sounds like Hank from King of the Hill, great narration, very interesting.

I love how you refers to the opening as the "portal" it makes it sound other-worldly.

Oh trust you me... The Cat will find me, be it ferrel or domestic! I have never, EVER, encountered a cat that was not willing and able to use the "guilt card" to make you feed it!

amazing informative documentary from a knowledgeable person. great work and thank you for your documentary

Great documentary! Very informative and interesting as well. Thank you for sharing and the observation so well done!

Wow. Amazing video!!

Very insightful. Thanks for sharing.

a nice rare real glimpse into something very interesting, and very well narrated. the information you supplied here felt nutritious, like you satisfied a deep curiosity that I didn't even know I had about the life of feral cats.

Fascinating video. Thanks so much for the post.

This was absolutely fascinating !

Thank you for sharing, those videos on cats are really interesting. Thank you

Our kitties are strictly indoor cats and last about 15 years. We're on our third generation of cats now. Your patience and interest in these animals is so commendable. Thank you for all you do.

Nice job! Very enjoyable

Outstanding video!

Great documentary, very fascinating.

Excellent! Thank you!

Stumbled upon you via this video. I was absolutely captivated! Terrific documentary! Filming, editing, scripting, narration, pace...all top-notch. Subbed, and thank you.

Great documentary very well filmed and a very informative commentary really enjoyed watching thanks for taking the time to produce an enjoyable film.

This documentry was really good and on point.👍

Very Entertaining Video. Great Narrator.

Wonderful, and sometimes amusing, narration. Bravo!

I enjoyed your documentary!

Very impressive work. Great information & simple study of the of the animals behaviors with none of the filler. Keep it up! ...has anyone ever said you sound a bit like Mike Judge?

I really enjoyed this..thx

Feral Cat: "One does not simply goes into The Portal, there are unknown creatures called dogs, strange looking cats, and two legged big gigants inside."

Very informative. Thank you!

It was good to hear that you were able to socialize the first cat and find it a home. It would have made you a good indoor cat. That shot where it licked you was social grooming, it had accepted you as kin. Ex feral cats make the best indoor cats.

Your narrarating voice reminds me of Kevin Costners in the movie Dances with wolves! Love it!

Fascinating and absolutely first class narration.

Great video footage and commentary!

Very interesting video for cats lovers. Tanks for not using pesticides so harmful for the wild. I also appreciate the music giving the atmospheric addition.

also loved the mysterious ambient music while watching these phantoms of the night.

thank you this has helped!

This was a fantastic find. I love your take on the predicament of the feral cat, an animal on the edge of two worlds, belonging to neither. Interesting to see the difference in behavior for a feral cat with access to woodlands vs feral cats who find themselves in medium to large metro areas. Thanks.

If you catch a feral cat when very young they make great pets they turn just like a domestic cat after a month or two , I have one from a kitten and shes the most affection cat shes 3 year old now , found her on the moors in Northumberland England ,great documentary

Excellent, informative and interesting video. Fantastic information. Awesome that you live next to a conservation area with a portal the "wild." We also have the same problem with roof rats, and have discovered that feral cats (in our location) provide effective control. Cats are not entirely "bad" as portrayed by many birders. Thanks for providing your insight. ATB .... Ken

Very nice documentary! Didn't know that feral cats can't take on opossums.

You're a very captivating narrator, it was a combination of that and this beautiful cat that kept me watching these journeys

You make such great homemade documentaries. I thoroughly enjoy them. You have just the ideal voice & intellect. Are you a retired professor??

Very well done video. Having a lot of experience with raccoons, cats and other wildlife, I agree with everything you said here. Feral cats are quite resilient. There are three colonies of them living among the boulders on the Texas City Dike. They raid the tubs at the bait shacks a mile away and eat shrimp, minnows, etc. Those cats live among the granite boulders just a few feet from the Gulf of Mexico's waters edge.

Real nice video. Wow!

I like this. very cool!

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Awesome!

I like your documentary. Beautiful cats in both Feral Cat & Ghostcat.

