06-30-2012, 03:39 PM
Hey, thanks for the replies.
Luci has now been joined by Merlin, both are sterile and do a good job of keeping the rodent population in a constant state of fear.
The only down side of this is that as we live in a corner of a forest the cats have literaly unlimited prey. Sometimes Merlin will return home with animals with which we are not even familiar and have to look up. The most recent 'kill' was a 'siebenschläfer' a type of rodent with a fluffy tail.
After losing a back leg in a car accident I thought he would be less of a threat to the rest of nature but I was wrong, it has had no effect, he still manages about 5 or 6 mice a day, the odd bird, squirrel, frog or whatever mother nature has on the menu that day.
We feed him enough, it just seems he's a hunter.
Luci has now been joined by Merlin, both are sterile and do a good job of keeping the rodent population in a constant state of fear.
The only down side of this is that as we live in a corner of a forest the cats have literaly unlimited prey. Sometimes Merlin will return home with animals with which we are not even familiar and have to look up. The most recent 'kill' was a 'siebenschläfer' a type of rodent with a fluffy tail.
After losing a back leg in a car accident I thought he would be less of a threat to the rest of nature but I was wrong, it has had no effect, he still manages about 5 or 6 mice a day, the odd bird, squirrel, frog or whatever mother nature has on the menu that day.
We feed him enough, it just seems he's a hunter.