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Letter: Cats pick fights with rats they can beat and eat

Published 14 November 2018

From Peter Brooker, London, UK

So cats are bad at catching adult rats (6 October, p 15). But cats do like catching and eating juvenile rats, which have a fighting weight a fraction of an adult's. I have seen the neighbour's cat trot by with a young rat in its mouth.

Issue no. 3204 published 17 November 2018

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