I see Morgan has been cat bothering again.
Fair point about if we got rid of cats what would happen to rodents from Celia. I guess we'd just have to live with tons of poison baits.
My cats hunt very little but when they do they bring everything back into the house. I'd say through observation my cats catch:
50% Skinks - 15 or so a year, sadly most I save which is bad as one of the buggers crawled into my hot water cylinder and another fried the circuit board in my burglar alarm costing me a small fortune, the bastards.
20% Assorted bugs.
20% Rodents, mostly mice, the odd rat - good works lads!
9.5% Assorted leaves, bits of string, ladies underwear, etc
0.5% Birds - that's a lot less than one bird a year. In statistics that's called fuck all.
My point? Morgan go and sort the fucking club out and stop messing with my cats that do a very valuable job for me. You don't advocate the removal of sheep or other working dogs so leave my cats alone.