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“How to stop my cat killing birds” ….. This was a sentence I googled many times since adopting my first cat five years ago.
My cat Abbey is a killing machine. She is a very loving girl and every day she would bring me the gift of a dead bird (sometimes alive). It didn’t matter that she was bright white and had four bells on her collar, she was clearly an advanced hunter.
As an animal lover, it was extremely hard to witness the pointless death of these birds due to my well fed cat. As a zoology student, I was guilt stricken to learn how severely our beloved furry family members are destroying our native bird population. As I was living/studying in Dunedin, in a lecture I discovered that our town was a sinking hole for the fantail population. Fantails have been one of my favourite types of birds since I was a child. Forest and Bird estimate that New Zealand's cats collectively kill 1.12 million native birds per year.
After desperately researching how to make my cat’s hunting unsuccessful. I learned that research shows a significant reduction in birds caught by cats wearing a bright “scrunchy” type of collar. At first I was sceptical because my cat is already bright white. I believed she would already stand out to birds so this collar won't make a difference. But out of desperation I decided to try it anyway.
