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Larry E

03-04-2002 18:55:59

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This is not tractor related,but here goes .Does anyone know how to keep cats off the car hood? Could shoot them ,but then I would get shot

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Virginia

09-03-2005 09:22:59

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Re: cats on car hood in reply to Larry E, 03-04-2002 18:55:59

How do I keep a cat from scratching my bumper?

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Lee Bailey

05-31-2006 11:50:34

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Re: cats on car hood in reply to Virginia, 09-03-2005 09:22:59

take a clear plastic bottle fill half full of water place on hood dont ask I dont know but it has worked 8 out of 10 times for me

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Cat Hater

03-06-2002 06:13:13

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Re: cats on car hood in reply to Larry E, 03-04-2002 18:55:59

The solution at my place is .22 rifle. If you can't shoot them, then put a contract out on them while you've got the "cat-lovers" away with you. Watch the GOD FATHER for tips. CAT-HATER

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Morningfeather

06-29-2006 06:35:00

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Re: Re: cats on car hood in reply to Cat Hater, 03-06-2002 06:13:13

A live trap baited with sardines always worked for me. (And it's such a scenic drive to the animal shelter.....)

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Morris

03-06-2002 16:59:47

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Re: Re: cats on car hood in reply to Cat Hater, 03-06-2002 06:13:13

I hope, mice $hit in your cereal box, rats bring you the plague, rodents ruin your grain storage and moles tear up your lawn.

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Marningfeather

06-29-2006 06:37:58

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Re: Re: Re: cats on car hood in reply to Morris, 03-06-2002 16:59:47

That's what Rat Terriers are for. Great dogs with a sweet personality.

The only plague I see around here are CAT OWNERS who won't keep their beasts under control.

Any animal not on a leash or restrained may be considered game. The season is open.....

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CAT HATER

03-06-2002 21:50:57

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Re: Re: Re: cats on car hood in reply to Morris, 03-06-2002 16:59:47

Morris: I don't eat cereal, and my water is from a 500 foot deepwell, and "JACK" the Jack Russell keeps the rats at bay outside. I don't have a cat around, so we get to enjoy Bob White Quail raising in our flower beds, along with Cottontails, and Squirrels. Cats are not natural to the US, and I have shot them with baby rabbits,baby Squirrels, and baby Quail along with songbirds in their mouths. They make a little wooden thing with a spring and wire for the rats. This little pet doesn't get on the hood of your car unless you put it there! I ran over a Cat on the way home.

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cathater2

07-13-2005 12:04:35

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Re: Re: Re: Re: cats on car hood in reply to CAT HATER, 03-06-2002 21:50:57

Cat Hater,

If you're male, I want to marry you. We could move to Wisconsin or Minnesota and go cat hunting - it's legal there, you know!

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Morningfeather

06-29-2006 06:39:23

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Re: Re: Re: Re: cats on car hood in reply to cathater2, 07-13-2005 12:04:35

My kind of gal.....

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Unknown

11-17-2004 13:16:22

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Re: Re: Re: Re: cats on car hood in reply to CAT HATER, 03-06-2002 21:50:57

Dude I just give them Anti-Freeze

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buckeye al

03-05-2002 16:38:31

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Re: cats on car hood in reply to Larry E, 03-04-2002 18:55:59

I used a variation of Clooney's method. I bought a dozen mouse traps. I then bent the bail on them so that they wouldn't close tightly but instead stopped about 3/4 to an inch from fully closed. Set them wherever I didn't want the cats to be. My wife went to visit her Mom for a week & while she was gone I put out the traps. They were in flower boxes, flower gardens, on window sills and the steel cellar doors outside. While I was at it there was one cat that had the privelege of staying in the house but it liked to get on top of the fridge. Well I put two up there too!

When my wife came home she went to the fridge for something. The cat jupmed up on the fridge. Snap. The cat jumped off the fridge but used the Commander In Chief's head & shoulders as a spring board. She knew what happened. My REALLY big mistake was setting two traps up there! She's only 5' 2" & for smoe reason she blindly reached up there to get the trap but hit the second one. Boy was I in the dog house!

Cat discipline is now the WIFE's job at our house!

I did however break them of jumping up on the screens with a 2 1/2 gallon air pressurized fire extinguisher! Even if they see me comming I can still soak them through the screen before they hit the ground!

