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<blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 2663511" data-attributes="member: 99">Not that I know of.&nbsp; Belling them makes it a lot harder but I've seen cats adapt their gait to make the bells not jingle much in order to still sneak up on their prey.&nbsp; The simple fact is that domesticated cats kill songbirds by the BILLIONS.&nbsp; It's what they do.Brief ancecdote:&nbsp; I read a story once about how an environmental group protested against the placement of some of those big electric lines through a forested area on the basis that &quot;hundreds of songbirds a year would be killed by collision with the power lines&quot;.&nbsp; When the power company produced some estimates showing that a similar number of birds were killed by local cats over the PAST WEEKEND, the protest fell a bit flat.Then again, we don't seem to be running out of songbirds.There also isn't any real shortage of cats.&nbsp; <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious&nbsp; &nbsp; :]" data-shortname=":]" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rel, post: 2663511, member: 99"] Not that I know of. Belling them makes it a lot harder but I've seen cats adapt their gait to make the bells not jingle much in order to still sneak up on their prey. The simple fact is that domesticated cats kill songbirds by the BILLIONS. It's what they do. [i]Brief ancecdote: I read a story once about how an environmental group protested against the placement of some of those big electric lines through a forested area on the basis that "hundreds of songbirds a year would be killed by collision with the power lines". When the power company produced some estimates showing that a similar number of birds were killed by local cats over the PAST WEEKEND, the protest fell a bit flat.[/i] Then again, we don't seem to be running out of songbirds. There also isn't any real shortage of cats. :] [/QUOTE]

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