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A request to cat owners
We've blackbirds nesting in our garden. I look on them as welcome guests and hope that they will successfully rear their family. I see them regularly visiting the nest with beaks full of worms, carefully checking all round the garden before they fly into the nest.
Henry woke up last night to the sound of blackbird alarm calls, so loud that they got him out of bed and into the garden. He scared away three cats.
Please, for the duration of the nesting season, keep your cats indoors overnight.
They're beautiful animals, but they're natural hunters.
I have a split personality when it comes to cats.
When I'm strolling along the road, I stop and pass the time of day with cats that come and introduce themselves and ask me to stroke them.
When I'm in my back garden, I hiss at them and demand that they leave.
Please, just for the nesting season, buy a litter tray and give the birds a chance. I've been there when a cat has got the nestlings and it's heartbreaking.
Henry woke up last night to the sound of blackbird alarm calls, so loud that they got him out of bed and into the garden. He scared away three cats.
Please, for the duration of the nesting season, keep your cats indoors overnight.
They're beautiful animals, but they're natural hunters.
I have a split personality when it comes to cats.
When I'm strolling along the road, I stop and pass the time of day with cats that come and introduce themselves and ask me to stroke them.
When I'm in my back garden, I hiss at them and demand that they leave.
Please, just for the nesting season, buy a litter tray and give the birds a chance. I've been there when a cat has got the nestlings and it's heartbreaking.