I knew this cat was no good.... UPDATE Men + Bud + Cat=LOL

[wolftracks]

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First look at my post above yours. I'm cooled off now.
On the other hand if I did need to shoot I never miss a target. Might have been a while since I've fired a weapon, but I'm a good. Trust me. LOL
The kitty is going to find the nice little trap in my yard and going bye bye. Hopefully I won't be taking it to a shelter that will place it with someone else with chickens. I'd feel terrible. When I drop it off I will let them know why I caught it and took it to them.
I was so angry earlier. Those beautiful babies I had just hatched out last week. Can't figure out why a cat that fat would even need to eat that many chicks. Then agai it also smashed and sufficated them.

 

[chickened]

Try using a predator call that does feline sounds like a female cat in heat. I guarantee the Toms will come to it. I get up on my shed with a spot light and push the kitty call and wait.

 

[NonnasBabies]

I'd take the cat out!! But then again if you take it to the pound they'll prob take care of that for you!!

And for the person that said "What about the kid this cat might belong too!" Really????? Why is some people always worried about the owners of the animal or the animal itself who did the slaughtering and not the chicks/chickens it slaughtered or the owners or kids those chicks/chickens belonged too???

 

[chickened]

I agree if the owner of the cat was worried they would know where their cat was also.
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[wolftracks]

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Yeah I hadn't even brought that up. These were more than chickens here.

I've had the worse time the past year finding decent Wellies or Barnies to replace the ones we had to give up when we lost our house. Couldn't get a single hatch. Got a Wellie chick last fall, but lost her and a couple of other birds this winter.

I also had a Mottled Java (my first), a Blue Splash Marans and some nice FBCMs and some Cuckoo Marans in that particular brooder. The only thing I have left in there are Cuckoos and a couple of FBCMs. The chicks in the other 2 brooders are fine, but all but one are mixes and will be layers or meat birds or sold.

My son is 14, in high school, but needs special ed classes due to a brain hemorage when he was 10 months old. He literally died over and over. He's alive and smart, but has some issues. He's more 10 than 14 at times. He's a nice kid. Hides in his room a lot since my husband died in July. Bill was the stepdad, but they were best friends and Dakotah isn't taking it well. He wanted to take the chicks in his room and keep them in there. He carried those things around like babies and they had names. The Wellies in particular were more for me and him. He also fell in love with the Barnies, the Java and the Splash. I had to pick him up from school today and I did the whole "how was school" thing with him. I waited until we were in the driveway to tell him what happened. He headed straight for the backyard.

My husband and I were also raising my 5 year old grand daughter. I just signed her up yesterday with the APA-ABA Youth Poultry Club. She wants to show birds. I thought that Java would be great for her. Tonight we looked over the blue AMs I hatched out this weekend and I'm thinking maybe one of those. She said OK but didn't sound thrilled.

I know they were just chickens, but they have been helpful to me with my agoraphobia and they are helpful for the kids since we lost so many close family members last year. I also lost my parents.

That cat can't be much of a family pet if it's always here. I've never seen it anywhere, but my yards. It jumps fences when I chase it off, but it always comes back.

Still though, as angry as I was earlier, I'm trapping the cat and off to the shelter it's furry behind goes. A year and it is still here and it finally crossed the line.

 

[NonnasBabies]

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Yeah I hadn't even brought that up. These were more than chickens here.

I've had the worse time the past year finding decent Wellies or Barnies to replace the ones we had to give up when we lost our house. Couldn't get a single hatch. Got a Wellie chick last fall, but lost her and a couple of other birds this winter.

I also had a Mottled Java (my first), a Blue Splash Marans and some nice FBCMs and some Cuckoo Marans in that particular brooder. The only thing I have left in there are Cuckoos and a couple of FBCMs. The chicks in the other 2 brooders are fine, but all but one are mixes and will be layers or meat birds or sold.

My son is 14, in high school, but needs special ed classes due to a brain hemorage when he was 10 months old. He literally died over and over. He's alive and smart, but has some issues. He's more 10 than 14 at times. He's a nice kid. Hides in his room a lot since my husband died in July. Bill was the stepdad, but they were best friends and Dakotah isn't taking it well. He wanted to take the chicks in his room and keep them in there. He carried those things around like babies and they had names. The Wellies in particular were more for me and him. He also fell in love with the Barnies, the Java and the Splash. I had to pick him up from school today and I did the whole "how was school" thing with him. I waited until we were in the driveway to tell him what happened. He headed straight for the backyard.

My husband and I were also raising my 5 year old grand daughter. I just signed her up yesterday with the APA-ABA Youth Poultry Club. She wants to show birds. I thought that Java would be great for her. Tonight we looked over the blue AMs I hatched out this weekend and I'm thinking maybe one of those. She said OK but didn't sound thrilled.

I know they were just chickens, but they have been helpful to me with my agoraphobia and they are helpful for the kids since we lost so many close family members last year. I also lost my parents.

That cat can't be much of a family pet if it's always here. I've never seen it anywhere, but my yards. It jumps fences when I chase it off, but it always comes back.

Still though, as angry as I was earlier, I'm trapping the cat and off to the shelter it's furry behind goes. A year and it is still here and it finally crossed the line.

All I can say to you is WOW!! And

You've had one heck of a year!! I'm sorry for all your losses!! And I hope your able to recoup after another devasting loss!!

It just completly infuriates me when someone posts about a dog or cat attack and all these people basically completely ignore the fact of the OP loss and what there chicks/chickens meant to them it's always about the poor cat or dog and the poor owner of said cat or dog!!

