10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2013

A wildlife rehabilitator friend, newly licensed, recently called to ask if he could feed a recovering Turkey Vulture anything besides defrosted rodents. As long as they had no drugs in their system, and as long as they weren’t touched by a cat (and thus contaminated with salmonella/pasteurella/Bartonella, etc.) He ate my last quail.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Rodents Mice Rats 187

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

They would realize that wild owls fly silently through the night and grab unwary rodents, not unsuspecting packages of processed cow meat. A pet cat raising orphaned ducklings! That is, until the ducklings grow up, are released into a pond, and greet the local feral cat colony as long-lost relatives.

Wildlife Rehabilitation 257

Wildlife Rehabilitation Wildlife Feral Cats Hamburgers 257

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2014

Feral cats have been able to adapt very well in Australia and have grown larger over the years and can survive in areas that you would not expect. Feral cat predation on Pied Oystercatcher eggs. The European Rabbit was also introduced for hunting by early settlers and it soon bred and became highly invasive.

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Australia Species Feral Cats Feral 157

Reddit Animals

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The rodent has been dismembered in some way, but it doesn't appear to have been eaten at all. I have never once seen a cat anywhere in my neighborhood. I have never once seen a cat anywhere in my neighborhood. None of my neighbors have cats and I'm only aware of one dog owner blocks away. Probably a rat.

Rats 40

Rats Mice Rodents Chipmunks 40

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

This sleek, stunningly patterned cat was a formidable hunting subject, and in its cunning sometimes ended up hunting and killing the hunter. They are called Antlions due to ants being one of their main prey items and “lion” referring to hunter or destroyer.

Buffalo 195

Buffalo Rhinoceros Elephants Leopards 195

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2012

Getting rid of rabbits and goats was something that had been done for many years, but it was generally thought that rats and cats would be impossible to remove from all but the smallest islands. Of particular interest would be the commitment of the islanders to give up having cats as pets. Insanely ambitious?

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New Zealand Rats Mammals Possums 172