1 00:00:02,302 --> 00:00:04,930 And they all lived appily ever after. 2 00:00:04,971 --> 00:00:07,337 G"night, sweetie. 3 00:00:07,640 --> 00:00:10,803 In an ordinary house on an ordinary street... 4 00:00:10,844 --> 00:00:11,868 Kyle, are you in bed? 5 00:00:11,911 --> 00:00:14,004 ...there lived a cat. 6 00:00:14,047 --> 00:00:17,210 There"s my kitty. You"re so sweet. 7 00:00:19,119 --> 00:00:21,212 He had everything a kitty could want... 8 00:00:21,254 --> 00:00:23,916 Feed the gerbils, honey? Yeah, Mom. 9 00:00:23,957 --> 00:00:27,916 ...affection, food, shelter and a family who thought 10 00:00:27,961 --> 00:00:32,728 he was the sweetest kitty in the whole wide world. 11 00:00:42,108 --> 00:00:45,976 But this is only half the story. 12 00:00:48,448 --> 00:00:51,383 There is another side to this contented kitty 13 00:00:51,418 --> 00:00:55,149 one his family knows nothing about. 14 00:00:55,188 --> 00:01:00,820 Like his ancestors, he has the heart of a hunter. 15 00:01:01,394 --> 00:01:04,329 Well fed and showered with affection, 16 00:01:04,364 --> 00:01:08,425 wildness still courses through his veins. 17 00:01:13,606 --> 00:01:18,202 He may look domesticated, but look again. 18 00:01:19,079 --> 00:01:23,072 This is a real life Jekyll and Hyde. 19 00:01:24,717 --> 00:01:27,652 It is the paradox of the cat. 20 00:01:28,521 --> 00:01:31,752 There are more than 100 million cats 21 00:01:31,791 --> 00:01:33,656 in the U.S. Alone. 22 00:01:33,693 --> 00:01:37,686 What goes on in their secret world? 23 00:01:37,730 --> 00:01:41,791 In the next hour you may learn more about cats 24 00:01:41,835 --> 00:01:44,235 than you ever wanted to know. 25 00:02:04,524 --> 00:02:09,393 It"s 8 p.m. Do you know where your kitty is? 26 00:02:56,142 --> 00:03:00,476 Magnificent, elusive and deadly, 27 00:03:00,513 --> 00:03:04,540 the cat family species boasts 38 species of feline ferocity 28 00:03:04,584 --> 00:03:09,078 including the diminutive, wild cat. 29 00:03:13,426 --> 00:03:15,018 Since prehistoric times, 30 00:03:15,061 --> 00:03:18,792 these cats have wandered Africa and Europe. 31 00:03:20,433 --> 00:03:23,368 The presumed ancestor of our domestic cat, 32 00:03:23,403 --> 00:03:26,065 the wild cat might look like a tabby, 33 00:03:26,105 --> 00:03:27,697 but its canines and claws 34 00:03:27,740 --> 00:03:30,675 are as lethal as those of any tiger. 35 00:03:33,146 --> 00:03:36,377 In its eyes, there"s a haunting familiarity 36 00:03:37,784 --> 00:03:39,877 How did this ferocious 37 00:03:39,919 --> 00:03:43,184 feline jump the wild track and make its way 38 00:03:43,223 --> 00:03:46,420 to our milk bowls and our beds? 39 00:03:47,827 --> 00:03:50,227 Felis catus set out on the rocky road 40 00:03:50,263 --> 00:03:54,529 to domestication more than 3,000 years ago. 41 00:03:54,834 --> 00:03:55,926 In ancient Egypt, 42 00:03:55,969 --> 00:03:59,769 this hunter extraordinaire kept rodents from the granaries 43 00:03:59,806 --> 00:04:03,503 In return, he was worshipped as a symbol of life. 44 00:04:06,546 --> 00:04:08,138 But history would not always 45 00:04:08,181 --> 00:04:10,843 treat our feline friend so kindly. 46 00:04:11,951 --> 00:04:14,351 Believed to be the devil"s companion, 47 00:04:14,387 --> 00:04:17,845 more than a few were burned at the stake 48 00:04:17,890 --> 00:04:20,017 for keeping wrong company. 49 00:04:22,762 --> 00:04:27,563 Luckily, the cat would soon fall into grace once again, 50 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:31,661 for his hunting skills proved invaluable on the open seas. 51 00:04:32,238 --> 00:04:35,435 Cats kept the rat in check. 52 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:41,440 Near the end of the road, 53 00:04:41,481 --> 00:04:43,608 perhaps the most steadfast alliance 54 00:04:43,650 --> 00:04:49,282 was forged between the farmer and his beloved barn cat. 55 00:04:49,322 --> 00:04:54,191 Now, what you got there? You are a good cat. 56 00:04:54,227 --> 00:04:57,424 Ironically, the cat"s very wildness 57 00:04:57,463 --> 00:04:59,590 was its ticket to domestication. 58 00:04:59,632 --> 00:05:02,032 There"s extra milk for you tonight. 59 00:05:02,068 --> 00:05:04,434 Now to complete the journey. 60 00:05:04,470 --> 00:05:06,597 ...eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen... 61 00:05:06,639 --> 00:05:09,301 ready or not here I come. 62 00:05:11,244 --> 00:05:14,179 What lay ahead was one of the most complex 63 00:05:14,213 --> 00:05:17,705 relationships nature has ever known 64 00:05:18,584 --> 00:05:23,385 the remarkable bond between human and cat. 65 00:05:38,671 --> 00:05:43,199 We were drawn to a creature we could never fully tame. 66 00:05:45,411 --> 00:05:51,316 Wow! Hey guys look what I found. 67 00:05:53,252 --> 00:05:55,345 We would overlook their wildness 68 00:05:55,388 --> 00:05:58,050 and welcome them into our lives. 69 00:06:05,164 --> 00:06:07,564 When the dust of the eons finally settled, 70 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:12,731 we found ourselves inexorably linked to the cat. 71 00:06:12,772 --> 00:06:15,969 This extraordinary creature had found a permanent place 72 00:06:16,008 --> 00:06:19,500 in our hearts and our homes. 73 00:06:19,545 --> 00:06:27,645 Mama, Mama, Mama, Mom, Mama, look what I found. 74 00:06:27,687 --> 00:06:30,087 Can I keep him, please, please? 75 00:06:30,123 --> 00:06:33,320 At last, the cat managed to dethrone the dog 76 00:06:33,359 --> 00:06:37,693 as the most popular pet in the Western world. 77 00:06:42,301 --> 00:06:44,428 In the U.S. Alone, house cats 78 00:06:44,470 --> 00:06:46,597 have doubled in number in just 20 years. 79 00:06:46,639 --> 00:06:48,197 C"mon, chin up. That a good boy. 80 00:06:48,241 --> 00:06:51,438 Cat-mania is sweeping the country. 81 00:06:51,477 --> 00:06:53,069 These are piddle pants for cats. 82 00:06:53,112 --> 00:06:56,309 The Chaise lounges are a new add- on to our products 83 00:06:56,349 --> 00:06:57,111 that we"re carrying. 84 00:06:57,150 --> 00:07:00,950 The Litter Maid Electric Self- Cleaning Litter Box. 85 00:07:00,987 --> 00:07:03,114 We probably spend about eight grand a year. 86 00:07:03,156 --> 00:07:06,887 $10, $20, or $30,000 a year, just on one cat. Yeah. 87 00:07:08,561 --> 00:07:10,722 Throughout the world, cat shows pay homage 88 00:07:10,763 --> 00:07:14,221 to our feline companions in a fury of grooming, 89 00:07:14,267 --> 00:07:18,567 primping and keen competition. 90 00:07:18,604 --> 00:07:20,435 Through the careful coupling of cats, 91 00:07:20,473 --> 00:07:25,376 humans have created nearly 50 breeds of domesticated felines 92 00:07:26,212 --> 00:07:28,874 Though some might look to the untrained eye like 93 00:07:28,915 --> 00:07:30,473 mistakes of nature... 94 00:07:31,083 --> 00:07:34,849 each coupling is carefully planned to make a winner. 95 00:07:38,157 --> 00:07:42,753 But a cat needn"t be a winner to be the object of affection. 96 00:07:43,863 --> 00:07:47,060 Well, it"s Rush"s third birthday. 97 00:07:47,099 --> 00:07:50,830 We have birthday cakes for us, so why shouldn"t we have 98 00:07:50,870 --> 00:07:54,670 a birthday cake for our four-footed child? 99 00:07:54,707 --> 00:07:59,872 The Ross family has taken feline adoration to new heights 100 00:08:00,646 --> 00:08:05,913 They"re very much our family. Well, hi, Neut. 101 00:08:05,952 --> 00:08:08,887 Hey, Rush, here"s some food coming. 102 00:08:08,921 --> 00:08:12,379 My husband spoils the cats. Of course, I don"t. 103 00:08:12,425 --> 00:08:17,328 And so he always has the cats eating with us at the table. 104 00:08:17,363 --> 00:08:19,456 One more bite, but don"t let it spoil you. 105 00:08:19,499 --> 00:08:21,091 You won"t get the same thing tomorrow night. 106 00:08:21,133 --> 00:08:23,260 They like to have the food that we"re eating. 107 00:08:23,302 --> 00:08:25,998 And they oftentimes will eat very peculiar things, 108 00:08:26,038 --> 00:08:27,630 things they would never eat 109 00:08:27,673 --> 00:08:30,608 if you would put it in their bowl. 110 00:08:31,711 --> 00:08:34,908 As you can see, our cats are very well fed. 111 00:08:34,947 --> 00:08:37,882 But well-fed cats still do hunt. 112 00:08:37,917 --> 00:08:39,509 So we keep them inside. 