A cat or two at most on property fed a cup each a day at most, and showed good to hunt rodents. i breed rats for kingsnakes that i used to breed), by feeding them and play teased and praised for getting after and finding hidden pre humanely killed feeder tats, will be worth effort. i have loft cat (i only keep mixes at least of: maine coones and bobcats/bobtails, as they can take out large oppossume, small coon, med foxes, and small dogs, as well as other cats, as very territorial, but fine with anything shown gently to be fam. an over or under fed outside going cat is useless on a farm as fed to much and they'll hunt for fun and taste only everything but rats and mice. an underfed cat will not take effort to hunt after gets eight mice a day to stay healthy. too many cats will actually attract mice especially. as cat food and especially cat poop is full of easily digested protiens, and calcium ect.that mice crave like cats crave cat nip/mint. When worked as exterminator rats were worst where a lot of dog food and poop was left out, nests worst close to, were mice same round cat poop and food.
