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[broodytood]

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What is the black one in the top left?

that one is the silver lace wyandotte. My punk rocker chick. hopefully thats what she turns out to be as an adult anyways. Here is another pic of her by herself

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/89236_img_5598.jpg

Oh ok, in the little pic it did look like she had an interesting topknot. But the 2nd pic looks more like what we have. Ours is full grown though. Cute!

 

[Chickielady]

Some cat peed all over everything here 2 days ago during daylight, even the dog house, garden, green house, and all around everything by our barn cabin...it is over whelming strong cat pee..it is gagging it is soo strong.....Bob is back, right on schedule!

He makes his rounds every 20-30 days, and our pup dog Jack must have been asleep while we were at the store..as the cat peed on everything..even my watering can was shot with cat pee..super super strong..this ain't your ordinary house cat here........

Got a guy coming this morning with a mega-hav-a-heart trap..he baits it with a stick, covered in vaseline & rolled in fresh catnip..believe it or not, he says it works everytime........

 

[broodytood]

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EEEWWWW!

Hope you catch him!

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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Cool idea!! Good luck with Bob!!

 

[Kaneke]

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thanks, yum, McKenna is like two miles away, I am on it ... tho who knows whether I will get a quick answer

don't need it all, happy to split with other BYCers

 

[Kaneke]

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sounds like bobcat .... I had a half-bobcat (orange with aquamarine eyes) -- he had been neutered young but still sprayed everything in sight or reach ....

 

[Kaneke]

and by the way ....

to all the new and newer ones who have joined our frantic list

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Weirdly enough, we don't seem to have Bobcats here: bears, yes, cougars, yes, coyotes pretty much everywhere but Bobcats don't much like lowland suburbia for some reason, probably too many dogs?

But yeah: super-dooper cat pee smell those boys have. Too bad Nature's Miracle isn't available in barrels.

I don't see how I'm going to get anything done today; I hit my desk chair after our Oregon raid yeserday and was too beat to get up and go to bed until almost 1am, and my husband once again started snoring at 6:30 or so. I feel mean making him roll onto his side when he's more comfortable on his back but snoring isn't actually good for him, either.

 

[Chickielady]

This is not a house cat, it is not a manx, it is a real wild Bobcat and those of your long-time BYCers may remember me posting about 'Bob' before.
He is brazen, and squirts all over everything, all over...gallons of it.
It says on web sites that Bob Cats run a long 'route' in which they have 1 main den (very stinky around that) and sometimes 2 other dens, and they constantly travel from den to den and thus squirting & establishing their territory.
Our home is in his territory, and so he squirts fences (chicken runs!!) gates, coop walls, front door, shoes left on the porch, watering cans, barbeques, my hot frames & green house, the dog house!!
Maybe jack did not want to venture out!!

Maybe he was asleep?
We did find poop in the middle of our road, segmented Bob Cat poo..the do that as well as scracth up stuff...like a house cat scratches up furniture.
I is a bit unnerving to know the Bob Cat is watching..and knows when we leave to run errands he comes out & does his marking...one time last summer, he squirted 3 loads of laundry I had just hung on the clothes line.
I had to wash it over several times to get the smell out!!

He also squirted DH's snow boots left on the 'porch'....and still to this day we cannot get the smell out, even used the enzyme spray..nothing works!

 

[SadieSue]

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lol~you beat me to it

I was just gonna post this.

I can't go.

Eli and I are going to the U2 CONCERT!!! wwwwwooooooooo! sorry, but U2 trumps most anything. hahaah!

Oh yeah, I love my chickens and chicken shows, but I think I'd be going to the U2 concert myself! Good for you guys - have fun!