Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Don Dory wrote: > > Well Jim, > Snowshoe is just being a good pack member. She is sharing and possibly > trying to teach you to hunt. Plus, your mouse population should be > decreasing. > > I would praise her, but try to modify the behavior to drop the mouse > outside. Catch her with the mouse still in her mouth, pick her up, take > her outside and reward her there. I was mostly lucky with my cats, they > left dead offerings at the front door, although there was a time when my > current cat would bring us ground squirrels. So much fun to catch them > again, and again, and again. > > Don > dorysrus@mindspring.com I read and believe there are two basic kinds of house cats in regard to hunting. One: the kind which can hunt regular live animals. Pick a bird out of the air. Two: the kind which needs the animal to be wounded first; fluttering non symmetrically. That was my cat. I never held it against her. I'd need a head start too. But she because an in house house cat after a few years when every cat in my entire street got hit by cars or poisoned i cant figure out which. Probably the former. Hunting days were over. At least in the real world. I know for a fact Elmo chases rabbits every night in his sleep. This I know as a fact. I cant type because I'm growing my nails on my right hand for classical guitar. Mark Rabiner Portland, Oregon USA http://www.rabinergroup.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html