This study went for 8 weeks using n=19 cats.
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These collars do not stop the full-range of a cat's killing spree. Collaring your roaming cat will not stop it wiping out your neighbour's beloved frogs. It also won't stop it shitting in their gardens & being a nuisance. Keeping your cat inside or in a catio will.https://twitter.com/IBIS_journal/status/1183759453310636033 …
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I get it - we want to appease cat owners and the Cat Society with a cheap, workable, easily adoptable solution. But it doesn't work for frogs. Not at all. n=2. Duration of observations = 4 months.
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I get it - high density housing and wholesale clearing of gardens and bushland is The Bigger Picture - but I'm not the only one with a frog-friendly garden who has had neighbourhood pet cats hammer our hard-earned frogs.
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I'm really hoping Gardening Australia will do a story on catios
@CostasGarden They already have a subtle message in their opening credits of where they think cats should be in the garden - that being inside and away from the critterspic.twitter.com/PffeCSFX2k
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because why wouldn't you want one of these smiling faces to great you in the garden instead ?pic.twitter.com/Vm5UiESxC4
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And it's clearly not a long-term proposition: "11 of the 13 original participants all experienced losses of the collar" over 8 weeks
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"Most owners (70%) said they would continue to use CatBibs although only 17% were doing so eight months later because some cats had stopped hunting or lost their CatBibs. " https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/1013/
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Surrounding your garden in something pungent like lavender or rosemary is a good deterrent for wandering cats.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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Wonder how many insects are attracted to those "vivid colours"
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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