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Feral Cats...
- Thread starter TransAm1991
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Nope,... Nothing says scare me like 12 ga shotgun. Besides id rather make a mess of a feral cat outside than have to deal with the stink of a freaking cat making a mess in my house... just my thoughts..
- Location
- Central Sask
I prefer my 17 hmr with carefully placed shots to the melon. no suffering. My 10/22 would work if i can get close enough to club them. Now that i bought a 597 vtr, i may try it with stingers on the next stray that comes around
TransAm1991
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- Location
- Windsor, Ontario
Another one showed up tonight.. An orange mangey one.. Great..
We have a female barn cat in heat, this should be interesting..
We have a female barn cat in heat, this should be interesting..
If you can shoot that and not hear complaints a .17hmr barking once in a blue moon likely won't raise eyebrows.
When I was a kid we started dispatching feral cats when they basically decimated the upland bird population and we began seeing litters in places you never would imagine (complete with things like distemper).
My favorite medicine was a .17 Remington - fast and effective.
Sad folks don't care enough about these animals to fully understand what the ramifications are in turning them out - far crueler that just having them put down IMHO.
They could also set him up in a downtown Toronto apartment, send him a check each month to cover his expenses, and pay for a keeper to feed, water, and clean up after him.
I'm sure that your heart is in the right place, but try to be realistic. Shelters have enough trouble placing all the cute, cuddly little kittens with which they are saddled. Older cats, especially feral or semi-wild ones, will be very difficult to adopt out, even if the shelter goes to the trouble of ensuring that they are socialized with humans.
I live in the country, and at the end of cottage season, when the touchie-feelie vegetarian crowd returns to the city after a relaxing summer spent #####ing about the sound of shooting from my property, they leave behind truckloads of cats. These poor critters get hit by cars, eaten by coyotes, suffer from frostbite, and generally live short, miserable lives.
There are two schools of thought as to the best method to deal with these animals. My neighbour, also with the best of intentions, live-traps them. At that point they go into small box-cages in her barn, where they live out the rest of their lives being fed the cheapest food that she can scrounge while urinating, defecating, sleeping and eating within about four square feet.
The cats that make it onto my property often gravitate to my backyard, due to the presence of a dozen or so birdfeeders. These cats receive a humane kill shot, usually from a .44mag or 9mm carbine, and then are returned to the food chain, at the bottom. They virtually always disappear within a day or two.
If you were a confused, recently abandoned animal, often in deplorable physical condition, which end would you choose for yourself?
John
TransAm1991
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- Location
- Windsor, Ontario
They will euthanize it anyway, that's pretty much what the lady on the phone said.
They rent traps that cost the same as a used .22...
12ga need't be messy, ### buck shot is over kill. A target load would probably do fine with in 30 yards. But a .22 rimfire is a staple in the country, now if there was just a way to stop city people from dropping unwanted pets in the country.
You will know when the cat population is over-extended . . . you won't hear any birds singing. From previous entries a 12 guage sounds right . . . causes them to decompose quicker. If a cat or dog is worth keeping then keep it at home.
Living outside of a city in my younger days it wasn't uncommon every couple of years to knock off 25 feral cats. Most were dispatched with a 12 gauge using #4 lead. There would be no birds around at all because the cats would climb up and eat the chicks, then wait and kill the parents. I've watched a barn cat kill hungarian partridge chicks just for sport. Its no longer with us. The cats killed the barnswallows, robins and chickadees by waiting in the grass when the birds would come for their gravel eating times.
Happy hunting
Happy hunting
We have 5 ferrel cats living outside at our house The wife has caught them all in live traps ,had them spade or neutered and now we are the only house in our neighbour hood of 10 acre parcels that never has a mouse or rattlesnake problem ( never even seen one) and all the other neighbours have
As a trapper, I had plenty of problems with feral cats.
My trapline was between three cities and a lot of nice people with good intention
Who is the cruel one?, The guy who lets it go in the country, or the trapper, truck driver, coyote or owl, or starvation... that eventually kills it.
After they make a mess of youre perfectly laid out coyote or fox set, they did get shot.
Cause its a lot of work trapping, and they really peed me off.
I know an old trapper that hs a pile of tanned feral cat hides. Found them in his snares, so he kept em. When i first saw them, i didn't realize wht thy were until i worked through the pile and found an orange tabby
diesel_weasel666
CGN Regular
I get rid of them the same way as coyotes, Mexican matched 7.62X39 SP's. Yes, a bit excessive but Goodbye Kitty !
This is a never ending problem. Buy a live trap. You can use it for other pests like racoons or skunks. It will last you a lifetime.
Catch and dispose of the cats. They are death to songbirds. Slip the cat and trap into a garbage bag so you don't get sprayed.
Catch and dispose of the cats. They are death to songbirds. Slip the cat and trap into a garbage bag so you don't get sprayed.
And here I thought you were going to give your famous speech about
"I like cats but I just can't eat the whole thing"
