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Not too sure.
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They love me, I feed them my "trim". 
A girl I went to school with inherited a house in Madeira. Looks like she bounces back and forth from there to NYC. She adopts stray dogs/cats she finds there. One of them was a Podengo (sic?). I'd never seen one. Seems like there is a bit of range in the breed. Hers is tall, gangly, and kind of houndish.This is what they do here, only local story is if you want them to keep feral, best no feed and never pet.
Locals laugh at our fat domestic cats. "2 cats in the yard, life used to be so hard...". Wifey is a CSNY fan.
But we have another couple, or three possibly, in the backyard grow area. They are like the locals, or maybe even are theirs. Anyway, me no feed, no pet. They regularly leave me field mice sans livers. My cats split fast at the mere sight, or sound, of any one of them. My cats make our dogs run in fear, cause though fat, they are still cats and can blind you in a bounce. They don't catch anything though, who would if you know when feeding time is, and it's regular?
We do have one dog though, a rabbit hunting breed. Podenco Canario. He's huge.
View attachment 111260 He's the one who keeps the rest of the yard critterless. He especially likes the lizards.. only he licks them to death.
Best of luck with the "worst housesitter ever" award afoaf. And remind me NOT to leave you with our keys.
This is when you need to step back before you trap and walk around home and ID any hole 1/4" or bigger and take heavy 10 guage screen and cover and use self tap screws to secure and if unable to screw use combo screen and expandable foam. Also cut any trees, shrubs, vines, etc away from home. Now set traps and rat(s) well not be able to escape most go in and out and use home as safe place to escape.
Our cat was a total savage who would kill every gopher in our neighborhood and scalp them and leave the bodies on our driveway as gifts. He never ate them. Just killed them. We nicknamed the driveway 'the killing fields' due to the blood stains from his gifts to us and I always joked that he'd definitely kill us too if he was bigger. I always think of him whenever anyone has a rodent problem.
Crossed breed sounds like to me.
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The amount of bait that the average homeowner would use there would be very little danger to wildlife. The stuff you can buy in the store is just strong enough to kill a rat with one meal. A bobcat would have to eat a dozen or more poisoned rats before it got into trouble, with a cougar it would take buckets fulls. Farmers and government rat eradication programs use tons of poison some of it stronger than the stuff we can buy, that's where the real danger is. The homeowner should take steps to minimize the risks.
All that may be true, but a single trap at my place (the kind an exterminator would leave), next to my chicken coup for example, could easily poison dozens, if not hundreds of rats/mice in week. And the predators eat them at a high pace. Combine that with multiple properties in the area doing the same thing day after day, often as a first real effective line of defense, and you wind up with a significant threat to wildlife.
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I don't buy all that first generation marketing from the poison companies. Animals can't assimilate 100% of their food, so they don't assimilate 100% of the cyanide or whichever poison they ingest. Some of the undigested poison can still remain in their digestive tract and pass on to the predator/scavenger/pet.All that may be true, but a single trap at my place (the kind an exterminator would leave), next to my chicken coup for example, could easily poison dozens, if not hundreds of rats/mice in week. And the predators eat them at a high pace. Combine that with multiple properties in the area doing the same thing day after day, often as a first real effective line of defense, and you wind up with a significant threat to wildlife.
You're right that the poison doesn't typically kill the larger predators directly, but sustained exposure destroys their immune systems and they die from all kinds of nasty prolonged diseases like mange.
Anticoagulant Exposure in Bobcats Can Have Surprising Effects | Friends of Griffith Park
.Rat poison kills bobcat, mountain lion in Southern California mountains
While mountain lions periodically succumb to the poisons, this is the first time in 23 years that a collared bobcat has died directly from the effects of rodenticides, officials say.
