I have never yet seen a cat camp outside a rat hole for 24 hours waiting for rats to come out either. You must have some patient and very starving cats.
I have a cat who will sit next to a gopher hole for hours on end. Has never caught one yet. Worthless.
Dvander Silk, I have to take issue with that "3 songbirds a day" cat kill. I have four indoor/outdoor cats. They manage maybe one or two birds a season. Believe me, we are made aware of it when it happens and it breaks our hearts. But 4 cats on 3 acres with many, many ground birds (our community...
Cats have a way of knowing exactly who does NOT want them around and then they make a beeline for that neighbor. It never fails. They've never gotten over the fact that after the ancient Egyptians died out, no one has properly worshipped them since.
My cats very quickly learned that the chicks...