Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: Zuma on May 21, 2018, 06:30:53 pm
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Here is the deal. I noticed yesterday a pair of Tree Swallows were
taking over the bird house closest to my home. Sorta unusual.
They like space. Anyway I started to take notice of several other boxes.
There was no activity. I watched the boxes as they were being used by
a pair of Swallows and a pair of Blue Birds. I did not want to disturb the nests.
All the next day I checked for parents at the boxes. None. One of my neighbors has
a cat fetish. The other neighbor has only one but just got a new puppy. Silo their
cat's fur was on one of the Swallow boxes no evidence on the Blue Bird box.
Not a snake as the eggs are still there. I'm pissed but really like my neighbors.
HELP
Zuma
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Zuma, SSS
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That's the biggest reason i detest loose or feral cats. Indiscriminate killers. I cant't dispute that they keep mouse and rat populations down. But when they are pets and/or people feed them, they become murderers for fun. Where I live cats are subject to the same laws as dogs, which no one seems to take to heart.
Kyle
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I have felt your pain... S .S ..S............
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SSS :OK
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I would have to see if they really have 9 lives, I think not but that would be his only way out of cat Heaven . I like cats OK if they stay home. >:(
Pappy
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I like Cats but.....just to let you know a sub-sonic .22 doesn't make much noise :-M
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Thanks folks,
The sheriff's department said I could trap them and take them to the animal shelter.
Zuma
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Maybe you could dig a moat around their castle Zuma. When I moved in here 24 years ago. My good neighbor proudly told me she had over 70 cats. I'm really more of a dog person myself. Between disease, coyotes and an occasional non target trapping incident their numbers declined. They still go in cycles though. I feel your frustration. Really like my neighbors, just wish she'd be happy with a couple well taken care of cats.
Bjrogg
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Maybe I could hook up an electric fence BJ.
A little cat story from last year.
I live on a corner. I have a neighbor straight across the street. They have one cat that acts more like a dog.
The neighbor to the right of my house across the side street has several. It seems the more they loose the more they get. I built #1 neighbor a tree deck out over the river. They like to go there,,read books and take in the wild life.which is plentiful. One of neighbor #2 's cats liked to hang out with 1's cat. Silo #1's cat follows his masters
every where. And so Silver #2's cat always tagged along. One day they all were at the river when a barrage of bullets came sweeping in real close and killed Silver. I did not find out about this until the next day when neighbor #1's wife told me the story. They skedaddled out of the river area back up to their house where neighbor #3 said he would go back down and recover the cat's body with #1. I said "what did the police say" She said they were afraid to call because it could lead to retaliation or such. Poof! I could not believe this. Fortunately I have a friend that lives in what I deduced was where the bullets came from. I called him at his business and he said he knew exactly who it was,left his business immediately and confronted the dad of the kid that did the shooting. Story was that they were shooting into a dirt pile when the kid's friend took his first turn and the recoil must have lifted the bore of the AK so the bullets went above the dirt pile and across the river through the trees a quarter mile and killed poor Silver. They had no idea. My friend got a solid promise that the son would never shoot another round any where near that place again. So far so good.
Zuma
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Yup youth is sometimes wasted on the youth. Hope his dad keeps an eye on him.
Bjrogg
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Pound a piece of rebar in the ground so about a foot sticks up. Slip a 6 ft. long piece of pvc pipe over that, and mount the birdhouse to the pvc pole. Even the black snakes will have a hard time climbing that pole.
Let the cats be. Messing with them will cause you more trouble than it's worth.
Heard no House Mountain this year. let me know of any alternatives you hear of.
Keith
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Oops, meant 5 feet on the pvc, as in two poles from one 10 foot piece.
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When i have vat problems and people problems together, i like to sew catnip in the ditch by their yard.
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I've got two, but they act more like dogs. When they go out one hangs out in the yard and fights every other cat that comes in her territory. The other one goes out till she is hot and goes inside to the AC until someone goes outside and she will follow you around like a dog and catch every lizard she sees. And they know not to mess with any of the birds that live in the yard.
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Good ideas Keith Thanks.
Tell me more about catnip Sleek.
Eddie, the prime suspect cat, is the one that was more like a dog.
He never came around to much, except when he thought the bear was after him.
Although I suspect his behavior to be related to the fact that neighbor #1 got a
new puppy dog and spends all his time with it and the cat is jealous.
Zuma
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Cats love catnip. Its a drug to them. So, where the catmip is, so would br the cats. I had a neighbor who hated cats, and by the way she treated her beagle pup, hated dogs too. We had easy 50 cats or so that roamed the trailer park i lived in. So, the plan was to plant catnip on tje edge of her lawn where it never was mowed. All the neighborhiid cats would be high as hell actin weird around her place and make it smell so bad if cat pee she would have to move.
But, as luck would have it, her fellon jail bird boyfriend came over to pick a fight with me, then they got evicted. I hated those people. I almost stole their dog and named it Shiloh, it was treated so bad. I hope he is ok...
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It sounds counter productive, but if you plant the stuff around the bird boxes they may get so high off of it, they loose interest in the birds. Look up cats on catnip, you will find sime fun videos.
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I must say that not all cats like catnip. Our cat is completely unaffected by it. Generally I don't object our cat hunting; the house is pretty much on the forest's edge and the voles cause problems in the garden.
One can't just blame the animal for doing what it does.
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I must say that not all cats like catnip. Our cat is completely unaffected by it. Generally I don't object our cat hunting; the house is pretty much on the forest's edge and the voles cause problems in the garden.
One can't just blame the animal for doing what it does.
Voles and other rodents fine, if they are killed on the owners property. Baby rabbits, snakes, turkeys, song birds, squirrels etc. which are natural creatures NO. House cats are an introduced un-natural killer. If folks own them they should take responsibility for them. And actually voles and other rodents play an import role in nature too.
Zuma
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Unless you saw it, I would not assign blame so fast. I had a dove nest in my yard twice this spring and crows have shredded it both times. I have crows and raven's in my local area and see them both flying with eggs in their mouths a lot.
Cats would kill the birds and not sure I've ever seen one go after eggs. Sparrow hawks are all over too and kill more birds than any cats do.
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OK maybe I am an anti bad-cat guy. Case in point (my first photo shows
Shiloh fur on the roof of the birdhouse) There was a bigger wad of it
before I put the puzzle together. I did see more than once the cat stalking
the rabbits. Every year I see nesting Turkey. This year Zero. I have no control
over wild critters. I just have to build better defenses for the wonderful birds
that make my home theirs. The point is--- if the neighbor's cats are on my property
the neighbors need counseling. I don't dislike the cats -- I dislike what they do on
my property including taking a dump in the soft earth of my garden.
Zuma