I suspect I already know the answer (nature and all that) but the fluffy one has recently taken to bringing me 'presents' from the garden (mainly slightly active half eaten birds)

Whilst I'm honoured that she likes me sufficiently enough to do so, and feel proud from a pack perspective at least that she wishes to please me in this way, I'd really rather she didn't continue this vile behaviour.

It really is starting to affect the way that I see her. Three times in the last two weeks. I've just been woken at 6am this morning with squawking in the bathroom :(

I'm shortly off to take said bird to see if I can try and get it some help from the bird rescue centre in Sheffield.

Any tips on how to help prevent this behaviour - or am I peeing in the wind?

try acollar with big bells on it lol mine have them and the birds hear them straight away hence no prezzies of dead birds for me

Mine all have bells on too but I've had 1 or more dead birds every day for the last week or so. There's now a collection in a little ditch under the trampoline where they keep dumping them when they're bored of chucking them round the garden :gag:

mine used to have a bell in his hunting days, he needs an alarm clock these days though

Mine have collars with bells too, but I still find lots of dead things although mainly mice here, so hmm I don't know how effective they are...other than that I don't know what you can do, cats will be cats and all that.
I don't think that the birds will be so easy to catch later in the year these will be inexperienced young birds that they are catching.

Mine have collars with bells too, but I still find lots of dead things although mainly mice here, so hmm I don't know how effective they are...other than that I don't know what you can do, cats will be cats and all that.


Bells on the collar really worked for me, it got beyond a joke, i was comming home or getting up to a kitchen full of feathers/dead birds etc on a daily basis, after the bell i still found 'mice and rat' leftovers but not one bird, i presume their hearing is better! :P

moonbirds right though ... cats will be cats

Thanks for the help all.

As I suspected, it looks like I'm kinda stuck with it then.

This won't be helped by the fact that I've just had a pond built - and it's already got frogs in it. Guess what'll be in the house next...:gag:

a few years ago i a Anti Bird Catching Collar from Pets at Home which was fantastic made a loud noise everytime she pounced.
It was about £10 but worth it it cut down the number by 90% i would say although we still did get a few.
Cats will be cats wont they :confused:

Ooh that sounds good - I might investigate that. Although India tends to be a silent mover.

What will happen though if she jumps in the pond with it? Will she get electrocuted? :o

Put lots of bells on the collar, not just one

Mine's got a bell, is bright orange and only has one eye.... still brings them home!! :rolleyes:

I'm almost afraid to say this, but there's lots of research that says that whilst the bells are intensely irritating to humans, there is very little evidence that bells are interpreted as any form of danger by prey animals.

Personally I've never seen anything that actually worked at stopping cats from catching their chosen prey, whether that prey be mice, birds, worms (like my Billy kitten) or neighbours' car washing sponges (as reported to us by an owner of a kitten from the Shelter a couple of years ago).

Double bells. But as others say, it's only instinct and there's very little you can do to deter a keen hunter.

Why not just keep your cats in over night? Allow time for any fledglings to wake up and make their way out of bushes etc before allowing them out. For the sake of a couple of hours a day I think it's well worth it as they're more likely to be caught then rather than in the middle of the day.

Thanks for the help all.

As I suspected, it looks like I'm kinda stuck with it then.

This won't be helped by the fact that I've just had a pond built - and it's already got frogs in it. Guess what'll be in the house next...:gag:

Our neighbour has a pond which is full of frogs, the cat has already brought two of them in. Both alive though so we were able to set them free again. Not nice though!

Came home last week to a big magpie flapping round the living room, it had clearly been chased through the house as there were feathers and s*** everywhere. Again, unharmed (externally at least) and flew out of the window without any problem. What i can't work out is how he managed to drag a big struggling magpie through the cat flap without hurting it or getting pecked to death himself.

My boyfriend congratulates him each time which drives me mad as i know who will be clearing up when he brings something dead next time! The cat has a bell and clearly it makes zero difference.

Why not just keep your cats in over night? Allow time for any fledglings to wake up and make their way out of bushes etc before allowing them out. For the sake of a couple of hours a day I think it's well worth it as they're more likely to be caught then rather than in the middle of the day.

Ours are kept in at night and over the last weekend borught in 2 baby birds and a mouse all very dead:gag:

Ours are kept in at night and over the last weekend borught in 2 baby birds and a mouse all very dead:gag:

Mine too! But my boy has started murdering beasties, I even don't let them out till gone 6 am so all the birdies have woken up! No idea what to do. And the worst thing is that he doesn't even bring them in to us, clearly we're bottom of the food/love chain!

We have to keep in our foster moggie at night - we too were waking up to pressies of voles, frogs, mice and birds. He comes in for tea and isnt let out after tea and then he is let out after breakfast.

One problem for us is bird feeders, I have spoken to the neighbours who are bird lovers not to place bird feeders in places where Alf can sit in a neary bush and grab a tasty snack or two! This too seems to have worked a little.

The problem now is frogs! He has made friends with the new neighbours siamese and when I came home yesterday they were pack hunting 2 poor froggies on the garden - only one of which we manged to resuce unharmed.