113 00:08:39,552 --> 00:08:42,487 And our cats are never bored. 114 00:08:43,856 --> 00:08:46,518 Shirley May loves her cats. 115 00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:47,890 But even she knows, 116 00:08:47,927 --> 00:08:50,361 there can be too much of a good thing. 117 00:08:50,396 --> 00:08:51,988 When I was a child, 118 00:08:52,031 --> 00:08:56,024 there was a family down the street who had some cats. 119 00:08:56,068 --> 00:08:57,899 And they didn"t have them altered. 120 00:08:57,937 --> 00:09:01,202 And there were kittens born all the time. 121 00:09:02,074 --> 00:09:03,632 Well, of course, I thought that was great, 122 00:09:03,676 --> 00:09:05,541 because I loved kittens. 123 00:09:05,578 --> 00:09:08,513 Super kitty flying through the air! 124 00:09:08,548 --> 00:09:11,483 There are more than 10,000 human babies 125 00:09:11,517 --> 00:09:13,417 born in this country each day 126 00:09:13,452 --> 00:09:16,114 and more than twice that many kittens. 127 00:09:23,763 --> 00:09:25,355 Sheltered and well-fed, 128 00:09:25,398 --> 00:09:29,391 cat numbers can soar if reproduction goes unchecked 129 00:09:33,005 --> 00:09:35,667 Cats are prolific. 130 00:09:35,708 --> 00:09:40,236 One female can have as many as 30 kittens a year. 131 00:09:40,279 --> 00:09:42,941 In just seven years, she and her offspring 132 00:09:42,982 --> 00:09:46,509 could produce over 300,000 kittens! 133 00:09:47,086 --> 00:09:51,079 Suddenly, sometimes, those kittens would disappear 134 00:09:51,123 --> 00:09:53,318 and nobody seemed to be able to tell me 135 00:09:53,359 --> 00:09:56,556 where the kittens went. 136 00:10:03,336 --> 00:10:05,463 With such feline fertility, 137 00:10:05,504 --> 00:10:11,136 unwanted cats are a sad byproduct of our domestic bond 138 00:10:15,481 --> 00:10:19,542 This scene may be an echo from the past, 139 00:10:22,288 --> 00:10:27,385 but the tragedy is still being played out today. 140 00:10:31,263 --> 00:10:34,721 Even now, hundreds of cats are abandoned each day 141 00:10:34,767 --> 00:10:37,429 in the U.S. Alone. 142 00:10:50,182 --> 00:10:53,151 What"s to become of a castaway? 143 00:11:05,331 --> 00:11:07,162 He is suddenly faced with the struggle 144 00:11:07,199 --> 00:11:12,034 to survive in an alien world. 145 00:11:13,973 --> 00:11:20,173 But the cat holds a wild card a gift from his ancestors. 146 00:11:23,182 --> 00:11:26,913 He is one of the earth"s most adept hunters. 147 00:11:29,188 --> 00:11:33,716 Good news for the cat... but bad for the locals. 148 00:11:34,860 --> 00:11:37,260 There"s one more predator on the prowl. 149 00:11:37,296 --> 00:11:41,892 And when push comes to shove, he"s not a picky eater 150 00:11:41,934 --> 00:11:45,392 another key to the cat"s success. 151 00:11:50,876 --> 00:11:55,973 In the face of adversity, the cat often has the advantage 152 00:11:58,184 --> 00:12:00,049 Armed with sharp claws, 153 00:12:00,086 --> 00:12:04,113 he"s not restricted to terra firma. 154 00:12:08,227 --> 00:12:11,424 The cat nearly always lands on his feet. 155 00:12:11,997 --> 00:12:15,797 This diminutive creature seems to defy the odds. 156 00:12:23,175 --> 00:12:25,575 With a flexible backbone like a cheetah, 157 00:12:25,611 --> 00:12:29,069 the cat can run up to 30 miles per hour. 158 00:12:33,285 --> 00:12:37,278 His agile body is engineered for the chase. 159 00:12:38,657 --> 00:12:41,387 But at times, the best strategy 160 00:12:41,427 --> 00:12:44,624 is to seek shelter... and wait. 161 00:12:48,434 --> 00:12:52,495 For the tables will soon turn for felis catus. 162 00:13:02,848 --> 00:13:05,783 Night belongs to the cat. 163 00:13:06,919 --> 00:13:10,912 He is a creature designed for the nocturnal hunt: 164 00:13:11,223 --> 00:13:16,593 With night vision, whiskers to help navigate, 165 00:13:16,629 --> 00:13:20,895 a keen sense of smell, and ears 166 00:13:20,933 --> 00:13:26,633 tuned to signals that mere humans could never perceive. 167 00:13:27,206 --> 00:13:30,664 The faintest squeak even from a distance 168 00:13:30,709 --> 00:13:34,475 allows him to pinpoint his prey... 169 00:13:34,780 --> 00:13:37,214 and launch his assault. 170 00:13:51,864 --> 00:13:56,699 Only the fortunate manage to escape this master predator. 171 00:14:06,512 --> 00:14:09,709 The cat is a marvel of engineering. 172 00:14:09,748 --> 00:14:12,410 His supple spine allows acrobatics of which 173 00:14:12,451 --> 00:14:15,113 we could only dream. 174 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:24,625 His uncanny sense of balance almost always insures 175 00:14:24,663 --> 00:14:26,494 a safe landing. 176 00:14:33,339 --> 00:14:36,001 With persistence and precision, 177 00:14:36,041 --> 00:14:39,772 the cat gets his mouse. 178 00:14:43,082 --> 00:14:46,848 This is a creature designed to survive. 179 00:14:48,787 --> 00:14:52,245 He has landed in the most outlandish of places 180 00:14:52,291 --> 00:14:55,818 and somehow managed to endure. 181 00:14:56,662 --> 00:14:57,720 Near the Antarctic, 182 00:14:57,763 --> 00:15:01,221 temperatures can plunge to 50 below. 183 00:15:01,267 --> 00:15:02,291 On a diet of seabirds 184 00:15:02,334 --> 00:15:04,199 and the occasional penguin carcass, 185 00:15:04,236 --> 00:15:06,136 the cats of Macquarie Island 186 00:15:06,171 --> 00:15:08,298 have persevered since they were dropped here 187 00:15:08,340 --> 00:15:11,002 by sealers over a century ago. 188 00:15:13,479 --> 00:15:15,037 Half a world away, 189 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:17,810 the volcanic Galapagos Islands offer little water 190 00:15:17,850 --> 00:15:20,216 or prey to its immigrant cats. 191 00:15:20,252 --> 00:15:23,187 Though lean, the population persists. 192 00:15:23,789 --> 00:15:25,347 Abandoned cats are struggling 193 00:15:25,391 --> 00:15:29,987 to survive throughout the world even in the U.S., 194 00:15:30,029 --> 00:15:33,795 where there are an estimated 50 million. 195 00:15:33,832 --> 00:15:35,390 Here in Miami, Florida, 196 00:15:35,434 --> 00:15:37,299 thousands of forsaken felines 197 00:15:37,336 --> 00:15:41,397 have landed in the middle of a raging controversy. 198 00:15:42,241 --> 00:15:44,106 Though the dumping of pets is prohibited 199 00:15:44,143 --> 00:15:45,440 in Dade County parks, 200 00:15:45,477 --> 00:15:48,412 it"s not uncommon to find colonies of up to 75 201 00:15:48,447 --> 00:15:51,143 abandoned cats. 202 00:15:51,183 --> 00:15:54,675 What are the consequences of so many predators? 203 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:57,655 Don Chingquina of the Tropical Audubon Society 204 00:15:57,690 --> 00:16:00,352 is concerned about the wildlife. 205 00:16:00,392 --> 00:16:01,416 You know parks like these 206 00:16:01,460 --> 00:16:03,052 are so important to migrating birds, 207 00:16:03,095 --> 00:16:04,392 because when you think about it, 208 00:16:04,430 --> 00:16:07,092 these birds fly from as far away as the Yucatan. 209 00:16:07,132 --> 00:16:08,690 They come across the Gulf of Mexico, 210 00:16:08,734 --> 00:16:10,861 and they"re tired, they"re hungry. 211 00:16:10,903 --> 00:16:12,234 They land in a small, 212 00:16:12,271 --> 00:16:13,829 confined place like this to replenish 213 00:16:13,872 --> 00:16:15,772 and they"re greeted by 50 to 100 cats. 214 00:16:15,808 --> 00:16:17,400 It"s a recipe for disaster. 215 00:16:18,510 --> 00:16:20,102 Through no fault of their own 216 00:16:20,145 --> 00:16:23,342 these felines have stirred a fiery debate. 217 00:16:23,382 --> 00:16:25,816 Kate Rhubee is one of many volunteer feeders 218 00:16:25,851 --> 00:16:28,251 who have taken pity on these outcasts. 219 00:16:28,821 --> 00:16:32,018 She, too, knows there"s no easy solution. 