Amazing

I loved this

What a gorgeous cat.

I believe all feral cats came from a domesticated cat that was abandoned by a human and left to fend on it's own. We have an epidemic of them on Hampton, Beach, NH where vacationers come to visit and leave their cats behind. Not knowing how to live in the wild life they do what they can to survive, (which saddens me beyond belief). This generation usually doesn't survive a long time because they're used to domestication but, their offspring survive much better and so forth. Let's spay and nude all our animals. If you have an animal you can't take care of, please don't set it free but, bring it to your nearest shelter to give it a chance for a happy life.

this is very good..thanks for doing this.. I have feral/wild cats in my area. many are thrown away pets. distinct breeds. and one is a large regular bengal. gorgeous. another is a seal point. witha collar even ! Him ive been trying to coax in. Poor cats thrown away. but to see this side of it, and the other animals is very cool to see.

I like the eerie music in this video at the scene where you feature the big raccoon at the gap of the fence line to the conservation area sniffing out the cat's scent

It's 2017 and I just found this series. Will you do more similar long term studies?

Feral cats should deserve homes and shelter where there will be cared for and fed. Hopefully people will take attention to the issue and make a effort to adopt these kittys.

The boy ain't right, Peggy. (Great documentary so far. 😂😂)

Cool.

Nice documentary! Your voice is clear and narrate with a good pacing. True there is no perfect solution to stop feral cats but the best and humane method is TNR. Ignoring and trap and remove can make it worse.

I like your video, the night life cameras are fun to watch and your narration is interesting and informative. I don't know if you have local places that do this where you live, but in many Texas cities there is a clinic called Texas Coalition for Animal Protection that spays & neuters feral cats (if you capture them) absolutely free of charge. Once they heal you can release them back to the wild. In these cities feral cats are breeding out of control and spreading leukemia, these clinics receive money from charities so they can help control the problem but also allow the feral animal to continue its natural and wild lifestyle. 👍

Seeing cats be independent is wonderful

What cameras 🎥 did you use to film your footage

Domestic cats originated from the african wildcat. European domestic cats also have an admixture of the european wildcat. All 3 types of cats are basically the same species, but are nonetheless different. Bengal cats are created from breeding domestic cats with the leopard cat, which is of a different genus from domestic cats. This makes me wonder. Does this crazy mixed ancestry help this cat in any way? This one definitely looks healthy and confident.

Ur docs are awesome i have one question sir I live in india and i have doll faced persian cat and in our area there are feral cats too those look like same as shown in ur documentary i want to free my cat at night time but i am scared that feral cat would beat my cat i dont know is feral cat and doll faced persian are same in size my cat weighs 5kg ?

I have 3 cats and I try to let them outside and they will run back inside lol

He's gorgeous.

That was really awesome. I've never seen anything like that. especially the posums and racoons.. they're not cute animals. I liked the atmospheric music and your deep voice. it was a bit spooky to watch

You live in heaven, my friend. All the animals I love except the crawly, ones you have. this cat is far more gorgeous than the cat you rescued the previous year. I like to have him

I live in west michigan and in the country….im litterally outside most if,the night and have seen two feral cats around in the last couple years…male, and gone within two years…..a new one has been seen here in the last 6 weeks….he is feral and ive left some food out for him and he has come back at dusk ….ive managed to get to where i can sit a plate down within about five feet of him and that feat has taken a month to occomplish…..then he goes off into the night!

This was well done. Alot of things stated about feral cats are very true. One of the most valuable things we can do to help the situation is trap vet check , vaccinate, spay or neuter and return them to there outside home and have people that regularly fed and look after them. That is the best possible outcome

Wow, this one is very unique looking. Are you in Florida I assume?

I HAVE 2 FERALS IN MY GARAGE THAT I FEED EVERYDAY. THEY GO IN AND OUT OF THE SIDE WINDOW. WE HAVE NO RATS OR MICE --THTS WHY I LOVE THEM THERE.

Is the same cat as the one you made friends with in your Sept 2014 video?

