Will water and sand be the next oil?

[oosik]

Around here I need a few swingin' cats to help with the mice, pocket gophers and wood rats. The neighbor has said he will be getting me three pure nasty barn cats. None too soon.

 

[newbury]

Around here I need a few swingin' cats to help with the mice, pocket gophers and wood rats. The neighbor has said he will be getting me three pure nasty barn cats. None too soon.

Have you tried snakes?

 

[oosik]

I've got snakes here but apparently not enough in numbers & types. Mainly garter and rubber boa's. I think I will prefer barn cats - the size and type that can handle the wood rats I've dispatched lately - NO, I'll stick with the barn cats.

 

[MossRoad]

 

[/pine]

Around here I need a few swingin' cats to help with the mice, pocket gophers and wood rats. The neighbor has said he will be getting me three pure nasty barn cats. None too soon.

The prudent thing to do is eliminate the food or whatever environment that is attracting the unwanted species...(lazy people do not like this approach)

Using invasive, non native predators to eradicate unwanted native wildlife is idiotic at best and may be illegal... if the cats you harbor do not have up to date rabies etc. vaccine it is criminal in most places...

Don't be lazy...shoot the cats...!

 

[oosik]

BTW - /pine did you just sit on a splinter or fall on your head?? Everybody in this neck of the woods finds that cats are the most efficient method to control unwanted rodents. And - FYI - the rodents are here because I live out in the bush. I'm really sorry but your post simply makes no sense - - "shoot the cats".

One of these days you should update your viewer profile and let us all know where you are located - - maybe that's part of the problem.

 

[/pine]

BTW - /pine did you just sit on a splinter or fall on your head?? Everybody in this neck of the woods finds that cats are the most efficient method to control unwanted rodents. And - FYI - the rodents are here because I live out in the bush. I'm really sorry but your post simply makes no sense - - "shoot the cats".

One of these days you should update your viewer profile and let us all know where you are located - - maybe that's part of the problem.

It only makes no sense to someone that has some...
First of all popularity and or location has absolutely NOTHING to do with what is right or wrong and FYI using/releasing non native, invasive predator species is not only wrong it's stupid. Since stupidity can't be fixed it may have something to do with the major environmental issues that non native species inflict on native flora and fauna...! DUH!

secondly...adding a location is nothing but a peeve of some members that actually does little if anything to help in aiding user issues...it's just something that nosy people like to gripe about thinking it's germane...which it is not to 99.9% of the queries posted...

 

[ultrarunner]

Coming from an area where a small lawn on a 5,000 square foot lot will generate a $300 to $400 monthly water bill is one of the reasons I was attracted to the Pacific Northwest...

One of my brothers spent tens of thousands of dollars two years ago and came up dry... even down 800 feet... just so he could go ahead and plant his orchard...

I do miss the neighborhood growing up where each home was neat and tidy with a manicured green lawn... just not happening much around here anymore... at least in my part of the SF Bay Area.

Even Lake Tahoe often has severe water restrictions... and the area is shoreline to one of the largest and purest alpine lakes in North America...

 

[aczlan]

Using invasive, non native predators to eradicate unwanted native wildlife is idiotic at best and may be illegal... if the cats you harbor do not have up to date rabies etc. vaccine it is criminal in most places...

Don't be lazy...shoot the cats...!

In many states (New York for one) it is illegal to shoot cats, it is considered animal cruelty and will get you jail time if you get caught.

Aaron Z

 

[/pine]

In many states (New York for one) it is illegal to shoot cats, it is considered animal cruelty and will get you jail time if you get caught.

Aaron Z

Any cat etc. that is given food or shelter is the responsibility of the giver and that responsibility also covers keeping said animals up to date on required vaccines and inoculations etc...which refraining from is actually a harsher cruelty than euthanizing...