220 00:16:32,057 --> 00:16:33,649 A lot of people are really concerned 221 00:16:33,692 --> 00:16:34,989 about the impact that the homeless 222 00:16:35,027 --> 00:16:37,222 cats have on the small birds in the area. 223 00:16:37,262 --> 00:16:38,286 In an ideal world, 224 00:16:38,330 --> 00:16:40,730 we wouldn"t have people dumping their pets, 225 00:16:40,766 --> 00:16:42,358 and the cats wouldn"t be outside, 226 00:16:42,401 --> 00:16:45,302 and they wouldn"t be impacting the wildlife. 227 00:16:46,171 --> 00:16:48,605 But in this cycle of human neglect, 228 00:16:48,640 --> 00:16:50,767 it"s not just the wildlife that"s in jeopardy. 229 00:16:51,944 --> 00:16:54,879 These cats are at the mercy of world-class hurricanes, 230 00:16:54,913 --> 00:16:57,575 aggression within the colony and disease. 231 00:16:57,616 --> 00:16:58,981 It"s really upsetting to me 232 00:16:59,018 --> 00:17:00,315 when someone dumps their pets here, 233 00:17:00,352 --> 00:17:03,287 "cause this is absolutely no life for a cat. 234 00:17:03,322 --> 00:17:04,914 In the last three-and-a-half months, 235 00:17:04,957 --> 00:17:07,357 we"ve had 39 new cats dumped here. 236 00:17:08,727 --> 00:17:13,289 With so many new arrivals, the population is exploding. 237 00:17:13,332 --> 00:17:15,425 Spaying and neutering is critical. 238 00:17:15,467 --> 00:17:17,867 But most of the strays have become so wild, 239 00:17:17,903 --> 00:17:21,361 it"s impossible to even approach them. 240 00:17:27,980 --> 00:17:30,949 Members of the Cat Network provide the traps, 241 00:17:30,983 --> 00:17:34,180 the ingenuity and the sardines. 242 00:17:36,321 --> 00:17:38,721 Still, there"s no guarantee 243 00:17:38,757 --> 00:17:41,157 which cats will venture into the traps 244 00:17:41,193 --> 00:17:45,459 if any at all. Only tomorrow will tell. 245 00:17:56,842 --> 00:17:59,538 Hey, you guys, we got one already. 246 00:18:02,815 --> 00:18:06,012 The night"s bounty has been good. 247 00:18:07,686 --> 00:18:12,282 Kate? Is this the orange you were looking for? 248 00:18:12,324 --> 00:18:13,655 Yes, he is. 249 00:18:15,694 --> 00:18:18,060 L"m concerned that he"s really sick, 250 00:18:18,097 --> 00:18:22,056 looks like he"s gonna have AIDS with all of those marks. 251 00:18:24,503 --> 00:18:26,869 Off to the vet you go. 252 00:18:35,447 --> 00:18:38,610 Dr. Ted Sanchez works with the Cat Network 253 00:18:38,650 --> 00:18:41,551 at a reduced rate caring for homeless cats. 254 00:18:41,587 --> 00:18:42,884 The rest of the funds come 255 00:18:42,921 --> 00:18:45,014 from volunteers like Cindy Hewitt 256 00:18:45,057 --> 00:18:48,493 who contribute thousands of dollars each year. 257 00:18:49,862 --> 00:18:51,693 We"re going to be taking a little blood test 258 00:18:51,730 --> 00:18:53,027 and we"re just gonna try to 259 00:18:53,065 --> 00:18:54,362 rule out a couple of viral diseases 260 00:18:54,399 --> 00:18:55,423 that they commonly get. 261 00:18:55,467 --> 00:18:56,229 It"s a male. 262 00:18:56,268 --> 00:18:58,361 And these guys tend to be a little bit more prevalent 263 00:18:58,403 --> 00:18:59,427 in the males than the females 264 00:18:59,471 --> 00:19:02,907 because they tend to have more sexual contact. 265 00:19:02,941 --> 00:19:04,499 We"re just going to take a little blood. 266 00:19:04,543 --> 00:19:07,444 Cats are vulnerable to two lethal viruses. 267 00:19:07,479 --> 00:19:10,380 Feline leukemia and feline AIDS 268 00:19:10,415 --> 00:19:14,374 are both highly contagious and deadly. 269 00:19:14,419 --> 00:19:15,977 It"s not a pretty death. 270 00:19:16,021 --> 00:19:17,579 Cindy, I think we may have a positive here. 271 00:19:17,623 --> 00:19:19,181 You can tell here. 272 00:19:19,224 --> 00:19:20,521 We"ll see what the test comes out. 273 00:19:20,559 --> 00:19:21,583 But you see the gums? 274 00:19:21,627 --> 00:19:22,651 They"re real, real red. 275 00:19:22,694 --> 00:19:24,252 He"s got a pretty good gingivitis here, 276 00:19:24,296 --> 00:19:28,790 which is one of the common things we see with feline... 277 00:19:28,834 --> 00:19:30,927 plus the fact that he"s a male. 278 00:19:30,969 --> 00:19:31,993 So we"ll wait. 279 00:19:32,037 --> 00:19:34,130 He"s got a couple of variety of skin lesions as well, 280 00:19:34,173 --> 00:19:36,266 so he"s not in the greatest shape. 281 00:19:36,308 --> 00:19:37,866 He"s been eating well, he"s not too thin, 282 00:19:37,910 --> 00:19:40,811 but this is a bad sign. 283 00:19:41,647 --> 00:19:46,675 It really makes me sad that the animals suffer. 284 00:19:47,519 --> 00:19:50,420 And anytime I have to put a cat down, 285 00:19:50,455 --> 00:19:53,322 it really bothers me. 286 00:19:53,358 --> 00:19:54,916 But, if you leave him, 287 00:19:54,960 --> 00:19:56,791 then he"s gonna infect the others. 288 00:19:56,828 --> 00:19:59,194 It"s the right thing to do, unfortunately. 289 00:19:59,231 --> 00:20:02,667 And he"ll also have a really miserable death. 290 00:20:02,701 --> 00:20:04,794 If they go through the course of this illness, 291 00:20:04,836 --> 00:20:05,860 it"s not fair to them. 292 00:20:05,904 --> 00:20:07,997 They suffer too much. 293 00:20:12,578 --> 00:20:14,409 Cats that test negative for disease 294 00:20:14,446 --> 00:20:16,812 might be candidates for adoption. 295 00:20:16,848 --> 00:20:20,011 But first they must be spayed or neutered. 296 00:20:20,052 --> 00:20:22,418 I don"t think it"s the solution to the problem. 297 00:20:22,454 --> 00:20:23,478 But at least 298 00:20:23,522 --> 00:20:26,958 we are controlling the population somewhat. 299 00:20:27,259 --> 00:20:28,556 Thousands of cats are being 300 00:20:28,594 --> 00:20:30,755 put to sleep every year, needlessly, 301 00:20:30,796 --> 00:20:33,697 because owners are just not complying 302 00:20:33,732 --> 00:20:34,756 with spaying and neutering. 303 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:36,358 We have to tell these people 304 00:20:36,401 --> 00:20:39,837 that are abandoning cats, this isn"t the way to do it. 305 00:20:41,740 --> 00:20:43,037 Spayed and neutered cats 306 00:20:43,075 --> 00:20:44,906 have the tips of the ears clipped, 307 00:20:44,943 --> 00:20:47,468 to serve as a permanent record. 308 00:20:48,046 --> 00:20:51,777 This kitten has become too wild for adoption. 309 00:20:51,817 --> 00:20:53,682 Once she"s recovered from surgery, 310 00:20:53,719 --> 00:20:58,554 she"ll return to the colony to face an uncertain future. 311 00:20:58,590 --> 00:20:59,887 You doing alright? Alright. 312 00:20:59,925 --> 00:21:01,984 It"s a dismal solution for the cats 313 00:21:02,027 --> 00:21:06,623 and a precarious one for the wildlife. 314 00:21:07,199 --> 00:21:11,761 Well-fed and spayed, a cat can still hunt. 315 00:21:12,871 --> 00:21:16,637 But where are the thousands of homeless felines to go? 316 00:21:16,942 --> 00:21:19,604 Until an answer can be found, 317 00:21:19,645 --> 00:21:22,580 migrating birds may come face to face 318 00:21:22,614 --> 00:21:24,980 with yet another predator. 319 00:21:27,719 --> 00:21:31,519 But it"s not just the homeless that hunt. 320 00:21:32,357 --> 00:21:35,849 There are more than 60 million house cats in the U.S. 321 00:21:35,894 --> 00:21:39,091 And many are on the prowl night and day. 322 00:21:41,867 --> 00:21:45,325 What is the impact of these unleashed predators? 323 00:21:52,811 --> 00:21:56,303 The answer is clear at the Wildlife Center of Virginia. 324 00:21:56,348 --> 00:21:59,909 Dr. Gentz, cat attack coming in from Harrisonburg. 325 00:22:00,152 --> 00:22:00,914 Many of the patients 326 00:22:00,952 --> 00:22:04,149 are casualties of ordinary house cats. 327 00:22:04,189 --> 00:22:06,623 We have two injured bunnies. 328 00:22:06,658 --> 00:22:08,785 Most are mangled beyond repair. 329 00:22:08,827 --> 00:22:12,126 Cat attack coming in from... 330 00:22:12,164 --> 00:22:15,861 Each day brings new drama for Dr. Ned Gentz and his team, 331 00:22:15,901 --> 00:22:19,337 as they try to piece together the victims of cat attacks. 332 00:22:23,909 --> 00:22:26,275 Well, I think this one"s going to make it... 333 00:22:26,578 --> 00:22:28,944 although probably half don"t. 334 00:22:30,716 --> 00:22:35,153 Casualties pour into the Wildlife Center night and day. 335 00:22:35,187 --> 00:22:36,745 Pet owners are often shocked 336 00:22:36,788 --> 00:22:39,723 to find that their well-fed cats are killers. 