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[L0rraine]

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I just PM'd you -- I'm on Whidbey and would be VERY interested in the Polish. (Maybe a couple of others - they are lovely!)

 

[L0rraine]

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I let my husband get a 'harmless' pellet gun hoping for a "bang", but it just kind of goes "PFFFT!" Still he takes it over to the fence and "shoots" at the coyotes anyway - are they laughing or what???

 

[Nyrial]

Wow my yard seems empty.. and quiet.. someone took most of my ducks last night.

Still have some polish and other tophats we're looking to downsize, as well as a full flock of mostly assorted bantams.. backyard quality. There are 8 laying hens and 2 roosters who get along well with each other and every other animal in the yard.

Button quail - I think 3 mated pairs, a bachelor pair and a solo male.
Coturnix - 23 or 24 with hutch, they just started laying.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Someone took your ducks? How? Do you call the police?

 

[Chickielady]

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You must have the most awesome yard all decorated and flowering !

 

[Chickielady]

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wow !!! It is chicken gestapo.
Do geese/ducks/guineas all fall under the same 'facilities' permit ?
What if you have goats or sheep or 75 rabbits ??

What about these wacko people that horde animals, like 40 cats ?
We had an elderly woman where I used to live that would be fretting and anxious every time I saw her at the grocery, with a basket overflowing with bags of kibbled cat food.
She lived not too far from the store, and one day my daughter and I drove buy looking at a house, and there it was, cats everywhere, 8-10 on the porch, bowls of food all over, along with bowls of milk and canned food too...every kind of bowl...cats in every tree and bush, fighting on the lawns...I cannot believe what the neighbors have to go through.
But technically the cats are feral, she just feeds them so they gravitate there, and of course breed...hundreds of cats you could smell them as you drive by, the houses/lots are small like the older homes in Hoquiam.
Speaking of cats, we have a feral here (or maybe it is our resident bobcat???) that walked up in broad daylight Monday noonish, and ticked all over 3 pair of levis I had just hung on the clothesline, and then went on to douse the front porch, and several large flower pots that are around my chicken pens.

@###@!!&%$@@!@!! I had to do the laundry over !!!!!!#@!&&^%$##

 

[Chickielady]

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[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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wow !!! It is chicken gestapo.
Do geese/ducks/guineas all fall under the same 'facilities' permit ?
What if you have goats or sheep or 75 rabbits ??

http://bestsmileys.com/funny/1.gif
What about these wacko people that horde animals, like 40 cats ?
We had an elderly woman where I used to live that would be fretting and anxious every time I saw her at the grocery, with a basket overflowing with bags of kibbled cat food.
She lived not too far from the store, and one day my daughter and I drove buy looking at a house, and there it was, cats everywhere, 8-10 on the porch, bowls of food all over, along with bowls of milk and canned food too...every kind of bowl...cats in every tree and bush, fighting on the lawns...I cannot believe what the neighbors have to go through.
But technically the cats are feral, she just feeds them so they gravitate there, and of course breed...hundreds of cats you could smell them as you drive by, the houses/lots are small like the older homes in Hoquiam.
Speaking of cats, we have a feral here (or maybe it is our resident bobcat???) that walked up in broad daylight Monday noonish, and ticked all over 3 pair of levis I had just hung on the clothesline, and then went on to douse the front porch, and several large flower pots that are around my chicken pens.
http://bestsmileys.com/cats1/1.gif
@###@!!&%$@@!@!! I had to do the laundry over !!!!!!#@!&&^%$##

Do you have a group there you can contact who can help this woman with the ferals....they will allow her to keep the colony, but they will come in and have them all spayed/neutered. Check around. That way there are NO MORE BABIES. We have that same problem here and I have helped the local rescue group as much as I can (can't much this year), but I know that if the colony is in an okay space they will catch/fix/release...and set up feeding stations. If all the cats are removed....she will just bring in new ones or new ones will move in. If you the ones there remain, fixed, no more babies and no more will move into this "colony's" space. There is a web site that can help....I can go and find it if you would like me to.

 

[Chickielady]

wow, just spied 5 pips in my Ameraucana eggs not due until Saturday !!!!

maybe not a good thing ?

 

[Chickielady]

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wow !!! It is chicken gestapo.
Do geese/ducks/guineas all fall under the same 'facilities' permit ?
What if you have goats or sheep or 75 rabbits ??

http://bestsmileys.com/funny/1.gif
What about these wacko people that horde animals, like 40 cats ?
We had an elderly woman where I used to live that would be fretting and anxious every time I saw her at the grocery, with a basket overflowing with bags of kibbled cat food.
She lived not too far from the store, and one day my daughter and I drove buy looking at a house, and there it was, cats everywhere, 8-10 on the porch, bowls of food all over, along with bowls of milk and canned food too...every kind of bowl...cats in every tree and bush, fighting on the lawns...I cannot believe what the neighbors have to go through.
But technically the cats are feral, she just feeds them so they gravitate there, and of course breed...hundreds of cats you could smell them as you drive by, the houses/lots are small like the older homes in Hoquiam.
Speaking of cats, we have a feral here (or maybe it is our resident bobcat???) that walked up in broad daylight Monday noonish, and ticked all over 3 pair of levis I had just hung on the clothesline, and then went on to douse the front porch, and several large flower pots that are around my chicken pens.
http://bestsmileys.com/cats1/1.gif
@###@!!&%$@@!@!! I had to do the laundry over !!!!!!#@!&&^%$##

Do you have a group there you can contact who can help this woman with the ferals....they will allow her to keep the colony, but they will come in and have them all spayed/neutered. Check around. That way there are NO MORE BABIES. We have that same problem here and I have helped the local rescue group as much as I can (can't much this year), but I know that if the colony is in an okay space they will catch/fix/release...and set up feeding stations. If all the cats are removed....she will just bring in new ones or new ones will move in. If you the ones there remain, fixed, no more babies and no more will move into this "colony's" space. There is a web site that can help....I can go and find it if you would like me to.

This was years ago, out of state, and the woman was very very old, I doubt she is still alive, I do not even remember her address.
I am sure authorities have corrected the problem just as you said, how could they not ?
The neigborhood was trashed.

I have my hav-a-heart trap out with a can of tuna in it.
If my feral 'stinker' gets trapped we will take it straight away to the Humane Society...there is no neighbors here but we have seen 4 or 5 feral cats here, so far this year.