Cat killing baby birds

Hunt we would NOT be "overrun with birds"! We are losing quite enough of our garden birds as it is. We are lucky to see a sparrow round here, and we never get a starling - used to have loads.

I'm glad the cat now has a collar with a bell. Couldn't you find some other way to control vermin?

Yes Tegan mines a silver tabby!
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You probably know this anyway Specki but put the baby bird outside so the mother can see it's dead. When I had cats I had a distraught mother bird ouside until I put the dead baby where she could see it; she then went away. I have a cat pen and when I used to have cats I used to keep the cats in when I knew the birds had fledged. One day I went into the garden to see how the young birds were getting on; I scared one of them and it flew though the mesh of the pen, straight into the waiting mouth of one of my cats [I still feel bad about it years later]. I had a cat that was a silver tabby at the time, and I'd read that they were the worst of their breed for killing birds [she was a British Shorthair] and she certainly lived up to her reputation.

My cat doesn't kill baby birds. She's too busy catching baby rabbits!

Just think ,if your cats did not catch birds we would be over run with them.(birds, that is) Think of it as culling.

My cat caught 2 birds in one day. I managed to rescue the adult sparrow and then I went out. When I returned, the minx had devoured most of a baby bird.

She has never caught a bird before, when on a killing spree it is 3 takeaways (mice) a night for maybe a couple of nights and then a rest for a couple of months.

I was so cross when the sparrow was brought home alive and screaming that I felt like fitting a church bell around her neck!

Speck4eyes there is nothing else to do except fit a collar with a bell but check that the collar does not become entangled under one of its "armpits" as happened with my last cat.

I've kept cats all my life and I never managed it. You could keep her in but its what cats do I'm afraid , its just nature.