337 00:22:39,758 --> 00:22:41,350 Though some have been de-clawed, 338 00:22:41,393 --> 00:22:43,224 the attack is often just as gruesome. 339 00:22:43,261 --> 00:22:46,424 This one was injured on it"s eye right here. 340 00:22:46,465 --> 00:22:48,558 And it was bleeding this morning. 341 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:50,693 And this one was injured... 342 00:22:50,736 --> 00:22:53,102 ...on his leg... ...right there. 343 00:22:53,138 --> 00:22:55,766 Oh, you better put it back in. 344 00:22:55,807 --> 00:22:58,833 The hospital recovery room is filled with creatures 345 00:22:58,877 --> 00:23:01,243 that fell prey to the claw. 346 00:23:01,279 --> 00:23:04,180 Most require intensive care. 347 00:23:04,750 --> 00:23:07,116 But for every recovering patient... 348 00:23:07,686 --> 00:23:10,587 there are four others that didn"t make it. 349 00:23:11,957 --> 00:23:15,393 This represents two weeks of cat attack victims 350 00:23:15,427 --> 00:23:17,793 brought here to the Wildlife Center of Virginia 351 00:23:17,829 --> 00:23:19,387 the non-survivors. 352 00:23:20,766 --> 00:23:22,597 We probably have an equal number of 353 00:23:22,634 --> 00:23:24,192 animals in the intensive care unit 354 00:23:24,236 --> 00:23:27,399 still being treated now that we hope will do better 355 00:23:27,439 --> 00:23:28,463 than these, 356 00:23:28,507 --> 00:23:30,338 but statistically about 80 percent 357 00:23:30,375 --> 00:23:33,538 of the cat attack victims that we see here don"t survive. 358 00:23:33,845 --> 00:23:37,804 Cats are incredibly efficient hunters and predators. 359 00:23:37,849 --> 00:23:40,477 This poor bunny was effectively disemboweled 360 00:23:40,519 --> 00:23:42,350 by the cat that caught it. 361 00:23:46,124 --> 00:23:48,752 Creatures lucky enough to survive an attack 362 00:23:48,794 --> 00:23:50,887 face yet another peril. 363 00:23:51,196 --> 00:23:54,359 Cat saliva is almost toxic by itself. 364 00:23:54,399 --> 00:23:56,492 Getting bit by a cat is like injecting 365 00:23:56,535 --> 00:23:58,093 poison into a wild animal. 366 00:23:58,403 --> 00:24:00,769 A wild animal with a cat bite that doesn"t die 367 00:24:00,806 --> 00:24:02,637 from the trauma will die of 368 00:24:02,674 --> 00:24:04,767 an infection within 24 to 48 hours. 369 00:24:07,746 --> 00:24:10,112 As a wildlife veterinarian, 370 00:24:10,148 --> 00:24:11,172 it"s my job to take care of sick 371 00:24:11,216 --> 00:24:13,582 and injured wildlife and I like to do that, 372 00:24:13,618 --> 00:24:15,449 but this is a waste. 373 00:24:15,487 --> 00:24:18,115 These animals didn"t have to die. 374 00:24:18,156 --> 00:24:20,784 If people would keep their pet cats indoors, 375 00:24:20,826 --> 00:24:23,727 these animals wouldn"t end up in my wildlife hospital. 376 00:24:27,499 --> 00:24:30,400 What"s a cat owner to do? 377 00:24:30,435 --> 00:24:33,336 Just three hours from the Wildlife Center of Virginia, 378 00:24:33,371 --> 00:24:35,999 on 25 acres of rolling woodland, 379 00:24:36,041 --> 00:24:38,942 lives a cat named Ting Tang II. 380 00:24:40,579 --> 00:24:43,480 Ironically, he lives with a biologist 381 00:24:43,515 --> 00:24:46,143 who"s specialty is birds. 382 00:24:46,985 --> 00:24:48,543 As a devoted cat owner, 383 00:24:48,587 --> 00:24:52,284 Ruth Beck has been grappling with a personal dilemma. 384 00:24:52,324 --> 00:24:54,690 I specialize in ornithology 385 00:24:54,726 --> 00:24:57,354 and l"m very interested in birds. 386 00:24:57,929 --> 00:25:02,696 But I also love cats. Ting Tang II is a hunter. 387 00:25:02,734 --> 00:25:04,031 It is not the cat"s fault, 388 00:25:04,069 --> 00:25:07,505 it"s what he does and what he does successfully. 389 00:25:07,806 --> 00:25:09,103 He has some basic equipment, 390 00:25:09,140 --> 00:25:10,971 just as every hunter would have: 391 00:25:11,009 --> 00:25:11,498 First of all, 392 00:25:11,543 --> 00:25:15,240 you can look at these nice teeth. 393 00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:17,373 And then we have an excellent set 394 00:25:17,415 --> 00:25:19,781 of switchblades and they indeed 395 00:25:19,818 --> 00:25:22,446 can inflict quite a wound. 396 00:25:23,021 --> 00:25:25,649 C"mon, breakfast. 397 00:25:25,690 --> 00:25:26,987 Ting Tang II is a well-fed cat. 398 00:25:27,025 --> 00:25:28,583 But breakfast never puts a damper 399 00:25:28,627 --> 00:25:30,458 on his favorite pastime. 400 00:25:31,563 --> 00:25:34,726 He"s an avid bird watcher and hunter. 401 00:25:35,834 --> 00:25:38,462 Each morning, after a full can of food, 402 00:25:38,503 --> 00:25:41,666 Ting Tang is ready for his favorite sport. 403 00:25:41,973 --> 00:25:44,874 But he has to comply with the rules of the house. 404 00:25:44,910 --> 00:25:48,869 Most bird species feed early in the morning. 405 00:25:49,981 --> 00:25:52,882 So just by not letting him out until 10 or 11 o"clock 406 00:25:52,918 --> 00:25:55,011 and for just a few hours mid-afternoon, 407 00:25:55,053 --> 00:25:58,216 when the birds are less active... will certainly help 408 00:25:58,256 --> 00:26:01,157 to prevent the cat from capturing the birds. 409 00:26:03,595 --> 00:26:07,292 Ruth has found a compromise that gives the cat some freedom, 410 00:26:07,332 --> 00:26:09,698 but gives the birds some protection, as well. 411 00:26:24,149 --> 00:26:27,050 Ting Tang II must make the most of his hours 412 00:26:27,085 --> 00:26:29,178 in feline paradise. 413 00:26:29,754 --> 00:26:32,655 He is a cat with a curfew. 414 00:26:32,691 --> 00:26:35,854 When day is done, he"ll be called indoors. 415 00:26:35,894 --> 00:26:40,661 I think that true cat lovers don"t see their pet as killers 416 00:26:40,699 --> 00:26:43,862 l"d like to see us make everyone aware of the fact 417 00:26:43,902 --> 00:26:46,268 that our pets are also predators. 418 00:26:51,409 --> 00:26:53,502 If we come to terms with the fact 419 00:26:53,545 --> 00:26:55,638 that our cats do hunt, 420 00:26:58,883 --> 00:27:02,580 the question then becomes: How much are they hunting? 421 00:27:03,421 --> 00:27:06,584 That"s just what the British Mammal Society 422 00:27:06,625 --> 00:27:07,922 set out to discover 423 00:27:07,959 --> 00:27:09,790 when they launched their survey called, 424 00:27:09,828 --> 00:27:11,921 "Look What the Cat Brought In" 425 00:27:11,963 --> 00:27:14,864 ...a bit ghoulish, really. 426 00:27:14,899 --> 00:27:15,388 This is brilliant. 427 00:27:15,433 --> 00:27:19,130 Yes, it"s good, isn"t it? 428 00:27:19,170 --> 00:27:19,932 Excellent... 429 00:27:19,971 --> 00:27:21,529 The Society has found itself 430 00:27:21,573 --> 00:27:23,131 buried beneath a mountain of responses. 431 00:27:23,174 --> 00:27:24,471 For Michael Woods, 432 00:27:24,509 --> 00:27:27,137 processing the results has been daunting. 433 00:27:27,178 --> 00:27:29,544 C"mon, I can"t have you sitting on 434 00:27:29,581 --> 00:27:31,674 top of all my work. 435 00:27:31,716 --> 00:27:34,082 Well, I have a very ambivalent relationship with cats. 436 00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:35,143 I love the way 437 00:27:35,186 --> 00:27:37,814 that they move and I think they"re beautiful animals, 438 00:27:37,856 --> 00:27:41,292 but I just hate what they do to the wildlife. 439 00:27:41,326 --> 00:27:44,227 The Society invited the public to register their cats 440 00:27:44,262 --> 00:27:47,163 for a five-month period, detailing every creature 441 00:27:47,198 --> 00:27:49,564 their kitty dragged home. 442 00:27:49,601 --> 00:27:53,298 The amazing thing is we"ve had the results from 750 cats, 443 00:27:53,338 --> 00:27:55,169 which is a huge amount 444 00:27:55,206 --> 00:27:57,299 and much better than we"d expected. 445 00:27:57,342 --> 00:27:58,900 We"ve got a lot of them analyzed 446 00:27:58,943 --> 00:28:01,571 and it"s giving us some really good answers. 447 00:28:01,613 --> 00:28:04,514 And some of them are real big killers, 448 00:28:04,549 --> 00:28:06,107 they"re some big killer cats out there. 