ruddi cats

[CarnoustieCats]

I am cats i am lovely i do not eat birds i do not want a bumful of pellets..... Help help help

[ejean9]

I am cats i am lovely i do not eat birds i do not want a bumful of pellets..... Help help help

ill save you..quick over here into this little box that looks like a small shed..ignore the sign on top that says Rufus

[Gill]

ill save you..quick over here into this little box that looks like a small shed..ignore the sign on top that says Rufus

Dont worry it's only Rufus the mouse

[CarnoustieCats]

Dont worry it's only Rufus the mouse

that's all right then cos I don't eat mice either

You my pal Jean? just checking

[TexasAda]

maybe some cat repellent made for gardens? if it wouldn't repel the parent birds too

[ejean9]

Dont worry it's only Rufus the mouse

yip thats me..quiet as a mouse

course im your pal Cats

[astral276]

Maybe one of those ultrasonic cat repellents?

Don't know how effective they are. Some people say they work and others say they don't.

I could offer you a few solutions but I don't fancy getting lynched by all the cat lovers here.

(You could maybe Google on Dettol.)

[CarnoustieCats]

... most cats run a mile if you squirt them with a water pistol (and it is great fun)

[PATRIOT73]

You my pal Jean? just checking
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u in double figures then:

[MHTTrading]

I do not know how feasible this might be but one solution might be to buy some long poles or lengths of wood, drive them into the ground very close to where the nests are now, then fix bird nesting boxes of the type where the box tops can be left open to the tops of the poles, then take the nests out of the hedges and put them in the boxes. I have done that myself many years ago with one nest and it worked. When the parent birds were used to coming back, the top of the box was put back down and the parents came in through a side hole. The risk with this approach is that the parent birds might not come back to nests that have been moved. However, if you have cats watching the nests, it is only going to be a matter of time before the cats get all the chicks. Domestic cats still have the instincts of wild cats. No matter how friendly they might be indoors, outside they are vicious and kill for the sake of it.

I don't want to put a dampener on things but its actually an offence under the Wildlife and Countryside Act to interfere with a nest that is in use, or the contents of said nest no matter how well intentioned, the only exception is if the nest is damaged to the extent that the nest has fallen from its position and the chicks/eggs have fallen out.