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<blockquote data-quote="Junior Bonner" data-source="post: 2816508" data-attributes="member: 33416"><p>For the record, I will not transport and release another feral cat or any other animal, for that matter. I can see where I was at fault for doing that and I won't do it again. But probably, anything I do will be wrong in one way or another and I just don't want this thread to degenerate into another OSA slug fest. Mainly, I was hoping that some of the hobbyists who trap were familiar with this method of killing. The predator has the intelligence to move a 35 pound cinder block by tilting it back. It kills from the bottom and eats the intestines. I saw no head or neck injuries. The thighs of the birds are partially denuded of flesh. The carcasses are not carried away. I smelled no suggestion of skunk, and I don't think a skunk would be strong enough to tilt a 35 pound cinder block and make it fall over. At first I discounted rats as a possibilty, there are no rat droppings, no gnawing holes in my 50 pound sacks of chicken feed, probably because of the rat snake that lives out there. But the more I thought about it, I couldn't rule it out, because I know rats can get huge, and they are very intelligent. So I placed a gallon of warfarin under some of the floor boards the chicken house 30 minutes ago. But there may be some kind of technicality that makes that wrong and I don't want to get mixed up in an OSA fight over it. I've seen some good postulations on what the culprit might be, and what I catch out there tonight might - or might not be the killer. I might not catch it tonight, but maybe tomorrow night or the next. The nights are getting cold and the thing will be back. I was in the wrong for transporting the feral cat to a remote, uninhabited location - I didn't just drop it off by a house. I was in error. So, I am open to suggestions as to what this might be. I will post pics of whatever is caught in the trap.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Junior Bonner, post: 2816508, member: 33416"] For the record, I will not transport and release another feral cat or any other animal, for that matter. I can see where I was at fault for doing that and I won't do it again. But probably, anything I do will be wrong in one way or another and I just don't want this thread to degenerate into another OSA slug fest. Mainly, I was hoping that some of the hobbyists who trap were familiar with this method of killing. The predator has the intelligence to move a 35 pound cinder block by tilting it back. It kills from the bottom and eats the intestines. I saw no head or neck injuries. The thighs of the birds are partially denuded of flesh. The carcasses are not carried away. I smelled no suggestion of skunk, and I don't think a skunk would be strong enough to tilt a 35 pound cinder block and make it fall over. At first I discounted rats as a possibilty, there are no rat droppings, no gnawing holes in my 50 pound sacks of chicken feed, probably because of the rat snake that lives out there. But the more I thought about it, I couldn't rule it out, because I know rats can get huge, and they are very intelligent. So I placed a gallon of warfarin under some of the floor boards the chicken house 30 minutes ago. But there may be some kind of technicality that makes that wrong and I don't want to get mixed up in an OSA fight over it. I've seen some good postulations on what the culprit might be, and what I catch out there tonight might - or might not be the killer. I might not catch it tonight, but maybe tomorrow night or the next. The nights are getting cold and the thing will be back. I was in the wrong for transporting the feral cat to a remote, uninhabited location - I didn't just drop it off by a house. I was in error. So, I am open to suggestions as to what this might be. I will post pics of whatever is caught in the trap. [/QUOTE]
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