Barn Cat?

[tcreeley]

Most of our strays over the years are neglected house cats- dropped off in the woods, or the owners left them behind when they moved.

In my 20's I was doing my hour commute to work when I saw 6 or 7 week old kitten facing the woods, but sitting on the white line of a divided highway. I stopped, backed up to the kitten. It never moved. I got out scooped it up and took him to work with me where I kept him in an open box for the day. It was in shock. He became Smoky and I had him for 13 or 14 years. He moved with us to Maine.


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[ovrszd]

It takes a pretty callous person to just let feral cats breed an endless supply of victims.

I grew up on a hog farm. Saw my Dad step into a pen with a sow and new litter many times. Grab the runt by the back legs and whack it's head against the nearest sturdy item, killing it and then throwing the lifeless body on the manure pile. One time my "city cousins" were visiting and witnessed this event. They both went to the house crying. I'm sure they were altered for life.

Point being sometimes action appears callous to one person and normal to another.

 

[ovrszd]

And we'd have more native Americans, too.

Good one.

 

[MossRoad]

And Buffalo, dodo birds, carrier pigeons, Ivory billed wood peckers etc...etc...
And BTW...who is to say what " native" means when it comes to human inhabitants ?

Anyone that walked here... :laughing:

 

[MossRoad]

I grew up on a hog farm. Saw my Dad step into a pen with a sow and new litter many times. Grab the runt by the back legs and whack it's head against the nearest sturdy item, killing it and then throwing the lifeless body on the manure pile. One time my "city cousins" were visiting and witnessed this event. They both went to the house crying. I'm sure they were altered for life.

Point being sometimes action appears callous to one person and normal to another.

Putting a runt down with a fast blow to the head is not anything like letting diseased cats roam around for weeks until they croak.

 

[TomSeller]

If feed is scarce, i understand not raising runts. We always have a hard time using up all our hay, so we raise the runt calves. Heck, we've raised a half blind calf (called it "spinner" because it tended to walk in circles), a calf with dislocated hip (called it "3-leg", it hopped when walking but when it ran you could hardly tell the difference), in addition to the little guys. You have to separate them from the herd, the herd is brutal on the ones with something wrong. But they eat up my unused hay and sell by the pound.

 

[Looking4new]

If feed is scarce, i understand not raising runts. We always have a hard time using up all our hay, so we raise the runt calves. Heck, we've raised a half blind calf (called it "spinner" because it tended to walk in circles), a calf with dislocated hip (called it "3-leg", it hopped when walking but when it ran you could hardly tell the difference), in addition to the little guys. You have to separate them from the herd, the herd is brutal on the ones with something wrong. But they eat up my unused hay and sell by the pound.

A buddy of mine had a calf born blind....He wanted to off it...His Dad said NO, they tied it in the barn and fed it hay all summer long....I bought it in the fall and it was real good eating veal for that winter.

 

[ovrszd]

Putting a runt down with a fast blow to the head is not anything like letting diseased cats roam around for weeks until they croak.

I'll stick with my first statement, "sometimes action appears callous to one person and normal to another".

 

[ovrszd]

A buddy of mine had a calf born blind....He wanted to off it...His Dad said NO, they tied it in the barn and fed it hay all summer long....I bought it in the fall and it was real good eating veal for that winter.

I rest my case.

 

[MossRoad]

I'll stick with my first statement, "sometimes action appears callous to one person and normal to another".

In the context of the thread, that would imply you find it normal to let a diseased cat run around for weeks until it croaks.