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Chicago Releases 1,000 Feral Cats To Fight Rat Infestation
https://www.unilad.co.uk ^ | BY : NIAMH SHACKLETON ON : 12 MAY 2021 13:52

Posted on 05/12/2021 10:34:18 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger

I hoped it would read Chicago releases 2000 Feral yutes over the middle of the Arctic Ocean…


41 posted on 05/12/2021 11:16:53 AM PDT by Starcitizen (So Indian H1B crybaby trash runs Free Republic moderation??? Seems so. )
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To: Red Badger

If they want to get rid of RATS, they need to use dogs.

Cats are big enough for mice and other rodents, but they aren’t big enough for rats.


42 posted on 05/12/2021 11:19:23 AM PDT by Brookhaven
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To: tet68

Surprised it wasn’t a racoon.

Cities are overrun with racoons, but they are so good at hiding, people don’t realize they are present.


43 posted on 05/12/2021 11:21:40 AM PDT by Brookhaven
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To: Red Badger

Ms. Light in the Loafers would make a great cat herder.


44 posted on 05/12/2021 11:41:28 AM PDT by chopperk
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To: Caipirabob
- They are going to need bigger cats if they want to get rid of all those damned democrats. -

We have a spare tiger running around loose in Houston.

45 posted on 05/12/2021 11:47:31 AM PDT by ken in texas
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To: Red Badger

Next up: Bill Gates announces the release of genetically modified cat fleas to eliminate the feral cat population in Chicago!


46 posted on 05/12/2021 11:49:30 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (I'd rather be anecdotally alive than scientifically dead...)
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To: Red Badger

But every time the cats hear a can opener there will be a huge stampede in Chicago.


47 posted on 05/12/2021 11:58:19 AM PDT by Riley85
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To: Red Badger

So after all the rats are gone, how do you get rid of the feral cats? They will infest your flower gardens, open all your garbage bags and strew it everywhere, reproduce themselves constantly.

. They will wake you up at night scratching on your screens and having cat fights. They will kill your songbirds and all their baby birds. Soon your whole neighborhood will smell like a giant litter box, almost like a pig farm.

Feral cats rank right up there with rats after a while.


48 posted on 05/12/2021 12:34:25 PM PDT by Hattie
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To: Hattie

This is Chicago.

They won’t notice.........................


49 posted on 05/12/2021 12:36:03 PM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Several years ago we bought a 10 acre property that was infested with feral cats. The city wouldn’t let me use them for target practice so we started catching, fixing and releasing them. We fixed 40 the first year and 20 the next. We got the last of the breeders about 5 years ago and the total population of the colony has gradually dropped down to less than a half-dozen and is still falling. Feral cats have an average life span of 3-4 years, so if you can stop them from breeding they all eventually die off.

I still put feed out for them so I can keep count and watch out for any new breeders. A couple of times pregnant cats showed up that I had never seen before and I am pretty sure they were being dumped there. I have never seen a live snake or rat on the property, but occasionally come across the remains of half eaten ones. Lots of feathers too.


50 posted on 05/12/2021 1:59:13 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (Dementia Joe is Not My President!)
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To: Red Badger
Years ago when I was a union laborer I was working in Philly demolishing an old building, think was Wanamakers Department Store.

Anyway I heard some commotion above me in the ceiling. Sounded like something scratching and squeaking. Just then a part of the old plaster ceiling fell out and down came the biggest rat I ever saw. At first I thought it was a cat. It was fat, brown big and ugly.

51 posted on 05/12/2021 2:13:08 PM PDT by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses . Now governed by idiots.)
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To: mosesdapoet

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52 posted on 05/12/2021 3:21:17 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (AKA Lee J Keslin posting in the hopes comments get passed around )
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To: cuban leaf

LOL


53 posted on 05/12/2021 3:52:02 PM PDT by BozoTexino (RIP GOP)
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To: jmacusa
It was fat, brown big and ugly.

Stacy Abrams?...............

54 posted on 05/13/2021 5:05:18 AM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Yeah, just might have been.


55 posted on 05/13/2021 7:34:33 AM PDT by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses . Now governed by idiots.)
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