Originally Posted by workingonit

I have 7-10 semi-feral cats on my property, that I feed and they remain here, year-round. There are occasional "guest" cats from neighbors' houses, but all are welcome. We used to have a snake problem, but with cats and chickens about, we haven't seen any in almost 8 years.

We trap and neuter new ones, before they breed, but if they do, we care for them and neuter them as soon as feasible, maintaining the population.

Before the cat colony becacme stabilized, we'd get kittens underhood once in awhile, but we'd honk the horn and they'd leave...until one of the kittens was born deaf. So, until he was too big to play underhood, I'd open the hoodto look for him (on all cars, including my wife's, which became a chore).

Since I use mothballs underhood to discourage rodents, I started placing more packets in more places, which seemed to work better. I switched to using "peppermint" packets. I haven't had any kittens out there in over two years now, so no worries.