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Dataw's Feral Cats are Fine
Feral cats are apparently very resourceful little creatures!
DIFF (Dataw Island Feline Foundation) volunteers made sure there was plenty of food and water at the feeding stations before the evacuation order due to Hurricane Matthew locked down the island. I inquired last night on the Dataw Net, any word on the ferals? All the cats have been accounted for except one shy little guy named Mini-Peanut. By all accounts he never wanted to feed with the other cats, preferring to eat by the tennis courts. Some county [shelter] workers tried to check on him before the resident volunteers came back. I'm told they couldn't get to the tennis courts due to storm debris. Yeah, it's a big mess out there, folks. It could be he Mini-Peanut is still being his usual reticent self and simply hasn't been spotted yet. I hope! Purrs that Mini-Peanut is okay. Jill |
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Dataw's Feral Cats are Fine
On Tue, 18 Oct 2016 11:31:15 -0400, jmcquown
wrote: Feral cats are apparently very resourceful little creatures! DIFF (Dataw Island Feline Foundation) volunteers made sure there was plenty of food and water at the feeding stations before the evacuation order due to Hurricane Matthew locked down the island. I inquired last night on the Dataw Net, any word on the ferals? All the cats have been accounted for except one shy little guy named Mini-Peanut. By all accounts he never wanted to feed with the other cats, preferring to eat by the tennis courts. Some county [shelter] workers tried to check on him before the resident volunteers came back. I'm told they couldn't get to the tennis courts due to storm debris. Yeah, it's a big mess out there, folks. It could be he Mini-Peanut is still being his usual reticent self and simply hasn't been spotted yet. I hope! Purrs that Mini-Peanut is okay. Jill I'm betting on Mini-Peanut being fine because they are so good at surviving. I used to panic when we'd get a huge snow storm and the cats all disappeared, then a few days later they showed up to eat. |
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On 10/18/2016 10:10 PM, dgk wrote:
On Tue, 18 Oct 2016 11:31:15 -0400, jmcquown wrote: Feral cats are apparently very resourceful little creatures! DIFF (Dataw Island Feline Foundation) volunteers made sure there was plenty of food and water at the feeding stations before the evacuation order due to Hurricane Matthew locked down the island. I inquired last night on the Dataw Net, any word on the ferals? All the cats have been accounted for except one shy little guy named Mini-Peanut. By all accounts he never wanted to feed with the other cats, preferring to eat by the tennis courts. Some county [shelter] workers tried to check on him before the resident volunteers came back. I'm told they couldn't get to the tennis courts due to storm debris. Yeah, it's a big mess out there, folks. It could be he Mini-Peanut is still being his usual reticent self and simply hasn't been spotted yet. I hope! Purrs that Mini-Peanut is okay. Jill I'm betting on Mini-Peanut being fine because they are so good at surviving. I used to panic when we'd get a huge snow storm and the cats all disappeared, then a few days later they showed up to eat. We can only hope. Since he is already a cat who is rarely seen he could just be hiding. Jill |
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Dataw's Feral Cats are Fine
On 10/18/2016 10:31 AM, jmcquown wrote:
Feral cats are apparently very resourceful little creatures! DIFF (Dataw Island Feline Foundation) volunteers made sure there was plenty of food and water at the feeding stations before the evacuation order due to Hurricane Matthew locked down the island. I inquired last night on the Dataw Net, any word on the ferals? All the cats have been accounted for except one shy little guy named Mini-Peanut. By all accounts he never wanted to feed with the other cats, preferring to eat by the tennis courts. Some county [shelter] workers tried to check on him before the resident volunteers came back. I'm told they couldn't get to the tennis courts due to storm debris. Yeah, it's a big mess out there, folks. It could be he Mini-Peanut is still being his usual reticent self and simply hasn't been spotted yet. I hope! Purrs that Mini-Peanut is okay. Jill Great news! Thanks for letting us know. Sending purrs for Mini-Peanut. MaryL |
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On 10/19/2016 2:14 AM, MaryL wrote:
