Posted on 07/28/2022 7:59:44 AM PDT by Bon of Babble
There’s a number of feral cats around my house that don’t seem to impact the local sparrow, grackle and cow bird populations. I guess they’re leaving that up to me with my pellet rifle......
Crows around here steal eggs and babies from nests. They even kill pigeon nestlings.
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Cats make wonderful reactive targets for plinking...
Sorry, if you let the cats out of the house it is a bad idea - not good for their protection - to declaw them, but if you don’t declaw them many refuse to be trained to keep their claws off your clothes, your skin and other things. Many cats will do a sort of “massaging” motion with their paws which is not really an attempt to massage you, it’s more like a nesting habit, and when you’r body is the “nest” their claws dig into you. I have seriously belted more than one of a relative’s cat’s that made that maneuver on me. He’s lucky I did not haul them off to the pound.
Dogs are easily trained not to claw your furniture and when relaxing with you do not get their claws into you. Dogs are polite, while cats just don’t give a dam.
The Poles better hope that these disparaging comments don’t make it back to the Kzinti home world.
“Cats are the apex predator of HI.”
When I lived in Maui I asked a cat that hung around a local restaurant. A gorgeous Maine Coon. She moved to CA with us, then NY, then back to CA. Eventually to Rainbow Bridge after 15 years.
I have a pic of her nise-to-nose with a mouse on our patio. We figured they were cutting a deal to coexist, which they did, I guess.
So long, and thanks for all the gold fish
‘invasive alien species’?
you know, that might just explain a lot of things about my cat ... its mind control ability for one thing; like how it’s managed to get total control of the household and be waited on hand and foot 24 x 7 x 365 ...
and a very lovely working cat at that!
We had five cats declawed. All 100% indoor. Then we brought in another feral and decided that declawing is something we never should’ve done, so didn’t declaw her.
It’s been seven years and never once have we seen her use her claws on any of the other cats, or any person. She has two big scratching posts and uses them and nothing else. She’s super sweet and mellow.
The other cats use the scratching post, too, ‘cause they think they have claws. Instinct.
russian olives declared “invasive” too, but i love ‘em (except when their wicked thorns slice you up when you try to remove dead ones)
https://www.google.com/search?q=russian+olice
declawing cats is cruel, evil and illegal in many jurisdictions ... declawing is equivalent to chopping off the first joint of all of your fingers ... it destroys the cat’s ability to stretch its spine, which will eventually cripple the cat ...
Cool images, Bon of Babble. Hat a Maine Coon. Nice to see these splendid pics.
We always had cats growing up. Never had dogs. They were indoor/outdoor cats. We had a couple horses and a pony too. The kittens were born in the barn, but became house pets too.
I recall one day observing one adult female as she walked from the house to the barn. A bird kept dive bombing her. She jumped about four feet straight up in the air and caught this bird with her claws. She killed it right there. It was incredible. I still remember it 50 years later.
You just have to keep their claws clipped. If you start right away when they’re young, they adjust to having it done.
No. You just have to not give a cat a home. That is my take 100%.
Id’ no more have a cat than I would a gold fish - booooooring.
I’ve had cats all my life. Wouldn’t be a HOME without one.
Different strokes, I guess...
The gov’t is going to do its “best” to declare many more plants as “invasive species”, so now many growers are hybridizing the species into separate cultivars, to avoid the negative designation. Too often, the new cultivars just aren’t as hardy as the original species breeder and crossover.
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