Now THERE'S your problem!

[John Northman]

Awww... ain't that cute :D
We used to have a vermin problem too but when we got our two little beasts (our two cats) and a hawk moved to our woods (well I gues it was already there somewhere but it moved near us)

.. No more vermins :D

[Kamn]

Nono, the vermin are still quite alive and kicking. They just relocated. Didnt like the feeling of the neighborhood.:d(:

[reo01]

Is that guy a mechanic by any chance? :p

[Ecchi_Kitty]

Simple math, really.

Five acre farm + 4 cats = lots of rabbits

5 acre farm + 20 cats = no rabbits

We also have no chipmucks, ground squirrels, or other vermin... lots of grasshoppers and crickets still, but with fall starting, not too bothered...

[jimbo]

Heck, we live in an urban area, but 2 blocks from a 1000 acre park with golf course, so we've seen (in our backyard), coyotes, peregrine falcons, racoons and red-tailed hawks. It's amazing we have a turtle and goldfish left in the pond.

[JennieB]

he's one of our roomates. There's 4 people who live in the house.
Not a mechanic but a hockey player.
Why do you ask?

[sableagle]

5 acre farm + 20 cats = no rabbitsWhat have you got there, ocelots and cheetahs? I can't see a domestic cat trying for full-grown rabbit very often, or having much luck if it did.

13 acres and one .177 is a different matter.

[Jauntx]

farm cats and kitypets are not quite the same. Farm cats have some more muscle and wild in em.

[Mike Taylor]

What have you got there, ocelots and cheetahs? I can't see a domestic cat trying for full-grown rabbit very often, or having much luck if it did.

Oh, they can do it. I watched my sister's cat, this otherwise dainty little fragile thing, shoot across the yard after a rabbit, clamp down on its neck, and then drag it under the car in the driveway. She didn't know what to do with it after that, but she took it down.

[RazorJAK]

What have you got there, ocelots and cheetahs? I can't see a domestic cat trying for full-grown rabbit very often, or having much luck if it did.


Ms Victoria used to bring full sized hares home. Then again, she'd bloody the muzzles of danes who got in her way.

[Leffy]

i had a cat that was afraid of mice. she was black and white which supposedly makes good mousers but as soon as she'd spot one thered be that freaky cat scream and she'd be as high as she could go.

[Schizoid]

Living in suburbia as I do, I found it weird and awesome to watch a hawk eat its rabbit prey on the rail of our patio one day. If they were digital, I'd share the pictures. Too bad I don't have the proper wires for my scanner at the moment.

[Ecchi_Kitty]

What have you got there, ocelots and cheetahs? I can't see a domestic cat trying for full-grown rabbit very often, or having much luck if it did.

Not often, but does happen. Is more the little bunnies that get caught, but the full grown rabbits also end up on the menu.
I do occasionally worry about things like opposums and skunks that the cat will probally end up the worse for tangeling with, but so far doesn't seem to have been any problems.

[Death Dragon2]

My Cat (not my Kitten, since we haven't had a mouse in the house since San Diego) is a good mouser herself, but the one mouse we had came into the house because we opened the back door to let the dog in/out. Our cat was stalking it, and in came our dog ( the mouse was in the kitchen), and he started picking it up and tossing it in the air and letting it hit the ground before throwing it up in the air again. He killed it and we took it away from him and threw it in the trash outside.

[toreador]

my cats are cowerds really or there just lazy, they play with birds or mice for a bit rolling them around then they just toddle off for a nap:D

[Goltotoo]

Is more the little bunnies that get caught
Yes, one of our cats was quite the hunter....about twice a year. (The rest of the time, she couldn't really be bothered.) She caught a variety of things, including some little to mid-sized bunnies.

Most of what she caught, she ate, at least part of. But she wouldn't eat chipmunks. So there were a couple times we'd wake up in the middle of the night, and hear something....well, it sounded like a very small horse, actually. Galloping across the floor. Not a soft, scurrying sound at at all!

We'd go downstairs, and there would be a perfectly healthy chipmunk, looking to escape the house. The cats were absolutely no help in catching it, either. The huntress would look at it, sometimes with a little interest, but mostly with a look of "Hey, I caught it, I brought it inside, I can't do everything for you."

The other cat would just sit there, and watch it run around, sort of "Oh, my, how curious." One of the chipmunks almost ran over his paws once, and all he did was watch it go by.

[xlr82xs]

Not a mechanic but a hockey player.
Why do you ask?

i think that the phrase "well now, there's your problem" seems to be one typically used by mechanics.

infact when adam savage was using it on mythbusters, i am fairly sure he was alluding to that stereotype

[JennieB]

heh, I think the boys (computer geeks all) picked it up from mythbusters.
I like it because it's usually used when referring to a car that is without an engine or on fire or in a pool.

[Mike Taylor]

Ms Victoria used to bring full sized hares home. Then again, she'd bloody the muzzles of danes who got in her way.

Jackob, for your own safety DON'T come to RazorJAK's house!

:eek:

[Mike Taylor]

My cat Ebenezer was a bird hunter through and through. He didn't give two shits about rabbits or squirrels, but god help anything with wings that landed in our yard and wasn't a Hartz Mountain/Wal-Mart escapee.

[reo01]

i think that the phrase "well now, there's your problem" seems to be one typically used by mechanics.

infact when adam savage was using it on mythbusters, i am fairly sure he was alluding to that stereotype
Well now, there's your answer! :lol:
(((Mythbusters)))

[Schizoid]

i think that the phrase "well now, there's your problem" seems to be one typically used by mechanics.

infact when adam savage was using it on mythbusters, i am fairly sure he was alluding to that stereotype

Who uses the phrase more? Adam or Jamie? Another of my favorite quotes is one of Adam's from the Rear Axle Myth. "I reject your reality and substitute my own." I really need to get that shirt.