Natural Rodent Control

Today was the first day all three feral cats/kittens were seen on the same day since the day they arrived in traps over three weeks ago from a local cat rescue.  The picture below shows two of them eating dinner in the barn loft.  The other cat, who is a little bigger, came near the house earlier.  This is a good sign - was beginning to think we were feeding raccoons!

The feral cats were rescued from a litter that was living in an abandoned house by a local cat charity.  We agreed to buy two of them to keep in the barn to control bothersome pests the natural way.  So, on a Sunday morning just over three weeks ago the girls from the rescue show up with three cats and make us an offer we cannot refuse.  Apparently Sundays must be a buy-two-get-one-free day.  We have been feeding them daily ever since to entice them to stay around the barn.  So far we have found one dead mouse in three weeks. That's a mere average of one mouse per cat every nine weeks! Statistically speaking, the mice are at more of risk from suicide than being eaten by one of our cats.  Financially speaking this is not looking any better:

Cost of cats.......................................................................$50
Cost of feed bin.................................................................$25
Cost of feed.......................................................................$55
Walking down to the barn to feed the cats every day...........Priceless!

Total cost to dispatch one mouse.........................................$130

 Even the Federal Government would be embarrassed by these numbers!