Feral cats are a real menace down here and having cats neutered just doesn't seem to enter some people's heads.

Our three old dears are too old and slow to knock off the dicky birds but I do get the odd present of a dead vole or mouse - they don't chew them up, just one bite and voila, dead mouse.

And we're fortunate, Sam does his business in the next field and the girls use their indoor en-suite, tho they both pee outside.

When the decline in sparrows became apparent a few years ago, there was a joke about it in the Guardian. Man says to his cat 'Sparrows are on the decline' and the cat replies 'Stay there a minute, I'll go and get you a couple'.

Cats kill birds but not to the extent that they would decimate the population. It's also about real urban sprawl, a UK government that designates areas of natural beuty and then lets them be used for more houses and retails parks - now that's the real enemy, not the moggies.

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TonyF, Dordogne 24220