THE PROBLEM OF THE VAGRANT CAT.
By T. Gilbert Pearson, President of the National Association of Audubon Societies, U.S.A.
It is a widely recognised fact that domestic cats are great destroyers of wild bird-life. Particularly is this true during the spring months when the young birds are leaving the nest. Many people do not observe the destruction which these animals inflict upon the bird population about every town and in the countryside, because the killing is done largely during the hours of darkness and in the early morning. Drivers of motor cars at night frequently see the eyes of marauding cats by the roadside. Control should be exercised over the cat population and arrangements made for destroying, humanely, vagrant and unwanted cats, the numbers of which are exceedingly great. Cats are known to be carriers of disease, their cries at night disturb the slumbers of men and women everywhere, and thousands of sick people are rendered nervous and irritable by Grimalkin’s nocturnal serenades.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 31, 1 October 1933, Page 13
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163THE PROBLEM OF THE VAGRANT CAT. Forest and Bird, Issue 31, 1 October 1933, Page 13
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