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XATURli STi'DY REVIEW 



[9 :.-.— May, 1913 



rodents to come near it. pnssv is entirely unable to catch the field 

 mice which are scattered all over the broad fields. Thus driven 

 by hunger, she will learn to catch birds. Cats will crawl up trees 

 and find little birds in the nest and eat them. Worse still and more 

 often, when the young birds are learning to fl\-, when thev are 

 fluttering around and trying out their wings, cats catch the help- 

 less creatures. Where cats are abundant, more birds are eaten than 

 succeed in learning how to fly. Now, watch \our cat and take 

 care of it. Don't let it learn to catch poultry and birds, but if 

 it does, you may know that it won't be worth much a> a mouser 



after that. Cats relish cliickens and ])irds better than mice. .Vnd 

 so you do one of three things with \-our bird eating cat — either 

 drown it, cut its head oil or cliloroftjrm it — and get rid of it. 

 Above all things, don't take it away some place and drop it out 

 in the fields or woods. The Iiawks and owls which spread none 



