Posted on 04/12/2005 11:34:55 PM PDT by flashbunny
Several years ago we had a very bad problem with cats spraying on our property. I put up with it until a cat sprayed our baby's car seat. Then I built a live trap. I captured cats and released them in the desert in an area teeming with coyotes. I call this my feline relocation and recycling program. (I would have dropped them off at the animal shelter, but my work schedule prohibited it.) In about 6 weeks, I relocated and recycled 11 cats. I could have caught more, but the smell of their spray was faint enough to live with.
Keep your cat on your own property.
Oh, I wouldn't say that.......
1. It's impossible to keep a cat on your property, unless you keep it inside all the time.
2. If you keep cats inside all the time, they can't kill vermin.
3. Killing vermin is a Good Thing, and prevents diseases.
4. Ask farmers, they like to have cats on their property. At least the ones I do. A good mouser barn cat is worth its weight in gold.
"3. Killing vermin is a Good Thing, and prevents diseases."
"4. Ask farmers, they like to have cats on their property. At least the ones I do. A good mouser barn cat is worth its weight in gold."
Amen!
"Great, so people will be shooting cats in the middle of the city -- and they will be aiming at cats and probably hitting kids."
Most town have ordinances against discharging a firearm within the city limits.
Ah, didn't see your post!
If I laugh at that i'll get creamed by the feline protection society.
(But it was funny!)
I've adopted several feral cat families over the years. My current four cats are a former barn cat and her three kittens. All four neutered. They are lovely pets.
I also have participated in a program where feral cats are caught, taken to a vet, neutered, and released.
My mother has also taken in feral cats. She is in the process of trying to tame one now. It's not easy, the cat has been lurking under her furniture for months now, but will come out and sit quietly, even though it doesn't want to be petted.
My husband is especially good at taming feral cats.
The most important thing about feral cats is that you MUST get them spayed or neutered, otherwise they will breed. But the life of a cat in the wild is short, so why kill them?
The same thing that's supposed to stop them now - the law.
And four stray dogs.
There are alternatives to killing these animals.
They are domestic animals, not wild.
And you can tell the difference? My cats have microchips and are gonna go nuts in that trap and hiss and spit at YOU because they are scared out of their minds. You gonna get the meter to read the chip? If it's in your bushes just lost asking for food and shelter or help...and it hisses at you(which is what will happen)...you gonna catch it and run the meter over the cat to see if it is just lost?
I never understood how they were going to force those deer to wear condoms. :-)
Every year at my gym, I see a bunch of dead birds under the tree.....for about a week.
They spray the trees to rid of them bugs.
At least a few times a year, the ponds around here are floating with dead fish.
They sprayed the ponds for algae, weed, bugs.
I remember foxes, panthers, herons, storks used to nest behind my moms house.....they're all gone. I saw them dead in the streets and killed off by poisoning from the contractors (it's done all the time to rid the area of animals)...turtles, alligators, even otters on the roads....saw alot of lost foxes running everwhere. Time to build the houses.
There are many reasons why animals disappear. A few homeless cats are not the reason.
"I feed mainly racoons and some coyotes, and some possums, and if the coyotes consume the kitties, so be it. this is nature. Just like when the cats kill the birds."
One difference is cats don't belong in the wild.
I guess your anecdotal reports of a few observations outweigh all the studies done by universities and conservation programs.
What a great idea. We could replace every study in federal and state budgets just by using personal observations of random people. That's very scientific.
Well, just tuned into rush and he too has abandoned logic on this.
I guess when you own a cat and someone talks about killing Feral cats, which are pests, you abandon all logic and just emote away.
Quite depressing hearing rush act like a bliss ninny on the radio. It's rather pathetic in a way.
Just like shooting a cat is.
Just like pesticides and shotguns.
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