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You cat lovers would be proud.

ForkliftkingForkliftking Member Posts: 4,907 ✭✭✭
edited March 2013 in General Discussion
I caught a wild cat in my live trap this morning at the house. He was raising 10 kinds of hell and hissing like crazy. The wife is sick in bed so I didn't want to wake her to go in and get a .22. I just put on some gloves and released him. He bolted across the field so fast that I think he caught the grass on fire. I figure after the trauma he went through being caged up, once he got out he will not return. Guess I'm getting soft in my older years.
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  • JnRockwallJnRockwall Member Posts: 16,350 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    No need to kill everything you come across
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  • CDMeadCDMead Member Posts: 2,141 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by JnRockwall
    No need to kill everything you come across


    +100
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  • Bubba Jr.Bubba Jr. Member Posts: 8,303 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The same thing happened to me several years ago. I was having a big problem with groundhogs digging holes in the bank of my creek, and the creek was eroding. I set my trap out, caught a few, then one day I found a black cat in there that was definitely the cat from hell. I released him and he took off at about 40 MPH. [:0]

    I like having the feral cats around here, as they eat the mice and moles. And we seem to have plenty of morons that think dumping their pets in the country is the proper procedure for unwanted animals. [V]
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  • bartobarto Member Posts: 4,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Nunn ain't gonna like you not fixing and adopting that cat.
    [}:)]barto[}:)]
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  • MudderChuckMudderChuck Member Posts: 4,105
    edited November -1
    Cats are nuts. I've been taking one of my Plummer Terriers for long walks early. She is turning into kind of a fatty and needs some extra exercise.

    Yesterday she got jumped by a Cat at her favorite bush. That Cat was waiting for her to stop and squat, hissed, swatted at her, then took off. Then it ambushed her again on the way home. Then again this morning on the same path. I've named him Kamikaze Cat, that dog has the disposition of a Wolverine and the experience to back it up. She goes down burrows after Fox. This isn't going to end well.
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  • ForkliftkingForkliftking Member Posts: 4,907 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by barto
    Nunn ain't gonna like you not fixing and adopting that cat.
    [}:)]barto[}:)]

    If I see cat prints on any of my vehicles, it will be fixed but I think the shear terror of it being caged up may keep it away.
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  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,083 ******
    edited November -1
    Care Bear sometimes likes to roost on my truck. I don't mind much. The truck is old, and so is the cat. I don't expect either of them to be here a lot longer.

    Once Care Bear is gone, we will get no more outside cats, at least not on purpose. Once Sophie is gone, we will get no more inside cats, at least not on purpose.
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  • MG1890MG1890 Member Posts: 4,460 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    1 order L19 General Tso chicken to go you want Peksi? 5 minute...
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  • pietro75pietro75 Member Posts: 7,048 ✭
    edited November -1
    A few years ago, I had a cat problem. Instead of using my solution, my wife and kids wanted to get a live trap.

    We got a live trap and caught them. We transferred them into one of my dog kennels and over time the kids tamed them. We listed them on CL free to good homes, Trista was forthright about the background of the cats. All the cats went to good homes.

    Ferrel barn cats 1
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  • Mr. PerfectMr. Perfect Member, Moderator Posts: 66,404 ******
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by pietro75
    A few years ago, I had a cat problem. Instead of using my solution, my wife and kids wanted to get a live trap.

    We got a live trap and caught them. We transferred them into one of my dog kennels and over time the kids tamed them. We listed them on CL free to good homes, Trista was forthright about the background of the cats. All the cats went to good homes.

    Ferrel barn cats 1
    dad 0
    I imagine that the score will be evened out sooner or later.[;)]
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    And fiery auto crashes
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    While sifting through my ashes
    Some will fall in love with life
    And drink it from a fountain
    That is pouring like an avalanche
    Coming down the mountain
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  • MudderChuckMudderChuck Member Posts: 4,105
    edited November -1
    Do you believe in ghosts? We had a Cat (named Casper) for a dozen years, he was a klutz that was always a foot short on any jump and fell out of trees regularly. He died of old age a year or so ago. He looked like a true European Wild Cat. He was the only one of his kind around here. A young male has moved into our back garden, with exactly the same markings. I watched him fall off the fence the other morning, we have named him Zombie. Casper was neutered, so he is unlikely to be an offspring.
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