[Ag-eq] Chicken Killer!

[Susan Roe]

Hi Jody,

I'm with you about introducing predatores back in an area, especially when 
one of those reasons is to naturally keep down the deer population.  I 
personally don't want to have a natural predatore take down a deer on my 
property.  Who do you think will have to clean up the mess?  My hounds would 
have whatever they could drag away up on my front porch.  That was bad 
enough when my dad and uncle let anyone who asked hunt on the property. 
They never dressed the deer properly and never seemed to either remove what 
they didn't want or bury it quite deep enough.

It is impossible to not feed the farel cats here because they are blended 
with my own barn cats and their numbers come and go constantly.  This has 
been going on for over 50 years.  They come, have at least one litter of 
kittens, our cats manage to run them off or get run off themselves and then 
they move on within two years.  We were told by a vet that outdoor cats will 
rome up to a mile as long as there is food to have and unfixed cats.  There 
are three toms that come here during spring and summer that are unfixed, and 
who are major contributers to the gene pool.  We don't allow them to eat at 
the barn and we chase them off whenever we see them.  They are definitely 
somebody's cats.  When I start fixing whatever I get my hands on, they are 
going buy-bye to be fixed as well.

Susan
dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jody Ianuzzi" <jody at thewhitehats.com>
To: "'Agricultural and Equestrean Division List'" <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 7:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Ag-eq] Chicken Killer!


> Hello Susan,
>
> I am so sorry to hear about your chickens.
>
> I think it is totally ridiculous to to think that feral cats are part of 
> the
> natural environment.  Do they want to reintroduce coyote and wolves 
> because
> they were once there?
>
> It is an irresponsible opinion on their part.
>
> Many places here have reintroduced coyote saying they are natural.  Well,
> there were no coyote in Florida before 1920.  Before that the Florida wolf
> kept them under control but the wolf was run off too and the coyote came 
> in.
>
> It is actually illegal in Florida to feed feral cats.
>
> JODY
>
>
>
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