Our kitty was born under our house to a feral mama. He was feral too but she died when he and his sister were about 6-9 months old. They became our friendly ferals living under the house and earning their keep by keeping mice and moles/voles down to a dull roar. His sister was killed by a nasty possum in 2020 (as if the year didn't already suck) and Jack was left alone. He decided to adopt us and over time has become our indoor/outdoor cat.

My biggest annoyance is that because he's still a somewhat feral cat he kills birds, small snakes, lizards, squirrels and even tries to get baby hares. He actually eats the birds. The only baby hares we know he's caught are the ones we actually saw while happening so we were able to rescue them. It's possible he's caught others and actually eaten them. We see dead moles/voles outside around the back porch. Last week it was a juvenile squirrel. He can catch all the moles he wants but I wish he'd leave the rest of them alone.

We feed him cat food, both dry and canned, so he's not catching the animals for food but he's still a hunter and there's not much we can do about it.

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