To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] squirrels & cats & rabbits
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 11:34:05 -0700 (PDT)
The neighbors' barn cat once brought in a rabbit. (Before the days of common
home-owned video cameras, alas.) Average-size cat, GREAT hunter. She could
barely
walk for the mess of rabbit dragging between her front legs. It's possible a
hawk
killed the rabbit, and cat stole it, but she wasn't that stupid.
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> >Summary: Each cat is different. Some are excellent at killing small
> >mammals. Some like birds, snakes, insects, etc. Some don't catch prey at
> >all. (My third cat has never chased anything more exciting than a stray
> >feather.) I have no idea if you can predict what kind of a hunter one
> >will be when you acquire it.
>
> My wife & kids have three outdoor cats - they're mainly frog
> predators....