Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 18:09:49 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Steve Huy Subject: Re: quail decline MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 02/17/03 17:51:59 Eastern Standard Time, r.woodsjr@WORLDNET.ATT.NET writes: > Do you know what happens to feral cats in > your vicinity? > They live in groundhog holes next to my house and kill numerous birds and rabbits and stay out of "range" whenever I am around. They do little to the rodent population. In fact, this spot is where the quail would spend much of their time. Frederick County Animal Control will not do anything about it. I was advised they would not take adult feral cats even if I trapped and delivered them. I live in farm country and people just love to dump their cats here for us country folk to take care of. Doesn't matter if they are spayed, declawed they do not belong outdoors. They still kill birds. They kill other animals that belong outdoors. They spread diseases. I have three cats of my own which I love very much. One of which was dumped here. But they do not go outdoors. And I can't take in any more. leaving cats or dogs outdoors is not responsible. And as Marty said (no offense taken, Marty) they do impact wildlife populations. Steve H. Middletown, MD ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================