Re: RC: Squirrels

[Maureen Mathisen <blueoak@snowcrest.net>]

Hi Anne,

I have an ARMY of cat(3which were dumped pregnant and I had fixed AND
THEIR FOUR  KITTENS TOO	) and one which I adopted because my son was
asked by his vet if  he knew anyone that liked cats with an" attitude
problem"(bad!).and he said "sure--my Mom"...  he is now my wonderful
house cat (fixed also) and had rid both the house and garage where I
keep my grain of mice, gophers, snakes, moles, and even an occasional
ground squirrel.  They are VERY big-- about half the size of groundhogs,
and it takes a STRONG cat to drag them in.  Mine do, but there are just
too many of them out there!  However, they hunt all the time and you may
have something there too--they may be helping me cut down the number in
my field, because all along the neighbor's fence line are the holes of
other ground squirrels(perhaps too afraid to move over--I hope so!)

And --you are very correct about feeding them well.  Too many people
think they should be "hungry" to hunt and it isn't true....they need to
be big and healthy and then they will bring some of their"kill" home for
YOU to share!  (after finding a decapitated snake(large gopher) in my
garage, my house sitter refused to ever come back again...what's with
some folks anyway??)  Maureen

Ajsclassgs@aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 5/11/99 6:58:27 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
> blueoak@snowcrest.net writes:
> 
> << My holes have gone from 85(YES we
>  counted them) to l8 this spring ,Over a campaign of ten or more
>  years/Some people say it doesn't work, but if you are STUBBORN like me
>  and keep redoing and checking.........  it does work. >>
> 
> When I got married, my husbands place was literally crawling with gophers
> (Richardson's ground squirells).  I brought home two kittens that spring, and
> before very long they were catching the really dumb ones.  Our male cat,
> George, got particularly good at catching them, and although we live near
> lots of big open grain fields, and the cats are now 10 years old we honestly
> no longer have more than an occassional gopher try to even move in.  Just be
> sure to feed you cats a good healthy diet, so they have the energy
> requirements to catch gophers, don't depend on the squirells being their sole
> diet.  Also remember to worm for tapes regularly, as gophers are hosts for
> tapes.
> 
> Anne & the horses in Montana
> Dyskrete, Stuffy, Hadia & Tifla
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