- Location
- North of Perth
There good for vermin I find.
Some c*#t trapped our cats an took them to the local vet to re home them!
Confessions of the Sheep/Beef Cattle/Pig Addicts
- Thread starter Anymulewilldo
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Some c*#t trapped our cats an took them to the local vet to re home them!
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Kittens are easy to avoid. I wouldn’t be without a cat or two now. Haven’t seen a (living) rat or mouse in years either.
- Location
- North of Perth
I'd be more worried about dogs sh!tting in my silage fields than a couple of cats around the steading.
livestock 1
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The difference is the cats we get are stray cats rehomed by folks that end up chucking them out when the novelty wears off so they end up living in hay sheds
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Sounds like you definitely need to get your own old boy then, to work for you at keeping the incomers away.
- Location
- North of Perth
You do realise cats are territorial keep taking them away an more come in just like foxes.sounds like you need to do as @Highland Mule says.
livestock 1
Member
We have a cat or mother has one but some folks have half a dozen he’s not got much chance
We had to give up making hay years ago
We had to give up making hay years ago
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
If it’s an adult cat then it isn’t causing Toxo. Only juveniles can spread it as cats quickly get immune, the same as sheep do after infection.
That’s why sheep farmers are advised to only keep spayed cats. If you shoot the cat, another stray will likely move in and have kittens.
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Also, if you do get a juvenile, it’s best to time its arrival for straight after lambing. You want it to catch toxo and gain immunity when the ewes aren’t at risk. I’ve a freshly spayed young one inside at the moment - climbing the walls and desperate to start killing mice - but she won’t be allowed out until April. That was helpful advice from an expert at the Moredun.
- Location
- North of Perth
The right cat Will keep others away.mines a tabby crossed with a ferrel which I'm sure has some wildcat in it.its a killing machine, had pigeons an rabbits even did a stoat.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
We’ve got two youngsters here and both seem perfectly content not going far out of the garden as yet.
One had one of his legs amputated (some twunt had dumped the litter in a bag in a roadside ditch
, and he got hit by a car), but he’s already bringing mice in daily, hopefully inoculating them both with Toxo. He seems to think the bath tub makes an ideal killing pen.
I’m far more concerned about the fields we graze around the town, where we have no control over what cats are there, so always use Toxovax.
It looks like a young cat.
Just drivi my round checking sheep and this girl is a woman after my heart
Look at this for a corner post!!!
- Location
- North Yorkshire
FfsJust drivi my round checking sheep and this girl is a woman after my heart
Look at this for a corner post!!!
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it’s like fate you’ve found each other
You give them pink and white take blue and yellow home
- Location
- JanDeGrootLand
Are Farm Cats an endangered species yet. Seldom see any now. Used to always have a few strays come and go.
Been some "Cats Protection" lot going around last 3 or 4 years trapping every cat they can find and sterilising them. Little reproduction.
Have seen adverts for kittens at £50 each, never fast enough replying to get one.
Maybe Stoats are the answer to keep vermin down. Had one about last Spring and rats disappeared. Not seeing one this year, but a few rats back.
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Best hunting kitten I ever had came from up your way - Keiss I think. Didn’t cost me any ££ but gave me a headache by howling all the way over the Ord and down to home. Would happily take adult rabbits, had the patience to wait for moles to come out for air, etc.
There’s still some out there but you need to ask around, and maybe be prepared to take a slightly older one too.
Is Balmore still open?