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My cat is good at killing birds, chipmunks, bunnies, and mice. I doubt she could deal with a rat - probably too big.
by VoodooJuJu 3y ago
My cat is good at killing birds, chipmunks, bunnies, and mice. I doubt she could deal with a rat - probably too big.
- thfuran 3y agoWhere do you live that rats are bigger than rabbits?
- VoodooJuJu 3y agoI'm talking about bunnies, not adult rabbits, and this is Northeast U.S.
- dylan604 3y agoI'm sort of laughing at the concept that we feel it strange that cats don't want to kill rats because of the size of the rats rather than the conversation leaning towards what are we doing that have caused rats to become so large.
- whynotminot 3y agoIn middle eastern cities I rarely see rats. But I see a lot of free roaming cats. In western cities I see rats but no cats. I suppose we’ve made our choice.
- dredmorbius 3y agoThe Norwegian rat (a/k/a brown rat, of Black Death fame) grows up to 28 cm (11 in) long, and weighs 140 -- 500 g (4.9 -- 17.6 oz, just over a pound). Some individuals might be the size of adult rabbits of smaller species, certainly of juveniles.
- adriand 3y agoPut a bell on your cat! Outdoor cats are responsible for a huge amount of ecological devastation, the least you can do, if you insist on your predator roaming freely outdoors, is put a bell on it to try and give local species a warning.
- alexo67 3y agoDo not put a bell on your cat, like ever. It is harmful to your cat's health.
- Garrrrrr 3y agoIt could be harmful to your cat's health if they don't like the noise of the bell. Not all cats are bothered by it though
- nomel 3y agoThe risk isn't the sound, it's catching on something. But, there are bells that are integrated into the collar, to prevent this.
- wkat4242 3y agoThey don't even work anyway. The cats are so good at walking without wobbling and the bells aren't loud anyway.
- VoodooJuJu 3y agoCats don't cause ecological devastation. Cats as a species kill an emotionally large sum of birds and small mammals, but they don't radically transform ecosystems. It's human industry and habitat expansion that devastates ecologies, not their garden prowlers plucking the occasional bird or chipmunk. I'd never bell the lad.
- kian 3y agoOnly do this if you are certain that zero predators live in your surrounding area.
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