Posted on 04/26/2019 3:21:24 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
We also have a lot of Bobtail cats around our property. We started having such a rat problem in the barn, so I picked up the biggest and meanest feral cats I could find, so I thought.
I was told that if I kept them in a cage in the barn for a few weeks, they would consider the barn their home and not run away.
I let them out after about 3 weeks, and they ran right to my front door and wanted in the house. That was over 8 years ago, and they still live on my front porch, and run in the house every chance they get. Plus, I don’t think they ever killed a rat.
However, their offspring has, and I no longer have a rat problem.
How is poison more effective if shooters are taking out 83% of the cats with the added benefit of not killing off other species? Sheesh.
Unless "most effective" is Aussie speak for "very effective" - only way it makes sense.
Didn't Australia import rabbits to take care of some problem then got overrun with them? Back to my movie ... ;-)
Shame on them. How many pets have they killed?
I thought Australia was more civilized than this. No respect should be given to animal torturers.
My thought too. I don’t like killing animals, think it more humane to just scatter birth=control pellets so they cannot reproduced. My cat agrees. Poison is often a painful way to die; these cats haven’t committed crimes, they merely exist.
“... this reminds me of a guy I know who is opposed to bug spray on animal cruelty grounds ...”
Sounds like my wife. Her friend’s house had roaches. They wanted to get rid of the roaches without killing them. My wife and he friend are Buddhist; can’t kill. I discovered that they have a roach hormone then prevents them from reproducing. I got some (it’s a glass capsule of liquid in a plastic case with a coffee filter) and about 5 weeks later there were no roaches.
11 herbs and spices and one poison.
What are you disagreeing with? I agree with you that an over population of dogs and cats are a real problem in America. A million of them get euthanized every year and that just breaks my heart. Again; the problem is with humans. Humans are responsible for getting their dogs and cats spayed and neutered. It’s irresponsible not to unless they are a breeder with a deserved honorable reputation for breeding responsibly. Not inbreeding.
If true then that does take a lot of the sting out of using this method. Still not the biggest fan of poison's in general but this does give it some honor.
I think you answered your own question. It’s just how they speak. I think it’s an English thing as well.
I adopted a feral cat who lived to be 20 years old.
My feral-born cat brought home dead rats. I was OK with that.
“Mankind has been attempting to kill pussies with tainted sausages for eons, yet the pussies have managed to survive somehow.”
Somehow, I got a completely different intent from that comment than you may have meant...
TMI, indeed.
Gosh I had a tortoiseshell years ago. What a pleasure she was.
Take that PETA.
I’m thinking d-con isn’t gonna fix that problem.
We’re talking cats, aren’t we?
When I was in the Navy one of the people I worked with lived in Pennsylvania farm country. He said that they used to trap cats then take them out to a field, let them loose and shoot them. He claimed that they dodged like rabbits and were good practice.
I have no problem with people who want to keep pets on their own property. Unfortunately many cat owners think their pets have the right to go anywhere they want and use other people’s property as their toilet, their breeding ground and their birthing room. Feral cats became feral because house cat owners were irresponsible.
I’m disagreeing that unwanted dogs and cats can usually be taken to a no kill shelter. To be specific about no kill shelters, because that’s who we always try to contact first, we have tried to have local no kill shelters accept strays on several occasions, over the years, and they have in every instance declined, saying they were full. Usually, even the Humane Shelter tells us the same - I can think of only one instance where the local Humane Society took an animal, and in that case “Animal Control” was involved as a middleman.
Outside of that, I believe we are pretty much in agreement.
That’s one way to get people to keep their cats inside the house.....
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