How Do You Get Rid of Feral Cats?

www.freerepublic.com ^ | 11-5-07 | self

[MHT]

My community has a problem with feral cats. The animal control department has a no-kill policy so they never seem to be able to catch them, muchless reassign them. Animal-rights wackos continue to feed them and never neuter them. Consequently, the females are constantly pregnant and we now have an over-population that no one wants to deal with. If you do not have a big dog in your yard, your grass (and doormats, outdoor furniture, etc.) will reek from the waste these cats spread everywhere.

Has anyone else had a problem like this? What has your community done?

[cowboyway]

"You say you got yourself a little cat problem?"

[absolootezer0]

depends entirely on where ya hit it.

[tioga]

-in my neighborhood you are shunned if you feed the birds - it attracts the bears.

[from occupied ga]

[television is just wrong]

do a google on feral cats I just did might be helpful.

[CholeraJoe]

Or, a third. You could introduce coyotes to the neighborhood.

Don't you watch Roadrunner cartoons? Coyotes are that stupid in real life, too. I lived in Arizona and Montana where coyotes and feral cats were common. The cats won because coyotes would rather raid garbage cans.

[papertyger]

Just so I know the lay of the land here...am I the only one that thinks catch, neuter, release is inhumane?

[television is just wrong]

catch and neuter programs all over the world. used to control these populations of feral cats.

[papertyger]

depends entirely on where ya hit it.

I disagree. Cops don't carry .22s for a reason, though the .22 has taken just about every game animal known to man.

[beebuster2000]

interstingly, a high end gammo pellet gun has higher fps and energy than a .22. pretty lethal out to 40 yards.

get a scope on it too.

[aruanan]

It took three applications but no more cats...

If you had used African red pepper powder, it would have been a single time. Imagine their surprise upon licking their fur.

[aruanan]

How Do You Get Rid of Feral Cats?

Become a supplier to a Chinese restaurant?

[freebird5850]

Employ the “3-S” rule....Shoot, Shovel, Shut up.

[BluH2o]

They trapped animals, inoculated them, neutered them and then returned them.

One shoreside community near Charleston, SC with a feral cat problem does the same thing ... then notches the ear of the cat. This lets people know which cats have been 'treated'.

[Lee N. Field]

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

CB caps, from a rifle with a longish barrel. Handclap loud.

[IamConservative]

I’ve used Coyote urine. Few drops on a cotton ball and deposit them where they won’t get rained on. Works for about all four legged critters except for the ditch rats, a.k.a. white tail deer.

[absolootezer0]

CB caps work great for a rifle, but are a bit too loud with a pistol.

[Brad from Tennessee]

Good idea. I’ll pass that along.

[Resolute Conservative]

.22 rifle - S, S, S.

[rockrr]

Out of necessity I could only get to it on the weekends, so it was over a three week(end) period. I don’t know why they haven’t been back - that stuff must certainly have decomposed by now!