How Do You Get Rid of Feral Cats?

www.freerepublic.com ^ | 11-5-07 | self

[absolootezer0]

love your user name.
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[Redcloak]

I ask because we had a feral cat “problem” at a place where I once worked. It was a large facility, about 16 acres, with lots of landscaping between the buildings. The powers that be decided to round up the cats and get rid of them. When they realized that we really had a rodent problem, and not a cat problem, they brought the cats back.

[LambSlave]

Best solution I’ve seen yet... “Hunting feral cats with a 12 pounder Coehorn mortar”

http://www.buckstix.com/CoehornMortarHunt.htm

[pandoraou812]

I wouldn’t feed the birds if I had bears either. I live in a neighborhood that slowly has become built up & the birds seem to be disappearing along with the woods. We have foxes & those hawks but no other wild animals.

[MHT]

I think that this is what we're going to do. Ours is weekend-only, too, and it's subtle enough that the nutty neighbor won't know what we're up to.

When my elderly mother was alive, the neighbor would come onto our property and leave tuna out UNDER a crawl space of my mother's back porch. Not only did my poor mother get cats, she got raccoons, which decided to habitate there. She couldn't figure out what was happening. When the last raccoon died, the cats lived there and by the time my mother died and we took over the house, the stench was AWFUL! We decided to put lattice around the crawl space under the porch to end the problem and my neighbor came onto our property and told the contractor he couldn't do that because there were animals who were trapped by the lattice. He created a one-way out flap door with a lure of tuna to get them out and she, in the night, rigged the flap-door so that they could still come and go. I was ready to get a restraining order against her but everyone in the town was so golly-shucks about her being crazy--I have paid the price of a nut for a neighbor. This spring we painted the house and the cats urinated all over the painters' drop cloths, ruining them. When we are there on the weekends the cats hop all over our cars, getting them dusty with footprints.

It has become an untenable situation. Three weeks of pepper would be a small price to pay to be rid of the cats--if only I could get rid of the neighbor.

[xzins]

having dominion...needless suffering

I agree. Therefore, it is necessary to control their population through hunting. Otherwise, they will trend toward a time of starvation, public nuisance, or public health risk. The humane thing to do is to hunt them with weapons that are appropriate for the (sub/x)urban areas in which they are too numerous.

[xzins]

not that silent

You've not seen my latest hearing tests.....:>)

[NucSubs]

Change the no-kill policy to a kill policy with feral cats. They are just animals.

Amen! I was wondering how long before I read a sane post.

[ArrogantBustard]

I chose an RWS Model 52 for “not-quite-rural” pest control.

YMMV.

[rockrr]

You may want to sprinkle some on your neighbor as well ;’}

I wish you the best of luck!