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Diesel911 · #31 07-08-2019, 11:43 AM

To anyone that has been following this thread thanks for that. As humans we believe that we can intervene and alter the course of nature and get a desirable out come but sometimes no.

Volvo Diesel · #32 07-08-2019, 01:50 PM

I appreciate your attempt to help the cat. I was hoping for a better outcome, but it sounds as though he was in bad shape. I think it reflects well on you that you provided food, water, shelter, and kindness to him despite his poor condition.

Simpler=Better · #33 07-08-2019, 02:43 PM

Poor little guy. Thanks for taking care of him, people with a gentle touch are rare.

t walgamuth · #34 07-08-2019, 02:58 PM

Sorry there was no good ending, though you made his final hours better.

barry12345 · #35 07-09-2019, 10:08 AM

Yes you tried and you did help him in some ways. It is also good that you have the time and compassion for this. I would not feel too bad as he is in a better state now.

He was probably suffering a lot. He also was possibly a domesticated cat at some time in his life. As he let you pick him up.

t walgamuth · #36 07-09-2019, 01:41 PM

My pet rabbit is 9 now and on his last legs.

Also my anole has a big lump on the side of his head just behind his eye. I suspect it will kill him one of these days.

The Mrs votes to not replace them but I have this romantic notion of myself as a gentleman farmer with my little menagerie of pets for the grandchildren to see, so I will most likely replace them.

vwnate1 · #37 07-09-2019, 02:15 PM

You did well trying to help this stray .

Simpler=Better · #38 07-10-2019, 01:27 PM

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My pet rabbit is 9 now and on his last legs.

Also my anole has a big lump on the side of his head just behind his eye. I suspect it will kill him one of these days.

The Mrs votes to not replace them but I have this romantic notion of myself as a gentleman farmer with my little menagerie of pets for the grandchildren to see, so I will most likely replace them.

We have a bunch of outdoor kitties that came with the house. Everyone is fixed, gets rabies shots, etc.

They're great buddies while working on the cars, and it's fun to watch them stalk rodents in the field. I'd definitely recommend.

t walgamuth · #39 07-10-2019, 02:05 PM

We have a lot of feral cats here, as crazy ladies on each side of my house feed them.....raccoons too. I never have any mice in my garage. They also catch shrews.

Diesel911 · #40 07-11-2019, 12:20 AM

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We have a bunch of outdoor kitties that came with the house. Everyone is fixed, gets rabies shots, etc.

They're great buddies while working on the cars, and it's fun to watch them stalk rodents in the field. I'd definitely recommend.

My Fathers girl friend grew up in a depression era Farm (until they lost it) and she said that they had a bunch of Cats to deal with the Rodents and save as much Gain as they could. She said they seldom fed them anything.

In the first pic my Cat is apparently not satisfied with my Work.

The other picture is of one of my Cats eating a Gopher. That is the first time in my life I had ever seen a Cat actually eating a Rodent. Usually you simply find some piece of the Rodent left over but don't know what ate the rest of it.

Those stray Cats that people don't are actually responsible for some Rodent control even if it is not obvious to us.

I have seen my Cats with a Paw all the way up to their shoulder inside of a Gopher hole but they none have ever gotten bit.

vwnate1 · #41 07-11-2019, 09:10 AM

Pic. # 1 looks like close supervision......

I wish the feral cats 'round here would eat the squirrels rats & mice but they're stuffed from the crazy cat lady feeding them instead .

Diesel911 · #42 07-11-2019, 09:46 AM

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Pic. # 1 looks like close supervision......

I wish the feral cats 'round here would eat the squirrels rats & mice but they're stuffed from the crazy cat lady feeding them instead .

I feed my Cats as much as they want to eat and I still find bits of their kills.

My Wife was shocked when she saw the pic I posted of the Cat eating the Gopher. She believe if they were fed they would not do that.

We have some Squirrels in the neighborhood but on my walks I have never seen a dead one even as road kill. I don't think Cats are interested in them.

I was over at my other House which is in another City and growing up there and within the last year or so I had never seen any Squirrels. But yester day I saw one there.

Not sure what there food source is in that neighborhood. In this neighborhood there is a couple of streets that have large pine trees and you can see where they ate off of the pine cones. I am not sure what other trees they eat from but the Power Lines are their highway. They stay well above where any person or Cat could grab them.

strelnik · #43 07-11-2019, 12:24 PM

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There is a bear problem of some size. About two miles up the road from us. They will probably work there way down to our area all too soon.

For some reason their numbers seem to be steadily increasing. They also seem to be losing their fear of humans if they ever had it. A daughter there has a fenced off area for the dogs.

A bear comes down daily to the back of the fence. Yet there is nothing to really eat there. It is illegal to shoot them so I suggested the son in law contact the police if the lands and forest department will not trap and remove him. They claim they only have one bear trap and are swamped.

A brother in law suspects that even the ones that are trapped are not being moved far enough away. People are getting quite concerned with their close proximity to their homes.

Across the road the land falls away . We see lots of bears way down there periodically. They just never seem to venture across the fields to our side of the road so far.

I am surprised they do not for the domestic garbage placed out for collection. I never saw one locally until about three years ago. Now I see them in numbers. Five or six or more at a time are are quite common. Personally I feel a season should be opened until the numbers are reduced.

I was surprised that large Canadian cities like Toronto are experiencing a substantial rat problem. Yet seem unable to bring it under control as well. To say I dislike rats is an understatement. They closed the farm next door years ago. The next year we had more rats around than you could shake a stick at. I set out a lot of traps and was quite busy resetting them for quite some time. Than they seemed to disappear.

If you are in serious fear of your life or someone else's, consider a crossbow, given that you are in Canada.

Or give the bear to the Indians. In Canada, they can do no wrong.

t walgamuth · #44 07-11-2019, 01:43 PM

I think a squirrel would be a handful for most cats. Just imagine how strong they are....they run up and down trees hanging on by their toenails.

Diesel911 · #45 07-11-2019, 05:39 PM

"I was surprised that large Canadian cities like Toronto are experiencing a substantial rat problem. Yet seem unable to bring it under control as well. To say I dislike rats is an understatement. They closed the farm next door years ago. The next year we had more rats around than you could shake a stick at. I set out a lot of traps and was quite busy resetting them for quite some time. Than they seemed to disappear."

There is a DVD about Rats in I believe it was Baltimore Maryland. One of the Cities Exterminators narrates and speaks to People on the street and spreads poison around. His conclusion was that the Rats reproduce too fast for the poisoning to keep up with them. When one Rat is killed it still leaves what ever resources the dear Rat was living on for the next Rat that comes along.

When I was in German the Garbage/Trash Containers were small and made of heavy steel with a steel lid that reminded me of a pressure cooker. The lid is locked down until stuff goes in or out.

The smaller Cities usually had a small dump area several miles outside of town (it is a wet place except in Winter stuff eventually rots away) I have seen Rats in the Dumps but not in the Cities. Also the Streets are kept clean and free of trash.