You won't believe what me and my dad found!

[poultryhaven]

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Lol i wish my dogs would kill that cat they hate that cat.

 

[poultryhaven]

I just talked to my dad and were going to use the 5 gallon bucket idea and throw the plaster of paris/ peanut butter balls in the bucket once we catch them

I like the rats back there they don't bother me but my mom is scared of them. I just shot one that got in the house my mom was so scared she literally got a broom i was laughing so hard

 

[poultryhaven]

Just shot another one

 

[cmjust0]

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I didn't mean to insinuate that you were literally starving your animals.. And, you're right...if they don't get a mouse or two a day and that's what you're wanting them to do, then they're not very good cats for your purpose..

I guess the difference -- if there is one -- is that's the point where I'd advocate for another cat instead of adjusting rations. My thinking being, simply, that if it doesn't hunt well when full, it's probably not going to hunt well empty either. Prolly just not a good hunter..

And, believe me...I know what you mean about feral cats not being anything remotely like housecats. We had a one-eyed feral cat living in our barn one summer that I tried to handle...she ate me up one side and down the other and was gone like a shot. Lucky I didn't get bubonic plague or something, as rough as this ol' cat was..

We fed her, but FWIW...well, frankly, the turds she so graciously left in our flowerbeds still looked like someone took regular cat turds and rolled them in macerated beetle shells. I'd estimate that no less than 80% of her diet was bugs, and we had food out for her all the time. She preferred hunting to having to go so close to the house (and the big two legged critters inside), I think.

Anyway...again, didn't mean to try to paint you out to be a bad guy or anything.

 

[Boyd]

no problemo.