Hi everyone,
I have more of a family issue problem than an actual animal problem, because I could take care of the animals if I was allowed. See, we have several dozen feral cats running around my neighborhood spraying and procreating everywhere. I have asked animal control about cats but they are so swamped they cannot even lease out any more traps and go out only for dogs. I bought a trap to catch my own critters with and started taking cats to the shelter. I even caught a cat that had taken three of my birds!!
Well, after four trips and four cats my dad says "No more! The gas is too expensive." And it is- but I wanted to shoot them in the first place and he wouldn't let me. He was the one that told me to take them to the shelter. So he's given me options, I can pay for the gas to take them to the shelter myself $3.22 a trip, or drop them off in another neighborhood.
I'm crushed, because nobody can make me do that to someone else. I can only think of how I feel when people drop their animals off in my neighborhood. It's criminal. The animal will only populate that neighborhood as well. I am going to call animal control one more time and try to file a complaint. If they will do nothing, I will trap the animals myself, and kill them without anyone knowing. It is a hard thing to do and I do not want to, but we are overrun and nobody will do anything but transport these populating wild creatures to other neighborhoods.
I feel like I am the only sensible responsible one around my place and I am being called crazy and in need of mental help because I am a girl who "doesn't like cats". I LOVE cats. But I can't get people to understand - or even go to the shelter themselves to see for themselves, just how overrun our county is. My chickens are constantly in danger, being stalked by these large mangy feral felines and at this point the cats howl under my window at night. I wish they would howl under my dad's window. He is a very hard man to talk to, please help me think of reasonable and rational things to say that will give me a without doubt winning argument for my situation.
As it is, my hands are being tied behind my back. I cannot shoot them, I cannot take them to the shelter, I cannot possibly spend my own money to get rid of them. Nobody else will do anything.
Also, if I were to take my Daisy and use pellets...would a good shot to the head be fairly humane? Thanks,
I have more of a family issue problem than an actual animal problem, because I could take care of the animals if I was allowed. See, we have several dozen feral cats running around my neighborhood spraying and procreating everywhere. I have asked animal control about cats but they are so swamped they cannot even lease out any more traps and go out only for dogs. I bought a trap to catch my own critters with and started taking cats to the shelter. I even caught a cat that had taken three of my birds!!
Well, after four trips and four cats my dad says "No more! The gas is too expensive." And it is- but I wanted to shoot them in the first place and he wouldn't let me. He was the one that told me to take them to the shelter. So he's given me options, I can pay for the gas to take them to the shelter myself $3.22 a trip, or drop them off in another neighborhood.
I'm crushed, because nobody can make me do that to someone else. I can only think of how I feel when people drop their animals off in my neighborhood. It's criminal. The animal will only populate that neighborhood as well. I am going to call animal control one more time and try to file a complaint. If they will do nothing, I will trap the animals myself, and kill them without anyone knowing. It is a hard thing to do and I do not want to, but we are overrun and nobody will do anything but transport these populating wild creatures to other neighborhoods.
I feel like I am the only sensible responsible one around my place and I am being called crazy and in need of mental help because I am a girl who "doesn't like cats". I LOVE cats. But I can't get people to understand - or even go to the shelter themselves to see for themselves, just how overrun our county is. My chickens are constantly in danger, being stalked by these large mangy feral felines and at this point the cats howl under my window at night. I wish they would howl under my dad's window. He is a very hard man to talk to, please help me think of reasonable and rational things to say that will give me a without doubt winning argument for my situation.
As it is, my hands are being tied behind my back. I cannot shoot them, I cannot take them to the shelter, I cannot possibly spend my own money to get rid of them. Nobody else will do anything.
Also, if I were to take my Daisy and use pellets...would a good shot to the head be fairly humane? Thanks,
