. ... The domestic cat; bird killer, mouser and destroyer of wild life; means of utilizing and controlling it. Cats. 33 such experiences probably would be enough to drive a robin away from the neighborhood, or to render it too cautious to be caught again, but Miss Winslow says that for several summers the cat "kept up this ; This tale illustrates the ability of the cat to catch Birds cut by Claws of Cats may die. It is probable that some of these robins died eventually from the blows of the cat's claws. It is not uncommon that a bird caught "apparently uninjured
. ... The domestic cat; bird killer, mouser and destroyer of wild life; means of utilizing and controlling it. Cats. 33 such experiences probably would be enough to drive a robin away from the neighborhood, or to render it too cautious to be caught again, but Miss Winslow says that for several summers the cat "kept up this ; This tale illustrates the ability of the cat to catch Birds cut by Claws of Cats may die. It is probable that some of these robins died eventually from the blows of the cat's claws. It is not uncommon that a bird caught "apparently uninjured" is in reality fatally hurt by teeth or claws. In capturing so active a creature as a bird the cat must work quickly and savagely. Most of the birds thus taken are struck down by the extended claws, and since there are many authentic cases of so-called "blood poisoning" among human beings resulting from cat clawings and cat bites, some of which are said to have resulted fatally, in spite of medical atten- tion (see page 86), many a bird which has been struck once by a cat, and released apparently uninjured, may suffer a lingering and agonizing death. Mr. Harry D. Eastman of Sherborn says that pigeons which have been cut by the claw of a cat usually "go light" and finally die, and that a gray squirrel caught by a cat, taken away at once and not bitten, refused to eat, and died a few days later. < Cat Poaching for Owner. Gordon Stables seems to exult in the birdcatching habits of his pets. He uses the poaching habits of the cat to illustrate its devotion to its master by telling of a poor plowman who was ill. Meat was prescribed by the doctor, but the poor man was un- able to buy it. Every day, however, until he recovered the cat brought him in a rabbit or a Miss Repplier tells of a lady near Belfast whose cat went poaching r-^&Lf^i \^j. for her every day, thus providing her with partridges illegally, as she had no legal right to the posses
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