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I can't remember if I told you this. I know I've mentioned that we've had problems with feral cats before. Anyway, back around 2003 I had been trying to kill a rather large one who was beating up on our barn cats and generally being a nuisance. I was working from home one day when he appeared over near a scrap pile at the far edge of the yard that the kids had "donated" to the possums earlier that day. I shot him out of the living room window with a .243.

When I went out there to move him to the bottom of our property, he was TOO HEAVY to lift in a large metal scoop shovel! I tied a piece of baling twine to one of his back legs and dragged him. When the boys got home I showed him to them and we all agreed that it was "close" to 50 pounds. But it was plainly a house cat. ...albeit a LARGE house cat!