Thread: cats and crows
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Old May 17th 05, 04:01 PM
Mike Romain
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You are describing the symptoms of West Nile Virus in the crows.

Your local health department likely wants those crows for testing. Here
is a Center for Disease Control (CDC) link to find out who to call:

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/west...ity_states.htm

In a crow/cat fight, the crow will usually win by the by and if the cat
did take one down, it would eat it.

Mike


"Rona Y." wrote:

The school at which I work has a few cats on campus--none have owners and
only one that I know of has been TNRed. The TNR cat is fed by someone on
campus (not daily, but often) but I do not know if the other cats are also
fed. Recently, a number of crows have been found dead, and people are
blaming the cats. These crows are quite large, and not eaten, just dead.
It seems to me that if hungry stray cats were able to kill these large
crows, they also would have eaten them. However, other staff members are
insisting that the cats are at fault, and that they should be trapped and
turned over to animal control (which will, without a doubt, euthanize them).

I guess what I'm hoping is to hear that it would be very difficult for a cat
to kill a crow. I need to save these cats, and passing on this kind of
information is pretty much the only way I can help these cats (I should also
mention that I'm in Japan, so no animal shelters, no humane society,
nothing--I've already investigated possible options, and there is no
organization out there who can take these cats). So, can cats kill crows
easily?

rona

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