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Feral cats
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of anything. I had to break out the pellet gun with some raptors.
my wife was walking in the back yard, two of those cats came out of the woods, and proceeded to stalk her, 2 down 1 to go.
and just let it stay wild and feral so as to remain a good mouser.[;)]
The no kill shelters are a feel-good non-solution to a real problem.
As He Dog stated, feral cats will upset the balance of nature by their predatory habits. And, they are dangerous to humans because of the broad range of infectious diseases that they carry. The most humane way to deal with them is termination with extreme prejudice.
Neal
If not a 22lr is an 8cent solution.
They are a Disease Vector as well, especially to Pregnant Women.
(I like cats, but not feral ones!)
Merc
I don't know how he got close enough to take it to his place. Feral cats here are impossible to get close to. But like above, will get a lot of mice and that's good.
and Yes, keep yourself and others away from a feral cat.
If you do not need any mouse and rat control give it a bullet.
AND, but
I have to use non-feral cats as rodent control to keep pack rats from eating on my equipment in a rural area where I live
AND I have a feral cat that hangs out at a remote cabin and keeps rats and mice under control. It's almost as wild as a Bobcat. You would not want it in your hands, it would try to eat you.
I put food out for it when I'm at the cabin and USUALLY have to use a game camera to see if it's still around.
Rats, squirrels and mice would eat the cabin and it's contents if not for the feral cat.
Kinda take the choice of Hanta Virus contamination or the feral cat.
The feral cat is less likely to hurt me.
Any other feral cats I give them a bullet. (and they should not be allowed to reside in same vicinity as your pets due to the diseases from ticks, fleas, rabies and other they can carry)
I know a couple of ladies that do the trap and fix feral cats and have always wondered if they were eccentric old millionaires or what?
Now I know![:D]
It creates a subsidized predator base. The cat hunts and it kills, yet it can't starve because it is being subsidized by a well intentioned soul. Consequently it will also reproduce enlarging the subsidized predator base. Bad for wildlife, bad for balance of an ecosystem. IMO just not a good thing, like cats or not it doesn't matter.
* r fixed!!!!!!!!!
all problems solved.
I love cats but if I can't make sure (feral cats) they don't reproduce, I make sure they can't reproduce.
Maybe baby ground hogs.
one turns into 8,into 64,into,,,,
Just like possums.
Its still crazy if you rub it the wrong way. After 4 years here it lets me pet it once in a while. Always trying to get out !
Have guests with kids,, kid wants to pet the kitty,, kitty scratches the kid,, rabies shot time and if a cute feral kitty isn't an ATTRACTIVE NUISANCE I don't know what is.
Maybe baby ground hogs.
Except those are hedge hogs not ground hogs.
Any cat more than 250 yards from "home" is a target AFAIC.
That worked for a short while, until they realized that I wasn't aiming at THEM.
Last year, the trespassing got outta hand, with 4-6 cats at a time crapping in my food plot, chewing the stems, and procreating at all hours of the night.
Some cat owners get all indignant when you toss Fifi's collar on to their driveway, after months of warnings about what happens to unwanted animals found in my garden.
One idiot actually tried to nail me for animal cruelty, called the Pound, dragged a dogcatcher to my door, and wanted me arrested for removing stray animals.
I just showed the officer wannabee the garbage bags of cat crap I'd pulled from my food plot, and he recommended that I trap & deliver any offenders to the Pound.
I mentioned that I had just saved city taxpayers a hundred bucks for each miscreant critter eliminated, and he said it was more like 500.
Got cat(s)? Keep 'em in YOUR YARD.
But instead of running off like a bolt of electric fur, it just keeled over. End of that particular problem, except for disposal of the evidence.
Lesson: three pumps is minimum.
But I am an old softie and I kept running in to stray cats at truck stops. So I started feeding them.
There is a Petro truck stop in western Louisiana on I 10, I spotted a mama cat with two babies there, living under a shed. They were hungry, they were skinny and starving.
I went inside and bought three cans of cat food and fed the cat family.
Dad was nowhere to be seen I guess the bum had abandoned the family.
Came back by there a week later, I had a 5 pound bag of dry cat food, dumped out about a pound for my cat buddies. I would go by there at least twice a week and feed the cats. I also was feeding cats at a couple other places. Of course if I saw a stray dog I would feed him as well.
Well, after about 5 months of charity work at the La. Petro Truck Stop, I noticed that one of my kittens was now a nice big healthy young adult cat, and she was pregnant! And mom was pregnant too. Plus, Dad cat had showed back up, I guess he wanted in on the Friskies hayride.
In a few weeks, there were not 3 strays, there were ten!
I had gotten the strays so healthy and fat that they could have litters. Now, ten mouths to feed. Same thing happened at one of the other terminals where I was feeding cats.
So, ironically, in my effort to help starving stray cats, I was creating the problem that I was trying to solve.
I was being a do-gooder, beneficial in the short term, but a disaster in the long term. Not to mention all the birds and chipmunks that these cats were, no doubt, killing.
So I gave up on the feral cat charity program. At that Petro they put a metal barrier around the bottom of the shed so cats couldn't get in, and they got rid of all the cats in one week, no telling what those Cajuns did to get rid of the cats, but they were gone. I should have checked the restaurant there, Cajun Kitty Etouffe?
My family of stray cats at the Petro of Egan Louisiana, summer 2012.
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Feral Cats a menace. I have no mercy on them.
I don't like cats. That being said there's a bigger issue with feeding feral cats.
It creates a subsidized predator base. The cat hunts and it kills, yet it can't starve because it is being subsidized by a well intentioned soul. Consequently it will also reproduce enlarging the subsidized predator base. Bad for wildlife, bad for balance of an ecosystem. IMO just not a good thing, like cats or not it doesn't matter.
What Allen posted is an example of this. Good intentions exacerbating the problem.