how can you tell the difference between a house cat that kills small game and song birds from a feral cat t

[6phunter]

how can you tell the difference between a house cat that kills small game and song birds from a feral cat that kills small game and song birds ?

[JM]

You can't. There are a few cats that live in an abandoned shed near our farm that have not had owners for years, but one still has its old collar on. On the other hand, most people I know that own cats do not put collars on them.

[JM]

You can't. There are a few cats that live in an abandoned shed near our farm that have not had owners for years, but one still has its old collar on. On the other hand, most people I know that own cats do not put collars on them.

[huntfishtrap]

You can't. That's why I would never shoot a cat I saw roaming the woods. I value the life of someone's pet more than the lives of a few songbirds or rabbits. I know that makes me a bad conservationist by some folks' standards, but I'm not going to apologize for it.

[Nature Advocate]

Any non-native cat illegally hunting our native wildlife where I live then in turn gets hunted until dead. You MUST also destroy all stray collared cats, they are the source of all ferals. If you don't destroy them too then you have done NOTHING to solve the feral cat problem. I shot and buried hundreds of these vermin, the eradication so complete and effective that I've seen nor heard even ONE cat in nearly five years now. Hunted to extinction works on them, it's the only thing that works.

[ozark_ghost]

Sounds to me like you just hate cats for whatever reason and want people to agree with you. Nature will strike a balance in predator and prey in any given area if man stays out of the equation. The few birds and small game that cats consume are minuscule on balance to the mice and rats that they normally prey on. If you have a problem with feral cats call the local authorities and let them handle the problem.

[Nature Advocate]

I first tried to rid my lands of cats by hand-rearing native predators (to also repopulate my lands after I found out they had all but disappeared due to starvation-by-cat). Thinking that these native predators could oust the cats for me. It was a failure (in regards to them helping in the least, even highly amusing at times).

Please read this post (of mine), URL below, that fully explains why humans cannot and should not rely on nature to solve this man-made ecological disaster for them. The government of Australia made a similar error with their attempts at increasing Dingo populations which did nothing to curtail cats’ breeding rates. I alerted them to how and why their experiment failed, having discovered this man-made anomaly on my own lands years ago. Not only will native predators not solve the problem, but they end-up dying in the process from all the diseases that cats carry and spread today.

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The ONLY predator on earth today that can balance the equation is the discerning eye of a human aiming a gun at every last free-roaming invasive-species cat it sees.

[Gary Devine]

You would think outside feral cats would be shabby or thin looking and the house cats would be better groomed and well fed.
Here is a photo from my trail cam of a cat watching two turkey hen birds.
Is it house or feral cat? I don't know but if I had to guess I would say its a feral?


www.outdoorlife.com/photos/bragging-board/recent/single?pnid=1001355106#1001355106

[land_cruiser_73]

When we were kids, our two champion hunting dogs (a Cockapoo and her half Pekinese son)loved treeing cats. If we were far enough from town to be sure they were feral, we killed them.

[99explorer]

A house cat would have a collar on it.