i somehow acquired 2 runaways and i have questions. please help

[BDutch]

i got an alert on the new camera i put in the run. i thought it was the mean cat. but he's missing a foot! and also his face isn't as mean.
but, now, how am i supposed to scare away a footless limping cat without feeling bad about it? i have never seen him before. maybe he's normally inside?
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We suddenly had a cat visiting our garden last winter. In the beginning she had a nice necklace and looked well cared for. She returned every day to see if she could snatch some food. Over time her necklace got torn and she looked less shiny and cared for.
I thought she might have been dumped or lost. Made photos and tried on a lost site for pets and the animal rescue organisation to find the owner. Finally the daughter of the older owner who lived in the next street spotted her and brought her back home. The cat had been kept inside all the time.

Looking back I am sorry I didn’t print a few photos to tape on lantern posts in the neighbourhood.

Here shes eating from a yoghurt left over I put out for my chickens.

 

[pollipazzi]

We suddenly had a cat visiting our garden last winter. In the beginning she had a nice necklace and looked well cared for. She returned every day to see if she could snatch some food. Over time her necklace got torn and she looked less shiny and cared for.
I thought she might have been dumped or lost. Made photos and tried on a lost site for pets and the animal rescue organisation to find the owner. Finally the daughter of the older owner who lived in the next street spotted her and brought her back home. The cat had been kept inside all the time.

Looking back I am sorry I didn’t print a few photos to tape on lantern posts in the neighbourhood.

Here shes eating from a yoghurt left over I put out for my chickens.
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it was nice of you to take care of her and post about her so she could be found.
if i see this cat again, i will tell my neighbour who knows every animal in the village. she doesn't remember people names, but every pets name she knows!
maybe it already found his way back home.

 

[pollipazzi]

also! i have been reading your hatching thread @BDutch ! i was searching about mites and your post came up. i think i read 100 pages! lol! i'm still working on it.

 

[pollipazzi]

the mean cat made an appearance.
he had all of his feet.
and a mean face.

there was a lot of ba-gawking going on.

 

[pollipazzi]

um.
does anybody know or have experience with shrews?
i just saw two in the garden.
we had them before but we didn't have chickens before.

will the chickens try to eat them?
will shrews try to eat chicken feed?
are shrews riddled with diseases?
mites?

i hope there's not a lot of them.

also. this pretty moth? butterfly? was here too.

 

[tlcmurphy]

um.
does anybody know or have experience with shrews?
i just saw two in the garden.
we had them before but we didn't have chickens before.

will the chickens try to eat them?
will shrews try to eat chicken feed?
are shrews riddled with diseases?
mites?

i hope there's not a lot of them.

also. this pretty moth? butterfly? was here too.
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I have no experience with shrews, but according to Shakespeare you need to tame them.

 

[pollipazzi]

wise guy, eh?