Hi! So glad the Frizz children are settling in well.
I am so annoyed by folks that let their pets (dogs and cats) run loose and with the thought that "'Fido/Fluffy' doesn't leave our space unless they are with me".
I understand the birds are an 'attractive nuisance' (and tempting, at the least), BUT your critters should stay in your space and not be here invading MY space. Children from up the road came looking for their lost cat --- teary-eyed and hoping we'd seen him because 'he likes to visit you, so maybe you've seen him?'. Yes, I've seen him. Every day he stalks my youngsters and generally keeps my birds upset (the dogs are upset because of the strange cat and because the birds are upset). I can't count the times I've caught it in the live-traps (in my yard/runs) and the ump-teenth time I've been generous and just turned it loose.
One of the husbands 'buddy's' came over WITH dog and said dog has decided to travel a halfmile to come back to visit while buddy is not home. Talk about a 'soft-mouth'. It dug into a pen and caught a Delaware rooster, took it back home to 'play with'. The next day, the dog came back took an Ameraucana boy, all the way back to HIS house --- and other than missing some feathers, the roosters were just fine. I fixed the places a predator can dig under, but that doesn't stop the freakish barking, running around and around, and upsetting the birds in the night.
I've run out of patience and generosity for the situation
I'm starting over and giving everyone a clean-slate.
ANYTHING that comes in our space in the night is assumed to be a predator. I don't care if it *looks like* the folks down-the-road cat or dog --- it is a predator and will be dealt with.
and if it goes in one of the traps, it could end up anywhere (from Animal Control to dead-outright --- depending on my tolerance level on any given day).
Lisa
