• BillyClark@piefed.social
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        8 days ago

        I have heard that feral house cats will occasionally hunt and kill prey that is much larger than themselves. IIRC, I think they were giving deer as an example. At least it was an animal similar in size to a smaller deer.

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    I have 11 cats. Plus three more in my custody. If they worked together they could take down a cow. This is important because cows outnumber people on my block.

    But I also want more cat friendly cat food because I too understand what cats want in cat food. I made this 10 years ago:

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        Vole, mole, mouse, cotton rat are the favorites here.

        I did find a rabbit skeleton underneath my house. Is the only rabbit I’ve ever seen of my property. But I don’t know if it was there before we moved in or not. And I don’t know how my cats would have gotten underneath the house to put it there. So I can’t confirm that as a confirmed kill.

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          Was the skeleton disarticulated? If not then the rabbit most likely wasn’t killed by predetors or scavenged. If it was hunted you’d see bones scattered and quite a few missing. We have foxes, hawks, and coyotes in our area and every now and then we find bits and pieces of their leftovers in the yard and on the porch but never the whole thing.

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            It was intact. Maybe it somehow found its way under but couldn’t get out. Or it got dragged in by a cat, partially munched and then forgotten about.

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        Don’t forget all the endangered birds they kill as well. I usually don’t like hunters but outdoor cats should be put down, all they do is put a massive strain on the local ecosystem.

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      You may want to look up Mouser brand cat food. If I remember correctly, it was created by someone who had the same thoughts. I don’t know how healthy it is or anything, but I think it’s a neat idea…even though I feel bad for the poor little critters put into it.

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    To my knowledge, cats do best with bird & rodent meats. They don’t need to be eating anything with hoves or fins… Though they will probably disagree about the fishies

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      I had a cat when I was a kid that would pretty regularly snatch a fish out of the creek behind our house, and she definitely seemed to enjoy the fish. But also squirrels, rabbits, birds, lizards… :(

      That was a long time ago. I know now that cats really shouldn’t be let outside because of the (obvious) havoc they wreak on wildlife

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      Please understand, my furry queen eats canned chicken & liver meals with freeze dried chicken treats for entertainment… but also freeze dried minnow treats. They just make her face so happy & her fur so soft

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    I’ve always enjoyed the thought of a couple cats cooperating to take on a cow lke the raptors in jurassic park, only much closer to the actual size of raptors =^_^=