Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 08:38:14 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Gail Frantz Subject: Re: Keeping Cats Indoors MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 2/20/2003 2:58:25 AM Eastern Standard Time, ravenfrank@EARTHLINK.NET writes: << Keeping cats indoors? Oh please!! I do believe that a little effort in placement of feeders can go a long way towards minimizing the impact of outdoor housecats on backyard birds...Personally, I love to...observe the age-old dance between predator and prey even a housecat, then so be it. >> Let's see if I have this right now? In areas populated with humans: House cats (& presumably free-running dogs) are right up there with Raptors, Crows, Grackles, Bluejays, Starlings, House Wrens, House Sparrows, 'Possums, Raccoons, Chipmunks, Squirrels & Fox as part of nature's attempt to keep a balance between predator & excessive numbers of prey? In the words of Laugh-in's Artie Johnson - Very interesting but shtupid. And - - I don't theeeenk so! Gail Frantz Old Hanover Rd Reisterstown, MD ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================