Quote: It's perfectly legal if you post a sign on your property stating that you have video surveillance. That means they have been warned & therefore anything you catch on video is admissible in court. Sometimes even posting a sign without actually putting up a camera is enough to deter them.
It takes exactly what I grew up with. All of the neighbors knowing each other & working together to help out with each other's kids. If I see 1 of my neighbor kids up to no good not only do I give them an earful but I let their parents know they got an earful & what for. Then it's up to the parents to do something about it. Sadly, there are so many these days who just don't even care what their kids are up to & don't even attempt to discipline them.
IMHO, put all the kids to work on a farm again. OR other wise keep them busy and contributing. I worry I will be taken to task for making my kids do chores. THe rules have changed drastically and kids are not required to helpout in families any more. I grew up having few chores and little I was responsilble for; when I grew up I didn't know how to take care of so many things. I want my kids to be better prepared than I was.
My kids have chores & get in trouble if they aren't done.
Quote: Guess next time I should just let JJ deal with it HIS way. Taking it to the pound would have the same result.
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Nicely said.
I had a kitten walk out of the wood years ago, maybe some 9 years ago now. We were on our way out the door one evening when we heard mew-mew. A tiny kitten in the middle of no where. I put it in a carrier w/ food and water and delt with it when I got home. I found a good home for that kitten. With another older cat and a single woman that is at school all day. In those days I was functioning as a cat rescue. Mostly all the cats lived with me!!
My cats do not touch my birds, nor the mice in the house. We resorted to live trapping for 1 1/2 years to get everyone of those #^@&#^! mice! My dogs don't touch the birds either--unless they go into the dog pen.
THe right animal for the right job.
My momma cat kills everything BUT birds. She was still young when we 1st had chicks in the house & got whapped for even looking in the brooder. I do the same to her 5 kittens & they now leave my brooders alone as well. Snakes, mice, moles, chipmunks, etc...those are an entirely different story. There are no screens in most of our windows at the moment (remodeling) & she climbs in & out as she pleases. She ha brought 3 snakes, 2 chipmunks, 1 mole & 2 mice in the house for her babies to "play with" in the past week. Five 9 week old kittens batting a 2 ft garter snake around the kitchen floor is quite a sight to walk in on.JJ is scared to death of snakes & was having a cow this morning because she brought in a live 1. I had to go pick it up & carry it out to the chicken pen. My favorite hen made a quick meal of it. She swallowed it whole & still squirming.
You should have seen the wiggling bulge her crop made for the next couple hours.
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Not to mention dumping domestic pets is illegal. One it transfer your problem to someone else and two it usually does not end well for the pet.
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I can't tell you how many pregnant cats got dumped where I used to live. I'd have to round them up and take them to animal control.
My 2 cats (we have 6 in all) don't care about them either. In fact, they aren't even interested in looking at them. When Mouse (my oldest) is outside she'll sleep on top of the coops and cages or near them, but she doesn't want them any closer than that. Trouble (our only cat that isn't fixed) has been inside the game coop with me at night, but he just wanted to see what I was doing. He ended up keeping me from getting bitten by a shedding rat snake. He saw it before I did and hissed at it. Trouble's sister, Mia, would rather hunt wild birds. She knows better than to go after anything living in a coop, cage or box. Our 15 year cat, Smudge, has never in her life wanted to hunt anything. She was tossed around by a dog as a kitten (he wasn't trying to hurt her, he just wanted to play) and she's never been right since.
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Not to mention dumping domestic pets is illegal. One it transfer your problem to someone else and two it usually does not end well for the pet.
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I can't tell you how many pregnant cats got dumped where I used to live. I'd have to round them up and take them to animal control.
Years ago I boarded a horse at a very large facility in rural RI. TONS of cats, and everyone was spayed and neutered. Everyone. Not many kittens around. If there was, they found a nice home. That took time and effort on the owner/ manager's part to get the situation under control and keep it that way.No reason to have unwanted pets. I have heard of a local service that is like a vet hospital on wheels, and the pets can be fixed for a very reasonable fee, and shots, etc.
