SUPERTYKE Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 A few doors away from us lives a pure white cat. 'Sore thumb' syndrome enough it really stands out at night - but you should here the noise it makes as it walks - CLANG CLANG DING DONG!! The poor thing is a nervous wreck! Are his owners having a laugh?? It is constantly under attack from other moggies and dogs around here know for whom the bell tolls every time they're within a mile or so of it!! Aren't cats 'ambush hunters' they nab their victims by laying in wait mainly and so a bell is of little use - the prey is history before it can react even if it hears the bell. If you really want your cat to lay off the wildlife, don't let it out at night. Or do like my neighbours have done as above, and tie a couple of iron drain covers around its neck!! Expect huge bills from the psych however when you eventually have to take the poor cat for extensive therapy!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weenireeni Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 my two cats jingle all day long i do it so i know where they are - can always hear them! and re; wildlife - they still catch on average two mice a week....so the mice must be hard of hearing round here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medusa Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 There's lots of evidence that birds and little scurrying things don't pay attention to bells round cats' necks anyway- my cats wear a discreet little bell so I can hear them when I call them to come in, not because the birds will hear it (actually there's one of mine that doesn't have anything jangly hanging off her collar because it would freak her out too much to do it). To be honest, there's little evidence that most cats mind the collars and bells either- if a cat really doesn't like it, they'll miraculously appear without it one day. They're really very good escapologists if they don't like them. There's also little evidence that other animals act on the collars jingling as a way of picking on other animals. They can smell each other long before they hear the jingle, and if this cat is in the middle of a territory dispute or between two warring toms then simply removing his bell would make little difference to how much he was picked on. If he's at the bottom of the pecking order he'll be picked on anyway. I do agree with you that the best way to not get little dead furry presents from your cat is to not allow them out at night though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weenireeni Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 my monsters seem to bring the mice in during the day time! just the other week we had friends over, it was about 6pm and big Charlie came running in with a mouse to show off to everyone. he's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUPERTYKE Posted October 20, 2006 Author Share Posted October 20, 2006 I know little about cats but my muts have no sympathy whatsoever for the one that I sited!! And it really is an absolute wreck. It has given up on furtive and just legs it as fast as poss between driveways!! My mutts don't chase him but many would if they had the chance. It must dread the long nights poor little blighter!!! P.S. Hope you enjoyed the mice. Wait till it drags a crow home like a friends cat did!! Yum yum!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lotti Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 Our old cat never wore a bell because we once put on on her and she got it stuck over her tooth trying to bite it... I prefer to know where they are and as they don't really leave the garden anyway, and see off any cat that enters 'their' garden, they're quite happy. The dogs do hear their bells but they like the cats anyway so we get on in peace! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lotti Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 oh yeah and mine bring mice in whenever - they are 8 years old, were my mum's cats, have always known going outside and I wouldn't stop them now. If the bell can help reduce the amount of prey they catch (and it may be coincidence but they catch less with bells attached) then that can only be a good thing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
savbaby Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 my pussy is tinkle free!! i always take the bells off as they do my head in! she does hunt but nothing would stop that! She once brought in a jack daw and it was flying about attacking my dogs and they hid while she went after it!! luckily i caught it and set it free.. unfortunalty 5 mins later on radio there was an announcment for a lady a mile up road whos jackdaw had got out!! oops:o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUPERTYKE Posted October 21, 2006 Author Share Posted October 21, 2006 It just seems to me that sleek and silent sums up the great british pussy - and though the wild life problem is real and pretty drastic really, I doubt if the bells make that much difference. I just worry that we'll end up with a nation of freaked out moggies that jump every time the news at ten comes on!!! Keep em in at night - we were talking about Kate Humble, (about her Great Tits!) and she advocates this method!!! Can any inventors out there come up with a way to warn wildlife of cats without attracting the attention of ravening packs of dogs?? -- It'd make a million if it worked! Campaign for tinkle free pussies!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lotti Posted October 21, 2006 Share Posted October 21, 2006 have you ever seen a dog try to catch a cat? Yes, there's the stereotype of the dogs that catch cats, but in reality how many dogs actually succeed? Cats are a lot brighter, faster and stealthier than dogs and dogs have a hard time keeping up with them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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