Posted on 11/04/2007 10:44:59 PM PST by MHT
My community has a problem with feral cats. The animal control department has a no-kill policy so they never seem to be able to catch them, muchless reassign them. Animal-rights wackos continue to feed them and never neuter them. Consequently, the females are constantly pregnant and we now have an over-population that no one wants to deal with. If you do not have a big dog in your yard, your grass (and doormats, outdoor furniture, etc.) will reek from the waste these cats spread everywhere.
Has anyone else had a problem like this? What has your community done?
Just be sure to get enough pellet gun. That "Red Ryder" BB gun is not what you (generically) want. A break-barrel or side lever pellet gun (Gamo, RWS, Benjamin) is more appropriate.
IMO
"Having dominion" over the birds of the air and beasts of the field is no excuse for causing them needless suffering.
Feral dogs?
(As far as I can tell, they're all Unitarians.)
Don’t forget to buy a setter with them they are pretty strong.
I have a Tiki Bar in my back yard. When I first put in the 25 yards of sand around it, the neighborhood cats all came a runnin to use it at night for their litter box. Well, shooting the bastards was out of the question....the wife forbid it, so I set live traps with tuna fish as bate.
Had me a garbage can full of Ice Cold water nearby, being it was late October/early November. When i came out in the morning and noticed I caught another of 6 or 7, I would break thru that thin layer of ice and give them cats an old fashion Salem Witch Dunking in the Can of water. After about 10 or 11 good long Dunks, I would open up the trap and let out the immobilized animal. It took off like a bat outta hell and I have yet to see em around again...
bate = bait... sorry...
And pellet guns are silent and deadly.If you want it reliably deadly, they're not that silent.
Are you putting this in the religion forum, because you seek the advice of Pope Benedict? (As Cardinal Ratzinger, he’d drive the Vatican staff crazy by “adopting” many of Rome’s legendary feral cat population.)
I sure didn’t mean for this to be under religion. I thought I had put it under “general”, specifically “animal rights”. My problem as they are feral with no limitations has really become “human rights”.
I thought I had put it in “general” and “animal rights”. For my crazy neighbor, the rights of stray animals IS her religion. I told her I was allergic to cats and it made no impression. Living next to her has tested my worthiness to enter Heaven. I thoroughly dislike most cats, especially these worthless strays and my contempt has been made manifest in my relationsip with her. She does nothing all day but puts out food and talks about how she loves animals. If she loved them so much, she’d make sure they were neutered.
Well, if they are Catholic cats: Confirm them all, you’ll never see them again......
Actually, they reproduce like the old reputation of Catholics in the pre-pill days.
Strange that it is under the religion section. I know Pope Benedict XVI loves cats, but it is strange to have it here in the religion thread. =^..^=
Oh well, at least this is a first. =^..^=
Where I volunteer as a socializer at a local no-kill animal rescue shelter/adoption center ( in CT ), cat/kitten side of it, we work with other animal organizations to do a trap/spay/neuter/release program. This helps keep the number of feral and semi-feral cats down.
My shelter also places cats that cannot be adopted in regular home enviroments because they could get “agressive” towards people or other cats or other pets to farms/barns so that the mice rodent populations can be kept in check. =^..^=
a .22 loaded with colibri/ super colibri rounds is just as quiet and works just as well.
There's more than one way to skin a cat.
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yup. my FiL, he goes straight for the k-bar, i think that a bit too much blade, i prefer my pendleton hunter.
IMO pellet rifles really are insufficient for culling humanely.
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