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Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Backyard Visitor
From: Wayne Harridge <wayneharridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:27:24 +1100
I would have thought the owl would clean up the mice too !

...Wayne


> Chris Crawford <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Wow, I've never had a cat get eaten. Not much in Indiana that will 
> tangle
> with a cat. My grandpa's old cat, Molly, has killed two rattlesnakes. 
> When I
> lived in Santa Fe, people used to talk of cats being eaten by coyotes 
> and
> one person I knew had a cat get eaten by a large owl. That woman had 
> several
> horses and she kept complaining that her barn was full of mice and she
> couldn't seem to get rid of them. Noticing that she didn't have any 
> cats, I
> suggested getting one to live in the barn. That's when she told me that 
> her
> last cat got eaten by the owl that lives in a tree on her property. She 
> says
> she saw the owl tear her cat apart while it was still alive! That
> traumatized her and she never got another cat.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Chris Crawford
> Photography & Graphic Design
> Fort Wayne, Indiana
> 
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> 
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> 
> 
> On 1/8/09 6:44 PM, "WayneS" <om3ti@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Nice sequence.
> > 
> > We have a cat who roams our neighborhood, but never lets me get close.
> > 
> > Problem in our neighborhood is that predators usually consume cats 
> that
> > roam the neighborhood. We have lost 4 cats. I know one was to a fox.
> > The others were either from a fisher cat or coyotes.
> > 
> > Our latest two cats, against my long history with cats, are relegated 
> to
> > indoors.
> > 
> > my dude Zeus:
> > http://www.zuik.net/OM-4t/zeusey_MG_9273.jpg
> > 
> > WayneS
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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