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    Exclamation Cat at Hawk Mtn Shelter

    If anyone knows whose cat this is, please direct them to Hawk Mtn Shelter. If it doesn't belong to anyone, please consider figuring out a way to get it out before winter. He's living off hiker food at the shelter and I dread the day when hikers stop coming. He's super friendly and persistent with food.


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    The cat is actually having his fill on mice and varmin.I don't think he will run out of tasty meals for several years. We had a similar situation @ Plumorchard and he/she was there for over 4 years.

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    Cats will leave if there is no further food source....they don't have to move far to come into more natural food...they eat the same things as snakes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim Adams View Post
    Cats ...they eat the same things as snakes.
    Yep... but are more likely to bring in fleas, ticks, parts of dead things, and even poison ivy to share with hikers. Snakes are your clean, discreet shelter buddies, for sure!

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    So there's a coyote shortage at Hawk Mountain?
    You never turned around to see the frowns
    On the jugglers and the clowns
    When they all did tricks for you.

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    So there's a coyote shortage at Hawk Mountain?
    Now that's funny. Obviously not a cat lover.

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    There is probably a shortage of most things around Hawk.As most know, the Rangers train on the mountain and between the constant traffic and ambush gunfire going on ,it moves on most animals to the next hill.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rain Man View Post
    Yep... but are more likely to bring in fleas, ticks, parts of dead things, and even poison ivy to share with hikers.
    I think you're confusing cats with humans and you forgot bed bugs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Blue Jay View Post
    I think you're confusing cats with humans and you forgot bed bugs.
    No confusion! I think snakes are preferable to many humans too!

    Though, I'm not quite as bad as Edward Abbey in "Desert Solitaire"-- "I'd rather kill a man than a snake." p. 20, in chapter "The Serpents of Paradise."

    And certainly not the "man" pictured below. That's my daughter "Grass" during her '04 hike, eating lunch and sharing a shelter with a big beautiful black snake, with a big smile (her, not the snake).

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    In Australia "domestic" cats have proven for decades that they are pound for pound the most effective hunting machine in the mammal world. The cat will survive. Unfortunately for smaller wildlife and birds in the area.

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