[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.

[Lx]

You’re only hope is to contact a TNR specialist and they will take care of the problem for you. Once they are neutered, they’re behaviors change too.

[Hot Tabasco]

There's been a cat coming up on my back deck in the wee hours of the morning to visit with my indoor cat which ultimately results in a cat fight on both sides of the deck doorwall. I finally caught it in my live trap the night before last and drove it about 5 miles away and released it. It was a spooky cat so I figured it was feral....

I have trapped cats before and always released them because invariably they belonged to neighbors. Unfortunately the neighbors are in violation of our condo regulations which prohibit them from letting their animals roam free.

One lady's cat I caught 3 times wandering around my place. The last time I called her up and asked her if she was missing a cat and she actually had to check to see if she was. I told her where I lived and to come pick it up which she did and I haven't seen it since. She obviously got the message.

I can't tell you the numbers of opossum and squirrels I've caught in my trap. In fact, one week alone I caught 5 squirrels. After the 5th one I spotted a critter control guy at a neighbor's house settin traps on her roof. Heck, that guy was getting paid for it and I was doing it for free......LOL!

[Knitebane]

First, I like cats.

Me too. Lightly braised in butter.

[Fawn]

You need to do TNR on them all and let them have a life.

[ErnBatavia]

dig in and crap in our flower beds

In our previous home, I took great pride in the front lawn, and it would always tick me off that the cats would scratch out a hole, and then download next to it...not in it.

[palmer]

There’s a guy like that in a town near me. He hoards all kinds of pets and has no clue how to handle the situation. So one day all his cats disappeared, I assume someone did the right and humane thing, but I have no clue.