Re: ridecamp-d Digest V00 #42

[MBlanchrd@aol.com]

In a message dated 01/08/2000 7:27:48 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
ridecamp-d-request@endurance.net writes:

<<  had a barn kitten and one morning I went out and it was in a
 crouched position, eyes open, and dead.  It looked like a stuffed cat.  I
 called the health department and asked if there was a chance it had
 rabies or something.  I was a teenager, didn't tell my parents, was just
 freaked out by its appearance.  They said there hadn't been a case of
 rabies in Hamilton County for many many years.  A couple of years ago
 there was one, but the cat had come up from Florida.  By the way, at our
 new house, found another barn cat curled up peacefully asleep, dead.  Do
 you think those could have been snakebites?
 
 Angie (who has one young unvaccinated cat (not for long) >>

Angie, that sounds more like poisoning. Who would poison a cat? Unfortunately 
you may be (not you Angie, you the cat owner) the culprit.
 Lots of times people put out poison for mice and rats. The rodent eats the 
poison but it does not kill immediately, so the rodent walks away. A day or 
two later it's staggering around and the cat catches and eats it. Now the cat 
dies of the rat poison. I work with wild birds, too, and you'd be horrified 
at how many times we've found barn owls killed by rat/mouse poison, not to 
mention hawks and kestrels, too. 

Michelle
MBlanchrd@aol.com


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