> >Cats hunt for sport and they play with their food in a way that some > >humans would consider cruel and unecessarily drawn out. {Wild cats do > >this too, not just domesticated or feral cats] A researcher recently did a survey in Great Britain and calculated that domestic cats in that country kill over a billion birds per year ( imagine in the U.S. or China). Feral domestic cats have also caused the extinction of several species of animals world-wide. Makes me and my hawk look like real pussycats ;). Ray Audette Author "NeanderThin" http://www.neanderthin.com