All True But We Must Also Kill Millions of Magpies and The Alien Grey Squirrel in The UK! (Each kill far more than cats ever could.)

To save Britain’s birds, it's time to lock your cat indoors.

As our feathered friends start to disappear, some are starting to question the true scale of the damage inflicted by their feline foes

ByJoe Shute, SENIOR FEATURE WRITER

Councillors in the Australian city of Fremantle have voted in favour of banning cats from venturing outdoors unless they are tethered by a lead CREDIT: Nils Jacobi/ iStockphoto

According to Rudyard Kipling, all animals were once wild; but the cat was the wildest of them all. As Kipling told it in the Just So story of The Cat that Walked by Himself, while gradually the likes of horses, cattle, sheep and dogs were tamed by humans into a life of cosy domesticity, felines remained resolutely feral.... DT.