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rrlund

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We've GOT to get rid of some cats around here. Everybody around seems to think it's OK to drop unwanted one off here,but there must be 15 or more around here. It's costing me an arm and a leg to feed other people's cats.
The ones that have sense enough to go to the barn and hunt and act like barn cats don't bother me,but the ones that never get more than ten feet from the back door have got to go.
I'm not one to shoot them. They're nice cats. I don't know about trying to take them to the county shelter either. Seems like those folks ask too many questions and being in the cattle business the last thing I need is to be on animal control's radar.
What the dickens should I do with some of these things?
 
I think if you quit feeding the ones on the porch the problem would solve itself. After a month is up you could put a add in the local paper 5.00 for a proven mouser and get the second free.
 
Wouldn't work. One of the neighbor's cats has been here most of the winter. They came and got it three weeks ago,but it was back here last weekend. The wife told them it was back,they said they'd be up to get it this past week,but it's still here.
 
Wouldn't even need a live trap. Just feed'em and you can reach right down and pick'em up. The darned things aren't wild. I'm guessing the bulk of'em have been house cats at one time or another.
 
very true, worked for us.

It was nothing to walk out the back door and count a dozen, feeding time was usually about double that.

We are down to 2 at one barn and 3 at the other which is fine by me
 
When we milked cows we had trouble with people dumping cats. Most of them didn"t last long because we lived on a major highway and most cats aren"t to smart about crossing roads. The rest of them we got rid of them one way or another. They would get up in ground feed bins and s--t or p--s in it and cattle wouldn"t eat it. Now days there are so many coyotes that you don"t see very many cats around. My motto is the only good cat is a dead cat.
 
My parents are up to 20 cats on the porch, Mom is fed up with them, found out they can take two/week to the humane society for no charge. Dad is bucking her though, says they are nice cats.........it's up to them.
 
There's a farm out west of Sheridan that takes them in........ :lol:
You might try a "free cat(s)" ad on Craigslist.
Bad part is that it brings strangers to your house.
 
Must be you"re the new drop off point. Used to be me. More dogs than cats, however. Got to the point the animal control officer recognized my voice. Didn"t even need to identify myself when I called to pick up a stray dog. (They don"t come out for cats, gotta take in to their office.) Last one I took in there was a real wildcat - took it in in a live trap. Animal control wasn"t impressed!


Years ago, my dad dropped off a few dropoffs in a cemetary near Carson City. Never came back, became someone else"s problem. Might try that!
 
Planning to go to St Loius to the consignment sale? You might have a bunch of cats in your truck when you're ready to leave. Might even give you the cage if I can pack enough of'em in to it. lol
 
Quit feeding them near the door? I'd probably be selective about which ones I kept but that might not be correct to talk about here.
 
Ya,another disadvantage to being only a mile from town.That woman a mile north of town got arrested last fall for having so many critters around. What was it she had,50 some dogs and a dozen or so cats? I don't want to wait til they come here telling me I need to do something different.
 
This is a conversation we must have on a national level. It should have been started 10 - 20 years ago but no one dares to talk about it because it brings out the loonies like few other topics.
The world is awash in feral cats. They have truely become an invasive species and are destroying every other type of small critter in their path.
Do the world a small favor and take some of them out. Do it quietly, quickly and humanely. But just do it.
I have posted this here before.
 
I would not feed them PERIOD. If you can"t handel that, you like cats to much, and should not complain.

I don"t feed any cats on my yard,if they are on the step when I walk out they become CATapaulted.

That is one way to get them GONE for good.

sorry if you can"t do that your on your own and nobody should feel sorry for you.
 
How long have the numbers been large? Seems to go in cycles where you get down low and then the numbers go up. Wait it out and see - when the coyotes figure out there's good eatin' there your numbers will shrink.

We have 4 - two fixed toms and two spayed ladies. I hated to spend the money, but they roam a lot less and have all been here for years. There are a couple of strays I see every great once in a while, but they seem to come and go. The last one that showed up permanently was a mean old Tom that was too smart for a trap. He got into the Golden link_disallowed, darn it.
 
They've been in high numbers for quite a while now. A year or more anyway,probably a lot longer. We keep thinking nature will take care of it,but every time one comes up missing,another one or two show up.
For several years,we had a problem (if you can call it that) with cat distemper or something. We had one old cat that seemed immune to it and survived. Eventually she had a kitten that survived,but it was years before any more would. Then just all of a sudden it was like a cat bomb went off. I don't know if it was the mass exodus of people out of here when the local economy took a huge crap or what.
 
I have a friend that is an avid quail hunter and wildlife biologist for the Missouri Dept. of Conservation. He hates cats.

Either kill them if you are sure they are feral, or catch them and take them to a larger city and drop them off at the Chinese restaurants.


Gene
 
Well I would quit feeding the outside cats. They should thin out in a few months. If not return a few to the closes town/city. That is where they came from to start with.
 
Sort through them and euthanize the ones you don't want. Don't haul them somewhere and drop them off, that just creates a problem for someone else. You have heard the saying kicking the can down the road! Be a man and dispose of them yourself!
 
Ever hear the phrase...If ya can't lick 'em, join em?

There's a breed of cats called Ragdoll, developed from feral cats years ago in CA. My wife raises them,has about 10. She paid $1000 for the petigreed male and gets $350 EACH for the kittens, with a waiting list.
 
