Cats and Birds

Let’s face it: If you love birds and feed them and you love cats and have one, birds are going to die in your yard. You can do things to help, of course. You can put the feeders in one yard and try to keep the cat out of that yard. You can purchase cans of compressed air that hiss when a cat goes by. You can try to keep the cat indoors and you can even go to the extreme of having the cat’s claws removed. However, as you can see from this link even that won’t always work. (Note: The original link to The New Yorker is broken this morning so the link is to a You Tube video which has two cartoons. The cat cartoon, “Dirty Harry” is the second of the cartoon and starts  20 seconds into the video.)