449 00:28:06,151 --> 00:28:07,982 And they"re causing quite a lot of mayhem. 450 00:28:08,019 --> 00:28:09,850 Remarkably, almost as you"d expect, 451 00:28:09,888 --> 00:28:12,254 the traditional prey of the cat, 452 00:28:12,290 --> 00:28:14,383 the mouse, has come out much the highest. 453 00:28:14,426 --> 00:28:16,257 If you extrapolate up to the number 454 00:28:16,294 --> 00:28:17,454 of cats we have in Britain, 455 00:28:17,495 --> 00:28:19,053 which is around about seven million 456 00:28:19,097 --> 00:28:20,689 and that"s just the tame ones 457 00:28:20,732 --> 00:28:22,597 the wild ones are on top of that 458 00:28:22,634 --> 00:28:25,865 then we are looking at something around 200,000 mice 459 00:28:25,904 --> 00:28:28,304 are killed every year by cats. 460 00:28:28,339 --> 00:28:31,001 And then we have voles, and then after that, shrews. 461 00:28:31,042 --> 00:28:32,066 The mice are interesting, 462 00:28:32,110 --> 00:28:34,510 because a lot of people think we don"t need mice, 463 00:28:34,546 --> 00:28:37,811 you know, because they can be a pest and a problem, 464 00:28:37,849 --> 00:28:39,544 particularly if they get into the house, 465 00:28:39,584 --> 00:28:41,142 but mice are very important, 466 00:28:41,186 --> 00:28:42,517 along with the other small mammals, 467 00:28:42,554 --> 00:28:45,751 as prey species for natural predators. 468 00:28:45,790 --> 00:28:47,348 Then, if we turn to the information 469 00:28:47,392 --> 00:28:50,327 we"ve got about cats, we find that a third of them, 470 00:28:50,361 --> 00:28:51,692 approximately, wear bells. 471 00:28:51,730 --> 00:28:54,130 Wearing bells seems to make almost no difference 472 00:28:54,165 --> 00:28:55,996 at all to the amount of prey that they catch. 473 00:28:56,034 --> 00:28:58,161 They still go out and catch just as much. 474 00:28:58,203 --> 00:29:00,603 And color of cats seems to make a difference. 475 00:29:00,638 --> 00:29:01,935 White cats appear to catch 476 00:29:01,973 --> 00:29:04,703 a lot less than some of the other more camouflaged cats, 477 00:29:04,743 --> 00:29:06,301 and I guess it"s color that does that, 478 00:29:06,344 --> 00:29:08,744 particularly at night, if they"re hunting at night. 479 00:29:08,780 --> 00:29:10,372 The survey"s certainly shown 480 00:29:10,415 --> 00:29:11,712 that however much you feed a cat, 481 00:29:11,750 --> 00:29:14,480 it makes no difference at all and the cat feeds 482 00:29:14,519 --> 00:29:17,454 and is just as likely to start hunting immediately. 483 00:29:18,289 --> 00:29:21,747 Out of 750 cats, one of the biggest killers is Missy, 484 00:29:21,793 --> 00:29:23,658 a female cat who lives down in Dorset, 485 00:29:23,695 --> 00:29:25,788 and who has killed over seven pages 486 00:29:25,830 --> 00:29:27,957 worth of small mammals and birds 487 00:29:27,999 --> 00:29:30,126 for us to include in the survey. 488 00:29:30,168 --> 00:29:32,568 So she"s a real, you know, 489 00:29:32,604 --> 00:29:34,435 wicked thing to have out there. 490 00:29:42,747 --> 00:29:43,805 Knowing her record, 491 00:29:43,848 --> 00:29:46,009 I thought it would be interesting to enter her 492 00:29:46,050 --> 00:29:47,347 and I was really surprised 493 00:29:47,385 --> 00:29:48,716 myself when I started to fill in 494 00:29:48,753 --> 00:29:50,584 the form and found out how many 495 00:29:50,622 --> 00:29:52,749 things she did bring in. 496 00:29:52,791 --> 00:29:55,453 Hilary and Jim Pike have become accustomed 497 00:29:55,493 --> 00:29:58,155 to Missy"s daily offerings. 498 00:29:58,196 --> 00:30:01,654 For Jim, the rabbits are the worst. 499 00:30:01,699 --> 00:30:05,692 They all start from the skull and eat the head first 500 00:30:05,737 --> 00:30:07,602 and all we get left are two ears 501 00:30:07,639 --> 00:30:09,231 and four little paws... 502 00:30:09,274 --> 00:30:10,832 ...which is not a very nice thing 503 00:30:10,875 --> 00:30:11,705 when you come home 504 00:30:11,743 --> 00:30:15,201 and it"s on the middle of the mat or stuck on the tiles. 505 00:30:15,246 --> 00:30:17,111 There must be some sort of driving force that 506 00:30:17,148 --> 00:30:20,345 makes her do it all the time... ...nothing to do with hunger. 507 00:30:20,385 --> 00:30:23,650 They obviously just do it because they love it. 508 00:30:25,557 --> 00:30:26,615 The spot you see along here, 509 00:30:26,658 --> 00:30:28,751 she lays in there in the summer time, 510 00:30:28,793 --> 00:30:31,193 and the swallows zip along, 511 00:30:31,229 --> 00:30:34,221 come down to along the top of the pond to drink, 512 00:30:34,265 --> 00:30:36,927 and she just leaps up and grabs them clean out of the air 513 00:30:36,968 --> 00:30:39,368 And, you know, just a big snatch, 514 00:30:39,404 --> 00:30:43,465 and they"re just stunned the moment she"s got them. 515 00:30:43,508 --> 00:30:46,966 The two sucker fish that we bought 516 00:30:47,011 --> 00:30:47,773 specifically to take out all the algae, 517 00:30:47,812 --> 00:30:49,677 within two weeks of us buying them 518 00:30:49,714 --> 00:30:50,476 and they were quite expensive... 519 00:30:50,515 --> 00:30:51,539 We paid 40 pound for the pair. 520 00:30:51,583 --> 00:30:53,448 And in two weeks they"re on the kitchen mat. 521 00:30:53,484 --> 00:30:56,920 We found them on the grass. 522 00:30:56,955 --> 00:31:00,686 So that was a waste of time and money. 523 00:31:07,265 --> 00:31:09,927 Well, l"ve been collecting what Missy"s brought in 524 00:31:09,968 --> 00:31:11,560 for the last two weeks, approximately. 525 00:31:11,603 --> 00:31:12,627 So, would you like me 526 00:31:12,670 --> 00:31:15,070 To show you just a few of the items 527 00:31:15,106 --> 00:31:18,303 or bodies, I should say? 528 00:31:20,278 --> 00:31:22,405 It was a little bird, l"m afraid. 529 00:31:22,447 --> 00:31:23,744 Just looks to be asleep, but 530 00:31:23,781 --> 00:31:28,411 unfortunately, there"s one gone. 531 00:31:28,453 --> 00:31:32,446 And then this is one of the many mice we have around here. 532 00:31:34,792 --> 00:31:38,250 This is what Missy"s brought in in less than two weeks. 533 00:31:38,296 --> 00:31:40,423 She"s quite a hunter. 534 00:31:41,332 --> 00:31:44,529 She"s really surprised us on the amount of carnage. 535 00:31:44,569 --> 00:31:46,127 L"ve got to say that it"s really shocked me 536 00:31:46,170 --> 00:31:48,570 when we started counting them up. 537 00:31:48,606 --> 00:31:52,406 In the last two weeks she"s brought in maybe 30, 36... plus 538 00:31:52,443 --> 00:31:55,640 maybe a dozen or so that we"ve let go. 539 00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:58,615 And I think that"s a little bit too much, really. 540 00:32:29,547 --> 00:32:30,844 Well, l"m quite proud to think 541 00:32:30,882 --> 00:32:33,282 that she was one of the top cats. 542 00:32:33,318 --> 00:32:36,515 But knowing how much stuff I didn"t write down 543 00:32:36,554 --> 00:32:38,988 Because I wasn"t here to see it, 544 00:32:39,023 --> 00:32:42,515 um, I think she"s actually the top cat. 545 00:32:49,067 --> 00:32:52,002 For many a cat, such extraordinary hunting prowess 546 00:32:52,036 --> 00:32:56,769 at one time translated into a ticket to travel the world. 547 00:32:57,875 --> 00:33:00,036 They kept stowaway rats at bay... 548 00:33:03,881 --> 00:33:06,281 But not all the cats that left port 549 00:33:06,317 --> 00:33:09,616 made the long journey home. 550 00:33:09,654 --> 00:33:15,092 Some jumped ship and soon had a foothold in a new frontiert 551 00:33:15,660 --> 00:33:18,060 New Zealand is a unique place. 552 00:33:18,096 --> 00:33:19,120 Like many islands, 553 00:33:19,163 --> 00:33:23,224 its wildlife evolved with few natural predators. 554 00:33:23,801 --> 00:33:26,463 Today, rare shore birds still lay their eggs 555 00:33:26,504 --> 00:33:30,235 on the sandy beaches completely exposed. 556 00:33:32,443 --> 00:33:34,877 Attentive parents tend to their chicks, 557 00:33:34,912 --> 00:33:37,574 but their nests are vulnerable. 558 00:33:38,149 --> 00:33:42,176 Until recently, the system worked fine. 559 00:33:42,487 --> 00:33:46,287 But today, New Zealand"s shore birds are in trouble. 