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Ted Davis said:
There are also those of us who feel that it is more important that the cats be allowed to be cats instead of precious objects. I have a number of cats and some of them are happiest living mostly outdoors in the woods and fields while others are not at all sure that being outdoors without their human is ever a good idea. On the rare occasion that we can get our Main-coon to go out, he never strays off of our deck. The 10 month old siblings however, beg to go out night and day. I do wory about them a lot, but would not deprive them of their love of the great outdoors and the hundreds of trees to climb. The road is a little way from our house, but fortunately they seem to be afraid of moving cars. It is sort of like your children; you try to protrct them, but in the end they have to be their own persons and risk living. Dave |
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On 7 Feb 2005 16:22:06 -0800, "
wrote: Our two kittens have gotten pretty big now at 10 months. Since we sometimes have mice, we have encouraged their natural hunting instincts and they are bothterror on the mole and mouse population. Yesterday Spirit ran into the house and proudly showed us the 3" garter snake he had caught. The snake was returned to the woods and since it was an unusal warm February day, the snake was very doscile having just thawed out. He brought it back today and it was worse for the wear. Last year we found a copperhead in our yard and I am not eager for our cats to think snakes are fun toys. I am hoping that when they encounter more agressive snakes, their instinct will ward them off. I'm wondering if I should be conserned and what others have experienced with cats and snakes. I've had a similar experience with a garter snake that got into an inclosed run. The kitten brought it in to play with and I was surprised that she seemed to know exactly what to do with that snake. She grabbed it behind the head, threw it in the air and jumped away. I've seen the same behavior with a rubber snake toy. Does that mean she could handle a poisonous one? I certainly wouldn't want to count on it. I know dogs can be trained to avoid snakes but I don't know about cats. I found this site http://members.dcsi.net.au/ausmist/hlthspt.htm which says cats are less susceptible to snake bite than dogs. I still wouldn't take a chance. BarB |
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On 9 Feb 2005 07:20:37 -0800, "
wrote: Ted Davis said: There are also those of us who feel that it is more important that the cats be allowed to be cats instead of precious objects. I have a number of cats and some of them are happiest living mostly outdoors in the woods and fields while others are not at all sure that being outdoors without their human is ever a good idea. On the rare occasion that we can get our Main-coon to go out, he never strays off of our deck. The 10 month old siblings however, beg to go out night and day. I do wory about them a lot, but would not deprive them of their love of the great outdoors and the hundreds of trees to climb. The road is a little way from our house, but fortunately they seem to be afraid of moving cars. It is sort of like your children; you try to protrct them, but in the end they have to be their own persons and risk living. Yes indeed. I also have cats that avoid the road, not that it has much traffic - only Snowball crosses the road to hunt, and not often at that. They mostly stay on my property and on the more or less abandoned property behind mine. T.E.D. ) SPAM filter: Messages to this address *must* contain "T.E.D." somewhere in the body or they will be automatically rejected. |
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