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[supporttheunderdog]

Have just put a huge turkey bone in our cat's bowl ... he doesn't look impressed.

No one is impressed by turkey.

But I thought it was your idea

[kurupetos]

Have just put a huge turkey bone in our cat's bowl ... he doesn't look impressed.

Give to Zonkie boy. He will be impressed.

[yialousa1971]

Oh sweetie ... Can you look after it, stud?

No, he chased it away. That's Dogs for you.

[yialousa1971]

Have just put a huge turkey bone in our cat's bowl ... he doesn't look impressed.

Give to Zonkie boy. He will be impressed.

Is Zonk the Goblins Dog?

[kurupetos]

Have just put a huge turkey bone in our cat's bowl ... he doesn't look impressed.

Give to Zonkie boy. He will be impressed.

Is Zonk the Goblins Dog?

More likely the goblin's bitch!

[GreekIslandGirl]

Have just put a huge turkey bone in our cat's bowl ... he doesn't look impressed.

No one is impressed by turkey.

But I thought it was your idea

You make a terrible detective. No, it wasn't my idea.

Bill c. posted on proffering the turkey bone at 10:20pm (Thursday, above) and I prequeled his "What are you eating/cooking" post about a turkey salad at 12:18 am (Friday) shortly after seeing that he had in fact given the pussy-cat the bone. Do you follow?

[SSBubbles]

Cannot troll through all these pages but I do hope that you found your answer.

we have rehomed 3 feral cats (from different locations) all 'done' so no kittens for us thank goodness. Though we don't need them as the cat population around us has gone from about half a dozen strays to a now infinite number, thanks to the do-gooders who feed them but don't bother to neuter them!
Trouble is - too many people feed the cats and they (cats not people) become lazy and lethargic and don't hunt, creating an increase of vermin! This is very evident in the scary increase of pigeons hanging out on telephone wires!!

People please do not stop caring for the wild animals of Cyprus, but please remember to try and balance it out!

[GreekIslandGirl]

Feeding the cats does not make them so "lazy and lethargic" that they stop hunting. We've been feeding them for thousands of years and it's because they continue to hunt and keep vermin numbers down for us that we continue to feed and domesticate them.

The increase in vermin, which I have noticed too (see my rat-nibbled watermelon), is down to increased urbanisation! There are far too many people now - NOT CATS! Also, our snake population has been depleted because of increased urbanisation. Snakes also keep vermin numbers down (as well as competing with the cats, which kept their numbers ecologically balanced).

Again, it's too many people!

[supporttheunderdog]

Feeding the cats does not make them so "lazy and lethargic" that they stop hunting. We've been feeding them for thousands of years and it's because they continue to hunt and keep vermin numbers down for us that we continue to feed and domesticate them.

The increase in vermin, which I have noticed too (see my rat-nibbled watermelon), is down to increased urbanisation! There are far too many people now - NOT CATS! Also, our snake population has been depleted because of increased urbanisation. Snakes also keep vermin numbers down (as well as competing with the cats, which kept their numbers ecologically balanced).

Again, it's too many people!

we neuter our cats so they do not add to the population. People feeding them (or indeed having bins from which cats can scavenge) must however add to overpopulation since otherwise cats which are not so good at hunting would not survive and breed, and being fed or scavenging may well provide alternative food supplies in preference to hunting. Absent those sources the feral cats would hunt and they and the prey populations will reach an equilibrium, probably both at lower levels.

[GreekIslandGirl]

Too many people! That is the problem! Not cats. Not snakes. Not even vermin. It's too many people!

Make room for peasants. Not lazy lethargic retirees ...