- Secrecy life of cats BBC2 now
Pussy on the TV would be a better title, to get attention,
Posted 4 years agoOh, nice one. Recording.
Posted 4 years agoI see they’ve never heard of GPS drift…
Posted 4 years agoWe’re watching it.
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We’ve got one of those ginger cats with a stumpy tail, too.One eyeball – our dear departed Huffy has a stunt double.
Posted 4 years agoStrava for cats?
Posted 4 years agoReady for some killing and sleeping?
Posted 4 years agoBit boring TBH. Would prefer to see it set in a town with some real rough brawling Tom’s…
Posted 4 years agoSee many birds nowadays? (Thought not).
A cat lover myself, but I think we need to stand up and agree we have a problem here with what they’re doing to our indigenous wildlife.
Side question: my understand is cats are territorial, each defending their own patch. So how do urban feral cats, that I have seen living in large groups, deal with this? Or do they have a menu of behaviour patterns from which to choose what works?
Most amazing creatures.
Posted 4 years agoOh FFS, if its not bad enough cats and cat owners have ruined the internet, now they are moving in on broadcast media as well.
Posted 4 years agoI thought it would have confirmed that they are all plotting to kill their owners in their sleep, and take over the world.
I’m quite disappointed that it only involved petty thieving, fighting and killing stuff
Posted 4 years agomattjg,
watch the program on iPlayer – your questions will be answered. Oh and you’ll see the scientists estimate that cats catch half a prey item per week on average – ie. half a mouse, bunny, or bird.
Posted 4 years agoI watched half last night, will finish tonight.
Was surprised how many cats there were in such a small village.
I suspect they’d bring back more prey if it was available, but it’s gone, especially birds. The top of the food chain predator is being fed from another source so there are many many more of them than the environment would naturally sustain. The birds can’t feed and reproduce if they can’t use the ground with a modicum of safety, fledglings hardly even have a chance to leave the nest safely. They don’t have a chance really.
I have a cat and love him, I’m part of the problem too. I don’t have an easy solution except we all skip having cats for a generation, and that’s not going to happen. Still, I’m a bit troubled by this problem.
Posted 4 years agoI thought it would have confirmed that they are all plotting to kill their owners in their sleep, and take over the world.
Posted 4 years ago
The ants, they’ve got no chance. Nearly wiped out!
Posted 4 years agoIn your garden it looks like humans are most under threat.
Our neighbour has 2 cats and several bird feeders. He looks after his cats!
Posted 4 years agoSo depletion of indiginous bird species is down to cats, not removal of habitat, ie woodland, hedgerows, marshlands etc by humans? 🙄
Posted 4 years agoI don’t have an easy solution except we all skip having cats for a generation, and that’s not going to happen
Well, it’s either that, or cat owners control their cats like dog owners control their dogs. And before everyone cries out in anguish that cats and dogs are different and it can’t be done; no they are not, and yes it can – several councils in Australia ban cats being let out. It seems to work well enough, and if cats are caught out, they get taken to a pound, at the owner’s expense, along with a nice fine.
Presumably cats whose owners cannot be found either get rehomed, or rehomed more permanently…
Posted 4 years agoWe’ve 2 cats and next door has 5. Have you any idea how intimidating it is to walk out of the back door to have 7 cats sat around staring at you. Its like a Hitchcock film. Terrifying!
Posted 4 years agocat owners control their cats like dog owners control their dogs
So they bag up the cat poo and hang the bags up in trees and bushes throughout the local parks and woodland………… i really can’t see how that will help 😛
Posted 4 years agoSo they bag up the cat poo and hang the bags up in trees and bushes throughout the local parks and woodland………… i really can’t see how that will help
No cat poo as cat isn’t outside in public areas, though I have seen a couple on leashes nearby 😯
Posted 4 years agoWell, it’s either that, or cat owners control their cats like dog owners control their dogs.
My cats can give you bit of a nibble, but to be honest they’re never going to be able to rip a toddlers face off, no matter how much I train them
Posted 4 years agoSee many birds nowadays? (Thought not).
A cat lover myself, but I think we need to stand up and agree we have a problem here with what they’re doing to our indigenous wildlife.
I think after 2000 years we should probably consider cats indigenous, too… but ignoring that, unless cat populations have changed radically in the past 100 years any measured decline in wildlife is due to other causes.
Posted 4 years agoSee many birds nowadays? (Thought not).
Have a look at where you live on google earth and zoom out. I think you’ll see that only a tiny percentage of the land around you is built on and inhabited by cat-owning humans and swathes of land that is out of the range of cats, even on this little island that we like to tell ourselves is crowded. So if the question is have we seen any birds in your garden? – perhaps not many. Are there many birds? Yes there are.
If theres a lack where you live thats probably got more to do with your neighbours block paved front gardens and decked back gardens, uPVC nest-proof soffits and having fences rather than hedges around their gardens. Nowhere to nest and nowhere to feed, so the birds have gone elsewhere. My house mostly.
Posted 4 years ago@zokes has the policy had the desired effect, and what was it?
I think I’d do without rather than have a cat confined indoors or on a leash.
Posted 4 years agoIf you actually watched the programme last night, it concluded that as cats become more domesticated they’re less and less inclined to murder small furry things.
Admittedly that news came a bit late to the vowl kindly deposited in the kitchen last night
Posted 4 years agoNo, the area of the house I grew up in and where my parents still live in is largely unchanged. It was low-ish density housing then, and all the land is already used. Anecdotally I remember there being many more small birds than I see nowadays.
But it’s possible my experience is atypical or my memory is wrong.
Posted 4 years agoMy cats can give you bit of a nibble, but to be honest they’re never going to be able to rip a toddlers face off, no matter how much I train them
Have you ever tried washing a cat? An angry cat could rip a T-rex’s face off, never mind a toddler!
@zokes has the policy had the desired effect, and what was it?
No idea, but I can’t see why removing an anthropogenically introduced predator would cause things to worsen. If you remove the thing doing the killing, and don’t replace it with anything else, I can’t see how that wouldn’t improve wildlife numbers.
Admittedly that news came a bit late to the vowl kindly deposited in the kitchen last night
Just wait until they get to the consonants 😆
Posted 4 years agoZokes not wanting to provoke you into one of your “episodes” 😉 but I think I am right in saying Australia doesn’t have any indigenous cats??? so the imported ones are causing havoc, that isnt the case in the UK and have you seen the programme that is being discussed.
The boffins at the end came up with the idea that cats are becoming less huntery (not a proper word) because its easier to steal food from neighbours or manipulate humans to feed them.
Posted 4 years agooh joy, while I was typing this my cat deposited a dead mouse on the landing, I nearly trod on it.
thanks fella. love you too.
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