Quick update

My friend, Helene, from Canada doesn’t usually write much about cats.  She did here and it is a perfect example of humankind’s belief that animals cannot survive without our medicine and food.  There is a colony of feral cats living up at my neighbor’s house.  He feeds them, but not a lot.  He doesn’t vaccinate them.  He’s had a couple spayed, but not too many.  I see these cats a lot and they always look good.  Of course some die, but many do not.

I fostered four kittens from that colony this year.  I’ve had them for about three months now.  They haven’t missed a beat and they are the most vibrant cats I think I’ve ever seen.  I haven’t had to do a thing with them other than feed them good food.

I recently had a to-do with a guy about raising pastured rabbits.  He said you cannot let rabbits live on the ground for fear of parasites nor can you allow a buck and doe to live together because you (the human) needs to decide when the doe gets bred so she doesn’t get “wore out” by breeding too much.  He keeps his rabbits in 3 x 3 cages, feeds them pellets and thinks that’s how rabbits should be raised.  Of course, that’s the normal way to raise rabbits.  That’s how the rabbits I get for my cats are raised.  Do I think it’s right?  Right?  What is right or wrong?  Do I think rabbits would be happier if they were living in a colony on the ground so they could eat their natural food?  Yes.  Would they be exposed to parasites?  Probably so, but ultimately, the healthiest ones would survive and reproduce and isn’t that the way things should go?