A nasty storm came out of nowhere on Saturday afternoon, it was rather noisy. The morning kept us pretty wet too. My mate borrowed my neighbour’s mini excavator. He stopped it after using it for about ten minutes then it wouldn’t start again. After a bit of running around from both of us getting the right tools from both our houses we established that the starter motor is stuffed. So the excavator is sat in a garden until we source a new starter motor.
Woke up to a very sad sight yesterday morning. I have plenty of Curlews around my place, and I’ve been lucky to witness a chick growing up. I found it dead right outside my house. It was a fair few months old and over half grown. A bloke across the road is a “cat lover” and looks after two…that roam around all night. Unsure if that’s what’s happened here. I mean if a cat was going to attack it would more likely go for it while it was small I reckon. Anyway, I unceremoniously dumped it in my wheelybin. Not great I know. So sad.
A bloke across the road is a “cat lover” and looks after two…that roam around all night.
We have a “cat lover”, and another moving in with two more. Both declare that cats need to roam, and keeping them contained is cruel.
I have purchased a cat trap and will be relocating them to the local pound. Watching a possum limp past our front camera the other night with chunks of fur missing all over it and moments later the cat stalking it was enough to put me over the edge. I also have an assortment of large rocks near our front door which will be used to shoo the cat away at high velocity whenever I catch it on our property.
I can’t stand free range cats and the damage they do to the environment.
Absolutely. And yes each time they get released from the pound there’s a hefty price to pay.
Cats are fine indoors if that’s all they know.
And yes “cat lovers” are not necessarily “animal lovers”.
Related, though I’m not sure how many wolves or eagles we need to worry about around here.
I also thought it was illegal to let a cat roam free outside, although this this page does not say so explicitly.
Outside, yes. Outside your property, no.
That’s rather good. I once lived fifteen minutes past Lismore in the middle of nowhere. Our small dog stopped going outside at a certain point, we had Wedge Tailed Eagles sometimes fly over and I wondered if he had been spooked.