I don’t know what’s more ridiculous, this story or the posts related to it.
1. The cats were trespassing.
2. The cats were causing property damage.
3. The cat owners allowed their pets to destroy someone else’s property.
4. The property owner had no real legal remedy.
Treat the cat like all trespassers. Why would you treat a cat better than a person? That’s freaking messed up.
I don’t know why we give cats all kinds of deference. They are generally useless animals, since most don’t let them kill rodents. I have a cat, but he keeps the rats down in the field. See. Not useless. If I caught him peeing on my food, I’d be getting a new cat.
This lady should move to Texas and buy a rifle. She’d probably do okay here.
For you candy-crying little woosy “poor little property destroying kitty” people, keep your cats away from *my* house.
Great post there. My dad would prefer a dog to a cat.
Agreed.
Dealing with the neighbors troublesome pets can be tiring. When our bitch was in heat every freaking dog in the neighborhood started showing up at all times of the night. My response; strapping a 12 volt battery onto my back with million candle power spotlight, following the spooked dogs home and knocking on the door, politely asking the owner to keep their dog tied up. Worked.
Solution number two; tried by my wife’s outlaw cousins. Take the cat that was pissing under their porch, and after repeated attempts at negotiating with the neighbors who refused to keep the cat on their own property, spraying the cat’s ass with bright orange paint. Kind’ve worked....
First request, maybe even second and third requests are in order for asking a neighbor to contain an unruly pet. After that, accept the consequences, because I’ll probably be reacting in anger.
This ladies mistake was not getting rid of all her evidence, evidently the cat owner already knew of the problems her cats were causing just to be naming her as a suspect. Remember the farmers SSS method of dealing with a problem predator.....