It is not okay for cats to kill all the neighborhood birds.

[eilen]

147. I'm reasonably sure that my cat is cognizant of other creatures

and knows which ones to avoid. For instance, while I am sure she can figure out how to get over the fence next door, she never does this when the rottweiler is out.

Once she went over there when the idiot woman had her caged tropical birds outside. To my cat that looked like a Happy Meal. The idiot woman moved out. These are the same people who use a ride on tractor mower to cut the grass in their little yard.

My cat also knows not to go in the street. She usually catches mice under our deck. We have no Owls or Hawks nesting here. There are some Eagles nesting in a park south of us and I have seen the occasional hawk fly however, I think the voluminous squirrel population keeps them fed. Rabbits are probably too fast though they do linger in the clover patches in my yard.

It's been 11 years. Cats live almost forever.