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As a matter of fact, I've lived the majority of my life on a semi rural block in a farming town. We have Farm cats as well, and they do help in controlling the rodent problem, but at the expense of severe damage to the local ecosystem. What I guess I failed to take into account was that America has (what I assume are native) Cats like the bobcats, cougars and lynxes. Australia doesn't. In fact, we haven't had large, native, stalking predators on the mainland for millions of years, with the exception of mainland Thylacines and Dingoes I guess, which exist in a very different predatory niche - as such, the introduction of Feral cats and foxes has decimated stocks of native/hopping mice, possums, and small marsupials (Woilies, Malas, mainland quokkas, numbats, Wallabies etc.). Feral cats are still a huge problem here. The difference is that North America has an ecology designed to handle cats (bobcats and the like), so the introduction of European domestic cats probably didn't have such an impact.liberator wrote:It's obvious most of you have never been on a farm for any length of time.
If we didn't have a few "feral" cats around here, there be field mice everywhere and I mean everywhere. And there not feral, ferals don't like people at all and spit and hiss at you. Most of the cats that come around are like Barn Cats.
A Barn Cat is a common domestic that gets raised by it's mother away from regular human contact in a barn(duh!), the resulting animal is somewhat wild, usually not letting a human get within 5 feet of them, but they get most of their food from humans, usually in the form of table scraps. Their primary purpose is to keep the rodent population down in grain storage facilities.
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"Everyone has to wear clothes, and if you don't, you get arrested!" - Mr. T
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not sure why. I only had a .22 out there though if that makes a difference49
A .22 is as lethal as anything else, as you demonstrated by the Tymora shot to the bobcat's head. You just have to shoot straighter or be luckier.
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2005.11.25 06:22:57 combat Your Tachyon Beam Laser I perfectly strikes Ruined Stargate, wrecking for
733.8 damage.
2005.11.25 06:22:57 combat Your Tachyon Beam Laser I perfectly strikes Ruined Stargate, wrecking for
733.8 damage.