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Is it OK for me to make my cats toys and such or should I spend the money and buy them.?

Posted on March 12, 2012 by admin| 4 Comments

I have 13 other animals (small farm, I know) and between feed, meds, housing and basic uptake, it gets expensive. I buy my dog bones and such, horses get bread treats and “jolly balls” rabbits get treats but don’t care for toys, and birds get toys especially designed for them but I made a scratch post for my cats and have thought of some other toys I could make for the cats without spending a lot of money. As long as they are happy and enjoy playing with what I make and it is safe for them, should I worry about buying them the expensive toys and kitty habitats, post and such things from petco and petsmart.

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Posted in Bird Feeding

Tagged animals, balls, birds, bones, bread, cats, dog, expensive toys, Farm, Feed, habitats, horses, housing, kitty, lot, money, petco, petsmart, post, rabbits, scratch, scratch post, uptake

Help! What should I do? I rescued a baby bird!?

Posted on February 15, 2012 by admin| 3 Comments

Its a bird that I see alot of in CT I don’t know what its called anyway, my horses were kicking the shelter boxes and a nest fell out the parents took both of the other siblings and never came back for this one. I put it in a bucket with some grass and paper towels I read along time ago to soak dry cat food and feed them it. He wont eat the food how should I give it water and how often what should you put in their environment? help!

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Posted in Bird Nest Boxes

Tagged alot, baby, baby bird, Bird, boxes, bucket, dry cat food, Food, grass, horses, nest, paper, paper towels, parents, shelter, siblings, time

What do you think of somebody that respects all living things, even insects?

Posted on December 18, 2011 by admin| 12 Comments

I’m so weird, I save all little things, such as insects, small birds that I feed with my mouth and I want to pick –up all street animals. My dream is, to live on a farm and have lots and lots of animals, pigs, ducks, horses, sheep, cows and chickens and much more! I have the greatest respect for plants! So weird! I even save ants…

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Posted in Bird Feeding

Tagged ants, antsâ, chickens, cows, dream, ducks, Farm, horses, insects, lots of animals, mouth, pigs, plants, respect, sheep, small birds, somebody, street

Cat got ran over?

Posted on May 17, 2011 by admin| 13 Comments

Today I witnessed the death of my daughters cat and could do nothing and the local police more or less laughed it off. The cat goes in and out and this morning followed me out to the barn to feed the horses then started chasing a bird and got out by the road, a kid came flying down the road and DELIBERATLY swerved into our yard and hit the cat. I called the police and they said sorry nothing we can do, I don’t think this is right. This cat has three kittens that are still nursing so now we are trying to get them to take milk out of a bowl. Isn’t their someone that can call and get something done about this kid to me it was cruelity to animals not to mention what it did to an innocent 8 year old.
yes we know exactly who did it a kid that lives a couple of miles down the road. We also called and talked to his parents and got told a cat was just a wild animal anyway and no big loss they would find her another one.

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Posted in Bird Feeding

Tagged animals, barn, Bird, cat, death, horses, Kid, Morning, nothing, police, road, three kittens, today

How did this rat die?

Posted on May 13, 2011 by admin| 10 Comments

The other day I found a dead rat lying in my backyard on a concrete step. It was next to the basement door which is not underground. There have been a number of rodents digging around this area. There is a tunnel going under the house, and somthing dug under the door. one neighbor has horses and the other feeds the birds by throwing seed on the ground.
What may have killed the rat? It was intact and I didn’t see any wounds
What can I do about the rodents?

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Posted in Bird Feeding

Tagged area, backyard, basement, birds, concrete step, day, dead rat, die, door, horses, neighbor, number, rat, rodents, somthing, step, tunnel

attracting purple martin and violet-green swallows?

Posted on May 8, 2011 by admin| 2 Comments

i’d like to hear from anyone in Washington Oregon area who is trying to attract these birds to reduce the insects for their horses. Particularly flies and mosquitoes. I saw 8 and 10 room swallow houses for about $100.00.
but the martin houses were $30.00 for only one nest box.
Any cheaper ways??

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Posted in Bird Nest Boxes

Tagged anyone, area, birds, flies, horses, insects, Martin, mosquitoes, Oregon, oregon area, purple martin, room, Swallow, Swallows, Violet, washington, washington oregon