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| Where I'm at I wouldnt mind people droping off cats at are place they dont tend to last long coyotes tend toget the ones that wonder further than our wind break
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| Well this is kind of off topic but we used to have a lab that would drown mice in her water bucket! Usually there was at least one every day! Lol, she wasn't good for any farm work because she would always try and kill our chickens, but boy was she a good mouser!! She was a rescue, btw.
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| It seems to be a belief of those who live in the city, the country will look after them. When I was growing up we lived just a few miles outside the city. It didn't happen all the time, but it was not uncommon to find bags, literally, of cats and kittens just dumped off on the road side. Almost like the assumed the cats would find a barn somewhere and thus be feed. Not sure of the why cause we never saw the people do it. My Dad would take them all down to the humane society (pound) to be adopted out.
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well to some degree I'd say that statement is true. Granted "the city" is far away...we have some very very large towns around here, but they look nothing like NYC or AC what have you... don't know what Williamsport or Corning would be per say...
I gladly take them in, feed them and whatever I can do here to bring them to health, however it's not like I'm going to then put a bell on them and let them sleep in my bed. In many cases we find we have a high turn over with barn cats. 3 went threw the barn cleaner, 2 in other equipment and more than 1 to a ground hog.
But it's not like it's a safe place to start with here. Pets that come here will learn to get out of the way...or something will happen.
our local "shelter" closed and the local no kill seems to have dropped off the planet.
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Our "cats" are two 10 pound Jack Russell Terriers. We recently built them a nice place in the new horse barn, they really hated living in the house. They are great for anything that does not belong, mice, rats, possum, racoons, ground hogs, you name it. Sometimes I see a cat run across the pasture, I assume they also help with the mice, but they are not fed here. For their own safety they must know when the JRT'S are out because they would be dinner themselves. Now if I could just get something to chase off Elvis the neighbor dog, who likes to have his morning "moment" at my back door!
Steph
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Hot sauce, Eggs whipped smooth, placed in the sun for a time...and squirted from a squirt gun will keep the King off your stoop.
I have beagles for those larger critters. 2 dead chucks per day in the yard...promptly feed to the chickens
The vast amounts of grain here would keep an army of those little dogs busy for a year.
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We cannot have farm cats here. A few years ago there was a rabies outbreak between skunks and barn cats and the hunt was on. Just about every farmer in the area had to get rabies shots and that is very expensive for humans. Because most farmers here lack health insurance, the USDA came in and got some sort or emergency funding for the rabies treatments. ($1200 bucks!)
But getting shots of rabbies treatment was better then the cats. They simply got shot. Some farmers lacked the heart for one reason or another, so I know of one farm that paid the tractor mechanic to hunt them down. At first it was not hard, but after 10 or so they made themselves scarce so they ended up paying this guy mechanics wages to thin out the flock of cats. It was crazy.
Now that the epidemic is over though, cats are simply taken care of as they come. I'm sure some farms still have barn cats, but for the most part they have gravitated to dogs that chase rats/mice for rodent control. That is what I use and they don't contract rabies like the cats did.
One of my pet peeves in life is people that refuse to take care of the animals they have in their care. Whether doctoring them as babies, or euthanasia, I wish people would do what is best for the animal...and the farm...rather then dumping them off on other people.
Eat lamb...because 50,000 coyotes CAN'T be wrong!
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| I agree DB, if you're going to get an animal... look after it. The minute your get one you are responsible for it. Don't want the responsibility, then give it away, sell it or take it to a shelter, but don't just dump it on someone else.
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| The trouble here is that the shelter was just unafordable. No one would go there for pets becouse it was just not cost effective.$110 for a cat in these times?....and if folks have free cats in the paper every day (this morings paper, 12 listings) then why? Our barn cats are spoiled. However they may not be by some who think they must sleep in my house... or have fancy foods. Folks think Free Ranged chickens are happyer..why not cats?
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| A lot of people don't care about cats and will just let them run wild and then just drop them off...When we moved to our farm we already had 7 cats that we keep inside...All 7 of these cats are fixed, and they are all cats that we have collected that are or I should say that were strays...Now they are part of our family...however...sense moving here we have inherited three adult cats from next door when the man died... his family took care of the two dogs but did not care about the cats...we now have 8 cats...yes we will keep these and I need to see if our local vet will make a deal with me on getting the female spay...however I have always had this problem and until people start taking care of there animals this will happen and those of use that love and respect animals will have to pick up the pieces...I think you are doing great...More power to you...I say Thank God for People like you... Lynn
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