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We don't have a cat at the moment but fortunately none of our previous ones were hunters, too well fed and lazy. Mind you, keeping them in at night helps. The last resident only caught a single mouse in 20 years and I swear he mugged another cat for it.

What we do have is a newt slaughtering blackbird! Last summer she was eating 3 or 4 a day, swooping on the pond whenever they came up for air. Amazing to watch but she has decimated the population and I have only seen one newt in the pond so far this year when it should be full of them. They are also under attack, as are the frogs, from the grass snake that lives under the waterfall.