Can I shoot all these cats?

[chickengrandma]

Our attitude is - "keep your pets home and on your own property". We don't want a cat. Why would it be ok for someone else's pet to be in our yard? It isn't ok to let a dog - or a chicken - wander the neighborhood - why do people think it is ok to allow their chosen pet (a cat) to wander the neighborhood?

If someone thinks it is ok to let their cat run around the neighborhood, how about going over that person's home and dropping off a dog or a chicken or a lizard or a snake.....

We regularly call the local police and they provide live traps. They bring the trap over. Once it is full, they come and get it. Free-range cats are nothing but a nuisance.

Otherwise an air-pump b-b gun works very well in the city.

 

[Noble Rooster]

Mrs. Fluffy Puffy :

Yes, cats can easily kill a full grown standard chicken!

Crud.

 

[mangled]

IMHO, feral cats are just the same as raccoons or opossums. Predators. We are rural, so the 30.06 is our mode of dispersal.

We know the local friendly strays, we have our own barn cats, they're discouraged from stalking the coops by well placed rocks from slingshots. Cats learn quickly, some of the barn cats walk to the other side of the yard to aviod the coop/run area.

It only took a loss of my favorite EE hen to have a zero tolerance policy. Feral cats will work together. They can and will take down a full sized hen.

Good luck-
Em

 

[chick4chicks]

I have my outdoor cat, the neighbors cat and feral cats around my house and they have never hurt a chicken. They don't even chase them, they let the chickens alone.

 

[Show Me Chick]

I hate when people think they have the right to let their cats run around the neighborhood and I hate cats. They poop in my flower beds, scratch on my lawn furniture and last week I was looking out the window and saw one catch and kill a $55 dollar koi from my goldfish pond. I know the owner of the cat but I think I won't talk to them and deal with the cat my way. I say get rid of them how you please.

 

[mmwb]

"in my experience cats are smart enough not to get trapped twice."

My experience is that cats are only slightly more intelligent than the average rock and often repeatedly caught in traps. If you spray them down really good with the garden hose before letting them loose, it does seem to decrease the repeats. The spray down is apparently far more traumatic than being captured for a period....



"You could try and use some coyote urine (yes it can be purchased). Spray it around where you see the cats. The only drawback is it might bring in coyotes. Or you could also use mountain lion urine. Just google these items and you can usually buy them over the internet. Good Luck."

Urines are advertised as a deterrent, but they are not. I've used fox, coyote, and bobcat urine while trapping. The typical house/feral cat is as attracted to them as everything else. Don't wast your money on them. They are universal attractants to all predators, as well as rodents and ungulates (salt in them draws the latter two).

As far as legalities: If your are in a municipality, check with the local cops, if rural check with the sheriff's department. Check also with the DNR or Game and Fish Dept. Ask for what the law indicates, not what someone's opinion or personal moral compass dictates. I live in a state where all wandering cats are considered predators and can be disposed of by any legal means at any time. Free roaming cats wreak tremendous havoc on birds.

 

[Tylt33]

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In some places people DO have the right to let their cats roam the neighborhood. That doesn't mean you have the right to deal with them how you want. You may hate cats, but that doesn't change any laws.

 

[Show Me Chick]

Where I live you do not have the right to let your cat roam.

They must be kept inside or on a leash just like a dog. All the surrounding towns and citys around here are like that but they don't enforce the law as much as dogs... unless someone complains.

 

[aprophet]

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some of the best rabbit bait/lure I have ever used is fox pee

 

[aprophet]

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In some places people DO have the right to let their cats roam the neighborhood. That doesn't mean you have the right to deal with them how you want. You may hate cats, but that doesn't change any laws.

Most who live here in chesapeake in between rt 168 and rt 17 just run over them. I think it was mass did a study free roaming cats kill about 3 songbirds a day thats not counting baby rabbits chipmunks etc