@%@^*&^$^#$ CATS!!!!!
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From: Home, at last!
Ferrel cats need to be delt with by animal control. Lodging a complaint about neighbors animals can be a lesson in futility. (I know this first hand).
Tight fitting lids on the cans will help (with racoons also, they are often confused at night with cats rumaging)
There are several things on the market that will help drive them away. I have put tape, stickey side up on my truck to keep the cats off, they hate that.
Tight fitting lids on the cans will help (with racoons also, they are often confused at night with cats rumaging)
There are several things on the market that will help drive them away. I have put tape, stickey side up on my truck to keep the cats off, they hate that.
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From: Cheyenne
i called animal controll for the cats under my house, they came out and set two traps, which of course cought two cats right away! Well, i called them to come get them right when i got home at 5pm, but they didnt come that night, and they sat out here and howled at each other all freaking night! The animal controll people didnt come the next day either, and when i would come out the door the cats would meow at me, and and howl at me! Then that night it got realy really cold out, and i woke up at about 2 am, cause i didnt hear them out there whining, so i put on my slipers and went out to let them go, and one was dead, and the other was almost dead....I called animal controll a couple times each day.....i felt bad, and blamed the animal controll people for making the cats suffer.
I think it would have been better just to shoot them off the top of my garbage can.
I think it would have been better just to shoot them off the top of my garbage can.
Last edited by Racerguy; Jan 30, 2006 at 09:37 AM.
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From: Willamette Valley, Oregon
In excellent solution is to get a "Scarecrow" Its a motion sensor activated sprinkler, I use one for racoons. Aint cheap, but might have multiple uses? After a few weeks of having it on, they might move on and not hang out there. I have cats, but mine stay inside 24/7 and dont annoy the neighbors.
http://www.critter-repellent.com/con...sprinkler.html
http://www.critter-repellent.com/con...sprinkler.html
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From: cape may county NJ
Its not the cats fault shoot the neighbor,If animal control won't do anything call a local animal shelter and see if they can help.I am dealing with this right now I have six solid black cats that showed up in september and my township gave me a animal trap right now there living in my brand new garage I had built ,we just got the last one fixed so now it going to be time to relocate but at least there fixed and won't have any kittens.
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From: KCMO
Originally Posted by Greywolf
And don't set out dishes of antifreeze either - that one becomes a hazardous waste issue and the fines are HUGE!!!
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I will try the sheriffs dept. I think they have 1 animal control officer, if I cant get results from them I will relocate the sonofabiscuiteaters behind the chinese resturant.
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From: Southern Louisiana
Just got off the horn with the sheriffs office animal control unit. Sent them an email about it this morning and they just called and said they are sending someone out. We will have to see how that goes, if they leave them in a box to die than they just saved me the trouble.
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From: Southern Louisiana
The deputy just left here and will be back this evening with a couple of traps, nervy bastids had the nerve to climb on his car while he was here, should be easy to catch a couple of them.
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From: NE Texas
Catch them in a live trap and setup your own hunt, like this bunch:
http://www.feralcathunt.com/
I don't know about canned hunts or high-fenced areas, bigdaddy, but just look at the money you'd make...and the fun you'll have...
http://www.feralcathunt.com/
I don't know about canned hunts or high-fenced areas, bigdaddy, but just look at the money you'd make...and the fun you'll have...
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From: North of Tulsa, Oklahoma
Ugh...don't get me started on cats. I don't understand the yahoos that let their cats run through the neighbor hood loose at night and the yahoos that got the kitten and decided it wasn't as cute all grown up and they moved and left the stinkin cat to roam the neigborhood and do what it wants. Great just another stray animal to upset all the dogs in their yards late at night. I'm tired of them myself. They snoop through everything, leave messes in my landscaping and manicured lawn, leave pawprints and scratches on the hoods of our cars..... I figured animal control is busy enough to I'll be trapping my own and will try to deliver them to the local city shelter. I like the trap idea best. Think I'll see if they can let me borrow one of their traps. 
Thanks for posting that info.
Thanks for posting that info.
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From: Damascus-Boring, Ore
I'm not that much of a cat fan, but there's this really big, scruffy old tabby that roams around sometimes- mostly he's in the field catching stuff. Chewed up ears, a face that carries more than a few scars, limps slightly on one paw. This guy's an old warrior- and somehow I really have to respect that. He sleeps under the porch sometimes when the weather gets really ugly or the Coyotes are out. Mrs. Bear wants him gone- I told her- and our dogs- hands off. I think he's earned a little peace and quiet, he keeps the rodent population down, and all he ever does is catch a few zzzz's on an old outdoor lounge-chair mattress under the porch.
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