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I'd personally be worried about the mental/physical health of your neighbors. 40+ cats is a lot of mess that they probably aren't able to clean up after. A lot of people who hoard have underlying mental illness issues and with the amount of filth 40+ cats can generate the chance for an illness...

Redhen - Sounds like she has a rude chicken neighbor judging by her first post. She's probably really frustrated by having the chickens tear up her yard and her neighbor not giving a darn. nettiemaria - Sorry if it should be a he instead of a she. I would call animal control out and report the...

Quote: More of an urban myth than anything else. The chicken won't explode if it eats uncooked rice. Worst that could happen would be an impacted crop. There's a link with more info on the myth.

Her dog is bred to protect livestock. It's in the dog's nature to attack the cat just as it is in the cat's nature to kill the chicks. To be honest we should probably look at the neighbor who keeps her cats outdoors where they'll live an average of 2-5 years. Two of the cats are pregnant and the...

SeaChick has a great garage coop you could use for inspiration. link

Quote: If you get a ferret from a pet shop odds are it came from Marshalls. They're the largest ferret breeder in the US for both pets and scientific research.

Looking back over my earlier posts I've really got to learn when to just shut up. Back on the subject of trapping the ferret. Cat food usually does the trick but banter makes an excellent point. Any sort of squeaky toy will bring a ferret running. I hope you catch the ferret soon.

Quote: I may be mistaken, but I think that ferrets and European polecats are closely related. Polecats are wild, and ferrets are their domesticated cousins. However, it is common for people to refer to them all as ferrets. I know that here we have wild ferrets, the black footed ferret. I...

Quote: And no, I wouldn't call you a bad owner. You cared enough to give them time outside of thier cages. You enriched thier lives by not keeping them in a small area that rarely changes. That's more than a few ferret owners I know would do. Ferrets are experts at finding ways to get into...

Quote: Just prefacing this so everyone knows how I'm saying this. Not being mean, angry, ect. Just explaining a very common misconception. Hate not being able to get a tone across through text. Oh and WARNING: Giant wall of text below. Ferrets are illegal in California originally because they...

They aren't wild here!! This must have been a pet that escaped. We had a loss a couple of years ago that we thought was down to a polecat. 7 chickens and my beautiful duck and drake killed, only one duck survived. We learned later that a guy down the road had 'lost' his ferret at that time...

Until I get the coop built this will have to do. Yes. I'm probably a bit bored and my mind has decided to entertain chickens with garlic breath.

Well the link covers if you feed garlic to your hens. But what if I just TAPE it to the hens legs? This assumes that the hen doesn't eat the garlic. Wonder if the taste would change depending on the tape also...

If you feed garlic to chickens it makes the eggs taste bad. If you tape garlic cloves to your feet at night your breath smells like garlic in the morning. So if you tape garlic cloves to a chickens legs at night does it end up with bad tasting eggs or garlic breath?

Let's see. If a weasel did this you'd most likely be looking for a Long Tailed Weasel. Generally they're about 14-18 inches long and active mainly at night. I'd be interested to see what you catch. The fact that your adult chickens haven't been attacked is really curious. Are you sure it isn't...

I don't know if I'd call them scary. Just really really persistant. If they want to get in some where they'll often keep trying over and over again. Cute though.

From the description it sounds like you have a mink. If you could get a picture of it I could probably tell you more. I wouldn't be too worried about the children as long as they don't try to pick her up or poke about her den. You mentioned that you have a lot of predators in the area. Out of...

Is the coat a solid color? A mink normally has a solid colored coat although I've seen a few who have had a thumbprint size spot of a different color. If she's really building a nest I'd be really careful about trapping her. A mink protecting her nest (or young) can deliver some horrible...

I've seen both bad and good pitbulls. The biggest and most important thing is TRAINING. For example I offer up two pitbulls I knew. Sweetie and Chocolate were siblings but had different owners. Couldn't approach Sweetie without risking a bite. The dog would lunge at the leash and drag the owner...

Only thing I can think of is a display for an agriculture class. I did something similar in my FFA class although I had clean eggs. Perhaps they're hoping someone will want more realism.