Cat Brings Home Dead Animals

[snake catcher]

This is a feral cat but the picture does show how effective they are at hunting. The dragons make erratic movement which attract the snake and they soon become very good at catching the speedy lizards.

Sorry if the photo is distressing (mods can remove it if it's to much) but it shows that cats will hunt during the day as well as the night.

Feral

Remember this is just 24 hours in the life of one feral cat

And yes, poultry makes a much better snake defence than a cat,, and yes, i have been to many callouts where the snake has killed the cat

Edited November 18, 2011 by snake catcher

[Dame Aussie]

This is a feral cat but the picture does show how effective they are at hunting. The dragons make erratic movement which attract the snake and they soon become very good at catching the speedy lizards.

Sorry if the photo is distressing (mods can remove it if it's to much) but it shows that cats will hunt during the day as well as the night.

Feral

Remember this is just 24 hours in the life of one feral cat

And yes, poultry makes a much better snake defence than a cat,, and yes, i have been to many callouts where the snake has killed the cat

Wow!

I didn't know poultry kept snakes away, may have to get me some guinea fowl!

[Angeluca]

I don't believe poultry is good just from what I've seen, My friend who lives a street over (Aproxx a kilometer away) Has chooks, guinea foul and ducks and she is constantly calling me to come help pull large pythons out and kills King browns, red bellies inside of her chook pen eating eggs and the birds, she also has a large rat problem even tho they clean the chook pen out once or twice a week. She also has foxes and goannas constantly.

I won't use traps, baits or snake nets as we have small wallabies, dingos and goannas in the area, and being fond of snakes If I ever had a snake within the house yard, I or a professional would relocate it. Altho I have seen snakes on the road less then a k away I've never had one in the house yard as the yard and surrounding paddock is kept very short, and the mice well don't last long. We haven't many lizards around but have a ton of green tree frogs that the cat doesn't bother with either. And of course he is well fed. I did have a cat once who was a bird killer a years. He killed a peewee once and I saw him stalking some honey eaters, but I re-homed him with a friend who had him as a inside only cat until he died of cancer a year or two later.

Edited November 19, 2011 by Angeluca

[persephone]

We only get brown snakes and king browns .. and since we lost most of our guineas, we have seen more snake activity around the house yard.

[Danois]

Natural cat behaviour. When we lived rural (in NZ) all of our cats hunted.

Podge was the main one - if he found a rabbit burrow with young rabbits you could be up 4-5 times in one night chasing baby rabbits around the house. He also caught rats and mice (once within about 5 mins of being chucked out with a mouse he returned with a rat)and birds. He also took on a stoat once - and won.

Our cats were not there to look pretty in an enclosure but were there to help with pest control.