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  • From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Rabbits, now Outdoor Cats
  • Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 09:58:44 -0400

On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 08:47:44 -0400, you wrote:


>No grower should be without outdoor hunting cats -- they are the reason we
>don't have rabbit, mouse or vole problems (and I think they eat the
>grasshoppers in August, too) without fences. The rescue societies are all
>too happy to give feral cats a home where they can hunt all they want, so
>take them up on it!
>

They don't need to be feral cats, either. Our cat is an
indoor/outdoor cat and well fed - she is fed canned food
twice a day and has free access to as much dry food as she
wants. She's a terrific hunter.

She brings all her prizes to our front porch and drops them
there - doesn't eat them. Often she'll get 3 or 4 mice or
voles in a day. She got a lot of moles too, until she had
eliminated them.

She was adopted from an SPCA at around six months of age by
my mother and kept as a completely indoor cat. My mother
died shortly thereafter. We then took the cat. Anyway, she
spent the next three years totally indoors as we lived in
apartments then.

When we moved to our house, it took her about a month to
become accustomed to the outdoors and into her stride and
she's been hunting very assiduously and successfully ever
since.

Pat
--
"Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of
supply and demand. It is the privilege of human beings to
live under the laws of justice and mercy." - Wendell Berry




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