Certainly not, if there’s any chance of endangered species visiting your berry patch
I agree here. What if the bird population wasn’t endangered and considered a pest?
To be clear this is hypothetical. I haven’t done anything.
This is impossible to guarantee or control for. Birds migrate, you never know who might make a pitstop at your feeder. I’ve spotted birds that were so far off their normal range it created a buzz in the local birding community. There’s a non-zero chance something endangered or at least very rare could stop by your feeder.
If you’re worried about making sure your cat gets enough stimulation there are a lot of articles and tips on things you can do that require little effort on your part (like, even a cardboard box full of crumpled paper can do the job).
If you are in the US, deliberately hunting birds with an unsupervised pet cat is almost certainly a violation of the MBTA.
Interesting. Thanks for this
Guessing you’re American. Over here in soft Europe, even to ask that question would get you ostracized as a psychopath.
Of course, most of us are complete hypocrites given our diets.
Touch grass my European friend
Birds aren’t real, so it seems like a fine idea to me.
What an insane thing to ask
What a rude thing to say
nope, that’s unethical.
I might personally do it, though.
Cats eat birds. You are punishing your cat by getting only a bird bath and not spreading heaps of birdseed around too to attract birds and squirrels for prey. Go for it, cats will thank you. Think of their purring, their adoring eyes. Be sure to put camoflagued and comfortable ambush sites in close reach of the killing grounds. Cheers.
This is my favorite comment btw. You win the thread
In the winter growing up we had a big ol tomcat and he would get the winter blues when feet and feet of snow would fall, so we’d get a 5 gallon bucket, punch a hole at the base at one side and fill it with birdseed so it would pour out slowly and set it up against the snowbank. We dug a little cat hole in the snowbank that faced it and laid a warm blanket in there for him to sit and watch and hunt the birds and squirrels. We loved that old tomcat, I still have a painting I did of him. Mom would pick and dry flowers and put them in his bed under the layers of old clothes and he would sleep on it near the wood stove and dream of spring. Cats spend only a short time with us and we owe it to them to do anything possible to make their lives more joyous and fulfilling. Thank you, stranger, may you have many happy years with your cats.
