I awoke at the unearthly hour of 4.30 this morning to hear my dog howling in the shed, I had to haul myself out of bed to investigate and I found him chasing the tails off two terrified swallows around the shed.
Why keep birds in the shed .I'm sure that they must have kept the poor dog awake chipping all night
dog howling in the shed
chaining the cat to a post
Last year Blackbirds built a nest in the hedging on top of the wall only about 4 feet from mams back door.
When the babies were flushed out of the nest, the dog must have got one and mam came out to dog in the shed with dead baby bird. She said she could not look at the murderer for a few days.
Lo and behold, birds came back this year. First attempt she scuppered the nest, said it was too stressful, but when the birds built a second nest in the exact same spot she had not got the heart to remove it having watched mother bird tirelessly building it. This year three little blue speckled eggs, but only one hatched.
Dog had to be kept indoors and only let out the back on a leash when it came near the time for the fledgling to be evicted from nest. Happened this week, bird fluttered around the garden for I think best part of a couple of days and then flew away successfully.
Result. It has been brilliant watching the parents come and feed the bird. They were so close to the house you could see the eggs(then baby bird) from about 2 foot away.
God help any cats that come near that garden . . . .
Yes and yes......So we should take extra measures to protect our wildlife - such as putting a bell on the cat, keeping it indoors...
Eh... No......or chaining the cat to a post if you really want to have it in your back garden...
have had 3 birds left for me in the last fortnight. wouldn't be so disturbing if they hadn't all been decapitated
I dont agree with that. Imagine if you were locked up in a shed listening to two people ranting on all night and you were muzzled and could'nt tell them to shut up.I am going to put a muzzle on him tonight
+1only to a point. The domestic cat is not a native species. We are disturbing the balance of nature by bringing in these hunters into an environment where they don't belong. So we should take extra measures to protect our wildlife
imho, blaming cats for endangering the wildlife in Ireland is rather lame - you'd see more animals hit by cars or chased away by destroying their natural habitat by humans than killed by catsOnly to a point. The domestic cat is not a native species. We are disturbing the balance of nature by bringing in these hunters into an environment where they don't belong. So we should take extra measures to protect our wildlife - such as putting a bell on the cat, keeping it indoors, or chaining the cat to a post if you really want to have it in your back garden.
I am blown away by the opinion that anyone should be allowed to keep a cat and so what if it kills the 'occasional' bird.
All this bird stuff is often based purely on emotion and usually has very little to do with a concern for the balance of nature or dwindling species etc - as I said, if the rat or mouse population was in decline due to the antics of cats I don't think too many people would complain - why not?
All this bird stuff is often based purely on emotion and usually has very little to do with a concern for the balance of nature or dwindling species etc - as I said, if the rat or mouse population was in decline due to the antics of cats I don't think too many people would complain - why not?
so what if it kills the 'occasional' bird.
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