To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] How to get (and keep) a junk yard cat
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:23:23 -0600
Title: Message
I find it
difficult to accept your view that your cats don't do much harm to birds; it's
been well established by studies both here in the USA and Britain that cats
allowed to roam outdoors kill a lot of birds, both adult and juvenile. -- Sam
Brungardt, St. Paul, Minn.
-----Original Message----- From:
nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On
Behalf Of JoanRRosenberg@aol.com Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007
8:25 PM To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org Subject: Re: [NAFEX] How
to get (and keep) a junk yard cat
Not to be picky, but I actually do TNR and have a rescue
colony. I am in NY. One year we did have a round of racoon
distemper, and ALL colonies on Long Island got hit. We all lost cats (even
vaccinated ones) and some of us sent biopsies to Cornell Veterinary. After
much research, Cornell came back to us with Racoon distemper which transferred
to cats, not dogs, and there was no vaccination. Every area has its own
microclimate and species, and what I get here on LI will be different from Va
Beach or Oregon, etc.
I would warn you that not all cats chase
squirrels. Mine have elminated mice, rats, moles, tree shrews,
rabbits. The squirrels, raccoons, and possums remain. They
don't do much to the birds, the birds are too smart. All they get are
babies that fall out of nests.