Cat Feeding and Cold Starts

I thought it was worth a video of the feeding frenzy I experience twice a day lately when feeding the farm cats. I've doubled their rations in light of recent
cold weather and still they are ravenous making heavy mitts or gloves a necessity when putting out the feed.
For those that hate cats just fast forward to see me starting up 3 tractors. I won't brag anymore about the age of that Interstate battery on the 730 Case
because most of you have heard it before. The 730 got a good workout on the 7 foot dozer blade cleaning up a patch of dead poplars later in the day. No video of
that. I need to watch like a hawk to not put a tree through the screens or drive on a sharp stump.


Cats and Tractor starts

I bet you don't have much of a rodent problem.

(quoted from post at 15:01:16 11/05/23) I bet you don't have much of a rodent problem.

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Not much but ironically I did have a mouse get into the cab air intake of the Mustang a while back. Second time its happened in the shed. Of course cats are not allowed in the shed because I have poison blocks nailed to the walls to control the mice.

I love cats. I also love dogs.

(quoted from post at 16:40:45 11/05/23) I love cats. I also love dogs.

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That was a fun video. I guess cats are hard-wired to act like they're starving at feeding time. Maybe they think they'll get more food.

You can share how old the battery is because I don't know. Just replaced mine after 8 yrs, a little group 26 battery in my Massey. Thankfully they put dates on them because I thought I'd replaced it fairly recently.

Gerrit

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You can share how old the battery is because I don't know. Just replaced mine after 8 yrs,
Gerrit

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This old Interstate battery is one of a pair that I originally bought and used on my CIH 1660 combine. The date of purchase was either 1999 or 2000. I could look up the bill but I know it was just a year after I bought the combine.

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(quoted from post at 18:39:22 11/05/23)
You can share how old the battery is because I don't know. Just replaced mine after 8 yrs,
Gerrit

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This old Interstate battery is one of a pair that I originally bought and used on my CIH 1660 combine. The date of purchase was either 1999 or 2000. I could look up the bill but I know it was just a year after I bought the combine.

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That's a lot of life from one battery! Should earn a spot in the Battery Hall of Fame if there is one. Or at least a nomination. Be interesting to see how much longer it goes.
Gerrit

The best thing about cats, they cover up their #2. You step in dog's #2.

We recently installed a cat door. Saves on litter.

I was always told cats that get fed dont catch mice.
I was also told cats that dont get milk dont catch mice
I dont believe either one to be true.
I do believe cats that dont get fed catch more mice
Our cats get milk but nothing that they dont find themselves.
There is always a dead animal somewhere laying around here.
Coyotes, dead chickens , dead cows that I haul in for dog food. I never see mice but Im sure there around here

Better to let the cats in the shed. Mice destroyed the wiring in my old motorhome.I started feeding the cats in there. Now it smells like cat poo but no more rodent problem.

Ok, let's keep this cat thing going. Two cats my place, both killers. If a mouse manages to get in the house, which would be rare, it won't last long.

The older cat will eat everything she kills, with maybe the exception of an organ or two that isn't to her liking. The younger cat--an orange tabby who weighs about twice as much as the other one--just hunts for the fun of it.

This is where it gets a little interesting: When the orange tabby bags a mouse, which is often, the younger cat won't touch it. Even if he killed it right in front of her. He'll leave it because apparently he hasn't figured out it's food--and she may sniff it but just let it sit there. She won't eat anything she didn't kill.

They both have food set out for them, can eat whenever they want. When I give them wet food 2-3X a week, the older one who eats everything she kills acts like she's been on a starvation diet for days on end--even though she goes out every night and catches as many mice as she can and eats all of them. I have to feed them separately--the big tabby will take a few bites but the smaller cat will finish hers in about 2 minutes then push the bigger cat aside and start in on his food.

My workshop is not mouse-proof, but between resident black snakes and the cats they keep the rodent population under control.

Gerrit