Tony Hague wrote:Please - I've biting my tongue for days now and it is getting sore. Go back to talking about magpies before I give in to temptation and post something that will make me hugely unpopular with cat owners everywhere ...
Suck something sweet then!!
Nothing you could say would be anything new, believe me. After boards ie....
Just is that it seems sad to get so upset re a garden. ie re cats.
In the scale of things, I mean.
Which is why I suggested a simple remedy, which I use here because I want the garden to grow.
As for magpies; I dislike their noise and their ways. And thus deter them, helped by my cats and by the crows who live here and who are better company. My choice simply. NB I was caring for feral cats once and a magpie took and killed a kitten.
We all have our choices and our experiences.
So I repel and discourage them very successfully.
One survey decided that magpies are more numerous in some areas than in others. Typical compromise.
Interesting that magpies have such a strong connection with old folklore too..