Cranfield Posted June 4, 2007 Report Share Posted June 4, 2007 This thread has been removed. It is illegal to shoot cats. To post on this subject on a public access shooting Forum is inadvisable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham M Posted June 5, 2007 Report Share Posted June 5, 2007 This thread has been removed.It is illegal to shoot cats. To post on this subject on a public access shooting Forum is inadvisable. Mmm, missed the original post and wondered if it was posted by a certain person who had a drunken friend. G.M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted June 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 5, 2007 As most people have a drunken friend, I think that covers just about everyone. :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham M Posted June 5, 2007 Report Share Posted June 5, 2007 :blink: :blink: :yp: :yp: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dusk2dawn Posted June 5, 2007 Report Share Posted June 5, 2007 I saw the original post and thought it was written by a genuine guy with alot of feeling for our songbirds, it was not particularly urging us to shoot cats but he stated that a particular cat,s days were numbered as it had killed a fledgling Thrush that his family had become attatched to and he was emotionally disturbed enough to post his feelings on the subject. My reply was to point out that I had read an article recently reporting that the UK songbird population was being heavily predadated by the domestic cat and suggesting that all cats should be fitted with little tinkly bells to give their positions away when stalking songbirds. :blink: Cranfield is quite right when he says its illegal to shoot cats and I dont think for a moment anyone of us would without an exceptional reason, ie gone feral and raiding pheasant poults etc. D2D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hodmedod.one Posted June 5, 2007 Report Share Posted June 5, 2007 A couple of weeks ago the letters page of the Eastern Daily Press had a letter from someone complaining about predation of song birds. He started off quite well by saying that all corvids should be trapped and killed or shot on sight. He then went on to include foxes,squirrels, hedgehogs, weasels, stoats, badgers and cats! :yp: He did leave birds of prey off his hit list. If he gets through that lot around here, his barrels will be glowing red hot! In East Anglia where game shooting is a massive part of the economy, he won't get that many people arguing against his comments. :blink: :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yonic Posted June 5, 2007 Report Share Posted June 5, 2007 My reply was to point out that I had read an article recently reporting that the UK songbird population was being heavily predadated by the domestic cat and suggesting that all cats should be fitted with little tinkly bells to give their positions away when stalking songbirds. :blink: D2D I belevie that it is a myth that fitting a bell to the cats collar will protect the bird population, Cats tend to know its there so are even more stealthy to stop the bell ringing, it effect a bell makes them even better hunters!!!! Cheers Jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the pelt man Posted June 5, 2007 Report Share Posted June 5, 2007 Cats are not nasty Animals in fact they are very nice, Just tooooo many of them. It's us who domesticated them for Vermin control and in some places they are still used for that. I saw a news item last year where this Island was over run with Rats and no preditors. To solve this problem they where importing stray Cats from other countrys near by to kill all the Rats. :blink: What i'd like to know is what they will do with the boom in the Cat population after the job is done. Back to the post: Cats do reduce the UK bird population BUT they only reduce what is left from the massive destruction we cause to the UK Bird population each year. So the person who got the hump with the Cat forgets how many thrushes and other birds UK and Worldwide he has stopped from having young and increases in number by destruction of nest/feeding sites :yp: Maybe his Gun should be pointing the other way PELTMAN :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oly Posted June 5, 2007 Report Share Posted June 5, 2007 IMO the law should be changed on cats. It's disgusting that they have the RIGHT to walk through my garden and **** wherever they please! What makes it worse is that their **** can contain bugs which can be passed on by the mother and harm unborn children! :yp: The arguement about them predating on birds is just more justification to change such a law. On the continent many people walk cats etc and keep them indoors which is they way it should be unless you live in an isolated property in the country. :blink: Thankfully now we have a very large walled garden that cats can't jump up, we have stopped up a few cat entry holes but the odd one that does get in now has a very difficult time getting out, so we scare them ******** and then open an exit to them out...they never seem inclined to come back then! :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted June 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 5, 2007 Whenever this subject is raised and it comes up quite often, it attracts the same sort of responses. a)There are the sympathetic, but "thats life" and "cats will be cats" type post. b)Then we have the alternative methods of how to kill someones pet cat without shooting it, or getting caught. c)Quickly followed by the personal confessions of posters, or their "friends", who have committed such illegal acts. Either , or c) shows the shooting fraternity (that is us) in a bad light and we cannot permit that on a public access Forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catamong Posted June 5, 2007 Report Share Posted June 5, 2007 Anybody got a Kevlar vest for sale.............extra small will do.. :blink: Cat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al4x Posted June 5, 2007 Report Share Posted June 5, 2007 We've always had cats and I have to say when things were less restricted we had a local keeper who used to drop peoples cats back and leave them dead on their doorsteps overnight something thats pretty despicable and leaves shooters with very bad press. It is totally unnecessary as very rarely do cats predate on game birds and even when they feed on song birds they only really manage it for a small part of their lifetime. I've used environmentally friendly methods of stopping cats that were hunting round pens and its surprising how letting the Jack Russels chase them away means they don't come back. Just remember most of the time they are someones pet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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