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Post by bluemingidiot on Aug 22, 2023 11:41:46 GMT
We have a couple of bird baths in a flower bed near a large three. That was a location that the birds liked best. Then local cats started hiding beneath the bird baths and groups of feathers started showing up. How do we get rid of the cats?
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Post by mogal on Aug 22, 2023 12:58:46 GMT
I don't provide water to the birds as such but do try to maintain a mud puddle where there is no place nearby for a cat to hide. Butterflies like the muddy edges for the minerals they contain too. Also, my feeders are well up in trees on pulleys. Again, there is no place for the cats to hide. I know it's not as pretty as the birdbath in a flower bed but my arrangement does protect the birds.
Can't get rid of the cats. If they belong to your neighbors, it will make for bad neighbor relations. If they are strays, more will just come in. Nature abhors a vacuum.
I'm sure your efforts are much appreciated by the birds and butterflies with that drought going on right now. Good luck
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Post by bluemingidiot on Aug 22, 2023 22:08:48 GMT
Our front yard is small. There is no room for mud puddles. We really don't want one.
My dogs are fenced in. They don't roam onto neighbors' properties to kill creatures that the neighbors enjoy and intentionally draw to their property. What makes cats so special? Perhaps it is because the neighbors are special?
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Post by mogal on Aug 23, 2023 13:58:20 GMT
I'm not being rude here, Bluemingidiot, maybe devil's advocate.
While I also keep my dogs in a fenced area--our whole yard--I don't think there is a way on God's green earth to fence a cat in. Those are called cages.
In defense of cats, I saw a program on PBS, I think it was, about cats development along with humans. One thing that stuck with me was the supposition that the first great bubonic plague in Europe occurred at a time when both witches and their "familiars" usually cats, were being killed left and right. Their thought was that fewer cats, more rats. My memory may be imperfect.
That being said, some of our neighbors must think themselves special because their dogs and children have been allowed to roam on our place as long as they've lived here including one dog barking at the tenant's cows last week. Neighbor complained when calves went under the electric fence but didn't apologize when the barking incident happened. Our tenant is currently recovering from a car accident so he can't do anything about the fence presently. He needs to send some of his kinfolk over to deal with it because the cows don't know us and we don't know them.
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Post by bluemingidiot on Aug 23, 2023 16:36:15 GMT
A private easement is an agreement between two property owners giving the owner of one property the right to use another's property for a specific purpose.
A prescriptive easement, also called an “easement by prescription,” is a property right acquired when a person – lawyers call them trespassers – uses a property that they don't own in a way that is called – again, by lawyers – open, adverse and continuous.
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Post by mogal on Aug 24, 2023 2:48:44 GMT
Trespassers
Which is why our farm is posted and we have entrances blocked. In MO, if they should build any sort of edifice or road on/across another's property and it's not contested for 10 years, said land becomes the property of the trespassers. We check for encroachment of that sort about once a year, usually before deer season to look for blinds or stands.
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