This is in his repertoire. He also follows a Youtuber who showcases many types of traps. Shawn Woods, I think.
My cats never went after grown up rabbits, but babies of all sizes were fair game. We have a huge bunny population. I expect it will explode now.
I just can’t fathom the stupidity of that landlord of yours!
Back before we had a 12 year run of not needing to replace cats, we used to neuter the males at the low cost clinic in town, and leave the females unspayed. No point spending money on the surgery if they didn’t survive, and most years we needed new batches of kittens in the spring anyway. But the males needed to be fixed young to prevent spraying and fighting. I hope the ones you take to the new house do well there and avoid the roads.
He wasn't poisoning the rabbits, he was poisoning the cats. Found several that had basically crawled to the house and died here.....I found 2 trying to get to the house in the driveway part. I am pretty sure it was the antifreeze when he serviced his tractor.... and no it wasn't a mistake as he made sure it was not where his son's dog could get in it at the barn. He had the guy who used to mow my lawn, and would come and shoot the groundhogs.....to shoot the barn swallows because they built nests in the barn and it messed on his tractor...... I went beserk when William shot one at the house and he said the owner told him to. I said don't you dare shoot another barn swallow.... all the bugs, mosquitos and all that they eat..... Owner won't do anything about the ground hogs himself, but it's okay to have someone else shoot stuff.... and the barn swallows just sent me off into orbit..... I can't prove the cats getting poisoned... but there were next to no rats by the time the cats started getting sick as they had taken care of all the rats and mice. The best thing is I am getting out of there shortly.... and I imagine that in a few years that the landlord is going to give up farming and he will probably lease it out... but I won't be there to try to lease the farm too. DS tried to do a lease several years back, and they even talked a lease purchase, but landlord is too tight and thought he might get a better deal somewhere down the road. His son sure isn't going to keep it, and the daughter is married to a farmer but they are a fair distance away so not convenient to them to have cattle here.... would love for ds to get it and then I could get back in the house and do things right and make it a good place to be.... But I sure don't think that is going to happen, so I am getting out.
That’s what I loved about my male cats that we had neutered as soon as they could leave their mother. Even though they did the tail lifting and twitching posture for spraying, nothing ever came out. Thistlebloom, I hope yours live a long time, too.
