Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 14:24:20 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Lisa Colangelo Subject: Re: Keeping Cats Indoors MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit It's not just your feeder birds that are having trouble with house cats roaming freely. The yellow-breasted chats and orchard d orioles which previously had no problems nesting in my yard have been harassed and predated by my neighbor's housecats for the past couple years. When I speak to her about at least keeping her cats in her own yard she just shrugs and says "what can I do?" I don't think that their (housecats) negative impact on the bird population can be stated strongly enough. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Starling" To: Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 9:24 AM Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Keeping Cats Indoors > Frank wrote: > > :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" > > I totally agree. I love cats and think it is more inhumane to keep them > indoors. Our cat does everyting but sleep outside and it has never taken a > bird (chipmunks are another thing), but birds- no way. I little planning > (like keeping feeders away from bushes were cats can hide) and the birds > will be fine... > > -Chris Starling > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================