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Hi,
I'm new to cats and want some advice.
i live alone in the woods in Virginia. I have had a problem with rodents recently and adopted a cat that I thought would help with taking care of rodents around the home and with my chicken coops. It has actually worked out well, honestly, because she has been eliminate the mice problem I had in the barn and the general mouse problem I've had around the property. So, from that perspective it has been positive and I've enjoyed having her on the property.
I raise hens for eggs and the occasional Sunday night dinner. It's actually a fun hobby if you have the time. The problem is, well, she keeps killing the hens. At first I thought it was a fox but then I noticed the way the hens were being killed weren't consistent with how a fox will kill chickens. Foxes tend to eat their prey..
Actually, she's gotten quite sadistic. Midnight (her name) will somehow manage to actually bite off the heads of chickens and leave them at my back porch. At first I thought it was kind of clever but she places the heads in strange manners. So for instance, today she killed three hens and placed them in a pile right by my door and did so in a way to have the three heads pointed directly at the door. I don't mean in a pile, like, the heads were each put directly with their eyes pointed right at the door in an almost symmetrical manner. I mean it kind of freake d me out, but I don't understand. Does Midnight like want me to cook the chickens for her or something? The hen corpses are fine and all I need to do is boil them and we can share the meat but is that what she's trying to say to me?
thanks for your comments.
I'm new to cats and want some advice.
i live alone in the woods in Virginia. I have had a problem with rodents recently and adopted a cat that I thought would help with taking care of rodents around the home and with my chicken coops. It has actually worked out well, honestly, because she has been eliminate the mice problem I had in the barn and the general mouse problem I've had around the property. So, from that perspective it has been positive and I've enjoyed having her on the property.
I raise hens for eggs and the occasional Sunday night dinner. It's actually a fun hobby if you have the time. The problem is, well, she keeps killing the hens. At first I thought it was a fox but then I noticed the way the hens were being killed weren't consistent with how a fox will kill chickens. Foxes tend to eat their prey..
Actually, she's gotten quite sadistic. Midnight (her name) will somehow manage to actually bite off the heads of chickens and leave them at my back porch. At first I thought it was kind of clever but she places the heads in strange manners. So for instance, today she killed three hens and placed them in a pile right by my door and did so in a way to have the three heads pointed directly at the door. I don't mean in a pile, like, the heads were each put directly with their eyes pointed right at the door in an almost symmetrical manner. I mean it kind of freake d me out, but I don't understand. Does Midnight like want me to cook the chickens for her or something? The hen corpses are fine and all I need to do is boil them and we can share the meat but is that what she's trying to say to me?
thanks for your comments.