Cat-cams have been around for almost a decade.
And bloody useless the entire time.
HTH, HAND
Feline OVERLORDS ditch camera-toting human servants, film selfie vids
Not content with taking over the internet, your mind, science, and potentially, your wallet, cats will soon no longer require the aid of their human chattel to film them. It's perhaps more accurate to say Felis catus has found a human amanuensis to facilitate its entry into the world of film-making in the form of Sydney artist …
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Thursday 17th October 2013 06:32 GMT heyrick
Bird massacres
Our cats have given up on the birds, the cats didn't appreciate the whole 3D aspect.
So by day the local wildlife is hunted by hawk-like birds, or taken down in a territorial fight with rowdy crows, and at night the land is the domain of an owl family. In my experience, the biggest killer of birds are.....other birds.
The cat? Small lizards, field mice, voles, moles (which are not eaten) and from time to time a small wabbit.
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Thursday 17th October 2013 11:38 GMT Graham Dawson
Re: Bird massacres
in most of the country the single biggest killer of songbirds - allegedly the favourite prey of cats - are not cats, but magpies. A cat might be able to get one songbird but given their lack of flight, cats are generally not capable of catching that many birds. In contrast, magpies do something that no cat would even think of attempting: they destroy nests. They take songbird chicks to feed to their own young. The growth in magpie numbers in recent years has had a devastating effect on all sorts of small birds - and not-so-small birds as well. They aren't particularly picky about where they get their food, you see.
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Thursday 17th October 2013 07:28 GMT tony2heads
Urban dictionary has it about right
Felis domesticus
Felis domesticus aka the House Cat. The highest form of life on Earth. Has used hypnotic powers of cuteness to enslave Homo sapiens to provide it with food and shelter, and, most importantly, a life of total freedom and leisure.
Canis familiaris saw what great success Felis domesticus had with enslaving the Homo sapiens primates, and almost accomplished the same feat with their similar powers of hypnotic cuteness, however, for some reason, the canines, for the most part, did not end up with the same levels of freedom as their feline counterparts, making them, in our opinion, the second smartest species on planet Earth, followed by Homo sapiens in a distant third place.
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Friday 18th October 2013 03:49 GMT jake
@ Jagged (was:Re: Keep your cats indoors)
Cats won't soil their own nest. Our acreage belongs to the cats. They share with the folks east, west, and south of us (all of whom understand cats). The cats pee and poop at the outer corners of the ranch, where it won't get in anybody's way ... and in the fancy rose garden/pool area of the asshole who lives just north of us. He hates cats, and they carefully return the favo(u)r ...
The idiot to the north is clueless. And has a serious rodent problem ...
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Thursday 17th October 2013 15:31 GMT Anonymous Coward
I have an exceptional pussy
"Scientists are also said to be interested in the results, as cats often kill native birds in Australian cities. Many vets therefore advise that cats should be kept inside at night..."
Funny, my cats must be the exception because they have never been to an Australian city but they do kill native birds. What's more, the birds my cats kill have been dispatched exclusively in daylight hours only. But I suppose daytime in the UK is night-time in Australia.
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