560 00:33:46,858 --> 00:33:49,326 Here at Mangawhai Wildlife Refuge, 561 00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:53,660 the fairy tern is down to less than six breeding pairs. 562 00:33:53,698 --> 00:33:58,533 Each chick represents the future of the species. 563 00:34:00,738 --> 00:34:02,638 With the Department of Conservation, 564 00:34:02,673 --> 00:34:04,698 Richard Parrish and Leigh Honnor 565 00:34:04,742 --> 00:34:06,107 are part of a team trying to 566 00:34:06,144 --> 00:34:08,009 save the last of the fairy terns 567 00:34:08,046 --> 00:34:10,708 and Mangawhai"s other threatened species. 568 00:34:11,282 --> 00:34:12,579 Five years ago, 569 00:34:12,617 --> 00:34:15,848 they found themselves confronted with a mystery: 570 00:34:15,887 --> 00:34:17,980 Something was killing the chicks 571 00:34:18,022 --> 00:34:20,149 and no one knew what. 572 00:34:20,725 --> 00:34:24,456 The team had to do a little undercover work. 573 00:34:24,495 --> 00:34:27,726 One year we lost a lot of nests of the fairy terns 574 00:34:27,765 --> 00:34:29,596 and we didn"t know who was doing it, 575 00:34:29,634 --> 00:34:32,364 so we decided to set up an infrared camera 576 00:34:32,403 --> 00:34:33,961 24 hours a day on the nests 577 00:34:34,005 --> 00:34:39,910 and try and work out who was taking the eggs and the chicks 578 00:34:39,944 --> 00:34:41,536 The new lens is good, isn"t it? 579 00:34:41,579 --> 00:34:42,341 The wide-eyed angle lens... 580 00:34:42,380 --> 00:34:42,869 Oh, it is. 581 00:34:42,914 --> 00:34:45,314 ...taking in a much bigger field of view. 582 00:34:45,349 --> 00:34:46,941 Well, those chicks will probably 583 00:34:46,984 --> 00:34:48,008 stay here another day. 584 00:34:48,052 --> 00:34:48,541 You think so? 585 00:34:48,586 --> 00:34:50,986 Initially, we set it up on a Caspian tern colony, 586 00:34:51,022 --> 00:34:53,684 just to get used to the equipment and iron 587 00:34:53,724 --> 00:34:56,124 out the problems. 588 00:34:56,961 --> 00:35:00,158 What they discovered was both alarming... 589 00:35:00,198 --> 00:35:02,325 . and macabre. 590 00:35:04,802 --> 00:35:06,895 We ended up catching a cat on film, 591 00:35:06,938 --> 00:35:11,841 and over four nights, that cat took out 40 chicks. 592 00:35:12,410 --> 00:35:14,810 The interesting thing for me was that the cat 593 00:35:14,846 --> 00:35:16,677 only ate the heads. 594 00:35:17,248 --> 00:35:19,716 They left the bodies behind. 595 00:35:22,453 --> 00:35:24,819 Over the next four years, they trained the camera 596 00:35:24,856 --> 00:35:28,883 on various nests and found more gruesome evidence 597 00:35:28,926 --> 00:35:31,622 against the alien predator. 598 00:35:31,929 --> 00:35:33,794 As a result, feral cats 599 00:35:33,831 --> 00:35:37,289 are now being eradicated in Mangawhai Park. 600 00:35:41,439 --> 00:35:43,566 New Zealand is just one example 601 00:35:43,608 --> 00:35:47,066 of what can happen when a cat comes to stay. 602 00:35:50,348 --> 00:35:54,648 Here, in a land where temperatures can soar to 120 603 00:35:54,685 --> 00:35:57,051 and there"s often no water in sight, 604 00:35:57,088 --> 00:35:58,680 it"s hard to imagine any creature 605 00:35:58,723 --> 00:36:04,889 surviving for long... but the cat has adapted once again. 606 00:36:04,929 --> 00:36:07,363 In the middle of Australia"s Outback, 607 00:36:07,398 --> 00:36:09,798 it must eat whatever it can find 608 00:36:09,834 --> 00:36:11,165 be it road kill 609 00:36:11,202 --> 00:36:14,660 or Australia"s endangered wildlife. 610 00:36:15,306 --> 00:36:18,241 Bilbies, bandicoots, and other rare marsupials 611 00:36:18,276 --> 00:36:20,369 have been pushed to the edge of extinction 612 00:36:20,411 --> 00:36:26,043 by a barrage of pressures, including introduced species. 613 00:36:26,083 --> 00:36:29,575 One of the culprits is the cat. 614 00:36:33,658 --> 00:36:36,320 For at least a century, feral cats have roamed 615 00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:37,918 this harsh expanse. 616 00:36:37,962 --> 00:36:40,692 And yet they remain elusive... ...even to those 617 00:36:40,731 --> 00:36:44,724 whose ancestors were here long before them. 618 00:36:45,303 --> 00:36:47,430 In an effort to unlock their secrets, 619 00:36:47,471 --> 00:36:50,463 Parks and Wildlife biologist Rachel Paltridge 620 00:36:50,508 --> 00:36:53,705 has enlisted the help of experts. 621 00:37:01,852 --> 00:37:03,479 Searching for a cat in the Outback 622 00:37:03,521 --> 00:37:06,979 is like looking for a needle in a haystack. 623 00:37:11,862 --> 00:37:12,988 Yet these Aboriginal trackers 624 00:37:13,030 --> 00:37:15,965 are able to read even the most elusive signs 625 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,935 in the shadows of the sand. 626 00:37:19,503 --> 00:37:21,334 So the pussy cat, him sitting down, 627 00:37:21,372 --> 00:37:28,642 jumping here, jumped there, jumped there, and over there... 628 00:37:28,946 --> 00:37:31,540 With their extraordinary expertise, 629 00:37:31,582 --> 00:37:35,814 Rachel has begun to unravel the secrets of the cat 630 00:37:37,455 --> 00:37:40,083 Where"s that pussy cat now long ways? 631 00:37:40,124 --> 00:37:43,025 Must be a long ways off. 632 00:37:43,060 --> 00:37:46,757 With their greater insight, she hopes that, someday, 633 00:37:46,797 --> 00:37:48,628 cat numbers will be controlled. 634 00:37:49,467 --> 00:37:52,368 They"re a pretty amazing animal you have to respect them. 635 00:37:52,403 --> 00:37:53,961 But they just don"t belong out here. 636 00:37:54,005 --> 00:37:55,029 They didn"t evolve out here. 637 00:37:55,072 --> 00:37:57,165 The native animals didn"t evolve with 638 00:37:57,208 --> 00:38:00,109 them and just can"t really tolerate their predation. 639 00:38:00,811 --> 00:38:03,439 Hopefully, this work will lead to a better understanding 640 00:38:03,481 --> 00:38:09,044 of feral cats and eventually lead to better management. 641 00:38:09,620 --> 00:38:12,248 To reveal the patterns of these elusive predators, 642 00:38:12,290 --> 00:38:14,656 Rachel uses radio telemetry, 643 00:38:14,692 --> 00:38:17,320 tracking individual cats over time. 644 00:38:20,298 --> 00:38:23,199 Finding them is only half the challenge. 645 00:38:33,911 --> 00:38:38,143 Feral cats are as ferocious as any wild animal. 646 00:38:38,182 --> 00:38:39,479 Before handling one, 647 00:38:39,517 --> 00:38:43,749 Rachel must first anesthetize it. 648 00:38:44,055 --> 00:38:46,421 Cat bites are not only dangerous to prey, 649 00:38:46,457 --> 00:38:49,620 they can infect humans as well. 650 00:38:51,262 --> 00:38:53,628 We caught this cat about four months ago, 651 00:38:53,664 --> 00:38:56,030 using the Aboriginal trackers to catch it, 652 00:38:56,067 --> 00:38:56,829 and radio collared it, 653 00:38:56,867 --> 00:38:58,425 and we"ve been following its movement patterns 654 00:38:58,469 --> 00:39:00,835 in those last four months. 655 00:39:02,473 --> 00:39:04,839 This cat normally only roams over about 656 00:39:04,875 --> 00:39:09,107 two or three kilometers a day and he has a fairly 657 00:39:09,146 --> 00:39:12,309 tight home range that he lives in. 658 00:39:13,417 --> 00:39:17,376 He"s lost about 300 grams in the last four months. 659 00:39:17,421 --> 00:39:20,857 I don"t know if its maybe times are getting a bit tough 660 00:39:20,891 --> 00:39:22,984 there may be a bit less food around. 661 00:39:23,027 --> 00:39:25,655 I just wanted to check that his collar was still okay 662 00:39:25,696 --> 00:39:26,993 and not rubbing on his neck 663 00:39:27,031 --> 00:39:29,932 and just check his general condition. 664 00:39:29,967 --> 00:39:31,264 But he"s fine, so we"ll 665 00:39:31,302 --> 00:39:34,465 just let him go here and continue tracking him. 666 00:39:38,776 --> 00:39:41,142 Any cats that are not part of Rachel"s study 667 00:39:41,178 --> 00:39:44,147 might find another fate awaits them. 668 00:39:46,584 --> 00:39:49,747 It is a twist of irony: The cat has helped push 669 00:39:49,787 --> 00:39:51,880 much of the Aborigine"s traditional food prey 670 00:39:51,922 --> 00:39:54,550 to near extinction. 