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Jim Wilson

Jim Wilson

πŸ‘€ Speaker
230 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Liveline
"He ran off with my husband's hearing aid"

And as Ella rightly pointed out, they have led to the extinction of birds.

Liveline
"He ran off with my husband's hearing aid"

Like the classic ones are lighthouse keepers on small remote islands where birds, slightest birds,

Liveline
"He ran off with my husband's hearing aid"

with only a few of them left, and they bring in a cat or two, maybe to keep down the mice or whatever, and the cats ignore the mice and kill off the birds and render them extinct forever.

Liveline
"He ran off with my husband's hearing aid"

So, you know, there is that.

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"He ran off with my husband's hearing aid"

And, I mean, I love cats.

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"He ran off with my husband's hearing aid"

I actually love cats.

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"He ran off with my husband's hearing aid"

Believe it or not, I actually judged cat shows twice.

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"He ran off with my husband's hearing aid"

I actually was asked what I judged them, and I did, and there were some stunning cats.

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"He ran off with my husband's hearing aid"

But I use it to kind of raise the idea that maybe you need to control and look after your cat a bit more to avoid killing all these pets.

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"He ran off with my husband's hearing aid"

And I've been at the end of trying to rehabilitate or look after maimed birds that have been brought to me for nearly 50 years.

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"He ran off with my husband's hearing aid"

I was called the bird man here in Cove.

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"He ran off with my husband's hearing aid"

And I would be brought the results of the maiming.

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"He ran off with my husband's hearing aid"

You know, it's not just killing.

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"He ran off with my husband's hearing aid"

They mean a lot more than they kill.

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"He ran off with my husband's hearing aid"

And they also, you know, they also frighten birds.

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"He ran off with my husband's hearing aid"

If birds are nesting and a cat is roaming through their territory, they go berserk.

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"He ran off with my husband's hearing aid"

You'll hear them.

Liveline
"He ran off with my husband's hearing aid"

And so they do cause a lot of problems for our wildlife population.

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"He ran off with my husband's hearing aid"

You would.

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"He ran off with my husband's hearing aid"

I mean, this is the problem with these incredible machines.