03-13-2008, 07:02 PM
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| Senior Member  | Keeping them should be OK - The mix between bobcat and domestic, The Pixie Bob, is a popular breed of cat in some areas. The animals are still young enough it sounds to be socialized. Although just releasing them would be fine to, let nature do its thing. |
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03-13-2008, 07:53 PM
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| Senior Member  | well i accualy thoght you were kidding when you said half breed. i say dont kill them, becouse if you wife is anything like the wemon in my life they will never forgive you for killing there potentional cute pet... |
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03-13-2008, 07:55 PM
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i didnt think about that. you would be a heartless lil kitty murderer! yikes!
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03-13-2008, 08:00 PM
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| Super Moderator   | If it was legal, I would definitely keep them and domesticate them...They would be awesome Mousers, and really cool Cats !!! How about a picture of the Kittens ??? Rich
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03-13-2008, 09:59 PM
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| Senior Member | Bobcats I raised two snow leopards once for a zoo until they wanted me for dinner one night. If their instinct starts getting out of hand try giving them to a zoo or animal sanctuary. Don't de-claw them. It would be like taking away your guns during a crisis. Trim the nails only. Keep them away from kids. |
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03-14-2008, 12:29 AM
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| Senior Member | This may get a little lenghy, but hear me out. A number of years ago I brought home a baby racoon. It was real small, eyes not open yet. My wife treated it just like one of the kids, up at all hours feeding and such. We saved it and since we lived out in the country, it was free to come and go as it pleased. When it was about 6 mo. old it started to get very possesive, and woul growl and hiss at strangers. One night my teenage daughter brought a friend home at about 10 at night. The coon bit her friend on the leg. Now what? Good thing we were good friends with her parents. Of courst we wanted to do the right thing, so I called the state animal vet. and he said we had to make sure the animal did not have rabies. Ok, no studies have been conducted on rabies in coons as to how fast the disease travels through the system. He said it is different with each animal. I couldn't just take it off somewhere else to live not knowing if it had rabies or not, and I couldn't even just shoot it. So we had to cage it and watch it for 60 days. That made the coon a real monster. Anyway everthing turned out ok and we moved it to a high country lake. This was a real eye opener for me. No more wild animals. The state said the parents of the girl bitten could have made it real miserable for us. So you might want to think real hard before raising any wild animals. Good luck. |
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03-14-2008, 01:02 AM
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| Member  | Well no more babby kitties, I just went out to check on them and found the cage door wide open, there gone. I was going to keep them, my dad always said things happen for a reason so i gess it just wasn't ment to be. I've seen there mom and dad, one is a big black and yellow cat that comes up to eat the dog food before the are polar bear (great pyramies) gobbles it down, it looks to be a half breed and the other cat has a den in the pond bank about a 1/8 of a mile from my house it's full blood bobcat, I've seen it on early morning deer hunts headed to it's den, so I know I get to see the kittens again but this way I don't have the headach they probably would have caused. I don't mind the bobcats and the foxes, it's the coyotes and the squirrels that drive me up the wall. Barking squirrels while hunting, and barking coyotes, keep the dogs barking witch in turn keeps me up. I gess I need to take up coyote hunting. Thanks everyone for your input. |
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03-14-2008, 02:13 AM
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Yep,same thoughts here man,They are feral are they not????Unless they are totally native shoot them. | |
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03-14-2008, 02:49 AM
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| Member  | Here any cat out in the bush is feral. Domestic house cats are kept in peoples properties. Feral cats can carry all sorts of diseases, plus we have alot of native marsupials like bilbys and hopping mice. I know some are down to their hundreds in the wild so every little feral that is taken out of existence here helps. When it comes to native things, im not interested in shooting them for the hell of it. Rabbits, foxes, goats, cats and pigs are in my areas and if one crosses my path, then yes I will shoot it. |
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03-14-2008, 03:49 AM
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| Senior Member  | well having a wolf/husk mix for 3 years , id like to say if you take them in, you have a task at hand. even though they seem like pets at times, they wild instincts take control most of the time. it may be alot different with cats but my suggestion to you is to call your wardy.
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03-22-2008, 08:59 AM
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| Senior Member  | If they are feral cats, and by the sounds of it they are, get rid of them. We used to shoot all feral cats found in the field.They do a job on songbirds, and the last time I read up on them, they were the #1 predator of cottontails. |
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