Gang of Kitties Sing Loudly to Man at His Door for Dinner

[LWolf]

8. Great story.

There's an issue this article didn't address, though.

My acres have way too many rodents. When I bought the place, there was a large colony of feral cats in the barn; the former owner encouraged them to manage the rodents, feeding them in the barn. They were under the house, in the barn, all over the place. I started trapping, spaying/neutering, and re-releasing, after trapping two different litters of kittens, which were socialized and re-homed. I continued to feed them in the barn.

By the end of the first year, without reproducing, they were all gone; coyote, owl, eagle, and hawk bait.

It's good that he keeps them socialized so that he can keep them vetted. What's the turn-over rate? Does his farm have no predators that take cats?

My rodent population is too large, but I keep my pet cats indoors for their own protection.