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How Do You Get Rid of Feral Cats?
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Posted on 11/04/2007 10:44:59 PM PST by MHT

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To: xzins
And pellet guns are silent and deadly.

Just be sure to get enough pellet gun. That "Red Ryder" BB gun is not what you (generically) want. A break-barrel or side lever pellet gun (Gamo, RWS, Benjamin) is more appropriate.

IMO

"Having dominion" over the birds of the air and beasts of the field is no excuse for causing them needless suffering.

21 posted on 11/05/2007 4:32:54 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: MHT

Feral dogs?


22 posted on 11/05/2007 4:54:03 AM PST by NonValueAdded (Fred Dalton Thompson for President)
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To: PAR35
We have coyotes AND cats.

(As far as I can tell, they're all Unitarians.)

23 posted on 11/05/2007 4:57:35 AM PST by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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To: MHT
220 Conni-bear
24 posted on 11/05/2007 4:57:42 AM PST by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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To: MHT

Don’t forget to buy a setter with them they are pretty strong.


25 posted on 11/05/2007 5:00:29 AM PST by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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To: MHT

I have a Tiki Bar in my back yard. When I first put in the 25 yards of sand around it, the neighborhood cats all came a runnin to use it at night for their litter box. Well, shooting the bastards was out of the question....the wife forbid it, so I set live traps with tuna fish as bate.

Had me a garbage can full of Ice Cold water nearby, being it was late October/early November. When i came out in the morning and noticed I caught another of 6 or 7, I would break thru that thin layer of ice and give them cats an old fashion Salem Witch Dunking in the Can of water. After about 10 or 11 good long Dunks, I would open up the trap and let out the immobilized animal. It took off like a bat outta hell and I have yet to see em around again...


26 posted on 11/05/2007 5:02:04 AM PST by sit-rep
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To: sit-rep

bate = bait... sorry...


27 posted on 11/05/2007 5:03:10 AM PST by sit-rep
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To: xzins
And pellet guns are silent and deadly.
If you want it reliably deadly, they're not that silent.
28 posted on 11/05/2007 5:07:47 AM PST by Lee N. Field ("Dispensationalism -- threat or menace?")
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To: MHT

Are you putting this in the religion forum, because you seek the advice of Pope Benedict? (As Cardinal Ratzinger, he’d drive the Vatican staff crazy by “adopting” many of Rome’s legendary feral cat population.)


29 posted on 11/05/2007 5:13:40 AM PST by dangus
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To: PAR35

I sure didn’t mean for this to be under religion. I thought I had put it under “general”, specifically “animal rights”. My problem as they are feral with no limitations has really become “human rights”.


30 posted on 11/05/2007 5:20:48 AM PST by MHT
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To: dangus

I thought I had put it in “general” and “animal rights”. For my crazy neighbor, the rights of stray animals IS her religion. I told her I was allergic to cats and it made no impression. Living next to her has tested my worthiness to enter Heaven. I thoroughly dislike most cats, especially these worthless strays and my contempt has been made manifest in my relationsip with her. She does nothing all day but puts out food and talks about how she loves animals. If she loved them so much, she’d make sure they were neutered.


31 posted on 11/05/2007 5:30:02 AM PST by MHT
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To: MHT

Well, if they are Catholic cats: Confirm them all, you’ll never see them again......


32 posted on 11/05/2007 5:44:40 AM PST by Cheverus
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To: Cheverus

Actually, they reproduce like the old reputation of Catholics in the pre-pill days.


33 posted on 11/05/2007 5:50:47 AM PST by MHT
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To: MHT

Strange that it is under the religion section. I know Pope Benedict XVI loves cats, but it is strange to have it here in the religion thread. =^..^=

Oh well, at least this is a first. =^..^=


34 posted on 11/05/2007 6:03:11 AM PST by Biggirl (A biggirl with a big heart for God's animal creation.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Where I volunteer as a socializer at a local no-kill animal rescue shelter/adoption center ( in CT ), cat/kitten side of it, we work with other animal organizations to do a trap/spay/neuter/release program. This helps keep the number of feral and semi-feral cats down.

My shelter also places cats that cannot be adopted in regular home enviroments because they could get “agressive” towards people or other cats or other pets to farms/barns so that the mice rodent populations can be kept in check. =^..^=


35 posted on 11/05/2007 6:09:12 AM PST by Biggirl (A biggirl with a big heart for God's animal creation.)
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To: ArrogantBustard

a .22 loaded with colibri/ super colibri rounds is just as quiet and works just as well.


36 posted on 11/05/2007 6:14:41 AM PST by absolootezer0 (Only two products have come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. Coincidence? i think not.)
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To: absolootezer0
As has been noted in the past ...

There's more than one way to skin a cat.

;'}

37 posted on 11/05/2007 6:17:32 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

38 posted on 11/05/2007 6:23:05 AM PST by johnny7 ("But that one on the far left... he had crazy eyes")
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To: ArrogantBustard

yup. my FiL, he goes straight for the k-bar, i think that a bit too much blade, i prefer my pendleton hunter.


39 posted on 11/05/2007 6:29:27 AM PST by absolootezer0 (Only two products have come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. Coincidence? i think not.)
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To: absolootezer0
a .22 loaded with colibri/ super colibri rounds is just as quiet and works just as well.

IMO pellet rifles really are insufficient for culling humanely.

40 posted on 11/05/2007 6:29:29 AM PST by papertyger (changing words quickly metastasizes into changing facts -- Ann Coulter)
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