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["Brungardt, Sam" <Sam.Brungardt@state.mn.us>]

Title: Message

I find it difficult to accept your view that your cats don't do much harm to birds; it's been well established by studies both here in the USA and Britain that cats allowed to roam outdoors kill a lot of birds, both adult and juvenile. -- Sam Brungardt, St. Paul, Minn.

-----Original Message-----
From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of JoanRRosenberg@aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 8:25 PM
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] How to get (and keep) a junk yard cat

Not to be picky, but I actually do TNR and have a rescue 
colony.  I am in NY.  One year we did have a round of racoon 
distemper, and ALL colonies on Long Island got hit.  We all lost cats (even 
vaccinated ones) and some of us sent biopsies to Cornell Veterinary.  After 
much research, Cornell came back to us with Racoon distemper which transferred 
to cats, not dogs, and there was no vaccination.  Every area has its own 
microclimate and species, and what I get here on LI will be different from Va 
Beach or Oregon, etc.  

I would warn you that not all cats chase 
squirrels.  Mine have elminated mice, rats, moles, tree shrews, 
rabbits.  The squirrels, raccoons, and possums remain.   They 
don't do much to the birds, the birds are too smart.  All they get are 
babies that fall out of nests.