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LWolf

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43. See my post # 39.

Thu Jan 3, 2013, 06:35 PM

Jan 2013

I don't have 20 acres; I have 6+, and a barn. I don't let my pet cat outdoors because of the predator risk, and I deal with the rodent problem...and it is a problem, without resorting to more feral cats.

I don't know what else should be done with adult feral cats; they are not that easy to socialize, especially in larger groups. When they aren't reproducing, they don't last long. I hope, during the year that they were around after I re-released them, that they ate more rodents than birds. That seemed to be the case. There was not a spike in bird populations after they were gone, but the rodent population sure took off.

Maybe feral cats released in suburban or urban areas don't have as many predators.

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