February 12, 2007

CAT PICTURES USED TO SCARE AWAY BIRDS (Aug, 1933)

CAT PICTURES USED TO SCARE AWAY BIRDS
If live cats will scare birds away, why not use imitation cats as scarecrows? Acting on this unconventional idea, a farmer of Warwickshire, England, is decorating his property with painted likenesses of cats like those illustrated above. Stoppers from mineral water bottles supplied the eyes. Now it remains to be seen whether the birds will be terrified.

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  1. it scare me too

    Comment by latente — February 13, 2007 @ 2:10 am

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