Re: Should cats be controlled : Tue Feb 05, 2013 1:39 pm  

El Barbudo wrote:

You mean foxes, badgers and hedgehogs are all using my garden as a toilet?
I wasn't aware of this ... something needs to be done.

Judging by the noises coming out of my garden some nights I think the foxes are using it as a knocking shop, never mind a toilet.

Plus they keep leaving their used condoms everywhere...

Re: Should cats be controlled : Wed Feb 06, 2013 7:31 am  

Standee wrote:

for many months when we first moved in here we blamed next doors dog for leaving "presents" on the lawn, I eventually got so fed up I ripped the lawn up and decked it and put fencing all around, at roughly the same time I bought a Go Pro camera and was messing about with time lapse shots of insects, so I left it on all day, when I got home and looked at the footage I saw a Fox using our garden as a toilet, so I had to go to the neighbour and apologise, it seemed it wasn't their dog (or solely their dog) at all.

No need to go to those lengths to find fox or badger poo - just borrow my dog for a day, if there's a patch of recent fox or badger poo anywhere within half a mile he'll find it and rub his face in it, many is the happy hour I've spent scrubbing his head clean with a yard brush and a hosepipe.

PS, wild animal poo REALLY stinks.

Re: Should cats be controlled : Wed Feb 06, 2013 7:39 am  

JerryChicken wrote:

No need to go to those lengths to find fox or badger poo - just borrow my dog for a day, if there's a patch of recent fox or badger poo anywhere within half a mile he'll find it and rub his face in it, many is the happy hour I've spent scrubbing his head clean with a yard brush and a hosepipe.

PS, wild animal poo REALLY stinks.

Oh I can so relate. Fox poo is usually green in colour too and very slimy. They say ketchup gets rid of the lingering smell but I've yet to put my precious ketchup all over my dogs

Re: Should cats be controlled : Wed Feb 06, 2013 1:47 pm  

How many children have been savaged to death by cats?

Just askin'.

Re: Should cats be controlled : Wed Feb 06, 2013 5:33 pm  

Mintball wrote:

How many children have been savaged to death by cats?

Just askin'.

Depends where you're setting the bar for how big the cat can be.

Re: Should cats be controlled : Wed Feb 06, 2013 6:02 pm  

Two of ours are rapacious: one only hunts in Spring but brings us endless quantities of May Bugs, the other is adept at catching and bringing home earthworms. All are alive when presented at my feet, the May Bugs get fed to the bearded dragons, the puffer fish love their earthworms.

Re: Should cats be controlled : Wed Feb 13, 2013 10:10 am  

need to take their rail cards off them!

need to take their rail cards off them!

Re: Should cats be controlled : Wed Feb 13, 2013 10:32 am  

Standee wrote: need to take their rail cards off them!

Standee wrote: need to take their rail cards off them!

Re: Should cats be controlled : Wed Feb 13, 2013 10:39 am  

I have personally witnessed a pigeon get on the Piccadilly line at Hounslow West and travel to Hammersmith, standing by the doors and apparently ignoring them opening and closing at intervening stations.

Strange.

I mean, who'd want to go to Hammersmith?

Re: Should cats be controlled : Wed Feb 13, 2013 1:03 pm  

It's how modern urban pigeons navigate.

Where once they used magnetic fields, now they just use the tube map.

Struggle a bit with it not being to scale, but then again they've only got brains the size of a thimble.