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What to do with free roaming cats?
11/25/2012 | Me

Posted on 11/25/2012 3:17:35 PM PST by Hot Tabasco

There is a house cat that is being allowed to roam free. What do I do?


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: cats
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To: Hot Tabasco

Someone dropped off a cat at our place. We took a year and trained it so that it could return to the wild. I would dress up like a zebra and the cat would stalk me. After a year of thorough training, we released her back onto the Nugorogoro Reserve. We came back to see her the following summer and she had three kittens. My wife slowly approached the cat and then sat on a rock near the little cat family. The mother cat grabbed my wife and ate her.
Born free!
And life is worth living
But only worth living
Cause you’re born free!
Cats - Just be glad we’re bigger than them.


141 posted on 11/25/2012 7:14:18 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Fire_on_High
Urine contains ammonia and this is likely to start a marking war!

While urine contains ammonia compounds the smell of male cat urine has more to do with the hormones/scents produced in un-neutered males and not the ammonia as such. Having said that, using ammonia to clean up a puddle of cat pee will not help too much either! A territory marking spree will not be encouraged by using straight ammonia (which would be far stronger to their nose than and territorial mark.) However, there are other things listed if you think straight ammonia will cause you an issue. See here:

Household Items Used to Repel Cats

142 posted on 11/25/2012 7:15:07 PM PST by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: Catsrus

My area got a rabies epidemic because of a moron feeding stray cats.

Guess what well-fed stray cats do?

BREED like flies.

My little bump in the road village was in the papers every week with a new ‘rabid animal found’ report.

Then I tangled with some of the coons who’d gotten infected and had to get shots.

I love stray cats.

/s


143 posted on 11/25/2012 7:17:58 PM PST by Salamander (If animals could speak, mankind would weep.)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

So do I.

Wish they’d put them up in my area.

We have virtually no small wildlife or song birds left because of them running amok.


144 posted on 11/25/2012 7:21:00 PM PST by Salamander (If animals could speak, mankind would weep.)
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To: Hot Tabasco
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145 posted on 11/25/2012 7:31:23 PM PST by airborne (MY HEROES DON'T WEAR CAPES. MY HEROES WEAR DOG TAGS ! ! !)
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To: Salamander

Sooooooo, you’ve had your shots?...


146 posted on 11/25/2012 7:31:48 PM PST by null and void (The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Our squirrels are pretty good dodgers.

The cats, not so much.

There’s usually a sail cat on the road about every half mile or so.

Sometimes I think the state puts them there because they’re cheaper than planting mile marker posts.


147 posted on 11/25/2012 7:32:37 PM PST by Salamander (If animals could speak, mankind would weep.)
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To: fatnotlazy
...you have two cats who perished because of your carelessness. Two cats lost or killed because they got outside are two too many.

You're hysterical, and as bad as the libs who think the federal government is there to protect us from every possible danger in life.

My cats are conservatives. They take risks, kill rodent intruders, and live a free life. They're happier and more content than any caged feline.

148 posted on 11/25/2012 7:33:42 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: null and void

Yep.

I sure have.

[but it was fun threatening to bite people for the 8 days I waited for ‘permission’ to get them]


149 posted on 11/25/2012 7:47:36 PM PST by Salamander (If animals could speak, mankind would weep.)
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To: Windflier
And you sound like an Obama voter. Let your critters fend for themselves, putting them at risk. Is that how you raised your kids?

I hope your cats are fixed so they aren't out there making more cats. Where I live, there is a major stray/feral cat population explosion. All because people are too lazy or cheap to spay/neuter their cats. Again, like Obama voters — having plenty of babies and expecting the government to take care of them.

I'm not hysterical. I just happen to love my cat enough to take responsibility for him. Too bad you don't with yours.

150 posted on 11/25/2012 7:52:25 PM PST by fatnotlazy
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To: CatherineofAragon; Hot Tabasco
...why are you considering dropping one off ten miles from its home...

When did HT say he was going to drop the cat 10 miles form home??

151 posted on 11/25/2012 7:55:14 PM PST by Half Vast Conspiracy (I made a prank call...pretended I was a mime.)
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To: Hot Tabasco
The world is going to hell in a hand basket...and you want to talk about a fr!@$%ing cat?

Why are you even here...if you can't figure out this simple problem?

Sorry....but I'm sick and tired...of B.S. vanities.

RANT OFF!

152 posted on 11/25/2012 7:59:34 PM PST by Osage Orange ( Liberalism, ideas so good they have to be mandatory.)
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To: Excellence

“Please don’t dump the cat. Take it to the shelter. It won’t cost you anything if it is a feral cat.”

Take it to Petsmart. Tell them you are moving and cannot take the cat with you. They will find it a home.


153 posted on 11/25/2012 8:06:25 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (George W. Bush is the Emmanuel Goldstein of the modern era.)
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To: Salamander

Well, the kitten I took in isn’t exactly a stray. She came to my door every day looking for food and love and then when they left her out in the storm - I thought - no more! Poor little thing was hungry and shivering. So, I know she isn’t feral or rabid.

And she is the sweetest little girl. So gentle and loving.


154 posted on 11/25/2012 9:06:50 PM PST by Catsrus
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To: fatnotlazy
I'm not hysterical. I just happen to love my cat enough to take responsibility for him.

Oh, you're hysterical, alright. If you don't understand that cats can live perfectly normal lives without being confined to four walls, then you really do have the same mindset as a card carrying PETA liberal.

You assume much and know little, if you think we don't love and care for our animals. We do. We just don't confine ours, like you do yours. They're happy, well adjusted, and love their freedom. Just like we do.

155 posted on 11/25/2012 9:08:34 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

We would place a box outside with a weight on top and a stick holding up the box. A string attached to the stick was inside the house. Leave some cat food under the box and it should not take long before that cat is trapped. We would drop off the cat in another neighborhood, about 10 miles away. Problem solved.


156 posted on 11/25/2012 9:20:35 PM PST by Fpimentel
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To: Catsrus

Be glad for that.

Those damn shots hurt like wasp stings for months and make you sick.


157 posted on 11/25/2012 9:53:38 PM PST by Salamander (If animals could speak, mankind would weep.)
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To: Half Vast Conspiracy; Hot Tabasco

# 11.


158 posted on 11/25/2012 10:02:57 PM PST by CatherineofAragon (The idiocracy has come home to roost. God help us.)
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To: null and void

I like the way you think.


159 posted on 11/26/2012 12:37:12 AM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Cats have a tendency to breed like rabbits; if you don’t want to drown it, catch it in a live trap and take it to the pound.
Make sure you tell the people at the pound who it belongs to and let them deal with the irresponsible idiots. The owners will either have to spend about a hundred dollars to bail their kitty out or the pound people will give kitty the needle.


160 posted on 11/26/2012 12:43:56 AM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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