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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

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To: Hot Tabasco
I love cats but I firmly believe that they should not be allowed outdoors in urban neighborhoods.

Why? Cats keep the rodent population down, which is a good thing. They do their best hunting at night, when the rodents are about.

41 posted on 11/25/2012 3:48:39 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

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.


42 posted on 11/25/2012 3:49:07 PM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Hot Tabasco

If it’s truly not a feral cat, why not “adopt” it?


43 posted on 11/25/2012 3:49:07 PM PST by Salvey
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To: Hot Tabasco
I wouldn't do anything bad to 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

44 posted on 11/25/2012 3:49:15 PM PST by hole_n_one
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To: Hot Tabasco

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.


45 posted on 11/25/2012 3:50:16 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Hot Tabasco

I have a guy in the restaurant business...

46 posted on 11/25/2012 3:52:55 PM PST by GraceG
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To: Hot Tabasco

S.S.S.


47 posted on 11/25/2012 3:53:08 PM PST by toomanylaws
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To: fatnotlazy

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!


48 posted on 11/25/2012 3:54:20 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: Salvey

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 ? :)


49 posted on 11/25/2012 3:54:46 PM PST by erlayman
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To: Hot Tabasco

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.


50 posted on 11/25/2012 3:55:13 PM PST by lurk
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To: Windflier
Outdoor cats are more likely to contract disease, get injured or killed. Also, contrary to popular belief, not all cats are hunters. Unless the cat’s mother teaches it to hunt, it won’t hunt. If it should catch something, it would be accidental, and chances are the cat won’t know what to do with it.
51 posted on 11/25/2012 3:55:31 PM PST by fatnotlazy
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To: null and void

This is the most sensible post on here. LOL


52 posted on 11/25/2012 3:56:56 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Superciliousness is the essence of Obama)
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To: mdittmar
Liquid Fence

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..

53 posted on 11/25/2012 3:57:04 PM PST by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

I had a tom cat actually try to get through my screen (damaged it) until he realized I had a dog inside too!


54 posted on 11/25/2012 3:58:14 PM PST by huldah1776
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To: Hot Tabasco

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.


55 posted on 11/25/2012 3:58:54 PM PST by truth_seeker
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To: Hot Tabasco

Canvas bag. Cinder lock. Pond.


56 posted on 11/25/2012 3:59:20 PM PST by Jim Noble (Diseases desperate grown are by desperate appliance relieved or not at all.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

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57 posted on 11/25/2012 3:59:52 PM PST by libertarian27 (Check my profile page for the FReeper Online Cookbook 2011)
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To: NoCmpromiz

http://www.pyramydair.com/s/m/Gamo_Big_Cat_1200_and_1250/1280


58 posted on 11/25/2012 4:00:51 PM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Chickensoup

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.


59 posted on 11/25/2012 4:01:20 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: Hot Tabasco

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.


60 posted on 11/25/2012 4:01:35 PM PST by Bigg Red (Sorry, Mr. Franklin, I guess we couldn't keep it.)
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