this x-ray reveals that your pet has the
posture of a tiger or lion
and is more agile than these astounding
predators
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but it has something else that’s even
more powerful
instinct
could this help answer a question that’s
puzzling many of our Urban cat owners
our cats no longer have to rely on their
hunting capabilities as most are well
fed at home
so why do they continue to hunt
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to help find out the team asked the cat
owners to take photos of any prey their
cats bring home
I could have things in three or four
times a week in the summer or the spring
he’s brought in a seagull a rat of old
mice
frogs because there’s a pond next door a
crow what about a hamster well yeah
they’ve tried to hunt the hamster
several times and they have been three
near-death experiences with with the
hamster in cat related activities
so far top of the hunting scoreboard for
the urban cats is one from the village
when she leaves her house her GPS Trace
shows her doing a quick patrol of the
neighborhood before heading to the woods
to hunt
she travels up to two kilometers a day
and is bringing back about three kills a
week
well this is sandwich and she’s
somewhere over a year old she’s a lovely
cat very friendly good company for my
three-year-old girl
but at night she’s a bit of a
bit of a hunter
brings back lots of her own dinner
we’ve had mice and a bird and a rabbit
and rats uh and so far that’s all but
there’s there’s Lambs in the field
nearby so we never know
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when she brings things that are a third
of her size back it does surprise me a
little bit
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sandwich has some unusual hunting
techniques
it’s about two in the afternoon and
she’s in the local Woods
just listen to this
she appears to be mimicking the sounds
of the birds
foreign
no one is sure why cats do this could it
be an attempt to lure their prey down
sandwiches hunting was useful once
her owners had quite a mouse problem
until she arrived
but they don’t need her hunting skills
anymore
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we went through a spell of her catching
something on a daily basis and she
refused to eat any cat food at all
really and seemed to prefer
fresh produce
try to stop her doing it quite so much
by over feeding and feeding at the best
the most expensive cat food but it
hasn’t completely stopped it
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