Damn murderers

Feral cats are less of a problem than feral dogs - but some folks have a problem with all the birds that wind up as a side dish.

So logistic as well as linguistic errors on our part.

Oh, yes barn cats are or were common around my area too. My neighbor had a dairy and about 125 milk cows. You have to have barn cats around a dairy. Every one of his were wild as the dickens and wouldn't come near anyone until we poured a gallon of real milk in that old hubcap for them. Then they came a running, maybe 100 of them. Also they all kind of attacked my wife once. She had the job of biscuit maker at hardees and stopped by after work and the cats could smell the biscuits and other food on her and every cat tried to rub against her at the same time and it freaked her out, she was covered in cats.

I don't know where my head was.

Over here they are known as Alley Cats.

Now that I think of it, no... Gran's cat Tina died of liver cancer at 17, Squeaks (who came to live with us when Gran got too frail to look after her) died of kidney failure at 18. Not bad ages, but not just 'old age', either.
I hope Oedi will be round for a good, long time...

Yeah, you have those rats that will back up a dog in an alley.

My first cat, Tiger, lived to be 19+ years of age. He was over 20lbs in his youth, and none of it fat. The last year he was down to about 5lbs and looked completely ancient. I'm assuming he died of old age, but no one knows for sure because he wandered off to die. We never found him.

Fixed.

Not just birds, here feral cats are a major problem, along with foxes since apart from Dingos Australia has gone thousands of years without any large predator.

My cat (Kitty) is 15 and she has AIDS. She went blind about a year ago and I took her to the vet and got blood pressure pills that I give her each morning. She got some sight back but I think its gradually getting worse again. She is a good faker but I can tell that she can't see much sometimes. She is my buddy. Our Other cat (drucilla) is skinny as a rail. She has some kind of bowel problem and cannot get enough food because it goes right though her. Poor kitten has nasty non solid stools and she does not always go in the box We clean up after her cosntantly. She weighs 3 pounds. We have spent a fortune on her, most people would have put her down long ago. She is always starving and crying for food.

That cat does that because it sees you as the Alpha Cat. Seriously. When a cat brings you something like that it expects you to eat it.

It's like Lions. The females do the hunting but the males get first dibs on the food.

I wouldn't recommend eating it though.

Have you had Drucilla tested for FIV yet?

It isn't like AIDS...cats can spread it to each other with casual contact..scratches, bites, licking each other...even eating out of the same bowl can open up the possibility of infection.

Chronic diarrhea and weight loss is a possible indication of a stage three, opportunistic infection of the gastrointestinal system.

Or he thinks you suck at being a cat and need to be taught how to hunt for your food.
He must think what you eat is really REALLY bad for you......

Yeah, we had her tested and they try to do that at the vet every time we take her but so far she hasn't got aids. When we found out kitty had aids, they wanted us to keep them separated but we just couldn't do that for long. They don't really fight or have that much contact with each other. Evidently Drucilla has some rare disease which no one knows much about and they really don't do that much research on cat problems. None of the advice from the vets did any good. They recommended so food which was $$$ and we tried that for a year and then I started testing and found that she did a little better with just plain dry food from a grcery store. We have treid lots and lots of stuff and spent gobs of money on her.

So they can be warehoused in cages with other animals for a week before they get a lethal injection? My, how much more humane than just putting a bullet through their head and calling it a day.

Like I said, you drop an animal in the woods, it's a death sentence either way. Either it gets sick or injured and dies alone in the woods, it gets into a fight and dies from wounds, it gets eaten by something bigger, it starves because there's no food or it has no survival skills, it wanders onto my property where I consider it a pest and vermin, or it gets taken to the shelter where it gets a needle.