On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:42:13 +1100, Broce >
wrote:
>On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 22:04:03 -0500, wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 18:25:39 -0800 (PST), "
> wrote:
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>>>On Monday, January 29, 2018 at 8:16:17 PM UTC-6, Broce wrote:
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>>>> I can't believe they chopped part of his ear off. Must have been a
>>>> Jewish vet.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Vets notch the ears of feral cats brought in to be spayed and neutered
>>>here as well.
>>
>>Exzactly, Vets notch Feral's ears all over the US. Feral cats are
>>protected and that's how they are ID'd, they are also chipped. It's
>>illegal to remove them from where they live and the fines are into the
>>many thousand$. Feral cats are very valuable in farming communities.
>
>Feral cats are a huge ecological problem if you have any small species
>worth protecting among your wildlife. And you no doubt do. Feral dogs
>are a huge problem here too. Gary wants to eat them. He's a strange
>guy.
I know of no small livestock that feral cats attack, not unless you're
raising rats, field mice, and moles/voles.
I made small openings in my vegetable garden fence so that the feral
cats can keep it rodent free.... did the same with the fence around my
foundation plantings... voles eat plant roots and the plants die. With
feral cats voles disappear very quickly. Feral cats will hunt frogs
but frogs reproduce so rapidly and abundantly that there is no
ecological problem, plus cats rather not hunt ponds/streams.
Dogs are no problem here, no dog will make through the night, I never
see any stray dogs, coyotes get them. Cats are much better able to
survive, for one they can climb, and are excellent hunters... in
winter when food becomes scarce the feral cats head a half mile to the
next road where cattle, sheep, and llamas are raised, plenty rodents
around the feed lots and the farmers are thankful for the cats.
Livestock farmers keep barn cats. I put out food for the feral cats
but they much rather eat fresh kill.