spring and barn cats

[greg b]

spring is finally coming to northwest wisconsin it snowed 10'' a couple of days ago it allready melted, i also have about 15 barn cats i feed all winter 4 or 5 have left and now i'm starting to get the neibors cats, its kind of interesting to see what shows up, most of them are pretty scraggly but every once in awhile i get a nice looking heathy one ,they stay a few days then their gone.

 

[Michael Soldan]

Ah yes, the gene pool exchange..have the same thing happen at my barn too...

 

[hillbillyOH]

Shoot. Them.

15 will be 50 by August.

 

[Rich Va]

hillbilly,would you want anyone shooting at you?

 

[Kirk Grau]

I keep hoping for a cat or two to take up residence in our barn. Could use some help keeping the vermin under control. Not sure why none show up here.

 

[Nancy Howell]

We just had a long-haired gray female show up at our farm. Nearly starved to death. Obviously she was a house cat that someone dumped. Hubby and I both are soft-hearted when it comes to hurting animals and she now has a place at the farm. If you have a farm, you gotta have barn cats. Our place ran out of cats for a while and rats and mice were everywhere. Chewed all kinds of stuff to shreds not to mention what they left behind.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Thats just not so. Cat population same as human population has a way of controlling itself. Get to many for available space and they start dwindling from disease, war, starvation, social pecking order, gang fighting, etc. etc.

 

[rrlund]

Yea,the old ma cat was pregnant. Only had one kitten yesterday. Farms are gettin so darned far apart around here,every place has to have their own tom cat!

 

[730 virgil]

yea, we will soon have more cats than we want.
people see our big red barn and zing out goes a cat and we have another one stepping up tp dinner plate.
ain't all bad if they catch mice and are not sick.
mrs 730 says we have a half way house for cats.

 

[Sid]

Why in the world would you want to shoot them when they can be turned into oil.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Bio Diesel?

 

[hillbillyOH]

No, but at the very least, feral cats should be trapped and neutered/spayed.

 

[Jim H SW-PA]

Yeah but as flying belgian said,[ Cats is the same population as humans] How would you like that to happen to you?

 

[BarryfromIA]

I feed them every morning, not a lot but more than they clean up right away. They may wander, but aways come back after a day or two. If I was not buying cat food I would be buying poison. I would rather see cats than vermin and cats can be entertaining out here where not much else is happening.

 

[mkirsch]

Old Roy, how about you look at it the other way?

Would you rather die slowly of starvation and disease, or would you rather have an angel of mercy put you out of your misery quickly?

Would you rather live a long healthy life without the ability to reproduce, or would you rather your urges doom you to a prolonged suffering and death from starvation and disease because you overpopulated your domain?

 

[Jim H SW-PA]

I have already lived a fairley long life The ability to reproduce,----- Well who want's to go to their childrens graduation at 108 yr's old any way. As far as death from starvation and disease, Our government is takeing care of that anyway. AS you know lack of money can't buy good healthcare. And prices at the grocery store keeps your choices to a minimum. Guess i'll go shoot a deer to go with the taters tonight!!!