Re: chicken terror
- To: i*@cgac.es
- Subject: Re: chicken terror
- From: K* H*
- Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 18:51:24 -0800
At 12:09 11/04/1999 +0100, iberbier@cgac.es wrote:
>Off list-topic, I know, but I hope sympathetic chicken owners in the
>group will sympathise with my need to vent my feelings...
>
Here on the eastern edge of San Jose, California, bordering some pasture
lands, we've got racoons, coyotes, opossumns and it's claimed, lynx-bobcat
hybrids. There are, of course, native bobcat populations but the story goes
that someone a few years ago was raising a bunch of pet lynxes, tired of
them and turned them loose. There are nevertheless, plentiful bob-cat-like
creatures almost 1 meter in length (recall there is no tail.)
I had kept geese on the rougher parts of the backyard for purposes of
weed-removal for some time, but one early spring night the bobcats killed
all three of them and, of course, only devoured part of each.
I now keep some geese locked away each night in a galvanized steel mesh
cage wired and latched shut all around. My boys are quite handy at this,
without their help it would be pretty tedious. None of the
foul-appreciation society appear able to open it.
