I agree, I've got an AMAZING mouser who won't touch my baby chicks... I don't really trust her around them long-term but she looks at them and the halfgrown birds are free-range and she doesn't mess with them....
I know someone disagreed with me in that Cats have to be taught to hunt, but after 14 years of continued education in Veterinary Medicine, this is the advice we are taught to give. I have 3 cats. One purebred, one "Apartment kitty" and one Barn Cat. The Purebred catches crickets, fly's and pencils! The Apartment kitty won't get off the couch to catch a cool breeze. And the barn kitty, who won Champion at the cat 4H show, brings things in from the desert that are ½ his size!!! Big Hunter!
That being said, my big hunter doesn't even look at the chicks. He plays with one of the roosters in the yard. He'll pounce and the rooster will run in fear, then you see the rooster chasing the cat! He goes out and "hunts" the neighbors free running chicks, but when he see's they are chicks, he shakes his tail and walks away. Barns cats and a century of Ranch life must have taught them not to touch the livestock. I don't know.
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