Geez, if you're going to dig an ugly trench, at least don't make it crooked.
Posted on 07/04/2023 1:03:49 PM PDT by Morgana
Two neighbors at war with each other have dug a trench and lined it with a fence and bins to divide their properties after they fell out over one residents' alleged obsession with feeding local cats.
John Gutierrez, 33, a stay-at-home father from San Antonio, Texas, claims the woman living next door has repeatedly harassed his family and shouted abuse at his children while they play in their garden.
Gutierrez said he had a good relationship with his neighbor until he asked the elderly woman to stop feeding the local cats as they defecated on his lawn - a request she did not respond well to.
The woman called the police repeatedly on Gutierrez and his family, he claimed.
Gutierrez explained that after visiting the property and discussing the dispute with the two neighbors, the police recommended they put up a fence to divide the property line.
The father said: 'On one of the many times she called the police, they told us both that we should look at getting a fence or something to divide the property line because we have a shared fence in the backyard and I have my trash cans between the dividing fence and my gate.'
Gutierrez said the elderly neighbor decided to take it one step further and built a trench between the properties.
'She decided to kind of "eyeball the property line" and dig that trench so we have a physical line that neither of us can cross,' he said.
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This guy claimed on the grass, not a flowerbed.
How does what you say relate to this?
Geez, if you're going to dig an ugly trench, at least don't make it crooked.
Yep
And if wild, breeding will occur and the problem will get bigger. Eventually animal welfare/control will need to address her and this issue. Lots of places have spay and release programs and work with private animal adoption groups, but you have to getthem involved.
Crazy cat ladies are actually hoarders, just with animals. Some actually hoard animals AND stuff as well. Some of those hoarder shows, man.
Good advice. Thanks.
I’m on the crazy cat lady’s side (not the crazy rat lady). The animals are in the neighborhood. They’re hungry. Anyone who makes their life better is a good and kind person. As for the kids, they should be taught to not play outside the windows of an elderly’s home. They’re supposed to grow into good people and if they don’t learn empathy or the result of their misbehaviors, they’re going to become more scars on humanity.
Contribute to animal charities. They need it more than human charities.
You cannot stop a cat with a fence. You need to dig a trench.
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There is a good solution but it would take a while. Feral cats are a problem and hard to get rid of. Some cities have groups like Friends of Feral Felines. They help trap the cats, test them for disease, sterilize them and give them long term rabies shots. They are then returned or moved to a safe place but they stop having kittens and repopulating the colony.
Good news, there is a billionaire who had put up a million dollar prize to develop a good solution to keep cats from reproducing. They now have a promising drug.
Agreed 100%.
Not true. Wild cats generally only do that to avoid detection. Cats will often leave their scat uncovered in order to mark territory and show dominance. And that is most likely going on in his backyard.
Right. So a trench and a fence will keep the cats on her property.
Idiots.
“They help trap the cats, test them for disease, sterilize them and give them long term rabies shots.”
We did that, with five feral cats in 2011. We did the TNR (trap, neuter, release) and they stuck around. Eventually, we brought them all inside as 100% indoor cats. They’re the most loving cats ever. Now we have three remaining.
The Friends Of Ferals organization did help in showing us how to trap them, loaning traps, etc.
They went to retrieve a basketball that rolled onto her lawn. Jeez.
I had one cat to deal with, imagine several. Stray cats, feral cats can be dangerous and who’s property are the using? If she feeds the cats, she should take them in and care for them properly with vet visits and such.
Fences may stop dogs. They don't stop cats. They just make it easier for them to get on the roof.
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“There is a good solution but it would take a while. Feral cats are a problem and hard to get rid of. Some cities have groups like Friends of Feral Felines. They help trap the cats, test them for disease, sterilize them and give them long term rabies shots. They are then returned or moved to a safe place but they stop having kittens and repopulating the colony.”
That is what they do in my county. In different cities in my county there are pockets of stray feral cats that have been spayed/neuterd and had a rabies shot. People, usually women like myself know where these cats hang out and drop off food and water for them.
In my town is an abandoned warehouse full of them and it keeps the rats out so the owner does not care just as long as we don’t leave trash of cat food boxes and cans around.
I had a neighbor lady once that rightfully complained about my cat pooping in her flower bed next to her porch. I bought some stuff designed to keep cats away. Didn’t work.
She threatened to get a cat cage, catch my cat, and turn it over to Animal Control.
And that’s exactly what she did. I bailed the cat out. Somehow the problem went away. Maybe my cat learned not to trespass over there.
Agreed..
I’ve owned feral cats. They won’t harm the kids. They keep to themselves and other cats. The ferals I had would only come near me when I had food and then they would run off somewhere. Plus they don’t have a long life span.
You point out rare behavior.
What you say is possible.
He should call animal control.
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