It is known that felines are prolific hunters, so is our cat, Blue. At two-year old, she starts to bring home the “bacon.” A good thing about her is that she doesn’t know how to kill, or the meaning of killing, so she always brings her preys home alive! To end her frustrations for losing her preys, (she hasn’t figured out how to transfer her preys from mouth to paws and hold them, so her preys always got away,) I would have to help her to catch them [inside the house], and put them in a trap so I can release them later, “catch and release.”
She doesn’t eat them, but hunting is in her DNA, so she goes out hunting every day ...
Tahoe living: Blue’s first squirrel catch
A red squirrel, by my estimate, is about 4 to 5 times bigger than a typical chipmunk, so it is much stronger, energetic and swifter than a chipmunk, and it is more difficult to catch than to catch a chipmunk. Our kitten has grown into a cat. At two-year+ old, her tallies are 61 chipmunks, 2 voles, 2 shrews, 2 birds, and most recently, 1 squirrel caught, and none of them killed.
Ps the snow on the ground is the season first snow fall, winter won't be long now.
A red squirrel, by my estimate, is about 4 to 5 times ...
Tahoe living: cool cat
A red squirrel was busy running around collecting pine seeds into a hole it dug. Blue has learned that over the summer that she has no ways to catch a squirrel over an open space, so it stayed put, cool cat.
A red squirrel was busy running around collecting pine seeds into a hole i ...
Tahoe living: survival of the fittest
This poor chipmunk got caught four times. First it got caught by the cat, brought it home and loosed it inside the house, I helped to catch it and put it in a trap. Couldn’t release it with the cat around, so I fed it some pine nuts on a small dish, when I tried to get the dish out of the cage, it got a way. So I setup a trap, caught it a few hour later. I usually release those chipmunks when the cat is not around, but this time it came out of nowhere, the chipmunk got caught again, but through her resilient resisting tactic, it got away again to live for another day, the survival of the fittest. And that's living.