my kids heard a squelling noise the other night and we just didnt think nething about it...i went down to take care of my babies before work n 2 were gone..one RIR and a BANTY....the rir was by the pond in the weeds hiding..it ran out when it heard me and was like "im here mommy"..so i put him back in his enclosure...but the banty i couldnt find...i had to go to work so i didnt have time to look for it...was at work worried sick that something got it....i got off work..went straight to look for her...couldnt find it....walked around by the tree because i saw feathers...there she was dead....im not sure what got it....im thinking a cat because we think there is a cat living in the trailer down by the pond...well let me tell u...it wont be there for long..killing my baby...ill either shoot it or set out a trap with food in and take it elsewhere...i love cats but that makes me mad...i know..its just a cat doing what a cat does...but it like literally ate my banty to the point of unrecgonizable except for the white feathers...im sooo upset....i clean when im upset...i scrubbed all the carpets in my house...
we have been leaving the coop door open at nights because like i said we have not seen one animal what so ever around our house or in the woods for the 4 yrs that we have lived there....now i get chickens and now we have a cat..and we saw a couple foxes in the field...the only animals i have seen r deer across road...bunnies...
now im venting....sorry...
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