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Killer Cat
me ^ | 4/20/18 | eastforker

Posted on 04/20/2018 6:19:39 PM PDT by eastforker

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To: cynwoody
They're a protected species

Tell that to the magpies, crows, owls, squirrels, coons, skunks, bobcats, wolverines, bears, fox and woofs that prey on birds, baby birds, birds' eggs and, for that matter, birdbrains.

81 posted on 04/21/2018 5:16:54 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: eastforker

My cat Pee Wee got one eye pecked out as a kitten because he wouldn’t leave the rooster alone. Since then, he has killed many dozens of birds, frogs, mice, and moles. Plus chipmunks, squirrels, and several snakes.

He and Professor Boodles and Lulu (the dogs) team up on moles. The cat finds them and stands next to the spot, then the dogs dig them up. How they know where to dig I don’t know.

Currently I have a dead chipmunk and 2 mice in the mud room awaiting disposal. Cats. Gotta love ‘em.


82 posted on 04/21/2018 5:40:54 AM PDT by TnGOP (Petey the dog is my foreign policy adviser. He's really quite good!)
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To: eastforker

Lucky you! All we ever got was entrails.


83 posted on 04/21/2018 5:51:51 AM PDT by Wheelman81
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To: TnGOP

I just took him out and released him. Hopped away and found a brush pile to hide in.


84 posted on 04/21/2018 5:53:41 AM PDT by eastforker (All in, I'm all Trump,what you got!)
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To: eastforker

We have a killer Chihuahua that keeps all cats out of our yard. They only come inside that fence one time. We just say “,kitty, kitty” and open the back door. :-)


85 posted on 04/21/2018 7:37:28 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: eastforker
I don’t have any now, but I like cats. Always have, but... they are first order killers for sport and they rarely eat what they kill.

As such, I really don’t want them in my yard killing the lizards or the birds at the feeders, nor do I want them leaving neat piles of cat piss and poop in my garden and flower beds.

It’s funny how we view some stuff. If a neighbor’s dog was running loose and doing similar things on my property, it would not be tolerated by me or by the city.

There are laws prohibiting it and that also make the dog owner responsible for all damages their dog might do while running free, and most dog owners don’t let their dogs run free for those and similar reasons.

But, while city ordinances view stray and uncontrolled loose dogs and cats in the same way, cat owners, my former self included, do not see nor have a problem with letting their cats roam free.

Fwiw, I wouldn’t shoot a neighbor’s animal in my yard unless it was rabid or was hurting one of mine, but I know other people who don’t have those limits and they wouldn’t hesitate.

Their answer to loose animals on their property is: “Shoot, shovel, and shut up.”

86 posted on 04/21/2018 8:28:04 AM PDT by GBA (Onward through the fog, Scud Runners!)
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To: Fightin Whitey

No problem anti freeze works good


87 posted on 04/21/2018 8:44:53 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: cynwoody

Turn around is fair play.


88 posted on 04/21/2018 8:57:05 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: jyo19

#79 just for you


89 posted on 04/21/2018 8:58:06 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: CGASMIA68

Yes, legions of birds have died from the pretty blue drank.

Get right on it!!


90 posted on 04/21/2018 9:02:06 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Slyfox

That is so sad. Maybe one day she/he will slow some love. It took 5 years & many stages of trust for her to come in this past Christmas. If someone had told me that she would be lying on my chest purring I would have laughed.

Will hope good things for your feral.


91 posted on 04/21/2018 9:06:19 AM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: CGASMIA68
Pretty Pretty
92 posted on 04/21/2018 9:07:04 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Fightin Whitey

I didn’t pay attention to your nickname during our little spat here, even though I now realize I have looked at it a thousand times before.

I try never to get crosswise with Freepers who have military ties.

My respect and appreciation to them far outweigh whatever my quibble might be—so I tip my hat and bid you well.

p.s. I have flocks of birds around my place, and a small herd of feral cats as well. The cats are well fed and they seldom kill a bird, especially if I put the bird feeders where the ferals can’t get to them-—a high branch, inside a small wire tree fence, etc.


93 posted on 04/21/2018 9:19:38 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: eastforker

Nature is fierce and vicious.

If cats roam free to kill creatures, we must also support them being killed at times by larger predators.


94 posted on 04/21/2018 11:25:08 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Q is Admiral Michael S. Rogers)
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