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["Thomas Olenio" <tolenio@sentex.net>]

Hi,

Just the circle of life.

I have never seen a cat catch a bird, as in the countryside, birds are  
much too wary when on the ground to be caught.

I like songbirds, but I like eating fruit too.

Don't think of it as losing song birds, think of it as improving the song  
bird gene pool.

Think of those poor people in the Niagara region having to listen to  
cannons all day  long, that keep birds off the fruit (along with netting).

Later,
Tom

On Fri, 6 May 2005 09:24:12 -0500, Diane Porter <dporter@lisco.com> wrote:

> Doesn't it break your heart to see the cats destroying the birds around  
> your home? I don't think I could tolerate it.
>
> Diane Porter, Fairfield, Iowa
> dporter@birdwatching.com
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>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lucky Pittman"  
> <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>
> To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 9:19 AM
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] hungry voles and tasty trees
>
>
> > Back 5 years or so ago, while my wife was still working as a practicing  
> > veterinarian, some low-life dumped a queen and box of kittens on the  
> > clinic doorstep. Voila!  We ended up with three more cats - two whites  
> > and a gray tabby.  She and the kids had every intention of making them  
> > housecats, but (thankfully, for me) one or more of them refused to use  
> > the litter box - preferring instead to urinate on my eldest daughter's  
> > bed or any piece of clothing the kids left lying on the floor - so, out  
> > they went - spayed and declawed on the front.
> > All are fat as hogs, but hunt continuously.  Unfortunately, I rarely  
> > see them in the orchard  - they prefer to eat bluebirds/songbirds in  
> > the yard or catch frogs from around the farmpond, which is located  
> > about 100 ft from the house.
> > Every morning from May to October, it's not unusual to step out the  
> > front door and find a couple of Leopard frogs lying on the welcome mat,  
> > sans rear legs, looking up with a 'Help Me!' look, kinda like Vincent  
> > Price in the original "The Fly".  I usually pick 'em up, walk over to  
> > the pond, and pitch 'em in to the catfish.  I don't have any frog-size  
> > wheelchairs.
> >
> > When it comes to catching and dispatching voles, my son's mixed breed  
> > dog - she's the 'default' dog, kinda like those you see prowling the  
> > streets of Delhi or around garbage dumps in any third-world country in  
> > the National Geographic specials - is tops, around our place.  She's  
> > constantly digging for them in the orchard & nut grove.  I praise her  
> > for each catch, but there are some pretty bad holes out there anymore -  
> > I have to watch my step or I'll break an ankle.
> >
> > Lucky Pittman
> > USDA Cold Zone 6
> > AHS Heat Zone 7
> > Hopkinsville, KY
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