Trapping the cat

[EggSighted4Life]

I don’t even want it in my backyard!

Maybe turn a water hose on it and it will learn to avoid your area??

Or a motion activated sprinkler... called scarecrow.

I have a friend who's cat is well fed... it doesn't stop her from hunting. She brings him humming birds and others with their heads off.

 

[Willowspirit]

Maybe turn a water hose on it and it will learn to avoid your area??

Or a motion activated sprinkler... called scarecrow.

I have a friend who's cat is well fed... it doesn't stop her from hunting. She brings him humming birds and others with their heads off.

For cats with high prey drive you can stuff them full of food and it will just give them more energy to hunt. ):

 

[llombardo]

For cats with high prey drive you can stuff them full of food and it will just give them more energy to hunt. ):

I had a mouse in the house once, my cat was on top of the refigeratorcwatching it run back and forth. None of mine are hunters, not even a little bit.

 

[SurferchickinSB]

I had a mouse in the house once, my cat was on top of the refigeratorcwatching it run back and forth. None of mine are hunters, not even a little bit.

Well, as soon as I opened my back door, I made eye contact with that cat from 100 feet away and it lowered its body and raised it’s fur and skedaddled over the fence off the top of the chicken run. My chickens were still upset and this morning they still were upset! I feel like leaving my dogs out there, but they don’t like to be outside.

 

[Estelleannette]

Maybe turn a water hose on it and it will learn to avoid your area??

Or a motion activated sprinkler... called scarecrow.

I have a friend who's cat is well fed... it doesn't stop her from hunting. She brings him humming birds and others with their heads off.

I would do the hose but it only comes around at night

 

[IdyllwildAcres]

I don’t even want it in my backyard!

Trap and do as you see fit then.

Gary

 

[SurferchickinSB]

Trap and do as you see fit then.

Gary

Yes, I’ll have to do that if it keeps coming around. I’ll just take it down to the shelter and they supply live traps for you.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

I would do the hose but it only comes around at night

The motion activated sprinkler could still work.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009F1R0GC/?tag=backy-20

As my husband was leaving the driveway today he saw a (unknown) cat suspected of taking up residence somewhere VERY nearby... look at him with a good size rat in it's mouth, just outside my pole barn.

Chicken feed attracts rats. And rats also attract other predators in addition to being known predators themselves and carriers of way too many things. Even though I collect my feed nightly, I still battle rats (via trapping) as they still come around for the shrapnel left behind. If the birds are locked up at night (as mine are)... I might leave that cat to do it's business. Gee.. I was thinking about trapping the cat to treat if for any parasites and releasing back. Someone visiting the other day said they saw kittens.

My dogs often eradicate strays that enter the back pasture unwittingly. I always try to give them fair warning by making lots of noise if I am opening the door to send them out. One neighbor has several cats that hunt gophers many days in another neighbors yard who doesn't mind. The gophers are quite an issue and cause broken legs on livestock. They seem to know where the boundary lies for the dog fence.

Anyways, just though I would share this for consideration.

 

[ColtHandorf]

15 years ago I had a young cat maybe three to four months old wander up at the house. It was a little orange tabby. It stuck around and started going to bed with the young started birds. He'd actually climb up on the roost and sleep with them. It was adorable. He never hurt any of the chickens. In fact, he'd throw himself down in front of them when I put out hen scratch and roll over exposing his tummy for them to peck at. As he got older he hunted in the feed barn and would pick a new chicken house to roost in. Some nights he was with the kids, but more often than not he'd be somewhere else. None of the chickens so much as batted an eye at him after they got used to him sleeping with them at night.

 

[Willowspirit]

The motion activated sprinkler is genius and really works on cats.