Sentences with phrase «cat hunts rat»
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Jack Russell Terriers are commonly known to harass, injure or kill other small pets, such as cats, birds, rabbits, mice, rats, etc., simply due to their strong natural hunting instinct.
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Jim Stevenson, executive director of the Galveston Ornithological Society, doesn't much care when urban cats hunt nonnative species such as the common domestic rat or collared dove.
The natural place of cats in the food chain is as hunters of mice, rats, and other small rodents, who in urban habitat are themselves overwhelmingly of introduced species, and as scavengers of sick and injured birds who remain on the ground after dark, when healthy birds are roosting and cats do most of their hunting.
In contrast, the eggs of Taenia taeniaformis are eaten by rodents (rats and mice) so other cats become infected during hunting by eating an infected rodent.
Records indicate that even the Mayflower carried several cats to hunt the ship's rats.
Indeed, most of the feral cat presence in Australia is associated chiefly with hunting mice, rats, and rabbits, who are also introduced species and are abundant habitat rivals to the small marsupials whom feral cats are most often accused of harming.
When he is not hunting, however, the Rat Terrier is an exceptionally friendly companion, getting along well with children, other dogs and even cats.
Avian diseases accidentally imported in connection with cockfighting also had a part in the loss of native Hawaiian birds, but blaming cats and feral mongooses, introduced to Hawaii in 1883 to hunt rats on sugar cane plantations, has long been more politically convenient than challenging the practices of Hawaii's biggest export industries.
The suburban area where I live has a large rat population (I see a rat most times I walk through the park nearby), and I have often seen my cats hunting and killing rats.
In the past people used to have cats in villages or farms to hunt and keep rats at bay, they usually would live on the streets, sheds or half indoors.