If you get rid of the feral cats, who is going to kill all the rats and mice? I just found out that the DC area has rats and mice running around like crazy. I saw a video of mice eating scraps off of a restaurant floor during the night and the restaurant owner has a pest service on contract. Watching the rats dancing in the street during the night, and even hiding in cars, was a little disturbing. predators are doing really well because the rest of the wildlife is going rather well, or the predators, like the other wildlife are just adapting to human conditions. The whitetail deer are like rats around here too. We also have resident geese out the wazoo. So, it all means that predators have more to eat.
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The pond, waterfowl, and yellow labs...it don't get any better.
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