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<blockquote data-quote="Kathie in Thorp" data-source="post: 935867" data-attributes="member: 16769"><p>A good mouser is worth it's weight in gold. But outside cats, every one of them, whether they are your barn cats or ferals in the neighborhood, are prey for owls, hawks, eagles, coyotes, feral dogs, or some neighbor that doesn't like cats. We don't have car-crash problems with cats on our road. Locally, there's a program that recognizes the value of a barn cat. We can take a cat in and have it spayed or neutered (hauled from here to a Seattle clinic) for about $5/each. Depending on the sex, they notch one ear or the other so that the cat is easily identified as being fixed. When I came on this place in 2006, there were 3 (maybe 4?) females, all breeding like crazy with the male from the next property. We gave away a bunch of those kittens, live-trapped the mamas and the rest of the remaining babies that were about 4 mos. old, sent them all off to be fixed and paid extra for shots. Had plenty of barn cats. Now, out of that bunch, we have 2. We've never not spent money on an injured cat that needed help, but have only had one we had to do that with, and I think he got in a fight with a raccoon. Couldn't pull him back together.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kathie in Thorp, post: 935867, member: 16769"] A good mouser is worth it's weight in gold. But outside cats, every one of them, whether they are your barn cats or ferals in the neighborhood, are prey for owls, hawks, eagles, coyotes, feral dogs, or some neighbor that doesn't like cats. We don't have car-crash problems with cats on our road. Locally, there's a program that recognizes the value of a barn cat. We can take a cat in and have it spayed or neutered (hauled from here to a Seattle clinic) for about $5/each. Depending on the sex, they notch one ear or the other so that the cat is easily identified as being fixed. When I came on this place in 2006, there were 3 (maybe 4?) females, all breeding like crazy with the male from the next property. We gave away a bunch of those kittens, live-trapped the mamas and the rest of the remaining babies that were about 4 mos. old, sent them all off to be fixed and paid extra for shots. Had plenty of barn cats. Now, out of that bunch, we have 2. We've never not spent money on an injured cat that needed help, but have only had one we had to do that with, and I think he got in a fight with a raccoon. Couldn't pull him back together. [/QUOTE]
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