Re: catnip

Jason was never feral, but he is a pretty good hunter, even though missing his front claws! He has taken birds (rarely) further from the house, but I suspect they were not healthy to begin with.
Cathy
On Sunday, November 21, 2004, at 06:27 PM, "" <gardenqueen@academicplanet.com> wrote:

But was your indoor/outdoor baby ever feral? Sugar was. Even w/ mama
watching her like a hawk and being on a tether, she still gets one
occasionally. We have no voles, but she gets mice big time too. Which is
handy this time of year, when it starts cooling off they try to come
indoors. They last only seconds when they make that mistake here.


Pam Evans
Kemp, TX
zone 8A
----- Original Message -----
From: Cathy Carpenter
Sent: 11/21/2004 4:37:33 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] catnip

Only one of my cats is indoor/outdoor. He hunts, kills, and eats mice
and voles. I have two feeders and a bird bath on the deck attached to
my house, and while he spends much of his time on the deck, next to
those feeders, he has not once gone for a bird. The birds go to and
from the feeders as he reclines on the deck. He ignores them, they
ignore him. Go figure!
Cathy
On Saturday, November 20, 2004, at 07:58 PM, Aplfgcnys@aol.com wrote:

Pam, my catnip is inside the fenced vegetable garden - that is the
only way
I can protect vegetables from the deer.  I suppose a determined cat
could
get in, but I don't think they would bother.  I have taken one of my
indoor
cats down there a few times for a treat, and she was not able to get
out.
One of my outdoor cats has followed me in a few times, but she is much
too fat to get out.  We feed birds and have lots and lots of them.  I
can't
really declare that no bird has ever been caught by a cat of mine, but
it
hasn't happened often.  Nick, my stupid male goes dashing up trees
after birds and then looks puzzled when the bird is not there when he
gets there.  I have had more birds die from flying into the picture
window
than be caught by cats.
Auralie

In a message dated 11/20/2004 7:12:37 PM Eastern Standard Time,
gardenqueen@academicplanet.com writes:
Auralie - I let a lot of things reseed all over the place too. One nice
thing about having a bird & butterfly habitat is you can tell people
it's supposed to look that wild and they don't know any different! But
I
don't grow catnip because I don't want cats in the yard eating my
birdies.

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