Joined: 27 Jul 2009 Posts: 7380 Location: Just south of north.
Posted: Fri Aug 28, 20 8:07 am Post subject:
These millennial cats are lazy MR. We have a few around our area and will the catch and kill the pesky squirrel? Nope, all they do is pick on the birds.
I hope your next war goes well DPack. There is always someone who wants to come along and start another skirmish.
Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Posts: 6614 Location: New England (In the US of A)
Posted: Fri Aug 28, 20 3:34 pm Post subject:
Maybe the British cats are lazy....
Mine gets rodents all the time, and I've only known him to get maybe one bird.
He got his second rabbit, at least second that I know of, earlier this summer....
I think cats come to our garden to get away from the boring neatly manicured grass and nothing else in their own gardens. Perhaps they have had it a bit easy and only play war games in our garden rather than do the thing properly. I would have thought they could do a proper patrol in the greenhouse at least, as it seems to be a favourite sun lounge.
i always thought dick rational(even if he was not on my side of history)and his reports of large predator chewing the deer were very credible
perhaps a puma is overkill for rats and might have friendly fire issues among the local small kids etc
which reminds me to remove the bird food for the night , the box of doom has seeds ans cheese and bacon butty crust
i will see how long this one takes, i want to return bird and sammison town to the rightful owners
ps i am fairly comfy with biggish puss ambling around, if they are, and they do not seem to not harm folk or domestic critters
that said my wolf was mistaken for a bear and his footprint was submitted to the local paper as "proof"
i did not enlighten them but it did explain the screaming in the woods
if they had called it in as "wolf" i might have been a little concerned but mistaking ronnie (who was charming and chilled) for a bear was hysterically funny
not all large unusual critter reports are accurate
ps ronnie was a pretty good herding mutt with sheep or cattle, he taught me more than i taught him
A Swamp cat was found dead not far from us, and we think we have or had a big cat of some sort. We got a picture of the footprint which was definitely cat and not dog, and was far bigger than a domestic cat. We think we have seen it too. I may have done, but thought at the time it might be a dog (labrador sort of size), but the tail wasn't quite right for a dog. Haven't been any sightings for a few years, so it may have died, but it wandered around our area and gave a few people rather nasty frights when they saw it. No reports of it attacking anyone.
cheese, birdseed and bacon butty crusts seem rather effective
if there were at least two i now wonder how many more i need to get
it has been a few years since the last invasion, when the pub cleared some outbuildings to rent them to the builders(we have 3 related sets within a few houses)
recently there has been the hotel conversion and a fair bit of garden clearance as new folk moved in (and the cats moved out)
it might just be a general thing of less urban street food which has made them go for domestic premises, i have noticed a lot less chook bones and pizza crusts over the last few months which is nice but has consequences
this one is a bit smaller than the last one who was well chunky
i might have heard something nasty(scrabbling)in the wood shed
i like em but not on their terms, ratty de foie gras mostly lived in my shirt(until he was eaten by dogpuss when i popped out to the shops, i took her firstborn and that worked out fine, bagel was a good mutt)
ratta twoie was not as close(a black rat i raised from un weaned orphan) but we were chums even if he ate the corner off 1200 very collectable 2000ad comics
r2 was encouraged to go "feral" or he was returned to the wild as i prefer to think of it, but he never lost his love of custard crème bickies
knowing their ways does make "difficultly placed" ones easier to murder
even farm ones are fairly easy if you know their ways
i was a bit sad retrieving the mangled, i really like them in the right circumstances
dyed pink with food colour and sitting on your shoulder in a waitrose checkout queue is fun when folk dought their sanity and/or eyesight
They do tend to move round in groups, but hope you don't get any more. We have had to evict them from our yard in the woods, which we had to do with poison I am afraid.
On a slightly different topic, I do like the wood mice we get there, but I wish they would be a bit more selective about what they eat and where they nest. My birch top for besoms is not a good nest site imo.
and don't "play" with your toe at 4 am.
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