I built a nice Tiki Bar here at my house, and when done I decided to finish it off with about 25yrds of sand around it to give it a real natural look.
3 neighborhood cats decided they would start using it as a litter box. One day I seen my 3 year old out playing in my beautiful sand like all the kids do. I was watching when she found something and started picking it up and looking at it. I keep this sand very clean by sifting it monthly and knew no solid objects should have been present, so I ran out to discover my daughter stared playing with cat sh*t.
I cannot tell you the rage I felt at that moment and my wife and I soon fell into an argument on exactly how to end our “Neighbors cat problems”.
She refused to let me out right shoot em, so I set a live trap. I caught them all within one weeks time. I had a garbage can filled with ice water and gave each one of those SOBs a good old fashion Salem Witch dunking in that ice water while still in the cage. When their speed in panic slowed considerably, I let them out to run home... ...and boy did they run...
2 made it home, the 3rd did not make it across a 4 lane highway a half mile up the road from me, I discovered on the way into work that morning about 10 minutes after my ritual.
6 years later?... No Neighbors cat problems anymore.
You people who like cats, that is all warm and fuzzy... Your cat gos and sh*ts at someone else’s house, don’t blame the “SCK”... Blame yourself...
That kind of thing can get you arrested ya know.
I prefer the shoot, shovel, shutup method.
I would never, ever, ever let my cats outside because I realize they are a nuisance to the neighbors, but the biggest thing is that they don’t deserve to die like that. There are diseases, idiot children, cars, dogs, and inclement weather, and I do not think they would be happier having to endure the outdoors.
Having said that, I cannot condone the torture of cats that are outside in my neighborhood because their owners are ignorant twits. It is not the poor animal’s fault that it is allowed to be outside, and is simply surviving the only way it knows how. Yes, it is a nuisance. Yes, the wild bird population is affected. No, it really isn’t nice to see cat poop in the yard. But they are dumb animals, not people, and I don’t believe they should have to suffer to prove to people that they should be indoors.
Anyway, the same idiots complaining about their cats getting murdered are the ones that continue to allow them outside. They should be the ones getting punished.