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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with PP: take a drive out to the country, and leave them near a farm. They sound like excellent barn cats.[/quote]

As a farm owner in rural Frederick County, do NOT do this.  We shoot cats (and dogs - it happens a lot, unfortunately) that are dumped on our property - or those that don't get eaten by foxes or coyotes first. Farm country is not a place for city idiots who don't want to be responsible, to dump their problems or inconveniences.  Swallow your pride, and turn your cats back into the rescue you got them from. [/quote]

Wow.  Why?  How hard would it be to hold a domesticated dog until Animal Control came to get it?

The people I know who live on farms love dogs and all animals in general.  If a sweet, hungry hound wandered onto their property they would be more likely to offer the dog their own dinner than they would be to shoot it.

That said, of course you don't just drop an animal off on somebody else's property.  Poor dog would be likely hit by a passing truck before a farmer even realized it was there.[/quote]

It can take days for AC to get out to us because farms aren't really a priority in the county (this isn't like being in a city with city AC, where a shelter is a block or two away) and stray animals can and will chase livestock enough to cause injury or death.   We have enough experience with losing poultry and high vet bills from injured cows/horses that we euthanize strays as to not take a chance, and most of our dairy farm neighbors practice some sort of SSS (Shoot, Shovel, Shut-up).  City cats usually don't last long at all because of natural predators and disease, and unfortunately, it's not a pretty hound or a poodle or that is dumped, it's unwanted pit/rot mixes that can and do kill calves/goats/poultry and horses.

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Ok. So why can’t OP just bring her cats to your farm? Sounds like the cat problem will be solved quickly.[/quote]

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