by Wing-0 » Sun Nov 14, 2010 5:31 pm
Yeah, cats are a very effective pest control mechanism. There used to be no sightings of rodents here until several years ago, when my stupid neighbors started killing feral cats with poison, and my own domestic cats with them. As a result, I don't let these two out on their own. It's sometimes sad, since I confine both of them to my house and backyard, but it's for their own good (and ours as well). The houses on this street have had rats, mice, etc. with this house falling to the invasion last year, until a gray, pregnant and starved cat appeared meowing for food. Give her a month, and she produces a litter of four with three dead and one survivor. More time passes, and the survivor turns out to be a siamese... Even more time, and the kitten turns into an accomplished hunter, killing its first mouse.
What I mean is this: Had those idiots not killed the cats that lived around here, none of those infestations would have occurred. Now they're poisoning themselves with chemicals, putting traps, trying to avoid rat feces and urine, while the answer to all of those problems is just letting cats take over.