On 10/18/2016 10:31 AM, jmcquown wrote: Feral cats are apparently very resourceful little creatures! DIFF (Dataw Island Feline Foundation) volunteers made sure there was plenty of food and water at the feeding stations before the evacuation order due to Hurricane Matthew locked down the island. I inquired last night on the Dataw Net, any word on the ferals? All the cats have been accounted for except one shy little guy named Mini-Peanut. By all accounts he never wanted to feed with the other cats, preferring to eat by the tennis courts. Some county [shelter] workers tried to check on him before the resident volunteers came back. I'm told they couldn't get to the tennis courts due to storm debris. Yeah, it's a big mess out there, folks. It could be he Mini-Peanut is still being his usual reticent self and simply hasn't been spotted yet. I hope! Purrs that Mini-Peanut is okay. Jill Great news! Thanks for letting us know. Sending purrs for Mini-Peanut. MaryL It is good news! 43 feral cats. They've all had their ears notched so they can be identified as having been trapped, neutered/released. Buffy has a notched ear. She was one of the ferals until her former owner scooped her up as a kitten. Who says you can't turn a feral into a completely spoiled love bug? Introduce them to a life of luxury when they're young, of course you can. One idiotic woman wrote in reply to my post how they should stop neutering the cats because it makes the marsh rat population increase. Uh, what? How does a feral cat not having testicles relate to an increase in the marsh rat population? (Maybe someone should be neutering the rats.) The cats still hunt for food. I didn't understand the correlation. Is she a proponent of letting the cat population explode? Apparently. In the nearly 9 years I've been living here I've only seen a marsh rat once. That was while cleaning the gutters. They're no bigger than hamsters. She made it sound like they were all over her house and yard. Lady, if you have a problem with marsh rats, call an exterminator. Do NOT tell people not to spay/neuter the feral cats. One does not have anything to do with the other. Jill |
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Dataw's Feral Cats are Fine
jmcquown wrote:
One idiotic woman wrote in reply to my post how they should stop neutering the cats because it makes the marsh rat population increase. Uh, what? How does a feral cat not having testicles relate to an increase in the marsh rat population? (Maybe someone should be neutering the rats.) The cats still hunt for food. I didn't understand the correlation. Is she a proponent of letting the cat population explode? Apparently. ... Lady, if you have a problem with marsh rats, call an exterminator. Do NOT tell people not to spay/neuter the feral cats. One does not have anything to do with the other. I don't agree with her suggestion, since in general feral cat populations are barely under control. If it is well-controlled in your area, then whatever you're doing there, it's working, so don't tamper with it! But there is a correlation. The more cats there are, the more hunters there are, and the more rats will be caught and killed. One cause when a prey species (for example, deer) explodes is the absence, or small number of predators. So I think that's what this woman had in mind. It's not about cats requiring testicles (or ovaries!) to hunt, it's about the relative sizes of the populations of predators and prey. -- - Your mom and I are going to divorce next month. - What??? Why! Call me please? - I wrote Disney and this phone changed it. We are going to Disney. -- damnyouautocorrect.com |
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Dataw's Feral Cats are Fine
One idiotic woman wrote in reply to my post how they should stop
neutering the cats because it makes the marsh rat population increase. Uh, what? How does a feral cat not having testicles relate to an increase in the marsh rat population? And why the heck would anybody want to kill off marsh rats anyway? They're cute little things, harmless (except for carrying a few diseases you can get from a lot of other things you're more likely be in contact with) and they occupied your part of the world long before any humans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_rice_rat ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- e m a i l : j a c k @ c a m p i n . m e . u k Jack Campin, 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU, Scotland mobile 07800 739 557 http://www.campin.me.uk Twitter: JackCampin |
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On 10/19/2016 6:49 PM, Jack Campin wrote:
One idiotic woman wrote in reply to my post how they should stop neutering the cats because it makes the marsh rat population increase. Uh, what? How does a feral cat not having testicles relate to an increase in the marsh rat population? And why the heck would anybody want to kill off marsh rats anyway? They're cute little things, harmless (except for carrying a few diseases you can get from a lot of other things you're more likely be in contact with) and they occupied your part of the world long before any humans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_rice_rat They are cute little things. It's not as if they're swarming all over the place. In all the years I've lived here I've only ever seen ONE marsh rat. Jill |
