I was born and raised on a small SW Texas ranch owned and worked by two generations of our family-it is worked by three now. No one killed feral cats then-they were fed so that they stayed in and around the barn to keep rats and mice out of the livestock feed so that poison was not used. And loose pet dogs and cats became predator dinners, just like they do now.
I still live in the country-always will-and people here don’t kill feral cats, still keep them for rodent control-it is safer than poisons around livestock and feed.
Cats kill birds-always have-but they don’t fly, so there are still plenty of birds-I feed them all-and I haven’t heard that any birds are going extinct from cat predation. I’ve never shopped at Needless Markup, I do my own nails and I make my own coffee-organic Columbian blend...
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I live next to the feral cat lady, and much of their life is spent here in my yard and living under my house because they feel uncomfortable around her, and only go there at meal time and for water. (I don’t get involved with them, no food or water). I guess they are semi feral now, you can’t approach them, but they will sometimes sleep on my porch and only run if I open the door, although they often act calm and stay in place if I turn to go away from them, they seem to feel safer at my place, and the hanging out on my porch seems to be the feral cat version of trying to adopt a human, as you know that tame cats often do, tame cats will often have a second, or perhaps even more homes where they get treated as a visiting/part time pet.
At first I wondered if they would be a problem, but since the woman and some agency feeds them, and traps them for spaying and flea treatments, I see them as an asset.
The cats help make the Opossums uncomfortable at my place, and the flea killing chemical on them attracts whatever fleas show up from Opossums, and kills them. I think they also drive off the rattlers, and cut down on the noisy birds.
They work as mobile flea traps, and snake removers, Opossum harassers, and I have never seen a mouse or rat here, and they will drive off those noisy birds, because the roof and trees are all convenient to the the cats.
“I was born and raised on a small SW Texas ranch owned and worked by two generations of our family-it is worked by three now. No one killed feral cats then-they were fed so that they stayed in and around the barn to keep rats and mice out of the livestock feed so that poison was not used. And loose pet dogs and cats became predator dinners, just like they do now.
I still live in the country-always will-and people here dont kill feral cats, still keep them for rodent control-it is safer than poisons around livestock and feed.
Cats kill birds-always have-but they dont fly, so there are still plenty of birds-I feed them all-and I havent heard that any birds are going extinct from cat predation. Ive never shopped at Needless Markup, I do my own nails and I make my own coffee-organic Columbian blend...”
You’re waay too normal and decent a person to waste your time on this sack of offal calling himself “dinodino”...
he merely a sick cat hater.