Cats

[Radi Cilo]

Here's a question straight from my Grandma (working for her now )

She has recently baught a male cat and a female.

1. She isn't sure if she should breed them or fix them
2. Should she remove mice that the cat's catch (diseases?) or let them eat 'em.

 

[Beefy]

1. she should fix them immediately
2. let the cat have one every now and then to give a reason to continue catching them. dispose of the ones they leave as trophies.

 

[Farmhand]

Are they house cats or barn cats? Would she like to have a few more or just the 2? If she wants more, she could let them have a litter and then fix them. Otherwise get them fixed real quick. As for the mice, we have never had a problem with the cats eating how ever many they want. Not saying something couldn't go wrong though. Think Beefy has a good idea.

 

[Radi Cilo]

Thanks.
I think she wants more, because she has an awful lot of grain and feed.

So she will most likley breed 'em them fix 'em.

And I will tell her that advice, yeah they would have a better reason to kill them.

By the way - barn cats



Thanks,
-Radi

 

[milkmaid]

We don't spay/neuter our barn cats. Seems like every time we do something "special" to a certain cat - ie, vaccinations, worming, spay, etc - it gets hit by a car the next day. Or picked off by one of many predators a cat has. Murphy's law, I guess.

After you've had that happen enough times you decide not to mess with them. Expensive road-kill or fox-food.

House cats would be a different matter.