What are your solutions for that pesky cat that insists on sleeping on the hood of your Truck at night or just likes to leave paw prints on it? Please lets be humane. We would not want the animal bleeding hearts to be bothered or think ill of us. After all we are for the most part decent folk.An animals life some believe is more important than your Trucks Paint Job.

 

A few mouse (not rat) traps loaded with tuna fish? Multiple long strips of duct tape laid on hood with sticky-side up? Or a combination of the two?

That is just about as uncruel as I can come up with at the moment.

 

Gotta say I like the duct tape the cheby builders repair kit.

 

Install a perimeter allarm.
It senses heat from anything.
The sound will scare 8 lives out of it.



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Find out who the cat belongs too, then give it some ex-lax and nicely place the cat in the car of the owner.


WHAT??

 

Usually this doesn't kill the cat, at least not mine...

Get some newspaper or a packing quilt or some kind of insulator and lay it out on the hood, you might want to tape it down or snug it up so it doesn't slip off. Next get several pieces of aluminum foil and lay them out in a pattern on the hood without the edges of the foil touching the others. Get yourself a good low current high voltage DC powersupply 200V is good. Wire it up to the pieces of foil on the hood in an alternating pattern. You can tape the wire to the foil. Make it neat and snag free so the cat won't get too suspicious. Also, if it is neat you can probably remove and put it back on in one piece.

It may take a day or two for the cat to get used to the quilt on the hood, but as soon as his skin hits two or more oppositely charged pieces of foil, zap. I have used variations of this trick for over 30 years and it has always worked and the effects are usually permanet(psychologically for the victim). Never had a critter die on me yet.

If you can't get a DC supply you might use an AC stepup transformer with low current and maybe 200+ volts.

I had a cat who would claw at shirts hung on the stairway and would try to eat my bird. This trick stopped the cat after a couple tries and all her life she would run if you had a birdcage or shirts on a hanger in your hand. It was also funny to be woke up at night to the sounds of "MEOWWWRRRR, clunk clunk, clunk" as she tumbled down the stairs. Also funny to inspect the claw marks in the foil, 200V DC definitely causes them to clench up.

I am possibly cruel, but this trick saved many chickens, my shirts, my bird and saved dogs from shotgunning and my cat from a beating so I guess the tradeoff was fair. The statute of limitations has probably run out so don't come after me with cruelty to animals, it has been over 15 years since I last used this. And like I said the shock was the lesser of two evils.

Good Luck, and don't try this unless you have at least a rudimentary knowledge of electricty and voltages around 200+V.

Jim Henderson

 

Using tin foil (with out the electricity) might help. The sound of it scares most animals.

Anything that makes a loud noise would help. If you catch the cat in the act, you could hit something that would make a loud noise.

Of course, a garden hose could always work too! *Here kitty kitty kitty*

 

Did you know that cats smell the same as chicken when cooked on a hot manifold! Just kidding, but the neighborhood tom cat has had some close calls in my engine compartment!

 

I took a 4ft X 4ft piece of plywood and shot a couple hundred nails with my nail gun into it then put some old carpet on the back side. Put this on hood at nite. Cat has since quit jumping onto hood.

 

we put big peices of fome or other light objects on the roof of our '29 Model A (its a roadster, convertable), and its kinda anoying that our cats sleep on my moms Z3 and leave paw prints all over the hood and my mom doesnt even wash or ask me or my dad to wash them off just leaves with the nasty prints all over and sometimes fur all over the top:-X23

 

hmm i don't seem to have that problem, but loud noises and water work well! hehehe! or what i used to do, just chase them with a hamemr and peice of metal. get naer them and hit the metal. scares the out of them

 

You responders seem to have some good experiance in the field. Got to say I will definitly make notes. Should be less Bullet holes in my hood from now on. Thanks.

 

Bullet holes !
This a true story !
I fixed a car in the body shop I worked at yrs ago!
Had 2 bullet holes from an pissed off owner
seems his neighbors cat kept jumping on the hood of his corvette
an sleeping their.well he got drunk one night,you know the rest.
he missed the cat!

Rich



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>Bullet holes !
>This a true story !
>I fixed a car in the body shop I worked at yrs ago!
>Had 2 bullet holes from an pissed off owner
>seems his neighbors cat kept jumping on the hood of his
>corvette
>an sleeping their.well he got drunk one night,you know the
>rest.
>he missed the cat!
>
>Rich
>
>
>
>Ford Trucks Built Tough!
>not with rocks
>Watch out "X" Mayor of Truckville
sorry I mentioned that GM product here
I was still on my first cup of Java!
Rich
Ford Trucks Built Tough!
not with rocks
Watch out "X" Mayor of Truckville