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Re: Cats 101 - part 6

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Hi De!

I have a wild rabbits living under my storage barn in my backyard. Drives my old dog crazy..

I think they are cute. When the little ones get big enough they leave.

That said, like you, I have little to no use for cats, but do not believe they have human prey in mind....

As for killing off rodents, that is about the only Positive thing I can think of about them...


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Re: Cats 101 - part 6
By: Decomposed
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Sun, 22 May 16 11:12 PM
Msg. 00115 of 00575

re: "(We got wild rabbits in my urban neighborhood . . .
Rabbits breed pretty prolifically too.)"

I don't know why that wouldn't be the case almost everywhere, but I think I've only once seen a wild rabbit in NH. I do plan on raising them. I'll almost definitely have cats, dogs, rabbits, chickens, goats and sheep, though I hear it's very difficult to butcher goats since they're fun, smart and personable, and owners have a tendency to become very fond of them. (Not sheep, though. They're among the dumbest of the dumb animals.) Maybe I'll only raise goats for their milk and sheep for meat?

Goats and sheep are also terrible for the turf. Unlike cows, they graze by ripping the grass out of the soil and leave the area dead. You need to have a lot of land if you're going to raise them.

I'm planning to raise a cow each year, and to butcher it each fall so that I won't have to store food for it each winter. That could be expensive, depending on whether I want to grow food for cows. Pigs are a bit better in that they'll eat table scraps. I *may* decide that they're worth keeping through winter. 


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