I have a family group of about 14 doves regularly eating from my homemade bird feeder in the backyard, and this morning I discovered the remains of two on the ground. One hundred per cent it was the doing of a cat or cats; my old frail cat Cadbury is permanently indoors now, so she is ruled out, although she could hardly catch one nowadays. My only consolation is that these doves are introduced from northern Africa, I think, however, I do not know if they are endangered there – I hope not. They do well here in Perth.