should we teach cats to catch and eat rats now? because

[prosperity4all]

should we teach cats to catch and eat rats now? because

Rats Are Taking Over New York City

LA Now The 'City Of Rats'? Report Warns Of 'Alarming Increase' In Rodent Population

Yeah, Baltimore has rats, but DC has more — and more; record-breaking year expected | WTOP

and

cat are killing billions of birds every year in USA

To save birds, should we kill off cats?

domestic cats threaten birds and other wildlife and disrupt ecosystems.

cats kill approximately 2.4 billion birds every year.

Cats and Birds | American Bird Conservancy

 

[Gregory Thompson]

Well, at least they don't transform and stuff.

 

[chevyontheriver]

Well, at least they don't transform and stuff.

When they are hungry they ACT transformed though.

 

[paul1149]

Perhaps we should defund pest control.

There was a story just a couple of months ago about cats somewhere being adopted to control rats around restaurants, stores, etc. I think it was done by the private sector.

 

[Arc F1]

should we teach cats to catch and eat rats now? because

Rats Are Taking Over New York City

LA Now The 'City Of Rats'? Report Warns Of 'Alarming Increase' In Rodent Population

Yeah, Baltimore has rats, but DC has more — and more; record-breaking year expected | WTOP

and

cat are killing billions of birds every year in USA

To save birds, should we kill off cats?

domestic cats threaten birds and other wildlife and disrupt ecosystems.

cats kill approximately 2.4 billion birds every year.

Cats and Birds | American Bird Conservancy

My cats won't eat mice they prefer cat food from a bag and laying around the house in the air conditioning.

 

[chevyontheriver]

My cats won't eat mice they prefer cat food from a bag and laying around the house in the air conditioning.

Cats have gone soft. Wolves do a great job on rats, and have not had the softening of domestication. It's documented they do rodent control in the wild.

 

[Halbhh]

should we teach cats to catch and eat rats now? because

Rats Are Taking Over New York City

LA Now The 'City Of Rats'? Report Warns Of 'Alarming Increase' In Rodent Population

Yeah, Baltimore has rats, but DC has more — and more; record-breaking year expected | WTOP

and

cat are killing billions of birds every year in USA

To save birds, should we kill off cats?

domestic cats threaten birds and other wildlife and disrupt ecosystems.

cats kill approximately 2.4 billion birds every year.

Cats and Birds | American Bird Conservancy

we've found they don't need any training at all, because when our cats first got outside, they caught birds and voles (like rats that in our yard live or hide a lot underground), without ever having any kind of example or training.

One thing that happens though with plenty of wild cats around an area is cat fights at night that are noisy, and also there can be plenty of meowing during certain times I remember. Lately we don't have that since we have a dog that is out a lot.

 

[Mantishand]

I live in the woods and my cat is a murdering psychopath. He bats around the poor critters until they are dead. He kills everything in sight including full grown pack rats, rabbits etc. I’m glad house cats are small.

 

[Gregory Thompson]

When they are hungry they ACT transformed though.

I guess if there is a lot of them, then they would get aggressive like other mammals that roam in packs.

 

[keith99]

My neighborhood has coyotes. A disaster because while they do kill rodents they have exterminated the cats and other small predators. Now rats, rabbits and squirrels are a major problem.

 

[chevyontheriver]

I guess if there is a lot of them, then they would get aggressive like other mammals that roam in packs.

And/or cannibalism.

 

[prosperity4all]

yes

 

[Sodafox]

My cats won't eat mice they prefer cat food from a bag and laying around the house in the air conditioning.

Maybe I'm just lucky I've never had a pest in my house aside from the occasional bug. Even though my cats are like yours I wonder if just the presence of a cat is enough to keep most pests at bay. My sister in the other hand doesn't keep cats but instead has a useless tiny dog and has had rats in her house.

 

[Halbhh]

Maybe I'm just lucky I've never had a pest in my house aside from the occasional bug. Even though my cats are like yours I wonder if just the presence of a cat is enough to keep most pests at bay. My sister in the other hand doesn't keep cats but instead has a useless tiny dog and has had rats in her house.

We have both dogs and cats, and once a cat managed to catch an juvenile squirrel somehow and brought it in through the dog door alive (and perhaps barely harmed at all). It escaped and we chased it for about 40 minutes, until it was quite secure behind or under the dryer. So we fed it almonds and got a humane trap (cage with a spring door), and finally caught it after about 2 days. When I released it, even when I'd barely unlocked the trap door, it burst through and scrambled 8 or 12 feet up a tree in just about 1 second, so fast it was hard to follow with your eyes.

 

[cow451]

My cats won't eat mice they prefer cat food from a bag and laying around the house in the air conditioning.

Domesticated cats don’t eat their prey, but they do chase them and “play” with them, often resulting in the death of said prey.
Mine likes to bring home prey as a gift. Sometimes alive….

 

[jayem]

My wife is a bird fanatic. In the back yard, we have 4 finch feeders; 2 peanut feeders (one for shelled peanuts, one for peanuts in the shell) a cardinal and larger songbird feeder; 2 suet feeders (for winter use) and 2 hummingbird feeders. With all the dropped bird food and seed on the ground, we also have squirrels, chipmunks, possums, and raccoons. I often hear those last 2 at night fighting over what the birds haven’t eaten. And for the last couple of years, a groundhog has taken up residence under the deck. Which is a problem because their tunneling can weaken the deck supports. Every day at my house is Groundhog Day.

 

[keith99]

Domesticated cats don’t eat their prey, but they do chase them and “play” with them, often resulting in the death of said prey.
Mine likes to bring home prey as a gift. Sometimes alive….

One of Mine brought in a live mouse to offer to me. Droped it on my chest at about 2 in the moring as I was sleeping.

I lived in fear after that. The cats talked to the dogs and the beta dog had caught a racoon and carried in his mouth like a cat carrying a mouse.

EDIT: When I was a teenager the one of the cats at my parent's house brought in a live snake. My folks woke me up because they did not know if it was poisonous or not. It was not, a ratehr pretty California Racer.

 

[prosperity4all]

should we teach cats to catch and eat rats now?

because

Cats kill five billion birds in China each year - BirdGuides

Rats swarm UK as rodents 'the size of cats' conquer homes by swimming up toilets

'Multiple' dogs may have been sickened by rat-transmitted illness, NYC official says

What Robot-Driving Fish and Rats Tell Us About the Brain’s Ability to Adapt

Fact check: Rat meat isn't being sold as boneless chicken wings

'Rat Covid' variant may be emerging from New York City sewers

 

[Tanj]

So I was at my body corp meeting yesterday, and of the many issues, one was left out catfood attracting rats, and another was pigeons roosting in the carpark making a mess on cars. One of the committee suggested killing two birds with one stone (pun intended) and asking the cat owners to not feed the cats for a day, then letting them loose in the carpark.