671 00:39:55,126 --> 00:39:59,358 In doing so, it now fills an important niche itself. 672 00:40:07,405 --> 00:40:11,102 Like a game of cat and mouse in this scenario, 673 00:40:11,142 --> 00:40:14,578 it is the cat that has become the mouse. 674 00:40:32,763 --> 00:40:36,164 Going to cook this one up for supper tonight? 675 00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:37,224 Yeah. Good meat. 676 00:40:37,268 --> 00:40:39,099 These people have been eating cats 677 00:40:39,136 --> 00:40:42,833 all their lives and it"s quite an important part of their diet 678 00:40:42,873 --> 00:40:46,309 So they"ll probably cook it up on the fire tonight. 679 00:40:46,343 --> 00:40:48,971 Good bush meat? Yeah. 680 00:40:50,347 --> 00:40:52,440 Now that the bilbies, bandicoots 681 00:40:52,483 --> 00:40:55,919 and other medium-sized mammals have all but disappeared, 682 00:40:55,953 --> 00:40:59,389 the cat has taken a place in the food chain. 683 00:41:05,563 --> 00:41:06,860 Back at camp, 684 00:41:06,897 --> 00:41:09,525 Rachel collects as much information 685 00:41:09,567 --> 00:41:13,264 as possible before the cat becomes dinner for the trackers 686 00:41:17,274 --> 00:41:20,471 l"m trying to look at the predation pressure 687 00:41:20,511 --> 00:41:23,503 on all the wildlife out there in the Spinnefex Grasslands 688 00:41:23,547 --> 00:41:25,674 and l"m looking at 689 00:41:25,716 --> 00:41:27,274 gut contents as probably the best way 690 00:41:27,318 --> 00:41:30,515 of understanding what they eat. 691 00:41:30,554 --> 00:41:33,921 This cat was obviously a very good hunter. 692 00:41:33,958 --> 00:41:35,516 You can see quite plainly 693 00:41:35,559 --> 00:41:38,824 each object"s quite intact still. 694 00:41:40,764 --> 00:41:42,061 What"s this one, snake? 695 00:41:42,099 --> 00:41:43,964 He"s got a little snake in here. 696 00:41:45,069 --> 00:41:46,934 Well, there"s heaps in his stomach. 697 00:41:46,971 --> 00:41:49,064 There"s three different sorts of lizards, 698 00:41:49,106 --> 00:41:50,971 three of these military dragons, 699 00:41:51,008 --> 00:41:56,105 one quite large... and there"s also 700 00:41:56,146 --> 00:42:00,139 some remains of some bird feathers. 701 00:42:00,184 --> 00:42:02,049 So you can just see how much of 702 00:42:02,086 --> 00:42:03,644 an impact they"re probably having 703 00:42:03,687 --> 00:42:06,679 on the native wildlife out there if just each cat eats 704 00:42:06,724 --> 00:42:09,659 that much in just one day. 705 00:42:09,693 --> 00:42:11,558 Ideally, we"d like to get rid of them altogether 706 00:42:11,595 --> 00:42:14,530 and see the native animals that have declined severely 707 00:42:14,565 --> 00:42:17,762 returned to their original status out here. 708 00:42:21,572 --> 00:42:23,972 Until the cat is better understood, 709 00:42:24,008 --> 00:42:26,943 it will remain a fixture in the Outback. 710 00:42:26,977 --> 00:42:30,504 It has worked its way into the food chain, 711 00:42:30,548 --> 00:42:33,176 for better or worse. 712 00:42:35,386 --> 00:42:38,651 There is a new order here in the heart of Australia 713 00:42:38,689 --> 00:42:43,820 and it"s not a kind one for the wildlife or the cat. 714 00:42:58,008 --> 00:43:01,705 The cat wars are raging throughout Australia. 715 00:43:01,745 --> 00:43:06,773 Halfway across the continent, there"s a new chapter unfolding 716 00:43:10,287 --> 00:43:14,781 On 160,000 acres of land, a wire fence 717 00:43:14,825 --> 00:43:17,726 stretches as far as the eye can see. 718 00:43:17,761 --> 00:43:20,389 Why would anyone put up a 150-mile fence 719 00:43:20,431 --> 00:43:24,390 in the middle of the Australian Outback? 720 00:43:24,435 --> 00:43:27,063 The world has lost 40 species of mammal 721 00:43:27,104 --> 00:43:31,336 over the last 200 years; 23 of those were Australian. 722 00:43:31,375 --> 00:43:33,468 At present, about one a year 723 00:43:33,510 --> 00:43:36,411 we"re losing and that"s just not acceptable. 724 00:43:36,981 --> 00:43:39,609 John Wamsley is a self- made millionaire 725 00:43:39,650 --> 00:43:42,016 and rabid conservationist. 726 00:43:43,387 --> 00:43:45,787 Considered controversial by many, 727 00:43:45,823 --> 00:43:47,916 his passion for native wildlife 728 00:43:47,958 --> 00:43:51,655 has fueled his ire against the cat. 729 00:43:51,695 --> 00:43:53,526 Let"s talk about cats. 730 00:43:53,564 --> 00:43:57,000 This is a feral cat... they came to Australia 731 00:43:57,034 --> 00:43:58,331 about 500 years ago, 732 00:43:58,369 --> 00:44:00,200 probably with the early shipwrecks off 733 00:44:00,237 --> 00:44:03,138 the West Australian coast, but they couldn"t cross 734 00:44:03,173 --> 00:44:05,004 Australia until the rabbit came. 735 00:44:05,042 --> 00:44:08,739 The rabbit came late 1800s, and that allowed the cat 736 00:44:08,779 --> 00:44:10,076 to cross Australia, 737 00:44:10,114 --> 00:44:12,207 and that"s when the devastation started. 738 00:44:14,385 --> 00:44:17,821 I love Australia and I love the Australian wildlife. 739 00:44:17,855 --> 00:44:19,686 L"ve taken on the job of saving them 740 00:44:19,723 --> 00:44:22,089 and I am going to save them. 741 00:44:22,126 --> 00:44:23,957 It"s as simple as that. 742 00:44:26,130 --> 00:44:27,154 For over a decade, 743 00:44:27,197 --> 00:44:29,028 Wamsley has bred endangered species 744 00:44:29,066 --> 00:44:32,502 in captivity to insure that Australia"s unique creatures 745 00:44:32,536 --> 00:44:34,367 don"t slip away. 746 00:44:34,405 --> 00:44:35,429 We"re an island. 747 00:44:35,472 --> 00:44:38,373 We had no serious predators and all these incredible 748 00:44:38,409 --> 00:44:41,845 creatures evolved... little marsupials, 749 00:44:41,879 --> 00:44:44,780 most of them and they evolved to do wonderful things. 750 00:44:44,815 --> 00:44:47,716 We"ve got banded anteaters with fluffy tails. 751 00:44:47,751 --> 00:44:50,117 We"ve got kangaroos that burrow in the ground 752 00:44:50,154 --> 00:44:51,451 like rabbits. 753 00:44:51,488 --> 00:44:52,785 And we"re losing them. 754 00:44:52,823 --> 00:44:54,120 We"ve got the bilbie that looks 755 00:44:54,158 --> 00:44:55,989 just like a cartoon character 756 00:44:56,026 --> 00:44:58,119 The world would love to see our animals, 757 00:44:58,162 --> 00:45:01,859 but they can"t, because they"re all going. 758 00:45:02,433 --> 00:45:05,596 Wamsley"s dream to create a safe haven for native creatures 759 00:45:05,636 --> 00:45:08,264 is getting closer all the time. 760 00:45:10,174 --> 00:45:14,668 But fencing in habitat is only half the battle. 761 00:45:14,712 --> 00:45:17,340 Before endangered wildlife can be released, 762 00:45:17,381 --> 00:45:19,212 the enclosure will have to be free 763 00:45:19,249 --> 00:45:21,615 of introduced species. 764 00:45:21,652 --> 00:45:24,815 This fence is all about cats and rabbits. 765 00:45:24,855 --> 00:45:27,221 It puts a pretty big boot in it. 766 00:45:27,257 --> 00:45:29,088 It"s a massive charge and it"s like getting hit 767 00:45:29,126 --> 00:45:31,219 in the middle of the back with a sledge hammer. 768 00:45:31,261 --> 00:45:33,092 When a cat touches that fence once, 769 00:45:33,130 --> 00:45:35,223 it doesn"t come back. 770 00:45:35,799 --> 00:45:36,561 On the other hand, 771 00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:38,431 we don"t want to stop the big kangaroos, 772 00:45:38,469 --> 00:45:39,766 the wildlife that already live here, 773 00:45:39,803 --> 00:45:41,634 we don"t want to stop them with this fence. 774 00:45:41,672 --> 00:45:43,765 And this fence is designed to let them through. 775 00:45:43,807 --> 00:45:46,708 The kangaroos just hop through. 776 00:45:48,612 --> 00:45:50,170 What we"re going to do here, 777 00:45:50,214 --> 00:45:51,511 is we"re now watering the cats. 778 00:45:51,548 --> 00:45:53,379 The cats have plenty of water here. 779 00:45:53,417 --> 00:45:55,248 And on the hottest day in summer, 780 00:45:55,285 --> 00:45:56,843 when we get there in February 781 00:45:56,887 --> 00:45:58,184 when all the rabbits are gone 782 00:45:58,222 --> 00:45:59,519 we"re gonna cut off their water. 