Feral cat!

[cozycritters]

My cat can easily catch and kill a chicken (or whatever) without an issue and she is only 5 months old.

We also have recently lost three ducks and four goslings to someone's cat getting in our yard...

My cat loves to catch doves and feed them to the chickens...

 

[Boyd]

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Kidding..... Right? Ack?!?

 

[Sunny Side Up]

A feral cat should be trapped. Even if you are planning to keep it around you should first get a good look at it to be sure it's not sick or harboring parasites or pregnant or intact. And if you're not in the market for a new pet cat, then it should be sent to a Better Place. Whatever that means to you. I don't think feral cats live very pleasant lives, exposed to weather & predators and other risks.

Besides, you don't know if this particular cat can/will injure your chickens.

They're not always easy to trap. Try wet cat food, or tuna, or canned sardines. Also put some catnip in the trap for bait, that seems to help lure them in.

And pleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasePLEASE do NOT everneverevernevereverNEVER release a trapped feral cat, or ANY pest/predator animal, anywhere else. What may seem like deep remote woods to you may be the back edge of someone else's property. Someone who will not appreciate having new predators or pest animals added to their burdens. It's not a nice thing to do to other people, and not nice to the animal too. There probably are other predators already claiming that area, releasing new predators there will cause them to have less food, and may cause them to fight. Plus there is the very real possibility of introducing rabies or other diseases to that new area.

 

[mamaKate]

How can you tell it's feral and not just someone's pet that wandered too far? I agree that releasing ANY domesticated animal into the wild is a bad idea. Shoot it or trap it and find a shelter.

 

[lildinkem]

I would be more worried about Coons. A cat might kill one bird, Coons kill for fun. I successfully captured a cat with Sardines in a live box trap. That might catch him.

 

[Over Easy in Adna]

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Great for you, but what about the people who live 10 miles away from you?

 

[lildinkem]

gkeesling, just don't get caught, it is illegal to relocate trapped critters far as I know.

 

[nzpouter]

I lost a few chickens and ducks every year to cats, we live at the edge of town, perfect dumping ground.

Whatever the dogs don't get, I'll shoot or trap.

 

[nzpouter]

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yep... bunch of delusional do gooders... they need a dose of reality.

 

[Brindlebtch]

I had a feral cat population in my neighborhood and trapped them one by one and took them to the vet to be put down.