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Alan Farley

03-06-2002 08:03:39

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Re: Re: cats on car hood in reply to buckeye al, 03-05-2002 16:38:31

I want to know how too keep cats out of under my hood. I went to a auction 2 weeks ago, stopped at a gas station 20 miles from home and heard a meow,meow, popped the hood and there was my cousin's full grown cat! He was safe and sound behind the air cleaner of my 85' Dodge pickup, a little greasy. I was over at my cousins the night before, he climbed up there while I wasn't looking, then spent the night at my house, next to a warm engine! The cat has a dog-like personality. That cat's dang lucky to be alive.

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03-05-2002 15:00:25

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Re: cats on car hood in reply to Larry E, 03-04-2002 18:55:59

Set an opened box of moth balls on the hood of your car. My wife's cats do not care for the hood of my car when the mothballs are present.

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mike

03-05-2002 14:31:56

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Re: cats on car hood in reply to Larry E, 03-04-2002 18:55:59

spread a towel on the hood then cover the towel with tin foil atach a electric fencer to the tin foil as positive and the car hood as neg. the responce is quite dramatic. dosent take many repeat applications.

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David H

03-05-2002 15:50:20

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Re: Re: cats on car hood in reply to mike , 03-05-2002 14:31:56

Sure wouldn't want to use a high powered fencer or a weed chopper fencer. If it arced through the towl it would pit the paint and maybe trash the cars radio and computer.

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RLArmstrong

03-05-2002 14:38:09

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Re: Re: cats on car hood in reply to mike , 03-05-2002 14:31:56

Mike, I Like it!!!

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Try a CAThode !

03-05-2002 14:44:03

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Re: Re: Re: cats on car hood in reply to RLArmstrong, 03-05-2002 14:38:09

Hey, I've been using electrolysis for everything else !

Frank-in-Tallahassee (on the road in San Francisco)

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RayP(MI)

03-05-2002 06:23:20

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Re: cats on car hood in reply to Larry E, 03-04-2002 18:55:59

Well, if you can catch 'em, a shot of water will get their attention. Set one of those cheapie sprayer type sprinklers on the car roof, and turn on the hose - from a distance, they'll never expect it coming!

(Watch out for that 12guage advice, my uncle shot a skunk near the garage door, and it was never the same afterward. One awful ragged hole! Try to explain that to your insurance guy! - An aquaintance of mine down at the factory came out and found a cat on his car. Whipped a rock at it - right thru his windshield! Insurance company wouldn't accept his "Some damn fool whipped a rock thru it!" explanation!!!!)

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Tyler B

03-05-2002 05:56:00

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Re: cats on car hood in reply to Larry E, 03-04-2002 18:55:59

I have an idea but it would only work if you had kittens from the start...sorta like training. If any of ya'll are framiliar with psychology, you may understand what I'm trying to say. There is this thing called conditioned response. Basically you take a kitten and place it in the environment where you do not want it to be. You allow it to become attached to the environment or object, then out of the blue when the kitten is unaware you scare it with say a loud noise. It's natural reaction response will be to run away. Then say a day later bring the cat back to the same spot and repeat the noise to scare it again. Continue the procedure until the kitten will run away without you having to make the noise. This is called conditioned response. If any of you have had a psychology class you should understand what I mean. I know its not as effective with adolescent to adult animals, however with enough patientce and effort you can gain the results that you want. Good Luck

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John Henry

03-05-2002 05:34:49

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Re: cats on car hood in reply to Larry E, 03-04-2002 18:55:59

Sounds familiar. My cousins four year old holstein bull jumped fence back in 1981. Fell in love with my brand spanking new 81 GMC pickup. Jumped it and humped it. Was not a pleasant sight. Crushed the hood and fender before we could discourage him. Dont think a mousetrap would have helped unless..... Had a fun time explaining the reason for the claim to my insurance company but they did pay. Did rename the bull Mr Goodwrench for in-warranty servicing.

