Feral Cats

[MarvB]

Always a fun topic
These are stocked ferals....Akin to high fence hunting? (Or hi-rise?)

1,000 feral cats unleashed on Chicago streets to fight rat problem

In its fight against an urban rodent infestation, a Chicago animal shelter has unleashed 1,000 feral cats onto the streets in the last decade.

www.kiro7.com

 

[noharleyyet]

 

[Dave N]

So, plant cats to scare rats out of the neighborhood. Sounds good, unless your neighborhood is the one the rats run to!

 

[NR_Hunter]

Why are these using ancient pest control techniques? Just use poison, my gosh.

 

[RobertD]

This will be like in King of the Hill when Dale put a snake in the grocery store to control rats, then later put a mongoose to take out the snake.

At least Chi-town's coyote population will get some free dinners out of the deal.

 

[Beignet]

I spent a bit of time in Cairo in the past: a huge, densely populated city that should ostensibly have an equally huge rat problem. Didn’t see a single rodent my whole time there, as that city loves it’s semi feral cats (bonus that patrons get some friendly company when having a coffee or shisha). Here in NY bodegas (old school small grocery stores) usually have one around to keep the other four legged critters at bay and it seems to work pretty well.

 

[dirtclod Az.]

And they are good eatin' too!
Oops, did I say that out loud?

 

[Dwreckers]

I was really hoping they were all placed at once...

 

[Deleted member 16014]

This thread was so good.

feral cat

Lady living there was happy to have a few less roaming around. As were all the birds.

www.hunttalk.com

 

[Deleted member 16014]

I was really hoping they were all placed at once...

I agree that is a pretty compelling mental image.

 

[MarvB]

 

[COEngineer]

No mention of whether this practice is legal. Sure, they probably deter rats, but they also kill billions of songbirds and game birds in the US every year.

 

[dirtclod Az.]

Keep a few of these around, no pests to worry about.

 

[JustinsDad]

We had a bad rat infestation on Anacapa Island. In their infinite wisdom, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife let a bunch of cats go on the island to take out the rats. The problem is the cats just ate all the eggs of seagulls and the endangered California Brown Pelican nstead of rats. They eventually trapped all the cats and took them away.

 

[imoldham]

Domestic cats are a menaces' to many ground dwelling species. They fall under the invasive category in my book.

 

[Slate]

Love my boys but like any domestic animal to many can become a problem.

 

[noharleyyet]

 

[lastlight]

I’d kill every single outdoor cat I could if it were legal, and I like cats...sort of. When you are an invasive species and you eat all the quail and song birds and shit in my garden (parasites and disease) I can’t be on your side. There are so many feral cats in this country!

 

[RobertD]

Keep a few of these around, no pests to worry about. View attachment 183097View attachment 183098

Every time I see a picture of your roadrunner hoard, I feel a little jealous. Every damn time.

 

[BucksnDucks]

Always a fun topic
These are stocked ferals....Akin to high fence hunting? (Or hi-rise?)

1,000 feral cats unleashed on Chicago streets to fight rat problem

In its fight against an urban rodent infestation, a Chicago animal shelter has unleashed 1,000 feral cats onto the streets in the last decade.

www.kiro7.com

Click-bait- I opened post expecting to see a grip n grin.