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cats and coyotes
Cats have the common sense not to become coyote food:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0630202036.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...1113143600.htm Interesting conclusion you can draw from that first article: the US is not as different from the UK as regards cats going outside as a lot of posters here would have us believe. (The second article is about feral cats, the first about pet cats). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- e m a i l : j a c k @ c a m p i n . m e . u k Jack Campin, 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU, Scotland mobile 07800 739 557 http://www.campin.me.uk Twitter: JackCampin |
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cats and coyotes
On 7/9/2015 8:49 PM, Jack Campin wrote:
Cats have the common sense not to become coyote food: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0630202036.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...1113143600.htm Interesting conclusion you can draw from that first article: the US is not as different from the UK as regards cats going outside as a lot of posters here would have us believe. (The second article is about feral cats, the first about pet cats). Coyotes aren't my concern. I may have mentioned a coyote in SC last year but they aren't what concern me. I've actually had an alligator show up in my back yard. Granted, it wasn't a huge alligator but any alligator is one too many. We've also got eagles and large hawks. Raptors which, if your cat is small enough, one could easily injure if it saw the cat as prey. That's a long shot but hey, they pick rabbits off the ground so... Rabies. Raccoons aren't usually rabid but there was an instance of one found on Dataw earlier this year. Even if they aren't rabid, raccoons aren't friendly creatures. They bite and have claws. And they're at least as big as most cats. I'd rather just keep Buffy indoors. She seems to be quite happy. Jill |
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