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  1. I don't believe i ever said i had sympathy for rats i simply answered a question regarding the best method i have found for eliminating a rat infestation without the use of poison or a shovel! Maybe you are just lucky to have a wonder cat, my cats seem to be far happier catching birds for some unknown reason!
  2. Aaaah so now you refer to the Hunting Act of 2004 where by and i quote "The Hunting Act bans activities that Parliament believed to be cruel sports and permitted activities that it believed to be necessary for land managers. Parliament accepted the view that, where rats and rabbits were pests, hunting them was legitimate." As you well know Mr O'Sullivan the vermin to which i was referring to was the rat infestation that this whole thread was started for! I think you enjoy going of on tangents of irrelevance and digressing to petty tit for tat arguments that you are incapable of winning! As for the Country comment, i do in fact live in the country i have horses and dogs and cats and live in acres of land which are in fact my own, i have had rat and mice problems in the past to which i have dealt with quickly and effectively using my terrier- which i think makes me more than qualified to comment on this thread- i regret to say it is doubtful you can say the same!
  3. My cat will on average kill a rodent a day, sometimes more than one if she has found a nest in the countryside. Also she roams freely on my estate so she controls and deters any rodent type critter who may be stupid enough to nest on or near my property. An alsation dog lost an eye to her when it was foolish enough to attack her. She's nails. And a rat will much prefer an attic or cavity wall of an outbuilding to nest rather than ground level for safety and warmth-you need to learn a bit more! And a cat owner cannot be prosecuted for their cat doing a poo or killing protected rodents-unlike a dog owner. You should get your facts right. ______________________________________________________________ Actually according to research - Rats nest in any safe location near food and water. Outdoors, rats burrow into the ground. Indoors, nesting occurs in double walls, between ceilings and floors, in closed-in areas around worktops, and anywhere rubbish is allowed to accumulate. It alarms me somewhat the level of rodents you seem to have in and around your "estate" mr o'sullivan i definitely think you must have a pest problem! Also the fact that your Super Cat catches one rodent a day seems irrelevant with regards to a rodent infestation as due to the breeding habits of rodents (The average life span of a rat is 18 months. Young are born about 22 days after mating and mature rapidly. Single females may have as many as 6 litters per year, averaging 6 to 14 young each. By 3 months of age, the young are independent and capable of reproduction. If not controlled, an infestation of rats will rapidly increase.) so obviously they would re infest any establishment before they were extinguished if they used your cat method only to get shut of the critters! I think you should leave matters of this nature to the experts and carry on stroking your pussy- as for the prosecution of dog owners i think you'll find they can be reprimanded for their dog killing a cat also but definitely not verminl!!
  4. Maybe it is you sir who should brush up on your knowledge because the question that was originally posted was not "does a cat cause offence when catching vermin" but "what is the most effective humane way of killing vermin" - I put it to you that the most effective way to do this would be to get a bone fide rat catching terrier such as my patterdale into the rat infested place mentioned! A case in point was billy the terrier a most prolific rat catcher in his day! i would like to see your statistics for how many rats your cat can catch in such a short time!!! Billy's career was crowned on April 22, 1823, when a world record was set with a hundred rats killed in five-and-a-half minutes. As for dogs climbing i think the likelehood of rats in your attic are minimal as they like to be underground or at least on ground level, also you could always carrier the terrier up, cats cannot be controlled they have a mind of there own!
  5. I think you will find the best rat catcher/hunter - and effective killer - more humane or canine is a good old patterdale terrier ! If you are a country person you would know this ! Cats are for softies ! Maybe you should go get it some catnip toys instead of allowing it to pester innocent critters - shrews and fieldmice are tiny AND endangered !
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