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Just put a jingle bell on their collar. My family cats growing up never caught anything since.

• thealistra 3y ago
  My family cats just got stealthier with the bells and still brought pray and additional problem started - you could trip over the stealthy cat that came near you
• mschuster91 3y ago
  These things are just as abusive to cats as cow bells are to cows. Imagine you would produce a noise every time you make just the tiniest movements during sleep - most people don't bother to put them off once the cat comes back into their house.
  • darth_avocado 3y ago
    Animals have different sleep patterns and attention spans than us. Cats and dogs usually tune out the sounds they know are not important.
    • mschuster91 3y ago
      Cow bells have been shown to reduce the amount of food the cow eats many years ago [1]; however the mechanism (sound vs weight) isn't clear. Farmers militantly oppose any attempt to get rid of cow bells though. Some claim that they aren't an issue for the animals, some whine about "traditions" getting endangered (which is even worse IMHO, to torture animals despite knowing better just because it looks good - ffs we managed to ban breeding of dogs and cats that we know to suffer), and others whine that they can't find escaped cows (just as ridiculous, even the 500g of a small cowbell is enough for a year-long battery and RF sender...) [2]. [1] https://www.schweizerbauer.ch/tiere/milchvieh/sind-glocken-fuer-kuehe-gefaehrlich-2 https://www.schweizerbauer.ch/tiere/milchvieh/sind-glocken-f... [2] https://www.fr.de/panorama/tierschuetzer-fordern-verbot-kuhglocken-11194617.html https://www.fr.de/panorama/tierschuetzer-fordern-verbot-kuhg...