@Izbeckistan 549275 wrote:
A hard days work making british bird species extinct.
the surprising thing the boffins found (and they are the kind who would know how much of every species is in any part of the country) was that the cats took surprisingly few prey especially birds (which take a lot of effort to catch) and instead spent most of their time meowing at their owners and going through unsecured catflaps and nicking other cats food. This was a posh area though and so were a great deal of the cats. Also that some cats are friendlier to each other then might be thought.
On Tribal Living one of the Northern women said her kittens willingly invited back a battered old tomcat they had befriended (it was clearly stray and not well fed and they easily could have driven it off) but instead she ended up taking it to the vet to be checked up and kept it with the other two..
I suspect the cats did get a lot of extra food/treats too to distract them from having the collar (the cats my family have had would have snagged that deliberately on the safety and dumped it within seconds and that mild mannered professor dude would have ended up searching through the undergrowth with his radio scanner cursing like fizzbombheid whilst trying to recover his kit).
