Post Pics of Your Shop Cat.

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These two rule the Shop. If I was going to convert the basement from a bare cement pit to a Shop The Spouse insisted the cats's litter and food would also reside alongside my motos. I have some very clever ideas about keeping a cat litter box or two in good nick.

Post Pics of Your Shop Cat.
 
seen yesterday in a south London backstreet, a tabby having a nice sit on an old airhead BMW saddle, probably nice and warm in the sun...!
 
...well, there is this one other kind, too...

Post Pics of Your Shop Cat.


and I just remembered this... sort of a surprise when you visit the loo...

Post Pics of Your Shop Cat.
 
Yeah, nice kitty, until it starts working out its claws on your new Corbin or the neighborhood Tom marks his territory in your shop, garage or under a foundation.
Cats are OK as long as they are looked after and kept inside under control.

My dog is not permitted to run free in the neighborhood so why should my neighbors cat.

The common house cat is the single largest predator of songbirds in the US with their feral offspring close behind. USFW notes house cats killing over 2,400,000,000 birds each year...and that is not an estimate.
Feral cats have a devastating influence on wild bird populations such as pheasant, quail and turkey. Any cats found prowling our farm ground are eliminated.
We used to keep a couple cats in the equipment shed to help control mice and rodents but the hawks, owls, eagles and coyotes quickly picked them off.

If I spot a cat prowling my bird feeders it gets trapped and returned, if it has a collar of bell.
After that I am not so tolerant.
If it is without a collar or bell, be it backyard or woodlands, I consider it feral.
 
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Lineslinger said:
Yeah, nice kitty, until it starts working out its claws on your new Corbin or the neighborhood Tom marks his territory in your shop, garage or under a foundation.
Cats are OK as long as they are looked after and kept inside under control.

My dog is not permitted to run free in the neighborhood so why should my neighbors cat.

The common house cat is the single largest predator of songbirds in the US with their feral offspring close behind. USFW notes house cats killing over 2,400,000,000 birds each year...and that is not an estimate.
Feral cats have a devastating influence on wild bird populations such as pheasant, quail and turkey. Any cats found prowling our farm ground are eliminated.
We used to keep a couple cats in the equipment shed to help control mice and rodents but the hawks, owls, eagles and coyotes quickly picked them off.

If I spot a neighborhood cat prowling my bird feeders it gets trapped and returned.
After that I am not so tolerant.
If it is without a collar or bell, be it backyard or woodlands, I consider it feral.
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Just as well we're not neighbours, otherwise I would be putting the length of scaffold pipe I keep handy to good use.
 
Holy cow what kind of snake is that??? I know Rattlers well, but can't quite make that one out.
 
Matchless said:
Just as well we're not neighbours, otherwise I would be putting the length of scaffold pipe I keep handy to good use.
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Your right. It is a good thing.

Course' I would never assault my neighbor or anyone else with a piece of pipe for any reason, much less because my neighbor failed as a responsible pet owner.

Well said Match. A really good Karma method of resolving an issue.

Question: Do you ever make your pipe wielding threats face to face or just online?
 
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grandpaul said:
5' long Rat Snake. Too bad I let him loose several miles away, should have left him on the property...
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I try to catch a black snakes during spring turkey season. They are a little slow in the morning and easier to catch. I take them back to our cabin and turn them loose underneath. They are the best rodent eradicator I have ever come across. You never know they are around other than a shed skin once in a while.
 
Now that we are on snakes, rather than cats, here's a guy I have seen regularly around my garden.

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It is a coral snake, having the most toxic venom of any snake in North America. This picture was taken by my grass cutter. When I asked him why he did not run over it with his zero turn, he explained that this guy is actually a friend to man. His diet is mainly the pests found in the typical vegetable garden, ..... grasshoppers, cut worms, squash bugs, etc.
He is non aggressive, putting as much distance as he can when he detects humans in the area. He does not have hollow fangs like vipers, in fact he has to gnaw on his prey to impart venom. So I elected to let him stay around the garden area. We feel garden pests have not been as much of a problem as in the past.

Slick

UPDATE 10/30/23

As a bonus, coral snakes eat bad snakes , rattlers, copperheads, and moccasins. They are non discriminating, they eat good snakes too, or any snake they can kill, including other coral snakes.
 
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Even when I come across (rarely) copperheads or timber rattlers I let them go. If they are in the vicinity of the cabin we bag them and take them deep into the woods. It takes a LOT of venom from a viper to get close to being fatal and unless cornered they most always go nuts trying to evacuate the area.

Water Moccasins are a different deal in terms of aggression...they hold their ground and will sometimes come at you. You have to take a hard look at the water and surroundings, especially when fishing the banks or throwing topwater.
 
Lineslinger said:
Even when I come across (rarely) copperheads or timber rattlers I let them go. If they are in the vicinity of the cabin we bag them and take them deep into the woods. It takes a LOT of venom from a viper to get close to being fatal and unless cornered they most always go nuts trying to evacuate the area.

Water Moccasins are a different deal in terms of aggression...they hold their ground and will sometimes come at you. You have to take a hard look at the water and surroundings, especially when fishing the banks or throwing topwater.
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For a guy who doesn't like cats, you show too much affection for these nuisances.
I usually dispatch those critters with a 20 ga. At close range, it cleanly takes off their heads. Then I leave the carcass for the hawks, coyotes, and other varmints to feast on.
They usually remove the remains in 6 hours or less.

Slick
 
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texasSlick said:
For a guy who doesn't like cats, you show too much affection for these nuisances.
I usually dispatch those critters with a 20 ga. At close range, it cleanly takes off their heads. Then I leave the carcass for the hawks, coyotes, and other varmints to feast on.
They usually remove the remains in 6 hours or less.

Slick
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I get caught up in taking out some little kids pet or trying to show an irresponsible owner some consideration.
After that its my .410 with full choke or a .22 magnum.
When we encounter the periodic feral cat problem killing quail, turkey poults or new chicks we resort to the cat bomb. Take a can of tuna, crack it so it just opens and then set it out at the back of the equipment shed. Then we set up about 70 yards out with a .22 magnum. The feral ones are extremely wary but that tuna most always brings them in.
 
Lineslinger said:
Water Moccasins are a different deal in terms of aggression...they hold their ground and will sometimes come at you. You have to take a hard look at the water and surroundings, especially when fishing the banks or throwing topwater.
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When you are fishing the river banks in a small boat, those water Moccasins like to drop from low lying limbs into the boat. There's nothing to do except run the boat into the bank and let them have it.

Slick
 
Has happened to me more than once. After unexpectedly dropping in and crawling my way, me missing tryin to whack it with the paddle I was out of that canoe and in the water in flash. Swam the canoe to the shore, dumped it and never did find the moccasin.
 
Took me a while but I’ve finally caught up…

Google Moccasin in the U.K. and you get shoes. Kinda hippy / librarian / school teacher shoes.

Couldn't work out why y’all were getting so excited about a librarians shoe in your boat.

SNAKE! I get the excitement now!

I actually honestly thought it was some kind of cat !!
 
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