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RLArmstrong

03-05-2002 05:23:18

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Re: cats on car hood in reply to Larry E, 03-04-2002 18:55:59

Well I'm to a cat lover, but I don't hate them they have there place. Cats always seem to get into places they don't belong. Like my tractor seats, I'm sick of cat prints on the floor boards & seats {along with the hoods}. I have used those sticky mouse traps, you know the ones like fly paper. There is still a cat around the neighborhood that doesn't have much hair on its rear quarters. It is kinda funny to see them run to get away from it.RLA

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Rod

03-05-2002 05:15:17

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Re: cats on car hood in reply to Larry E, 03-04-2002 18:55:59

Larry, I haven't had the "cats on a car hood problem", but I have had them in my garbage can. I poured some household ammonia on an old cloth and put it in the top of my garbage can and they don't bother it. This might help.

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Greg

03-05-2002 04:59:30

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Re: cats on car hood in reply to Larry E, 03-04-2002 18:55:59

DOG=woof

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JD G GUY

03-04-2002 20:41:04

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Re: cats on car hood in reply to Larry E, 03-04-2002 18:55:59

well i wouldnt shoot them unless you really hate them or you have so many that its a problem, personally id shootem but then you gotta dispose of them, if your car is new enough and has the keyless entry like my parents vehicles have, you could just push the panic button if you have it, and that should scare them thats what my mom does before she starts her car when its cold out just to keep from having one kak under the hood or in the fan or something just some suggestions.

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buckeye al

03-05-2002 16:55:27

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Re: Re: cats on car hood in reply to JD G GUY, 03-04-2002 20:41:04

When I saw you mention having to dispose of them I recalled this true story. I work with a guy who will shoot any cat he can draw a bead on & he seldom misses. One day while on the phone he told his brother (a large animal veterinarian) that he had just shot two cats & needed to get them buried before dark. The Vet said he was working too hard. Suggested instead that he simply toss them out of his truck onto the road as he drove along. Who's going to look for a bullet hole in a cat taking the big nap on the road? To this day that's what he does.

Cold but true!

As for me, I'm a big wus & can only shoot them if they're sick & going to die anyway.

Later.

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Craig

03-04-2002 20:25:33

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Re: cats on car hood in reply to Larry E, 03-04-2002 18:55:59

I've wondered the same thing. I have not tried it yet but will someday. Years ago when I waxed a car I once had it was very slick after waxing. I would set the can of was on the gently sloped hood and it would slide right off. My silly idea was if the car hood was so slick then maybe the cats would not be able to stand up on it????? ?

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Hunter

03-04-2002 20:23:24

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Re: cats on car hood in reply to Larry E, 03-04-2002 18:55:59

try the shot gun. 12 ga. should finish them off.
never agan.

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Frank

03-06-2002 17:40:46

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Re: Re: cats on car hood in reply to Hunter, 03-04-2002 20:23:24

Next post: How to fill dents and holes caused by buckshot.

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Clooney

03-04-2002 19:12:53

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Re: cats on car hood in reply to Larry E, 03-04-2002 18:55:59

Larry, if you are looking for a permanent fix the shooting thing might be the only way.
~We have 2 cats that used to jump on the window sills & my wife read that putting tin foil on the sills would keep the cats off, as they apparently don't like to walk on tin foil, well it worked as long as the foil was left on the sills, as soon as we would take it off they would just jump back up. So I put a napkin on each sill & then put a set mouse trap on the napkin (up side down) & when the cats would jump up there the trap would snap & scare the cats to the next county. After a couple of snaps one cat wouldn't go near the sill, but the other would jump up to look where the trap was set then jump up next to it & push it off with his paw, so I set 3 traps on the sill & that did the trick.
~The sills have been cat free for quite some time now, but every once in a while I have to get the traps out.
~I don't know how you could use this on the car hood without hurting the paint but maybe a thick newspaper first or blanket. ~Good luck as cats are hard to convince to not do something they are intent on doing.

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G-MAN

03-04-2002 20:44:25

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Re: Re: cats on car hood in reply to Clooney, 03-04-2002 19:12:53

Clooney, I have got to admit that you are a genius. That is an excellent idea and I can picture the cats flying as I speak. You are a true engineer and you have my respect forever. Thanks, G-MAN.

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george saltzman

02-09-2005 09:08:03

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Re: Re: Re: cats on car hood in reply to G-MAN, 03-04-2002 20:44:25

A cat seems to like to walk all over my car hood. I find paw prints every morning. What can I use on the hood to discourage the cat without loosing my temper

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ed b

03-04-2002 19:05:21

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Re: cats on car hood in reply to Larry E, 03-04-2002 18:55:59

try mouse traps

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