Cat Bounty in Randolph, Iowa

KPTM Fox42 ^ | March 11, 2008 | staff reporter

[Daffynition]

[Shirerwasright]

Buy a pair of coyotes, they will handle the problem in a couple of weeks.

[Daffynition]

...or fisher cats.

[Shirerwasright]

Hadn’t thought of a pole cat in years. I remember once hunting and one let out a scream that scared me out my boots.
Thought they had disappeared.

[gopheraj]

Animal rescue groups are not looking at the bounty. Doesn’t matter if they have a collar or not, a person still gets the money if they turn them in. Someone who lets their cat roam around will get the message if their cat ends up at a vet and they get a call.

[ovrtaxt]

Just turn some pitbulls loose. They’ll take care of those cats!

[IMissPresidentReagan]

I cannot believe the county doesn't have an animal control officer or anything of the sort. In Kentucky, all counties are required to have animal control officers and have a shelter, or a contract with a shelter, where stray animals can be taken. I'm not a cat person, but automatic euthanasia without any method of adoption or without any opportunity for an owner to reclaim his/her potential lost pet seems a little drastic.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Just turn some pitbulls loose. They’ll take care of those cats!

And then turn Michael Vick lose to take take care of the pit bulls.

[mtbopfuyn]

What an a$$.

[ovrtaxt]

lol Go Mike Go!

[MacDorcha]

BAHAHAHAHAA!

[MacDorcha]

Don’t most animals have a tracking chip implanted in them these days?

Wouldn’t it be easier to just scan them and not worry about the collars?

[SuperSonic]

[GQuagmire]

ping

[kcm.org]

They're not wanted around here, they run around become a nuisance, get into trash and tear it up," says Lupo.

Well, Lupo, feed them so they'll stay out of the trash.

Find a vet that will spay and neuter them at low cost.

Once someone is around animals, those dumb critters are only dumb in that we have different languages, as we people have...

[jdietz]

I realize that this may rub a lot of cat people wrong.

First, I like cats. I was raised on a farm where we had several and when we moved to town we brought some of them with us. They are great company.

However!

There is a lady in our neighborhood that feeds all the wild cats in the area. I have counted as many as 30 cats in her driveway, on her porch, on her car, coming out of culverts, coming out of dens in the bank beside the hospital on the corner, etc.

We have had these cats get in our garbage, dig in and crap in our flower beds, crap on our porch, and fight and hurt the domesticated cats in the neighborhood.

Our town has an animal control officer but that is a joke. He is much too busy to take care of a problem like wild cats.

If there was a bounty on wild cats in our town I would live trap them. As it is we have a nasty problem with no solution.

The cat lover won't quit feeding them, they won't stop breeding, and the town won't remove them.

I support this type of action.

[Slings and Arrows]

[Shryke]

Any stray cat that doesn't have tags or a collar will be taken to a Sidney vet and put down.

"You're ugly and no one loves you! You call yourself a cat?? You're a PUSSY! I've seen MICE with bigger claws!"

[Lx]

Trap neuter and release. In time the problem goes away. There are vets and groups who do this too.
I rescue cats and the thought of this is not pleasant.

Oh yeah, it has been proven that cats do NOT decimate the bird population either.

[Lx]

I do support keeping cats indoors though.