Cats - how to get rid if them

[geoff]

In message , Grimly Curmudgeon writes

... Also, when the cat comes scrounging food off the hunt saboteurs and finds out that it's all veggie stuff, it'll soon get bored and go elsewhere

[Andy Hall]

I've always coveted one of those (Maine Coon not fox). Do they cohabit socially with other cats or do they expect the place to themselves?

.andy

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[Grimly Curmudgeon]

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Bob Eager" saying something like:

Heh. My last big bruiser of a cat got into a scrap with a fox one night. He came back with tooth marks all over his head and a raggy ear, but the fox steered clear after that.

I saw that same bugger run down and kill a hare in the halfacre round the back. That field was a happy hunting ground for a domestic city moggy who'd never been in the country before; it became a regular occurrence to find rabbit organs (kidneys, ears and heads) on the back doorstep every morning. Mind you, it made feeding him very cheap - much of the time he was gorged with what he could catch.

Funnily enough, he kept well away from the regular badger family who crossed the field every evening - a full grown badger is a nasty f***er if it's defending its young.

The current moggy is just a woose that runs away from anything bigger than a mouse.

[Lee]

I'm almost sure this is a myth.

The other morning the neighbours black cat was chasing off a rather large fox that had the temerity to invade *his* territory ;)

Lee

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember geoff saying something like:

There's always the possibility some huntsab might take it away and give it a good home.

[Peter Parry]

Poxy townies, it's simply evolution in action. If you must be a drip then Lion dung from a local Zoo spread around the perimeter is effective. Failing that or your sensibilities then citrus peel spread around the place is fairly effective.

Do bear in mind that Confucius he say if your are cruel to cats you come back as a mouse.

[Soup]

Soup popped his head over the parapet,saw what was going on and said

We had a very small cat (mother odd eye blue father a ferret) it once fuffed at an Alsation (German Shepherd) when the cat had been chased to our front door, must have had an attack of the braves cos' it was her territory, The dog backed down and ran away, was quite amusing to see this 4 foot long dog scared of a very tiny cat. Maybe the dog was scared of choking upon swallowing the cat

[Bob Eager]

Over his lifetime (13 years), ours cohabited with three different other cats. The first was the kitten he came with, and the other two were young adults when first introduced. As far as other cats were concerned, he was a bit of a wimp.

No problems apart from the first week or two with the second and third cats.

[David]

In article , Peter Parry writes

Don't think so, cats are an introduced species and numbers are kept artificially high by the daft people that keep feeding the bloody things

[Andy Hall]

OK, so normal deal of who's going to be in charge this week then.

Thanks for that, Bob.

.andy

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[Bob Eager]

Exactly. The third cat was quite savvy...she was ovetly submissive until he accepted her, then spent the rest of her life clearly bossing him around! He missed her when she died.

Pete (the Maine Coon) died last summer. We are just thinking about another cat.

[Tim Mitchell]

In article , Steve Wilson writes

The one our neighbours had, which didn't work, was on constantly. It could be that a cat-triggered version might be more effective.

[Nick Brooks]

All we ever find is the back legs

[Jerry Built]

You could use an electric fencer, these come up quite regularly on e-bay. I can't see why this should be "illegal". Shooting a cat is not illegal, although you must not cause it to suffer, i.e. it should be killed instantly - it might be unwise to be actually detected doing this, however, especially if the cat was an expensive one. Toxic chemicals may well be "illegal" if they cause suffering. Paracetamol is poison to cats, I don't know how well it mixes with cat food and gravy. A pressure washer might be useful aide-de-decat.

2/10. A permenant solution is better. Is your garden fenced?

J.B.

[Andy Hall]

I dunno about that. One of mine's 23 and still indistinguishable from a teenager......

.andy

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[Andy Hall]

OK, put it this way - I don't read many posts about birds crapping on windows or dropping berries on the washing, or about hedgehog crap in the garden.

Still biodegradable........

All of which is somewhat academic because there will continue to be cats around and it is not realistic to restrict their movement into a space, only out of it.

Given that, there are a variety of methods ranging from ultrasonic devices of variable effectiveness, water and various non-harming chemicals such as citrus, pepper etc.

Really, that's about it. I don't see the law changing to force cat owners to do what would not be practical in terms of restraining cats, or allowing anything that would cause them harm.

.andy

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[Mary Fisher]

LOL!

I blame the parents :-)

Mary

[Ian Stirling]

Same as townies then :)

[Mary Fisher]

I've never read them - but I don't read everything :-)

I do know that some of my neighbours complain about the starlings which nest in our eaves and, the neighbours say, crap on their windows; that the same neighbours complained about our apples dropping into their garden; that they (and other neighbours) complained about our bees crapping on their washing and windows.

We haven't had bees here for years and there are still insect droppings on their windows, they just can't blame us for it. Same with the birds, and other neighbours' apples. Another neighbour does say that our hens "sing too loud" (her dog never stopped yapping and was the bane of the neighbourhood but if anyone said anything she'd take it in her arms and say, "My little Benjy").

Yes, but not as unpleasant as carnivores.

That's true.

No, you're right

I used to be a cat lover. I used to be a fox lover. Circumstances alter cases.

Mary

[David]

In article , Andy Hall writes

I don't have a problem with anything wild Andy, they can crap in my garden all they like, but other peoples choice of pet coming and crapping in my garden is a different thing, if its your pet keep the bloody thing in your garden or on a lead when its not, I don't see why cats should have the right to crap anywhere they like also, the rich diet that most owners give their cats make their crap more unpleasant and smelly than most wild animals would have.