I have a guy in the restaurant business...
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?
Why? Cats keep the rodent population down, which is a good thing. They do their best hunting at night, when the rodents are about.
Post a sign on the community bulletin board or by the mailboxes that animal control has been patrolling at night looking for a nuisance cat.
Please do not hurt the cat.
If it’s truly not a feral cat, why not “adopt” it?
@ reply #25 you were contemplating "blasting it with a hose for a good ten minutes while trapped".
You must have a very loose definition for the word bad
I’d go with the live trap and friendly notice to the owner.
I caught my neighbor’s cat a few weeks back and they were just happy that I use a live trap and said they’ll try to keep him in at night. I don’t have any issues with the cat but I tild them that I trap coons and possums so if their cat didn’t come home they could check the trap.
I have a guy in the restaurant business...
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What kind of person are you? In my day, house cats walked the streets free of molestation! They add character and charm to the neighborhood and teach young kids how to interact with animals.
What a bunch of Scrooges on this thread!
That is what I would do as well. Just because it is not feral doesn’t mean it has a current home. But get the animal inside because outdoors at night is the most dangerous time for kitties (isn’t this obvious ? :)
A long time ago and in a town far away, there was a cat getting in the garbage can outside in the carport.
It was discovered that a .22 short is barely audible, and effective.
This is the most sensible post on here. LOL
Works rather well for keeping hungry Bambi's from eating my wife's roses. However, the resident stray felines still use the rose bed as a well tilled litter box so I can't say that Liquid Fence is the answer...
We live on a farm, people seem to drive out here in the boonies and dump their unwanted cats.. Of course, there are rodents for them to catch, but you can always tell when they show up that some of them have been pets. They are the ones that don't hide from humans, they beg instead..
I had a tom cat actually try to get through my screen (damaged it) until he realized I had a dog inside too!
Tim Morgon, played in Newport Beach Calif. in the early 1960s, at a coffehouse named “The Prison of Socrates.”.
“The Cat Came Back” was one of his signature songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5tB9PxgkHY
He was quite good, but never made the really big time like other Orange County locals including Righteous Brothers, Steve Martin, Jackson Browne, etc.
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Chickensoup: thanks for the common sense. In my area, housecats roam the street night and day. Only the most neurotic people need to call the police, the humane society or buy traps. And with a wandering cat (feral or not), you will not see a mouse or rat.
No, I don’t think you are out of line.
I suspect, though, that you will not trap it too quickly; cats are too wily.
Suggest you put the food near or on the cage first. Let it get used to being near the cage over the course of several nights before actually putting the food inside.
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