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NATURE STUDY REVIEW 



:5— May, 1913 



rodents to come near it, pussy 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 fly, when they 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 your 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 as a mouser 



after that. Cats relish chickens and birds better than mice. And 

 so you do one of three things with your bird eating cat — either 

 drown it, cut its head oflf or chloroform 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 hawks and owls which spread none 



