Getting rid of the neighbor cats

[The Daring Dufas]

Just because I think of it doesn't mean I do it. Heck, Stephen King is a nice guy but look at what he comes up with.

TDD

[Frank J Warner]

Only when I'm awake.

Pull the wings off of flies?

-Frank

[Frank J Warner]

Knock yourself out. But I have no need of cat repellant so make it the raccoon/possum repellant. I'm almost out. I used to have a huge problem with those pests until I tried this stuff. It works exactly as advertised and I haven't seen a raccoon or opossum in my yard in nearly five years.

-Frank

[h]

Agreed. I no longer have any outdoor cats and the rodent population has grown horrendously in just two years. I'm in the boonies and for 25 years all my cats were feral strays who wandered up to the house and decided that beds and canned food were really great things to have, at least at night. During the day, however, even in the dead of winter, most of the feral kitties were killing machines. My remaining three are indoor-only cats that I inherited when a relative died. They've never been out and since we have coyotes I just don't want to let them out since they don't show any interest anyway. They do just great with the occasional indoor varmint, but I would LOVE to have the closest neighbor's cat come over and clear my yard. Unfortunately that kitty is getting old and rarely leaves his own acreage, plus there are enough rodents within a few feet of his porch that he has no need to come all the way over here. I WISH I had the OPs "problem".

[Doug Miller]

In other words, no nearby neighbors to piss off with your cats.

[Master Betty]

Got a life?

Jim

[LouB]

no animal shelters near you?

[Mark]

if you were my neighbor and my cat was bothering your garden, and $15 would solve the problem, I'd be happy to pay for the stuff...

Mark

[Jon Danniken]

One of my neighbors' cats buries it's "output". The problem is that it does this on my vegetable garden.

I actually went out and bought (ten bucks) a length of chicken wire to surround the garden, but it just hops over that.

I'll be taking the chicken wire down next year and electrifying the garden until the little POS learns to stay out.

Jon

[Master Betty]

if you were my neighbor and my cat was bothering your garden, and $15 would solve the problem, I'd be happy to pay for the stuff...

My wife well run it over for free.

[h]

I already have 3 INDOOR cats. I simply can't afford to care for any more cats, plus there's no guarantee that a cat up for adoption would be suited to going outside (used to dealing with coyotes and badgers, etc.)

[h]

Maybe we'll all get lucky and your neighbors will run over your wife.

[Master Betty]

Okay....but not before she gets rid of some of these fu@king cats.

[Jim Yanik]

"Jon Danniken" wrote in news: [e-mail]:

why not make a "sandbox" to divert them away from your garden? In some out-of-the-way area.

[h]

Masterbatey seems to think he's funny. Not so much. PLONK.

[Oren]

All my cats, past and present came from prisons. What a humble bunch.

Darby will walk to the mail box, listen when I tell her something. I'm amazed at how many words dogs and cats understand.

Oh, Jessie met my boat for fresh fish. I miss her.

Gosh cats like fresh fish....

[norminn]

I acquired my only pet cat by marriage....neutered male cat about 8 y/o. Had some bad habits, as did his master, when I joined up. I have never before, and will never be again, a "cat person". Hubby had stacks of important papers on the kitchen counter, some stained with cat urine. Yuck! Cat had habit of jumping onto the dining room table to nap...and, bless his heart, did not like to be scolded. Most gentle, mellow cat I've ever seen. Soon was successful in teaching him to stay off food surfaces and d.r. table. He had horrible infest. of fleas, and tolerated baths and flea dips until topical stuff for cats came out. When I resorted to the strongest flea dip I could find, he tolerated it very well....no fussing or fighting, but he disappeared right afterward. When I searched the house to find him, I found him in the washing machine on top of the clothes waiting to be washed :o)

When he began to lose weight, we took him to the vet and found out he had a tumor, probably cancer. We began to give him special treats, like regular tuna. Within a couple of months, he behaved as if he was in pain, which was only as he got into and out of his box. When he was in pain, we took him to the vet and he was euthanized, age about 13. Hubby was his third owner, two previous owners deceased. He had always been an indoor cat, and I would never have let him out alone....we had an injured, mutilated cat crawl into our condo atrium one night and that was not a pretty sight. There are racoons and coyotes almost everywhere, including the city where I live. A pet lives with humans. Wild animals roam freely. Pets don't belong on the streets, picking up diseases and injuries.

[Master Betty]

wow...h told me!

Now lets kill some cats!!

[Frank J Warner]

Ah. A vegan AND a moron. But I repeat myself.

-Frank

[Bert Byfield]

Agreed. Didn't anyone watch the book/movie *Never Cry Wolf* ? I feed birds, and have three cats. I am careful to feed birds in ways that do not create an ambush for the feeding birds, and my three cats rarely catch a bird. What they do catch is the mice that come in from the fields looking for my food supply.