Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: House fauna [Was: Electricity Supply] Date: 2 Sep 2025 21:04:35 GMT Lines: 42 Message-ID: References: <106mke5$1di32$1@dont-email.me> <108aefl$1n7i9$9@dont-email.me> <108hddu$3bl64$2@dont-email.me> <108leod$b9i7$1@dont-email.me> <05f9olxd4v.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <108u7js$2f7ql$3@dont-email.me> <7_GcnXdgUOPflyj1nZ2dnZfqnPadnZ2d@giganews.com> <1093b48$24hge$1@paganini.bofh.team> <1093iif$3nbic$1@dont-email.me> <1093qif$3ophr$5@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net mOpHWoVUeMvlhVIEQF/rdQp6E9xUk18nV6ASPIC+Eg2VmiDP66 Cancel-Lock: sha1:olJgY1HR7CCEt9B33+hkAF6Fafo= sha256:fzx8PMD65rwAIPXCdTF2nOZgLgpXxd1Rds5jKsNxBWk= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:73071 On Tue, 2 Sep 2025 11:59:45 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote: > On 2025-09-02 06:40, c186282 wrote: >>   RATS ... some day I'll describe the joy of prizing an electrocuted >>   rat out a motor-starter enclosure in a little pill-box type >>   building in high summer. They'd also eaten all the exposed wiring - >>   replaced with steel BX. We intentionally re-located some rat-eating >>   snakes to and around the structure after ... > > I saw a cute sparrow getting inside my kitchen, he had reached the end > when I saw him, or her. He was not scared of me — a previous one tried > to fly away and crashed into the glass of the door to the patio. Not > this one, he just walked slowly to the door and out, small hops. I then > gave it a piece of soft bread which he devoured. > > So I bought a feeder for sparrows, and put it among the flower pots > where I saw the bird hide. And pointed an automatic wild life camera to > the area. > > Next day I looked at the photos, and saw a rat eating the seeds. No bird > in sight. Welcome to the world of nature. I have an automatic feeder for cat kibble. The cats, which includes most of the neighborhood, have the dispensing schedule down pretty well but if they're late the magpies move in. Apparently in a cat's brain a magpie is too big to mess with. I haven't seen the raccoons or skunks lately but I don't have the game camera set up. In the winter I put up a feeder with sunflower seeds for the birds. The deer enjoy them. I would mind but they tend to destroy the feeders butting them to shake the seeds out. One year a flock of wild turkeys were hanging around so I got a seed block for them. The deer liked that too, so I got them a deer block. So far the bears haven't gotten wind of the cafeteria. The rural bears tend to stay up in the woods doing bear stuff but the urban bears home in on pet food. Mice and rats aren't a problem The cats seem to do their job despite the welfare program. Sometimes. One of the cats was playing with a mouse but abandoned it and came running to the sound of a Friskies lid being opened.