uh... but how did you get *him* to move out when his job was done?!?
nico.
On Jan 9, 2009, at 6:36 AM, Charles Geilfuss wrote:
Yow! Mother Nature *can* be a real bitch. For controlling mice,
nothing
beats a Black Snake (aka Black Racer). I had an army of mice living
in my
garage until a Racer moved in (I found a shed skin in the grage door
springs). They're very thin and can work their way into the smallest
crack.
He didn't even have to catch all the mice; once they sensed him the mice
moved out.
Charlie
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Chris Crawford
<chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:
> Wow, I've never had a cat get eaten. Not much in Indiana that will
> tangle
> with a cat. My grandpa's old cat, Molly, has killed two
> rattlesnakes. When
> I
> lived in Santa Fe, people used to talk of cats being eaten by
> coyotes and
> one person I knew had a cat get eaten by a large owl. That woman had
> several
> horses and she kept complaining that her barn was full of mice and she
> couldn't seem to get rid of them. Noticing that she didn't have any
> cats, I
> suggested getting one to live in the barn. That's when she told me
> that her
> last cat got eaten by the owl that lives in a tree on her property.
> She
> says
> she saw the owl tear her cat apart while it was still alive! That
> traumatized her and she never got another cat.
>
>
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>
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> On 1/8/09 6:44 PM, "WayneS" <om3ti@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Nice sequence.
>>
>> We have a cat who roams our neighborhood, but never lets me get
>> close.
>>
>> Problem in our neighborhood is that predators usually consume cats
>> that
>> roam the neighborhood. We have lost 4 cats. I know one was to a fox.
>> The others were either from a fisher cat or coyotes.
>>
>> Our latest two cats, against my long history with cats, are
>> relegated to
>> indoors.
>>
>> my dude Zeus:
>> http://www.zuik.net/OM-4t/zeusey_MG_9273.jpg
>>
>> WayneS
>>
>>
>
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