Unfortunately yes. He catches mice but he won’t pass a slow (old? sick?) sparrow by. Since he brings his catches, I’m sure about a tally of 3 per year.
As far as I know bells on cats are highly controversial. For one, collars are dangerous. The versions that can break are usually discarded by the cat itself within hours, once they understand the mechanism. Apparently, it is torturous for the cat to have the constant noise. And last not least, even if they don’t discard the collars most cats learn to stalk without the bell sounding, rendering them useless.
A friend of mine is one of the world’s famous birders (he holds the record of having clocked the most bird species in the wild) and he makes me feel bad regularly (in a very polite way) about having an outdoor cat. So I looked into it. But next to confining Henry indoors for the rest of his life I haven’t found a solution.
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Lovely sparrow photos. I bet Henry is a Sparrow fan too 😼
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Unfortunately yes. He catches mice but he won’t pass a slow (old? sick?) sparrow by. Since he brings his catches, I’m sure about a tally of 3 per year.
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I know he can’t help his instincts
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I’m a fan too! Could Henry wear a bell perhaps?
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As far as I know bells on cats are highly controversial. For one, collars are dangerous. The versions that can break are usually discarded by the cat itself within hours, once they understand the mechanism. Apparently, it is torturous for the cat to have the constant noise. And last not least, even if they don’t discard the collars most cats learn to stalk without the bell sounding, rendering them useless.
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Ah, thanks for that, I didn’t know,
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A friend of mine is one of the world’s famous birders (he holds the record of having clocked the most bird species in the wild) and he makes me feel bad regularly (in a very polite way) about having an outdoor cat. So I looked into it. But next to confining Henry indoors for the rest of his life I haven’t found a solution.
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😦
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