Food — Concluded. 



Animal food of the cat — Concluded. 



Expert opinions on the cat's deetructiveness to birds, 

 Destruction of mammals and lower animals by cats, 

 Squirrels, 



Hares and rabbits. 

 Moles- and shrews, 

 Rats and mice. 

 Bats, .... 

 Reptiles and amphibians, 



Fish 



Crustaceans and moUusks, 

 Insects, 

 The economic value of the cat: . 

 Economic value of weasels, . 

 Economic value of squirrels. 

 Economic value of hares or rabbits. 

 Economic value of moles. 

 Economic value of shrews and bats. 

 Economic value of amphibians and reptiles. 

 Economic value of birds, 



Species of wild birds reported killed by cats, 

 Cats and insects increase, . 

 Injury by insect pests, 

 Insect pests eaten by birds. 

 Number of insects eaten by birds. 

 Birds save trees and crops from destruction, 

 Inutility of the cat, 

 Animal substitutes for the cat, 

 Is the cat a disseminator of disease, 

 Parasitic diseases. 



Infections from cats' claws and teeth, 

 Tetanus or lockjaw, . 

 Rabies or hydrophobia, 

 Septicsemia or blood poisoning. 

 Means of controlling the cat: 

 Catproof fence, . 

 Killing the guilty cat, . 

 Confining or tethering the cat, 

 Keeping the cat indoors at night, 

 Feeding the cat, . 

 Belling the cat, . 

 Cat guards. 



Keep only white cats, . 

 Air guns, torpedoes, etc., 

 Electrocution, 



Dogs, .... 



Training the cat not to catch birds. 

 To prevent cats killing chickens, 

 Legislation for the control of the cat. 

 Methods of taking and killing stray or feral cats. 

 Legal rights of the cat. 

 Recapitulation and conclusion. 

 List of those who contributed information. 



