The Evil of the Outdoor Cat

[riderinthestorm]

60. They nest in the trees in our front paddock. We see and hear them daily.

The eagles tend to stay closer to the creek in order to avoid the owls as they come through but that's still just a scant few acres down the hill. We see them hunting when we hack around the farm fields. Red tail hawks are also extremely common and regularly hunt all around us.

And I repeat I'm surrounded by many hundreds of thousands of acres of corporate farmed IL farmland. We hack around the perimeters of the closer fields - so there's PLENTY of room to do what we need to do while giving the predator birds plenty of room to do what they do.

Obviously. Since they nest and live here.

Furthermore, I don't have tom cats, never have (after they've been trapped, vaxxed and fixed which is asap when they land on the property). All of the current bunch of cats are medium sized now but the last one was dumped here as a young kitten just last July, maybe 8 weeks old at the time. I'd notice if one of them went missing so checking the owl pellets for cat hair is silly. The cats are an essential part of our farm family - they're in and out of the barns and house all day.