[GreenKeys] Email for Steve Ripper

[Richard Knoppow]

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From: "Bill" <bill at blcain.com>
To: <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 2:16 PM
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Email for Steve Ripper


> That's an article of interest. However.......cats have 
> been around for a
> looooong time and we still have the diverse wildlife 
> living around us.
> Bill

     Well, I have to say that I have had at least one and 
usually two or three cats who hang around my back yard for 
around twenty-five years and still have a wide variety of 
other creatures there including probably field mice, skunks, 
an occasional possum and lots of squirrels.  Also, birds 
around here dive bomb and otherwise harass cats, I've seen 
them chase a cat until it crawled under the fence into the 
next yard. Its possible that I have wimp cats but there must 
be a lot of them around.
    In the past I've had a couple of good mousers; one was a 
tom cat who used to bring me presents of late-night snacks 
which he left in my bed.  Well, he meant well.
    I have not found any sort of really satisfactory 
mouse/rat trap. Mice and rats are rather intelligent 
creatures and usually can manage to get the bait out of 
conventional spring traps without being caught.  I simply 
won't deal with the sticky traps, they are cruel and when 
they catch something I have to kill it.  Animals which have 
been poisoned tend to find somewhere to die and then smell 
and must be disposed of.  As inefficient as a cat is one is 
probably better than any of the above plus they can be good 
company. Do you suppose a cat can work a Teletype?


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk at ix.netcom.com