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Monday, April 15, 2013

Re: [AlpacaTalk] Re: Questions about barn cats

 

I love these barncat stories.  I used to have a Red-Lored Amazon parrot named Tia Maria who would help me train kittens - never adult cats for her safety.  I would put the kitten in the bathroom with Tia on the floor and she would run at them, screaming and flapping her wings and scare the crap out of them, just one time.  Tia wasn't scared and would never hurt them, she thought it was funny and would laugh afterward.  Tia would also call the cats and dogs over to her cage by their individual names "Here, kitty, kitty, here Little" or "Cooper, here boy!" and laugh and reward them by sharing/dropping her food to them when they came over.  Every single kitten who got "The Tia Treatment" just one time NEVER hunted birds, they were afraid of them.  One used to lay outside on the grass with sparrows hopping all around her and I even got a pic of one hopping onto her!  Once they are used to them, most alpacas love cats but I discourage them from going inside the pastures and pens because of potential giardia and coccidia transfer - rare, but possible from dogs, too.
 
Susan Olson
Alpaca Loco
Riverside, CA
 
In a message dated 4/14/2013 4:09:57 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, alpacatalk@gmail.com writes:
 

My wonderful "Little Princess", who is the serious barn cat/gopher eradicator, also hunts field mice when they are abundant. She used to kill birds, but since I always scold her when she brings home birds, she has stopped. And, I am fairly certain that she has really stopped, after one day when an adorable 0.2 ounce kinglet ran into the front window and gave himself a concussion. I set about trying to figure out what to do with him and started looking for a suitable sized box. While I did that, he was still outside on the deck, having seizures from his accident. Little Princess stayed at least 4 feet away from him, but watched him carefully until I returned. She could have easily eaten him and went on her way.


So anyway, cats can and do understand what you want. And if you believe that your spoken language can be understood by them, they really do understand. WE always tell our animals what's going on. 

BTW, I treated the littl e bird with Arnica Montana for trauma for about an hour, and after he felt better and was behaving normally, and chirping, I let him back outside.



On Apr 7, 2013, at 10:22 AM, jelizabethfarms1@bellsouth.net wrote:

 

Barn cats, feral cats, stray cats....they all rock for the farm life.
I've long been known around here as the lady that will trap any cat that
hangs out, spay/neuter, and feed for the rest of its life.
I used to find RATS, not mice, in the alpacas water buckets every morning.
None once I had barn cats.
And no more snakes either...which were also a huge problem here BC
(before cats).
I have one that unfortunately does hunt the birds, but none of the
others do.
I think it must be an individual personality thing.
And they each have their own dispositions and personalities - just like
all critters.
Run off the ducks?! You must be kidding. All the cats here are
terrified of even my little tiny miniature ducks. You should see these
little ducks - a mere look from one of them will send the cats
scattering haha.
Janice in GA


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