Feral Cats

Okay I was just kidding.....

for real though....you should shoot them if they are feral and causing probs....if you were closer my "cat-loving" hubby would be happy to help you out....target practice for the police dept!

Rachel

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I agree - shoot 'em in the head!

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Wow! do you have no hearts? Live trap them and take a needle of air and put it in their blood vessel. they will die very fast and only a little pain! I have seen many cats shot and lived. take them to a selter or drop them off in the woods far away. some times it's best to not shoot and relowcate! Come on. My aunt has a 19 year old barn cat who still every year has a littler of 7 kittens. My uncle gets them and hits them over the head with a metal thing! It kills them right away and saves bringing a unwanted cat in the world

22LR is the only quick way. I don't shoot the head because they are to hard to get close to. There head moves around to much. There body doesn't if they are standing still. It's not my way anyway. Right behind the front leg midway up. They don't move.
My best score is 13 in one night. I was overrun. I just waited till evening when they showed themselves. Sat on the backporch and waited.
If you don't get a clean kill they will crawl in a tight spot to die and you won't find them till you have to use a spoon to get them out.

I once worked 'with' a dog catcher [I was a MP watch commander and he was our department's animal control freak].

He used a live trap, then placed the trap inside of a larger box inside the back of his van. He had a valve underneath that routed the exhaust gases from the van into the box.

He could work in residential neighborhoods and folks with their children would watch him gently putting these animals into his van, and when he drove away, the animals were already falling peacefully to sleep. He went out of town to a land fill and dumped the bodies there.

If you have a have-a-heart trap, trap them, drop a tarp over the trap fully enclosing it and run a hose from your vehicle exhaust into the trap.

Holy cow, are you for real????

So, I catch a live wild cat, carrying who-knows-what diseases, I'm supposed yo hold it, raise a vein and inject it???

Drop them off far away? Why, so they can become someone elses problem or kill wild songbirds?

Injecting air won't kill an animal anyway. Cardiologists do it all the time to watch bubbles go through the heart on ultrasound, looking for holes between one side and the other--which the bubbles will find and make visible.

I say trap and leave anonymously at the humane society. That way if they do belong to someone they have a chance of being sprung by their owner instead of being killed.

If a cat so disposed turns up again, at least you can confront your neighbors about it.

Actually, since you say they have a 'breeding 'problem, you should confront them regardless of what you do and tell them it has to stop.

dropping them 'far away' isn't a solution, and to do that just makes more unwanted feral cats, or problems for someone else. Better to humanely shoot them to kill as painlessly and quickly as possible.

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Now THAT is animal abuse. No nineteen year old critter should still be having babies! And y'know, a SPAY (say it with me; spay. S P A Y)would save bringing unwanted kittens into the world too... and save that poor old cat the sorrow of losing her babies.

Drop them off and they'll be killed by other animals, become someone else's problem, or just come back.

Live trap them and drop them off at a PETA members place. They'll love you for it

I love cats. Have a 14 year old silver tabby that is as much a part of my family as any human. (and was neutered as soon as I got him) But when I am out and see a feral cat they go to kitty heaven. They are one of the main reason that there are fewer songbirds, rabbits, quail, etc. As one person said, they are vermin; not pets.

galump

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How is that abuse? you couldn't put her under at the age. She tells her every year don't have them, and she still does. I don't know what it is there but the cats and dogs live for ever!

This is the best Idea of all LOL
May as well leave a few over the hill cows there to.

We have two female cats.

We are both real good hunters. They hang out in the forest around us and hunt. We enjoy watching them hunt. And have really been amazed at how many vermin each one can capture and eat in a single day.

Well one of them is pregnant, and about ready to drop a litter. She has wonderful tiger stripes, but no ear tufts.

One closest neighbor is a mile away. Though we do have a lot of reported bobcat and lynx in the area. So we are hoping for some lynx-mix kittens.

Ummmm, Yeah, thats the point I was making...............

I've got one of those 1000fps pellet guns, a head shot will drop them in their tracks, with VERY little sound. You can pick one up at WM these days for $100 with a scope, and a can of 500 pellets for $2.

There won't be any lynx or bobcat crosses. They will not cross. There are always those who say they have a cross but so far they have not proved to be actual crosses. Male house cats will travel miles to find a female in heat.

Oh, yes they do!
One of my fether's friends raised bengals, and her girls would get out, come ack, and two month later... bengalbobs. Regular housecats did it too. Pretty babies, but wild no matter what you did with 'em. I might have a picture somewhere...

It is my understanding that the "Maine Coon Cat" is a breed resulting from the crossing of them.

Maine Coons are rather large for a 'housecat', and they are not suited well to living indoors all the time.

No, maine coons are not bobcat hybrids, and are perfect housecats. A more laid back lovebug you can't imagine.