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Dataw's Feral Cats are Fine
On 10/19/2016 11:23 AM, jmcquown wrote:
On 10/19/2016 2:14 AM, MaryL wrote: On 10/18/2016 10:31 AM, jmcquown wrote: Feral cats are apparently very resourceful little creatures! DIFF (Dataw Island Feline Foundation) volunteers made sure there was plenty of food and water at the feeding stations before the evacuation order due to Hurricane Matthew locked down the island. I inquired last night on the Dataw Net, any word on the ferals? All the cats have been accounted for except one shy little guy named Mini-Peanut. By all accounts he never wanted to feed with the other cats, preferring to eat by the tennis courts. Some county [shelter] workers tried to check on him before the resident volunteers came back. I'm told they couldn't get to the tennis courts due to storm debris. Yeah, it's a big mess out there, folks. It could be he Mini-Peanut is still being his usual reticent self and simply hasn't been spotted yet. I hope! Purrs that Mini-Peanut is okay. Jill Great news! Thanks for letting us know. Sending purrs for Mini-Peanut. MaryL It is good news! 43 feral cats. They've all had their ears notched so they can be identified as having been trapped, neutered/released. Buffy has a notched ear. She was one of the ferals until her former owner scooped her up as a kitten. Who says you can't turn a feral into a completely spoiled love bug? Introduce them to a life of luxury when they're young, of course you can. snip Jill My very first cat, many years ago, was feral. He was about 8 months old when I adopted him. My neighbor was planning to trap the cats that were running loose in that area and take them to a shelter. I was leaving for my first semester in graduate school and would be about 1100 miles from home. I wanted a cat for companionship, and the neighbor offered to trap one of the cats for me. I was told later that 8 months was too old to become a companion cat. Well, that is wrong! It took a lot of time and work, but he became one of the most loving cats I have ever seen. Within about 2 years, we were bonded and he was a lovebug. He lived to be 20 years old, and those were 20 years with a most remarkable cat. I trained him to walk on a harness and leash so he could still go outdoors--although it was more like he took me for a walk than me taking him for a walk. MaryL |
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Dataw's Feral Cats are Fine
On 10/19/2016 7:34 PM, MaryL wrote:
On 10/19/2016 11:23 AM, jmcquown wrote: On 10/19/2016 2:14 AM, MaryL wrote: On 10/18/2016 10:31 AM, jmcquown wrote: Feral cats are apparently very resourceful little creatures! DIFF (Dataw Island Feline Foundation) volunteers made sure there was plenty of food and water at the feeding stations before the evacuation order due to Hurricane Matthew locked down the island. I inquired last night on the Dataw Net, any word on the ferals? All the cats have been accounted for except one shy little guy named Mini-Peanut. By all accounts he never wanted to feed with the other cats, preferring to eat by the tennis courts. Some county [shelter] workers tried to check on him before the resident volunteers came back. I'm told they couldn't get to the tennis courts due to storm debris. Yeah, it's a big mess out there, folks. It could be he Mini-Peanut is still being his usual reticent self and simply hasn't been spotted yet. I hope! Purrs that Mini-Peanut is okay. Jill Great news! Thanks for letting us know. Sending purrs for Mini-Peanut. MaryL It is good news! 43 feral cats. They've all had their ears notched so they can be identified as having been trapped, neutered/released. Buffy has a notched ear. She was one of the ferals until her former owner scooped her up as a kitten. Who says you can't turn a feral into a completely spoiled love bug? Introduce them to a life of luxury when they're young, of course you can. snip Jill My very first cat, many years ago, was feral. He was about 8 months old when I adopted him. My neighbor was planning to trap the cats that were running loose in that area and take them to a shelter. I was leaving for my first semester in graduate school and would be about 1100 miles from home. I wanted a cat for companionship, and the neighbor offered to trap one of the cats for me. I was told later that 8 months was too old to become a companion cat. Well, that is wrong! It took a lot of time and work, but he became one of the most loving cats I have ever seen. Within about 2 years, we were bonded and he was a lovebug. He lived to be 20 years old, and those were 20 years with a most remarkable cat. I trained him to walk on a harness and leash so he could still go outdoors--although it was more like he took me for a walk than me taking him for a walk. MaryL Ah, what a wonderful anecdote! Thanks. Jill |
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