Thread: Inside a Cats guts @ Roxby Downs

Originally Posted by Tote

And here was me thinking that someone might have posted pics of an in frame rebuild on a D10...............

Here you go.

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Originally Posted by Chucaro

IMO cat owners should be forced by law to have an outdoor cat enclosure like the dog owners are obliged to have a fence were the dog lives.
I cannot see why the authorities have to discriminate between this 2 type of pets.
Cat enclosures are very easy to design and build in stages or all in one go.
Should be not excuses, no enclosure, no cat

Hi Arthur

I'm with you on this one, but only in suburbia.

Cat Enclosures - Outdoor Cat Runs - Many Cat Enclosure Pictures

On a farm a cat must be able to roam to do its job at keeping the mice and rats down.
They must be tame to do this and the problem starts when the cat is scared away from where it was raised.
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Originally Posted by wrinklearthur

Hi Arthur

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On a farm a cat must be able to roam to do its job at keeping the mice and rats down.
They must be tame to do this and the problem starts when the cat is scared away from where it was raised.
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You don't need cats to keep mice and rats down, you can do that with native snakes!

Originally Posted by goingbush

You hit the nail on the head, Its the stupid irresponsible humans that are to blame. Any cat that is caught out of its yard in the Shire of Yarra Ranges is fair game, they will even give you a trap to catch them. I take care of them myself and the neighbours have finally cottoned on I think (or given up) as I havent seen one in my yard for 12 months.

If you are more forgiving than me or not up to the task the trick is to take them to another shires pound and the owners wont even go looking there.

So we need the .30 cal treatment for the irresponsible humans!

In NSW the cats are also supposed to be microchipped, so no matter which pound you take it to they will ring up the owner or breader if no one registered the cat. Won't help non-chipped cats.

Diana

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

You don't need cats to keep mice and rats down, you can do that with native snakes!

Only for so many months of the year, we'd be lucky to have snakes active for six months around here, and FWIW pythons don't live here, only the poisonous varieties

The cat and dog problem is so much worse in the bush.

People have less disposable income, vet charges have gone through the roof so people don't bother getting them spayed/neutered and on it goes.
We have an elderly neighbour that has lived on farms her whole life and just lets the damned things breed and wander all over.
No one can say anything, she just won't listen.

At least ferals are fair game on the properties around here, but geez it's hard to get them.

One very large rogue dog that had been killing sheep, calves and foals for years was finally stopped and hung from a road sign as evidence he was gone.
Some numpty from the city driving through reported it and the wallopers were out to get whoever had done it

Of course no one let on, but I still don't get what the offence was ?

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

So we need the .30 cal treatment for the irresponsible humans!

There'd be a lot of space around me in my street....

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

You don't need cats to keep mice and rats down, you can do that with native snakes!

No thanks!

There are three types of snakes here in Tasmania and they are all poisonous and partially aggressive during their mating season.

This 'small' one was run over accidentally



All snake in Tasmania are wholly protected but accidents do happen, with snakes being shot instead of rabbits!

Parks & Wildlife Service - Snakes of Tasmania

Mice problems are the worst during the autumn time and the first frosts, that is when snakes have gone into hibernation and the rats and mice move inside the buildings for warmth.

I don't mind feeding a couple of cats at home here to keep the mouse tally board free of chalk marks.
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We have a red belly black snake in our hay shed! Don't have a great problem with mice.

I believe the red bellies are poisionous but haven't managed to get bitten in 35 years.

Diana