> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 01:56:54 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Keep Cats Indoors
>
>
> Yikes! I don't like those statistics at all but I believe it.
>
> I've been feeding ferals at my office for the last 8 years. Several months
> back I found one dead and half eaten, then another one went missing not too
> long after that. A week or two later I saw a coyote in the parking lot of
> the office building next to us. I work at night a lot so I have more of an
> opportunity to see them than some people. I stopped leaving food out for my
> cats at night. After not seeing the coyote for a while I got back in the bad
> habit of leaving cat food out at night. Just last week I walked outside
> about 10 PM and there was the coyote at the food dish, which isn't too far
> away from my front door. The coyote didn't scare me but then I saw my two
> remaining semi-feral cats running towards me and realized they had been close
> by while the coyote was eating. I've stopped leaving food out and hopefully
> he'll move on. I'm so scared for my cats at the office. I wish that if I
> left a lot of food out for the coyote he'd stay full and leave the cats
> alone. I don't think it works that way though. He'll still want to chase
> and kill them because of his instinct.
>
> I really wish pet cats could roam outside and enjoy the extra freedom. But
> stuff like this has made me more of an advocate of keeping them indoors all
> the time, unless you have a cat fence or something. Loose dogs have always
> been a problem killing cats but I don't remember having a coyote problem as a
> kid.
>
>
> > Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:24:10 -0700
> > From: [email protected]
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Keep Cats Indoors
> >
> > Maureen - I am in GA also, and analysis of coyote stomach contents showed
> > that something like 60% of them contained cat remains. I suspect that's why
> > we have such a coyote "problem," even in the suburbs - they are supplied
> > with an endless number of cats as prey - somebody's cat goes missing and
> > they just replace it with another one.
> >
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