Daily Mail made me upset on whet it reported!

[flying red fox]

Hi, i was reading the Saturday Daily Mail when i saw a report of it that this neighbour had a cat that was attcked by 5 Foxes and survived. Sad but this was more shocking.

She hired a HITMAN! to kill 2 of the Foxes!

How could she? she, an animal lover, would want these harmless animals killed just because her cat got into a scruff with them, i bet the cat was at fault!

This made me upset and i wish i could march up to this woman and pin her to the wall, shake her and say DO NOT KILL ANIMALS!!!!

Now... of course i wouldnt be that violent if i really did see her, but i would have given her a stern talking to.

Was she right or wrong? I believe she is wrong, your views?

[Boddie]

Does seem a bit extreme but I guess emotions run high at times. Its certainly not nice and I would not have done it.

[Wild-Woman]

Some people have very little understanding about wildlife. It's born from ignorance and selfishness. She's probably not even aware of the fact that her moggy has seen many a poor bird off this planet. A sad case FRF but balance it with the people on WAB who do love wildlife.ww

[jezlee]

It's just nature ... which can (to our eyes) seem terribly violent and horrific at times, but it is all just in the natural order of things .... little things get preyed on by bigger things and so on and so on .... and we all know nature is a wonderfully balanced thing most of the time, everything having its own little niche and coexisting within the overall framework .... as usual, the only time this is put under threat is when man gets involved!

Upsetting, of course, for the cat owner, but, as WW pointed out, her little moggie has already dispatched many mice and birds off this mortal coil, and, in my experience, not in any humane way ... I've seen a cat literally "playing" with a young bird until the bird is so badly shocked or injured (or both) that it stops moving, and then the cat loses interest ....

[pxl8]

Originally Posted by jezlee

I've seen a cat literally "playing" with a young bird until the bird is so badly shocked or injured (or both) that it stops moving, and then the cat loses interest ....

Again, this is just nature. Cats are natural hunters and play is part of the learning process. Mothers teach the kittens to hunt by bringing live prey for them to practice with and domsetic cats are actually doing the same thing with their owners when they bring "presents" home - the cat doesn't see any hunting behaviour and tries to teach it to the owner.

Of course most domestic cats I see these days are too overfed to hunt anyway

[eeyore]

Originally Posted by flying red fox

Hi, i was reading the Saturday Daily Mail when i saw a report of it that this neighbour had a cat that was attcked by 5 Foxes and survived. Sad but this was more shocking.

She hired a HITMAN! to kill 2 of the Foxes!

How did she know it was foxes and not dogs - did the cat tell her ??????????

mind you that said foxes are routinely shot in the countryside, even by some wildlife organisations, where they pose a threat to ground nesting birds. - I'm more concerned about her knowing how to hire a hitman, personally

unless of course she made it up to get her name in the paper