking for more! The owner completely denied his dog would do anything of the sort, although he lets it roam free up and down the road, so im on guard ready with a little suprise that will get it back if it tries to attack the new ones....Comment
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i have a dog,who i clear up after,i go nowhere without the little nappy sacks(they are cheaper) and share your loathing for the idle cretins who wont clean up after their dogs.as for cats,the most useless creature going,except mousers,no loyalty,leave stinking droppings on any available veg patch,slowly wiping out the wild bird population of this country,and it seems that rspb wont say it for fear of upsetting people,we need an open season..from jan to december,at the rate they seem to be multiplying there wont be a dawn chorus for future generations to hear.....i dont harm any cats,they just get a squirt of water if handy,i would not injure an animal,after all,its the owners who are responsible...Originally posted by Maddie106 View PostLast edited by BUFFS; 24-04-2010, 04:07 PM.Comment
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Free roaming cats! GRRRRR!!! I like cats but don't think they should be allowed to roam. Keep them as you would a dog, I say, then they wouldn't cause accidents, kill birds, terrorise my ducklings and chicks or foul my garden. Nothing wrong with cats, they are innocent, just too many of them with careless owners.(Putting my head down and running!!!)Comment
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Weather warming up folks? Raises the old blood pressure I find. From a chilled out cat lady!
I have never heard of a cat catching a chicken before -the nearest I have encountered is a very fine cat of ours who came home with a young pheasant.
The best deterrent to a cat is a quick squirt of water where they aren't expecting it. Mind you that works for most nuisances, don't you think?Last edited by Jeanied; 24-04-2010, 04:57 PM.Whooops - now what are the dogs getting up to?Comment
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oh dear i appear to have opened a can of worms here! no harm intended. just wanted a few tips on how to get them to stop breaking into my coop! im from scotland too and i wouldnt say that shooting OH's in the ear is how we deal with relationship problems! well not in my area anyways! lol
i caught a big fluffy black one trying to to get into the nest box yesterday. trouble is that by the time i get out there to give them a squirt of water they have heard me coming and scarpered!! the girls got really spooked by it and there were ruffled feathers and food everywhere. poor things settled down soon enough but they deff did not like this cat!!
Sorry again if i have started off a barny on the site, just wanted a bit of friendly advice! thanks to all those who did try to help!!
gemma xComment
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Gemma, it's not your fault if some people have no sense of humour.
Flighty, I adore cats but still took your comments to be a joke.Comment
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Cats are natural predators though, so anyone keeping young Chickens/Bantams needs to be aware of them in the area. We used to have a big problem with cats in the garden when I first setup the veg area and tried everything.
Just keep chasing them off and if you catch one then give it a kick back over the garden fence, they will soon get the message, one of our neighbours got stroppy once so I treated him the same....
Another thing you could try is to buy a Scarecrow from ebay or amazon, hooked up to the mains it shoots a jet of water in the direction of the cat/fox or anything else running about in the garden.Comment
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Flighty, I've always had and still have both cats AND dogs, and I laughed, so there.
Gem, my friend reckons those high power water guns work best. You dont need to be as close to squirt them with one.
Or how about topping your nest box with that spiky plastic stuff they use to deter people from climbing over walls? can't see cats liking that.Anyone who says nothing is impossible has never tried slamming a revolving doorComment
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I won't get involved in the sense of humour comments but I found the original joke really funny and I have a cat and dog. I hate people who don't clean up after their dogs too.
But to the cat issue.
My neighbour has 5 cats and has had cats as long as we've had chickens. They are all interested until they get too close and the birds flap at them, then the cats leave, quickly.
My own cat used to play 'stalk the big bird'. She'd pounce to just in front of them, the chicken would flap and the cat would leap away without really touching the ground. I thought it was hilarious.
The one time we had a rat problem though, the cats would often be found in the main run with the chickens. There was never any real problem and the birds all seemed happy enough. Now we don't have the problem, the hens don't seem to be as welcoming. I always said chickens had brains.
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Catapult (ha, ha, pun), ice cube, rear end of cat. The evidence melts!Comment
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There ARE too many cats around, it is NOT feasible to prevent cats roaming (they climb fences, and roofing the whole garden is not practical), and idiots who don't control their dogs are breaking the law, whereas there is (for entirely practical reasons) no actual legal requirement to control a cat.
Some people keep cats indoors their whole life. Some cats are happy that way, others aren't and keeping them confined if they don't like it is as cruel as refusing to feed them in the hopes they will catch mice.
I like cats (even though I am more a dog-type person), and a lot of them are really good pets, but yes there ARE a lot more than is sensible in this country.
As for the songbird issue, lack of good habitat is a bigger problem, but the cats do add to it. Bells are of limited use.
Cats which are not intended as breeding stock should be neutered, because there really is NO other way to prevent unplanned litters (with the possible exception of those cats which live happily without ever venturing out of doors)!
BTW I appreciated the joke too, it was quite obviously not meant seriously. Now if you suggested shooting magpies.......Flowers come in too many colours to see the world in black-and-white.Comment
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My cat would kill anything that moved, when we first got chickens, they were 18 weeks old, the cats thought it was brilliant, prey, in a closed in run, pounced and almost caused the stupid chickens to kill themselves by running into the opposite wire at full pelt.
The cats used to sit watching the chickens in their run. After a few weeks when the chickens had settled in I let them out to free range, the cats didn't quite know what to make of this and (with me carefully watching with a stick) met the chooks face to face.
I can't remember exactly what happened but they stopped bothering about the chickens after that.
Chickens have really not got anything to worry about cats, as long as they are full grown, I can't see a cat doing anything about it.
I would just be around when they first meet, just in case it all goes bottoms up and you have to step in, but I doubt it."Orinoco was a fat lazy Womble"
Please ignore everything I say, I make it up as I go along, not only do I generally not believe what I write, I never remember it either.Comment
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