How many pets do you have?

[michigancat]

Do you cat people let them outside and if so does it bother you that you are decimating local bird populations?

Is this true? Do they climb trees to catch them?

https://www.npr.org/2020/04/18/820953617/the-killer-at-home-house-cats-have-more-impact-on-local-wildlife-than-wild-preda

They are just incredible hunters

[_33]

I've only seen my cats get a bird a few times and every time it has been diving into a bush and coming out with a bird in its mouth.  I guess it's true what they say, a bird in the hand is harder for a cat to kill than 2 in the bush or whatever.

[schreds21]

2 dogs
1 Giant rough ridin' rabbit that in the course of a year my wife has still failed to house train.

[waks]

I've only seen my cats get a bird a few times and every time it has been diving into a bush and coming out with a bird in its mouth.  I guess it's true what they say, a bird in the hand is harder for a cat to kill than 2 in the bush or whatever.

My dog has caught a couple of birds out of bushes.

[IPA4Me]

Do you cat people let them outside and if so does it bother you that you are decimating local bird populations?

From the number of birds that eat our cats' food daily, we aren't negatively influencing that population.

[Brock Landers]

Do you cat people let them outside and if so does it bother you that you are decimating local bird populations?

My last cat was indoor only but if she had gone outside and snagged an occasional bird it wouldn't have bothered me one bit.

[_33]

1 rooster
12 hens
4 chicks
2 ducklings
1 duck
4 indoor cats
3 outdoor cats
1 pony

Yes, I live at a petting zoo.

Do the cats try to eat the hens, chicks, ducklings and duck?

[IPA4Me]

1 rooster
12 hens
4 chicks
2 ducklings
1 duck
4 indoor cats
3 outdoor cats
1 pony

Yes, I live at a petting zoo.

Do the cats try to eat the hens, chicks, ducklings and duck?

When the chicks were wee things, one cat tried to enter the coop. My fiance put a couple swats on her rear end. Hasn't messed with them since. Been six weeks or so.

Our problem has been neighbor dogs roaming. Never fails that dogs are loose on days we decide to let them roam a bit in the backyard outside the coop.

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[star seed 7]

My dad's dog once stole a chicken from the neighbor about a mile away from the hobby farm.

[sys]

1 dog.

[Rage Against the McKee]

I had banged over 25 chicks by the time I graduated high school.  That number is over 60 now.

[Rage Against the McKee]

Oh, PETS. Damn it.

[ben ji]

I had banged over 25 chicks by the time I graduated high school.  That number is over 60 now.

Lol, we need to get beems back.

[Katpappy]

2 dogs.

I had a box turtle for about 2 hrs on Saturday. No idea how it got in my back yard but the dogs were going crazy barking at it so I brought it inside, put it in a box and contemplated keeping it but decided to let it go in a creek by my house.

It's actually illegal to keep box turtles in Kansas.  I had a crap load of them when I was a kid.  I feed them grasshoppers and cabbage and only kept the active ones'.  I used to race them and it was tons of fun.

[Katpappy]

I had banged over 25 chicks by the time I graduated high school.  That number is over 60 now.

Oh eff, could this be Beems???

[CHONGS]

Do insects/arachnids come as pets?

[nicname]

Do you cat people let them outside and if so does it bother you that you are decimating local bird populations?

Yes. No. Also, pretty sure my cat doesn't hunt anything. He's neutered and lays around all day and protects his territory (basically our yard) from any ruffians who might trespass on his turf.

[nicname]

1 rooster
12 hens
4 chicks
2 ducklings
1 duck
4 indoor cats
3 outdoor cats
1 pony

Yes, I live at a petting zoo.

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all this and no dogs?  what in the world?

[nicname]

I've only seen my cats get a bird a few times and every time it has been diving into a bush and coming out with a bird in its mouth.  I guess it's true what they say, a bird in the hand is harder for a cat to kill than 2 in the bush or whatever.

My dog has caught a couple of birds out of bushes.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSjXeojCRIk[/youtube]

[nicname]

I had banged over 25 chicks by the time I graduated high school.  That number is over 60 now.

 

[Pete]

Two dogs.  My daughter has a fish as well, but I claim no ownership of it.

[sys]

https://twitter.com/ChuckGrassley/status/1308135359004450817

[IPA4Me]

1 rooster
12 hens
4 chicks
2 ducklings
1 duck
4 indoor cats
3 outdoor cats
1 pony

Yes, I live at a petting zoo.

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all this and no dogs?  what in the world?

Heh. I lost the dog in the divorce. Fiance hasn't been emotionally ready for one after she lost her last dog. We've considered it though.

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[Fedor]

1 rooster
12 hens
4 chicks
2 ducklings
1 duck
4 indoor cats
3 outdoor cats
1 pony

Yes, I live at a petting zoo.

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all this and no dogs?  what in the world?

Heh. I lost the dog in the divorce. Fiance hasn't been emotionally ready for one after she lost her last dog. We've considered it though.

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The most shocking thing on that list is the 4 indoor cats.  I have 3 and it is a living nightmare of dust bunnies, vomit and litter boxes.  How do you cope?

[IPA4Me]

1 rooster
12 hens
4 chicks
2 ducklings
1 duck
4 indoor cats
3 outdoor cats
1 pony

Yes, I live at a petting zoo.

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all this and no dogs?  what in the world?

Heh. I lost the dog in the divorce. Fiance hasn't been emotionally ready for one after she lost her last dog. We've considered it though.

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The most shocking thing on that list is the 4 indoor cats.  I have 3 and it is a living nightmare of dust bunnies, vomit and litter boxes.  How do you cope?

Two litter boxes in the basement along with their food. They spend most of the time down there with limited time on the main floor. Fiance keeps them tidy.

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