Posted on 03/02/2010 3:39:02 AM PST by myknowledge
You don’t understand feral cats.
We had one by us, a Tom. It would impregnate our cats. He would not let anyone get close to him. Last I saw him he had an open sore on his neck with a tape worm sticking out of it.
I waited for him for a couple of hours one night until he finally got into range where I could eliminate the problem.
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Seems like a .22 short hollow point may have been the more subtle approach. No louder than a cap gun.
That’s why you round them up and send them off for research. You don’t shoot them.
We had some people feeding feral cats in a building on campus. It would shock you how fast they reproduce when someone else is footing the bill for their care. We finally started sending them to the Vet school for fixing.
I’m just saying.
“No such thing as a vicious animal. Only people who don’t understand them.”
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I beg to differ.
Local hunters have been releasing farm pigs into the National Forest so they can hunt them.
Agreed, that’s why you trap them.
I lived next door to an old lady who had 30 something feral cats and the population was growing. I had to do something since my yard was being turned into one big litter-box. But I did it quietly and humanely.
A ten cent cat walks all over my $20,000 dollar car, A large pit looking dog craps in my yard where I have to walk.
I came home Sunday from Church and couldnt get out of my car to go to my house. When I finally got in the House a neighbor who sells Avon delivred it to my wife and this dog wouldnt let her get back to her car. When I went out to chase it away it threatened me wih the hair staning up on it’s back.
The only thing that saved this dog was when I went to get my shotgun it was gone. I went all over the neighborhood trying to find the dog’s owner and called animal control.
No one from Animal Control has yet interviewed me or been seen in the beighborhood. The gun is by the door now, the next time I am threatened this dog is going down. I will not be trapped in my own house by someone’s “pet”.
I got that... That is why I commented to you the way I did.
No problem bro... Times are changing and an over bearing Government needs all the help it can get...
As a teenager we lived in a suburb. Next door a guy had the most beautiful .22 rifle with at least a 7” silencer on it. At a hundred feet you heard nothing.
What I don’t understand is why you wouldn’t get “your” cats fixed. Not trying to start something with you, just curious.
Because they are barn cats.
We didn’t buy them for pets. They just showed up. And after a few years they just go away.
It is easier to ‘fix’ every Tom that comes on the priperty.
‘That’s why you round them up and send them off for research. You don’t shoot them”
Research? What a load of crap unless some envirowhacko group is footing the bill. They are feral cats, they breed like rabbits. They decimate small wild life and carry disease. Their mortality rate is about 70% and the population still grows out of control. In my county alone there are an estimated 200,000 feral cats.
They cannot be domesticated and are dangerous to our children.
By the way, the county here won’t take feral cats. They will spay them if you will pay for it. The waiting period to get one of their traps is 8 weeks.
We have same problem here with pit bulls - I called Animal Control yesterday - they STILL have not shown up - guess that’s my tax dollars at work? Stay Safe -
:-) means it was a joke, you know, ha ha?
Maybe the people pissed of the Pit Bulls in another life?
Seriously, all you folks seemed to have missed the :-) symbol at the end of the sentence. It was a JOKE.
Research labs take them for free. You need some feral cats to take care of the feral mice and rats unless you want to deal with feral snakes.
The same people that cry about keeping animals at Zoo’s and not in their own habitat keep animals captive in their homes. Or they let them roam the neighborhood seemingly ignorant that their neighbors may not want their animal walking on their car or crapping in their yard.
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