Do Barn Owls Eat Cats. What are rats afraid of? For example a 10 pound pet poodle was attacked by owls in 2005.
Peppermint oil, castor oil and citronella oil all drive rats away. Sustainable control can only be achieved by reducing the rodent carrying capacity of the environment, principally by reducing food and harbourage. Others, like barn owls, eat small animals like fishes, mice, lizards, voles, and birds about their size.
Owls are predators and usually have a range of prey that they feed on, but they are also opportunists.
Owls mainly eat mammals (like mice, moles, rats, lemmings, squirrels, rabbits, shrews and gophers), amphibians (like frogs, salamanders), reptiles (like lizards, snakes), insects (like crickets, caterpillars, moths and beetles). The many barn owls i have raised never attacked or even showed interest in local cats or small dogs. In fact, it's the other way round. These owls are large but considerably lighter than an adult cat.