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And you should see how secure her chickens are.
It just ticks me off how everyone compares a cat raised with chickens to a cat that will trespass and kill your birds. And she has beautiful and expensive birds.
Remember when you sit there and tell people it can't happen and then it does, you have not done them any favors, but set them up for heartache.
It may not happen to you, but it does happen, sp please stop trying to make it sound like they can't kill a grown bird.
Happened again today. I have a pullet with NO neck feathers. A cat was somewhere in my yard while I was out there and it was bold enough to grab her with me out there! Luckily I hit it before it could get more thana mouth full of feathers, but there's a big patch now. This is a 4 month old, good sized bird. Not a little chick. Matter of fact her name if Fat Chick! Nothin scrawny about her.
My dislike of cats did start before chickens. I would have fragrant flowers in my yard. I have big dogs and a doggy doolie and I clean up all the time, but I like my yard to smell good. That's where the cats would poop. In my flower beds, under windows, and then there was the time they kept climbing under my house. Nothing like cat poop coming through your vents. I was so embarased once when someone came to my house and put their nose up and said "Oh you have a cat." "No, but someone who doesn't care about one or other people has one." There are just too many of them and shouldn't be. I had show cats at one time. Not a lot of them, but a few and never more than 3 at a time. You couldn't walk in my house and know I had even one. I'd raise MAYBE a litter a year and most times none. But, not have one and have to smell that horrible cat poop from someone else's and your house can smell like there's a litter box somewhere. I rather smell chicken poop and both are worse than dog poop.
And you should see how secure her chickens are.
It just ticks me off how everyone compares a cat raised with chickens to a cat that will trespass and kill your birds. And she has beautiful and expensive birds.
Remember when you sit there and tell people it can't happen and then it does, you have not done them any favors, but set them up for heartache.
It may not happen to you, but it does happen, sp please stop trying to make it sound like they can't kill a grown bird.
Happened again today. I have a pullet with NO neck feathers. A cat was somewhere in my yard while I was out there and it was bold enough to grab her with me out there! Luckily I hit it before it could get more thana mouth full of feathers, but there's a big patch now. This is a 4 month old, good sized bird. Not a little chick. Matter of fact her name if Fat Chick! Nothin scrawny about her.
My dislike of cats did start before chickens. I would have fragrant flowers in my yard. I have big dogs and a doggy doolie and I clean up all the time, but I like my yard to smell good. That's where the cats would poop. In my flower beds, under windows, and then there was the time they kept climbing under my house. Nothing like cat poop coming through your vents. I was so embarased once when someone came to my house and put their nose up and said "Oh you have a cat." "No, but someone who doesn't care about one or other people has one." There are just too many of them and shouldn't be. I had show cats at one time. Not a lot of them, but a few and never more than 3 at a time. You couldn't walk in my house and know I had even one. I'd raise MAYBE a litter a year and most times none. But, not have one and have to smell that horrible cat poop from someone else's and your house can smell like there's a litter box somewhere. I rather smell chicken poop and both are worse than dog poop.