783 00:45:59,556 --> 00:46:01,387 There"ll be water outside the fence. 784 00:46:01,425 --> 00:46:02,983 They"ll come over the fence to get the water. 785 00:46:03,026 --> 00:46:05,654 They won"t be able to get back in again. 786 00:46:11,568 --> 00:46:14,469 For the cats and rabbits that don"t take the bait, 787 00:46:14,505 --> 00:46:17,941 Wamsley called in an expert. 788 00:46:24,915 --> 00:46:28,874 I guess Adam O"Neil is the real live Crocodile Dundee. 789 00:46:28,919 --> 00:46:31,547 He understands animals 790 00:46:31,588 --> 00:46:33,681 and the bush better than anybody else 791 00:46:33,724 --> 00:46:35,282 l"ve ever met. 792 00:46:36,927 --> 00:46:40,090 He"s probably the best shot that l"ve ever seen. 793 00:46:40,130 --> 00:46:41,961 He can knock over a rabbit at 500 meters 794 00:46:41,999 --> 00:46:43,557 without any trouble. 795 00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:45,966 Yeah, he"s got the job of getting rid of 796 00:46:46,003 --> 00:46:48,369 the cats and the rabbits. 797 00:46:57,748 --> 00:46:58,772 Well, I love the cat 798 00:46:58,816 --> 00:47:01,182 along with every other animal on this planet. 799 00:47:01,218 --> 00:47:04,654 They"re not exactly calculating and malicious with intent. 800 00:47:04,688 --> 00:47:09,716 They"re just out there acting on their instincts to survive. 801 00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:13,196 It"s just unfortunate the way things have panned out 802 00:47:13,230 --> 00:47:13,992 I suppose. 803 00:47:14,031 --> 00:47:17,467 But they"ve obviously got to go from this environment. 804 00:47:18,302 --> 00:47:23,604 Once again, the cat has been caught in the crossfire. 805 00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:26,541 If you walk down the street with this cat hat on, 806 00:47:26,577 --> 00:47:27,874 then you are noticed. 807 00:47:27,911 --> 00:47:28,673 I can guarantee you that. 808 00:47:28,712 --> 00:47:30,543 Some people might try and ignore you, 809 00:47:30,581 --> 00:47:32,947 and they"ll have different things to say to you, 810 00:47:32,983 --> 00:47:36,146 but you"ll be noticed by everyone. 811 00:47:37,788 --> 00:47:42,816 Here at CATS, Incorporated, we say,"No dead cats for hats." 812 00:47:42,860 --> 00:47:46,819 Right, Nippy? 813 00:47:46,864 --> 00:47:51,358 Not everyone approves of Wamsley"s approach. 814 00:47:53,003 --> 00:47:56,700 At the other end of the spectrum is Christine Pierson, 815 00:47:56,740 --> 00:47:59,709 the president of CATS, Incorporated. 816 00:47:59,743 --> 00:48:02,041 She is dedicated to the care of strays 817 00:48:02,079 --> 00:48:06,038 and the control of cat numbers through sterilization. 818 00:48:06,083 --> 00:48:07,380 Killing cats 819 00:48:07,417 --> 00:48:09,510 or trying to get rid of the cats 820 00:48:09,553 --> 00:48:12,454 is achieving nothing. 821 00:48:13,557 --> 00:48:15,923 Christine Pierson has her own theories 822 00:48:15,959 --> 00:48:18,052 about the cat crisis. 823 00:48:18,362 --> 00:48:20,728 If you leave the birds and the animals alone, 824 00:48:20,764 --> 00:48:24,723 they have a natural balance between them. 825 00:48:24,768 --> 00:48:26,599 But the trouble is that people come along and 826 00:48:26,637 --> 00:48:30,869 they upset the natural balance and they stuff everything up. 827 00:48:35,245 --> 00:48:39,204 And so the cat wars continue to rage. 828 00:48:39,249 --> 00:48:42,150 Where does the solution lie? 829 00:48:42,185 --> 00:48:46,679 Perhaps it begins in our own backyards. 830 00:48:47,524 --> 00:48:49,082 In the Adelaide Hills, 831 00:48:49,126 --> 00:48:51,492 there is a cat whose lifestyle changed 832 00:48:51,528 --> 00:48:53,894 a few years back. 833 00:48:53,931 --> 00:48:57,367 Owner Christine Colyer is a bird lover who"s found 834 00:48:57,401 --> 00:49:00,564 an unusual solution for her beloved cat. 835 00:49:00,604 --> 00:49:03,767 Diddles is a happy cat. 836 00:49:03,807 --> 00:49:06,435 The more comfortable she is, the happier she is... 837 00:49:06,476 --> 00:49:09,639 ...the further out that tongue will hang. 838 00:49:09,680 --> 00:49:13,639 She is the most beautiful cat in the world. 839 00:49:13,684 --> 00:49:17,120 We just don"t think that there"s another one like her. 840 00:49:17,421 --> 00:49:19,514 Nestled in this garden of Eden, 841 00:49:19,556 --> 00:49:21,649 Diddles has the run of the house 842 00:49:21,692 --> 00:49:26,720 and access to an open cat flap... 24 hours a day. 843 00:49:29,166 --> 00:49:32,602 The world outside for Diddles is a labyrinth of bridges 844 00:49:32,636 --> 00:49:35,799 and tunnels a playground for cats. 845 00:49:35,839 --> 00:49:37,670 We have what we call a London Bridge, 846 00:49:37,708 --> 00:49:41,405 which Diddles just loves to run from one side to the other 847 00:49:41,445 --> 00:49:44,073 up and over and down. 848 00:49:44,381 --> 00:49:48,078 It"s not a cage. And that"s the beauty of it. 849 00:49:49,720 --> 00:49:54,214 The garden is full of birds be it the [... pigeons, 850 00:49:54,257 --> 00:49:59,559 the red finches, rosillas, the cockatoos] that fly in. 851 00:49:59,596 --> 00:50:03,555 They will graze directly around the cat units. 852 00:50:04,935 --> 00:50:09,429 It"s lovely to see the birds coming around so close. 853 00:50:11,875 --> 00:50:13,433 It certainly is peace 854 00:50:13,477 --> 00:50:15,570 of mind for me to know where Diddles is, 855 00:50:15,612 --> 00:50:18,240 that she is safe and that she can go outside and 856 00:50:18,281 --> 00:50:21,717 enjoy life just as normal, but she is protected. 857 00:50:23,086 --> 00:50:25,452 And so are the birds. 858 00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:31,318 Back in Virginia, 859 00:50:31,361 --> 00:50:34,262 another cat is yielding to domestication. 860 00:50:34,297 --> 00:50:38,256 Ting Tang! Time to come in. 861 00:50:38,301 --> 00:50:42,260 Ting Tang ll"s moment in the sun has come to an end. 862 00:50:42,305 --> 00:50:44,933 You know the rules. C"mon in now. 863 00:50:44,975 --> 00:50:47,341 It"s curfew time. 864 00:50:49,513 --> 00:50:54,280 Good boy. Yes, it"s time to come on in. 865 00:50:54,317 --> 00:51:00,153 Until tomorrow, there will be one less cat on the prowl. 866 00:51:03,126 --> 00:51:06,289 Through the millennia, cats have found their way 867 00:51:06,329 --> 00:51:07,887 into our hearts and our homes. 868 00:51:07,931 --> 00:51:10,559 Mama, Mama, Mama, Mom, Mama, look what I found. 869 00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:11,897 Can I keep him, please, please? 870 00:51:11,935 --> 00:51:14,028 But has our passion for these creatures 871 00:51:14,071 --> 00:51:17,507 also blinded us to their natural instincts? 872 00:51:17,541 --> 00:51:20,169 Has domestication gone awry? 873 00:51:21,545 --> 00:51:23,638 With cat numbers on the rise, 874 00:51:23,680 --> 00:51:28,174 Felis catus is getting away with murder. 875 00:51:28,752 --> 00:51:30,310 Well-fed and sheltered, 876 00:51:30,353 --> 00:51:33,254 these predators are gaining a competitive edge 877 00:51:33,290 --> 00:51:36,987 against which few creatures can contend. 878 00:51:39,162 --> 00:51:45,260 Most simply can"t compete with the extraordinary cat. 879 00:51:47,971 --> 00:51:50,872 In the time it"s taken to watch this film, 880 00:51:50,907 --> 00:51:54,866 cats in the U.S. Have caught as many as 100,000 mammals 881 00:51:54,911 --> 00:51:57,812 and over 30,000 birds. 882 00:51:58,381 --> 00:52:01,817 As for Missy, last month she caught five rabbits, 883 00:52:01,852 --> 00:52:06,619 17 shrews, 11 mice and seven birds. 884 00:52:07,457 --> 00:52:11,154 Nine more cats were dumped in the Miami Park. 885 00:52:11,728 --> 00:52:14,629 Neut celebrated another birthday. 886 00:52:15,465 --> 00:52:18,093 Diddles communed with the cockatoos. 887 00:52:19,202 --> 00:52:23,969 And Ting Tang II broke his curfew twice. 888 00:52:25,876 --> 00:52:27,434 It"s 9 p.m. 889 00:52:27,477 --> 00:52:30,913 Do you know where your kitty is?