Wintry weather brings school and work closures to the region before any flakes fall. The Boy Scouts of America announces a possible policy change that would allow the organizations that sponsor troops to decide whether to allow gay members. And a new report estimates cats kill billions of birds and mammals each year in the U.S. It's your turn to offer your take on the week's headlines.
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Fluffy and Snowball should be kept indoors not just for the sake of other species. Coyotes now live all over the U.S. and in Canada. Cats are often hunted and eaten by coyotes. In addition, being outdoors present other dangers to cats such as being run over, ingesting rat poison, and catching illnesses from other animals.
So, if you want to keep them safe, keep them indoors!
Feral Cats: I live on a busy Capitol Hill Street behind a row of restaurants which attract rats and mice. I am of two minds about the house cats that are allowed to roam outside and the feral cat who sometimes will go into one of the neighbors home. First, because of the rats in the neighborhood, we cannot feed birds with seed without attracting the rodents into our yards and homes. Consequently, we depend on our garden habitats to attract birds. The roaming/feral cats have definitely reduced the number of songbirds in my yard. I even find feathers in the yard in early summer. On the other hand, the cats also help us keep the rats at bay; sometimes by catching them; other times by hunting and marking our yards with urine. Since the cats that visit my yard are fed by homeowners, I am hoping their hunting of birds is somewhat lower than would occur if they depended solely on their hunting skills. We tried to put a small bell on a collar on the more feral cat, but he escapes the collar every time. Do your readers have suggestions on how to successfully "bell the cat"? or on other effective means of saving the birds from roaming cats?