Feral Cats: The Neighbors You May Never See

back in the very early 70's in my hippie days we had a bunch of feral cats in my shitty neighborhood and they were bold, mean sons of bitches. Killed a couple of regular domestic cats that happened on them, got into trash cans,just in general terrorized the neighborhood.

One day me and a couple of my friends got together and set saucers of milk out in the back yard and loaded and I mean LOADED them down with LSD, got stoned and sat on the porch to watch the fun.

Those cats rolled up in the yard like they owned it, drank up all the milk and gave us the fish eye, then proceeded to stretch out in the yard to bag some rays....(I told you they were bold)... about 10 minutes later they went crazy and stayed that way awhile.... dancing, leaping, raising hell, fighting and scratching at one another and then just rolling over and staring and twitching awhile. It was pretty damn funny to a bunch of stoned hippies.


Cats....... why?

...Evans believes there are 10 million to 12 million feral cats in Australia -- each of them, on average, killing three native animals a day. If those estimates are accurate, that means a mind-boggling massacre of about 12 billion native animals a year.



And Dr. Tim Flannery of the Australian Museum says the native animals aren't equipped to fight with cats. "We've done some tests with our native animals to show that they don't recognize cat scent, for instance, as representing a threat," he said.

Bi-Polar Bear,
If I didn't keep cats the rodents would rule the roost, I tried everything: tons of traps and poison bait etc and nothing worked well but cats. I got worried the owls and eagles and other critters would eat the poisoned rodents, and the traps would start to fill up in less than a week.

Problem is now the coyotes, bobcats and maybe the owls (hard to say on that one) are picking off my cats so I'm losing one cat every 6 months or so.

Funny stuff about the LSD!

dadpad,
I've heard between the cane toad and cat that Oz is in trouble! I guess you could bring in the coyote to kill the cat and exacerbate the overall problem to a whole other degree.

I'll tell you what if tomorrow all the animals woke up and decided we were fair game..... we'd pretty much be screwed....

I read this many years ago The Island of Dr Moreau