Roaming cat question

[NtheSeaOrSky 0]

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[base_nz 0]

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Very true Pops.

And to the guy who feels that way, yes, I really did nurse 2 mice back to relative normalcy and let them go in my garden again. I have no problem with the critters in my yard. A chipmunk gave birth in my house then died (of natural causes as far as I know) in my house and I raised the 2 babies (Squeak, Stumpy, and Annie) until they were big enough to fend for themselves too.


I have no problem with barn/farm cats.... they do a job, they are generally to some degree feral. House cats are not feral, they are pets.

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Hmmm. Feral.(esp. of an animal) in a wild state, esp. after escape from captivity or domestication : a feral cat

So i guess my cat is a little feral..he can ESCAPE my captivity...but ive never wanted to hold him captive so i guess its alright by me!
Ive worked for the department of conservation for a few years helping native birds and plants teaching at primary schools the importance of the environment and native bush often finding and helping injured ones .But at the same time have no problems putting a bullet between the eyes of any fluffy rabbit possum or ( a proper ) feral cat to restore a bit of balance!!.

Now im in sydney and possum are a protected species... its weird but cool i can go to the park and watch them without having to kill them!


And nursing mice back to life is great...even though once you had nursed them back to life they where then eaten by a bird ,another cat, dog, mousetrap(yes people actually go out of there way to kill mice and rats ).....and a question for you.... would you have nursed it back to health if instead if being a cute mouse it was a smelly rat with scars,maybe half an ear?

Sorry ranting now it would be wrong of me to say you where silly to help those mice ...unless of course your town had a mouse problem

.....And you thought Kiwis couldn't fly!!!!

[tetra316 0]

Very cute!

[bfilarsky 0]

Just hope he doesn't get picked up by a local Chinese restaurant!!!

Good luck getting him back

[popsjumper 2]

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Just hope he doesn't get picked up by a local Chinese restaurant!!!

Good luck getting him back

Too late. It was on the menu for April 12th.

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Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239

[popsjumper 2]

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...So i guess my cat is a little feral..he can ESCAPE my captivity...but ive never wanted to hold him captive so i guess its alright by me!
...But at the same time have no problems putting a bullet between the eyes of any fluffy rabbit possum or ( a proper ) feral cat to restore a bit of balance!!.

So, I guess you won't be complaining when somebody puts a bullet between the eyes of your cat.

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And nursing mice back to life is great...even though once you had nursed them back to life they where then eaten by a bird ,another cat, dog, mousetrap(yes people actually go out of there way to kill mice and rats ).....

Even outdoor animals like a well-prepared meal every once in a while.

My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239

[MikeJD 0]

Definitely keep checking back at your old address, especially if it's in the same neighbourhood. If your little guy wanders in that direction he'll probably gravitate towards it.

I too moved just a couple of roads away, and after many months of living at the new address my cat went missing briefly. I found him sitting at the front of my old house. He seemed convinced he was in the right place, and even though he clearly knew me I had to carry him back to the new house held tightly inside my jacket and protesting loudly all the way!

As others have said, it's good to have a signal that the cat associates with being fed. I used to whistle in a distinctive way and, so long as they weren't too engrossed in something, mine would always come running. If it was at night I'd shake the box of cat biscuits instead so as to be less annoyance to the neighbours.

Good luck finding him. I don't agree with those who say all domestic cats should only be kept indoors, but then I do live in a pretty quiet neighbourhood and there seem to be nearly as many cats roaming around as people. I would say if you're going to let him out then make sure you keep up to date with his innoculations, since cats can be fatally infected by contact with others, especially if they get into fights.

I doubt leaving food out will help - it will just attract other animals of all sorts.

[tetra316 0]

Nope leaving food out did not help I just received an entertaining show from the neighborhood racoon who did not seem afraid of me at all.

Time to put up those lost posters I guess. The bad thing is I'm going out of town for a week on Wednesday.

[MikeJD 0]

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The bad thing is I'm going out of town for a week on Wednesday.

That is bad news. Sounds like an excuse to introduce yourself to your new neighbours though. Ask them to keep an eye out for your cat. You might even find he's been visiting one of them already!

[peregrinerose 0]

Rats are no more smelly than mice and don't bother me at all. Just not a very high rat population in our area.

Stuff dies, critters eat other critters, that's the circle of life. A very fat pet cat that kills things just to kill them, not eat them out of hunger, is a nuicance and a prolem.

People who don't keep their pets in their yards really bothers me. Not just because of the rodents/birds/fish that become carnage for no good reason either. When I was 17 or so, I had 2 pet rabbits. Both kept outdoors, in very large hutches that I helped my dad build out of chicken wire and treated lumber. These rabbits were both about 8 years old, very beloved pets, I had them both since they were a few months old. Played with every day. One day, I went out to feed them, in the morning before school. I found the cages both ripped open... the 1 inch wood around their boxes was knawed most of the way through, the chicken wire was torn apart. So were both of my rabbits. Pieces of them were all over the back yard. Both tried to run, one made it about 100 yards, the other only about 6 feet.

One of our neighbors (I use that term loosely, I was surrounded by cattle farms, these people lived about a mile away, I didn't know them) had 3 dogs that roamed in a pack. We found out later that they had been fined multiple times because their dogs had taken down deer in the area. The dog catcher that went to confront the people checked out the dogs and found one of my rabbits fur in one of their teeth.

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