My cat was on the front porch and a possum came up and walked right by her. Neither of them where remotely concerned with one another. But we did have a cat that died of infection from a possum or raccoon bite. She lived for a good while after the bite had healed, but the antibiotics didn’t save her.

Cat are the most elegant beautiful of creatures

If you wanted the feral cat to stick around, rather than using food that would attract other critters, maybe catnip would work. I don't think the other animals would be too attracted to it.

So this is what Hank Hill has been up to since bobby went off to college

What is the background music?

This reminds me the movie "Never Cry Wolf" Even your voice is similar to the nararrators.

Feral cats are wiping out bird populations in Australia, sadly. You can openly kill cats there but they can't kill them fast enough to keep up with the cat growth. There's an interesting Vice documentary about it, but don't watch it if dead cats bother you.

I LOVE WILDLIFE

I need advice: I would like to film our feral cat who has chosen to live out back in our grove. She had stayed for 4 months now. I've fed her everyday for 4 months, even provide her cat treats and catnip. We converted an old big beautiful insulated and shingled dog house into a cat shelter for her with straw. We named her Starlight. She will not approach anyone, she will watch from a distance and then go off into the woods of the Grove, blending in very quickly. I have her feeding station in an Igloo. I would like to ensure she is the one eating the food and using the old dog house. What brand of infrared camera do you have? Is your camera kept indoors or mounted outdoors? Brand of what you film with would be helpful and any advice about keeping the camera safe from the elements. Our feral lives behind our garage, thick cement raised pad with the Igloo and the dog house- made just for her. Behind that is a half acre of woods, a creek is 300 yards east. Im interested to see if any other wildlife (other than birds and squirrels come near). Thanks for any advice.

Friendly tip: when doing a TNR when no target animals are around using a string attached to an s latch hook clamped on top of trap to keep door open can give you distance so cat would go in and u close the trap when only the cat is eating 😉

Where do you live? You mentioned “the jungle”. Are you in a tropical area? I’m guessing it’s Florida’s given the python problem you mentioned.

I saw one two years ago in NJ

Is the cat featured here still alive? I used to have a half Bengal

That is a glorious looking boy. His back wheels are impressive

FYI, I believe the usual term for male raccoons is boar, not bull, and a female is called a sow. We have six indoor/outdoor cats. Mostly spending time outdoor, particularly in summer and especially at night. We frequently have raccoon, opossum, and skunk visitors come around our yard and I have frequently seen all the above species pass within a few feet of each other without incident, merely glancing at each other as if to say oh, there you are, and then going on about their business. I would say it depends on their particular environment and perhaps food availability. The risk to our cats here is the occassional coyote visit to our LA surburban neighborhood.

In Western Australia, Agriculture did the maths and the biggest cost to all farmers was Mice Control. The feral cat problem is actually the feral cat solution for reducing the biggest avoidable costs to agriculture. Vested pecuniary interests (farmers) have infiltrated local government and regional agencies where a direct pecuniary interest is no longer seen as a potentially corrupting influence and a conflict of interest. These days it is all conflicts of interest. The parable of the Dingo, Cat and Mouse was written by agricultural interests who will do anything for their money.

What city/town and state in the USA is this in?

Thanks so much for all your hard work, very informative. I guess we need a law to keep domestic cats inside, especially in the day. That would be kinda sad, because you know they want go outside.

In the animal world happened the night as much as at the day. Only we can not see it. Our eyes, it remains hidden.

Possible that one male F1 bengal male cat was dumped and fathered many litters, then those interbred.

lots to take in

You should take it in. Cats will always hunt but they know where their home is, and who they claimed. you should try and get it closer and closer, maybe some cooked food that has a great smell to it. The cat will eventually sleep in your house for shelter and become its home. My cat never leaves my side. Great video by the way, it made me think that maybe this is what the egyptians did 4,000 years ago.

Wow a bunch of stuff we already knew.... Thanks...

Feral or wildcat?

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I've never seen a possum eat out of the cat dish. Only them damn coons and skunks.

The alley cat knows you want to take away it's freedom.

The music is rediculous.

omg

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