ETA: I just realized I completly repeated myself didn't I?? Sorry, it's been a long day!!

 

[chickened]

You got more patience than I do.
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Yeah I hadn't even brought that up. These were more than chickens here.

I've had the worse time the past year finding decent Wellies or Barnies to replace the ones we had to give up when we lost our house. Couldn't get a single hatch. Got a Wellie chick last fall, but lost her and a couple of other birds this winter.

I also had a Mottled Java (my first), a Blue Splash Marans and some nice FBCMs and some Cuckoo Marans in that particular brooder. The only thing I have left in there are Cuckoos and a couple of FBCMs. The chicks in the other 2 brooders are fine, but all but one are mixes and will be layers or meat birds or sold.

My son is 14, in high school, but needs special ed classes due to a brain hemorage when he was 10 months old. He literally died over and over. He's alive and smart, but has some issues. He's more 10 than 14 at times. He's a nice kid. Hides in his room a lot since my husband died in July. Bill was the stepdad, but they were best friends and Dakotah isn't taking it well. He wanted to take the chicks in his room and keep them in there. He carried those things around like babies and they had names. The Wellies in particular were more for me and him. He also fell in love with the Barnies, the Java and the Splash. I had to pick him up from school today and I did the whole "how was school" thing with him. I waited until we were in the driveway to tell him what happened. He headed straight for the backyard.

My husband and I were also raising my 5 year old grand daughter. I just signed her up yesterday with the APA-ABA Youth Poultry Club. She wants to show birds. I thought that Java would be great for her. Tonight we looked over the blue AMs I hatched out this weekend and I'm thinking maybe one of those. She said OK but didn't sound thrilled.

I know they were just chickens, but they have been helpful to me with my agoraphobia and they are helpful for the kids since we lost so many close family members last year. I also lost my parents.

That cat can't be much of a family pet if it's always here. I've never seen it anywhere, but my yards. It jumps fences when I chase it off, but it always comes back.

Still though, as angry as I was earlier, I'm trapping the cat and off to the shelter it's furry behind goes. A year and it is still here and it finally crossed the line.

 

[oesdog]

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Sorry, but not all cats that are outdoors are feral. Mine can't be kept indoors in the warm months, however she rarely leaves my property and has never attacked anything bigger than a mole. Unless the cat has done damage to livestock it should be considered someone's pet and not shot. Of course I have neighbors close enough to see my house. I might feel differently if I lived in the sticks with no neighbor house visable.

Um... yes they are. I own two cats and they are kept indoors. Any cat outside is feral, unless you are standing there with it. If I see it prowling my pens, it dies. It doesn't have to attack, it just spooks the birds into breaking their necks. Your pet vs. my family's food = Your pet loses.

Actually - NO CAT is tame in that sence. Dogs are but you simply cannot treat a cat like a dog. To think this is ignorance of the animal - and sadly there is a mentality in some humans - "that if you don;t understand it kill it". Cats by their nature are wild and they chose to live with us.

YOU OWN YOUR DOG but YOUR CAT OWNS YOU!. It would be cruel to lock up a cat all the time and think it would run round your feet like a puppy and not go hunting or patrolling its territory. Here in the UK Dogs have to have a licence Cats do not because they are by nature wild. If you run down a dog in the road you are supposed to report it. If you run down a cat you don;t have to because they are by nature wild and therefor do not require a licence.

- They still have their wild instincts and that is why when folk dump a cat it will usually survive - ( Like this cat it has its own territory and it has learned to defend it and hunt for its food.) If it did "own" the owners of the house before then it is probably looking for them. It is sad for the poor cat as it is only doing what it needs to do to survive. If a Dog is dumped because WE have domesticated them so much they lack those survival skills and invariably they die of starvation. - In a way you have to admire the cat that the skill and determination to survive are still there. - This though often gets them into trouble with humans and livestock just as other hunters and preditors do.

Oesdog

 

[oesdog]

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Because children find great comfort in their pets and to hurt that animal especially if the child is aware or see that it has happened could emotionally damage and traumatise that child. Also from what you are suggesting - you would teach a child who has lost its chicks to go hunt and kill another childs pet in retaliation or retribution? Really that is not a healthy concept. As then you get two unhappy kids that hate eachother!!!!!!! Both of which are losers!!!! As a parent, grandparent, chicken and cat owner I think the feelings and wellbeing of a child come way up the list of priority here!!!!!

Anyhow it is probably the case that this particular cat is abandoned by the previouse owners of the house and is not a pet of a neighbors child.

Oesdog

 

[Mattemma]

I would catch it and get rid of it without a word to the neighbors. I have had to do that with 2 cats that got into my current homes fenced yard,and also made a toilet of my foundation soil.

I could care less if it has a collar or not. They damage my property and I will no longer put up with it. I used to plead with cat owners,but realised I was talking to a wall. I recall a neighbor whose 3 cats voided all over the inside of her house.She got the bright idea to let them outside.They made MY yard a toilet. Neighbor was happy her house was clean, and I was angry to be smelling that stuff. No amount of talking made things better.Thankfully they moved.

Confronting neighbors is not worth the *war* it will create. Most cat owners know that free roaming pets will eventually get killed or disappear.Get a live trap or try to entice the cat to you so you can grab it.

My cats go outside.If they go out of the fenced yard they are at the mercy of others. A cat enclosure(just like a chicken run) is the best thing for a cat. Safety for them,plenty of outdoor,and respect for neighbors.A win win situation for all.

http://www.just4cats.com/

And if I caught a cat killing my chicks or even the bluebirds I have encouraged to nestboxes.....well they would be dealt with.