"Dave Liquorice" wrote in message
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On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 02:59:02 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Because of just such incidents. Every time someone sees a cat carying a
bird, it gets flagged up as a cat kill.

Any decent self respecting cat doesn't take carrion ours certainly doesn't
anything she brings to the table is either not quite dead yet or very
fresh. What a townie cat that hasn't be taught how to hunt by it's mother
does is another matter...

In reality they rarely catch them

Yep, I think ours has had one bird in 3 years. The rest comprises 2 baby
rabbits, 2 moles, a few mice, then a fair number of shrews and countless
voles.

Some of which are protected species.
Shoot the cat, they are just vermin.