JD, don't want to hijack RRLund's thread, but Chris mentioned a change that may
explain what you're seeing with the passwords. Here's the post. YT Post
 
Right now I'm thinking some folks in the trailer park are going to enjoy having some nice cats,then the cat food is going in a trash can in the barn and fed sparingly to the ones I know will go there in the first place to hunt like a cat should.
 
I'm just geting to be too darned big of a sentimental softy in my old age. I've got no problem getting rid of them if I thought somebody would take care of'em,but I don't have the heart to kill them if they haven't done anything to me. All they've done I guess is cost me a fortune and crapped in the dirt around my truck in an open sided building with a dirt floor to the point I can't even walk around it to check the oil.

It even bothers me to load up a load of fat cattle and haul them to the sale barn knowing what's gonna happen to'em. Sad when that's what I do for a living and my sole source of income.

Just getting too soft in my old age for my own good.
 
Dang! I thought you'd had a change of heart and was gonna tell me to bring you half a dozen.
 
many years ago I worked for a guy in SE MI, had kittens I was looking to find homes for - he told me "feed em in the street". lol
 
A kind heart is a very endearing quality and I'm sure the Mrs. appreciates it.
Use a metal trash can in the barn, or an old freezer, etc.
Racoons will chew threw a plastic one.
Then you'd have another/different problem.
 
Most of the time we deal with it by feeding our 2 cats inside. At no time do we leave any fod outside. On one or two occasions I have had to take one for a ride. I know a hog farmer that will take 1 or 2 for rat control occasionally.
Quit feeding them and they will travel to greener pastures.
 
Got any big dairys nearby? Neighbor lives on top of a bare hill and claims he has a mouse problem. Keeps dragging in cats but doesn't give them any food or any type of shelter to get under, expects them to just stay out in the open. They started coming over here because there was haystacks and places to hide. I love cats but was getting too many, so the last one to show up got a free trip to a nearby dairy. They feed them and there is plenty of mice.
 
I have a friend that had a Tom Cat prowling around his 5 acre home stead looking to get a female cat and free food.
He put it in a burlap bag and drove it 6 miles down the road and let it out.

Never saw it again.

That is what I suggest you do.....Get some burlap sacks and start driving.
 
rrlund, Shut the barn up with the good cats you want to keep inside...Sound cruel But the best way is Either find a Neighbor with a Cat Killing Jack Russell Terrier and it it make 2 or 3 laps around the house. Or in Broad Day Light step out with a 22 and drop 3 or 4 cats, the Rest will leave!
Man up! and Do what you Know has to be Done!
Later,
John A
 
Had the same problem once, some gals that rented our farmhouse kept feeding the dammed things. They weren't even friendly, just wanted free chow. You couldn't even get close to them. I once counted 16 in the front yard.

When those gals moved out, I got a 2'x4' empty stock tank and sheet of plywood about the same size. I put the tank upside down on the plywood with a stick with a twine on it propping one end of the tank up. I then put a tray of cat food under the tank while I hid in the garage with the other end of the twine. When the cats were all gathered around the cat food, I pulled the prop out from under the tank. I got nine the first time. Put a strap around the whole scheiss and loaded it into the back of my pickup. I then drove to a deserted road about 10 miles away and turned them loose.

They immediately disappeared into a corn field. From than point, to get back to our place they would have had to cross a railroad track, a river, and Interstate 80. I got the rest of them with a second trip. Never saw any of them again.
 
Some counties have Humane Society that trap & spay feral cats. Over the years cats used to drift thru my sheds and take care of mice and rats. Now cats in the country (around here)are few and far between. If you want cats to hang around you have to feed them a little.
Led
 
The local big town is having a debate about feral cats. People keep stopping on the east side of town and putting food out. The people who live there complain and try turning them in but they can't charge them with anything. The city council says they want some around for rodent control, but feeding them brings them all together and they get sick and reproduce too quickly.

SSS comes t mind.
 
Can"t be that expensive feeding 15 cats dry food! Just feed them and maybe along the way some will learn to hunt. Or I"ll trade you, iv bought feed for 6 years for 3 horses without a dime from the owner? So does feeding 15 cats really hurt that much! Lol.
 
Reminds me of when I was about 15 many years ago and my neighbor farmer wanted to get rid of a whole bunch of barn cats. He lent me his single shot 22, some ammo and told me he'd give me a quarter for everyone I shot. After 75 cents worth I gave him back the rifle and ammo and told him I couldn't do any more. Big softy, I guess. LOL
I think it's illegal to do that today; you're supposed to pay big bucks to have a Vet do it I guess.
 
Allan's right. They're free to go so if they're hungry they will leave. If they're unable to hunt, well, I guess it's survival of the fittest. Last summer we had around 50 of them but we only feed them a limited amount, so now we're down to ONLY 35 or so. We'll feed them even less this summer when the roaming and hunting is better. Jim
 
Did you call a rural vet clinic..we would stop by the vet clinic to get our cats for the barn for next to nothing.
 
If I could catch it, I could loan you the very well fed huge owl that eats nearly every cat, mouse, and rabbit in my yard.
 
Shoot Shovel and Shut Up!!!

Feral cats absolutely decimated the pheasant population on our farm growing up. We thinned them out and kept just a few to handle the rodents in the barn. The Pheasants came back in a few years, the Partridge never did.

Here in TX they're hard the Quail/Dove population and any of the song birds such as Blue birds, Cardinals, Finches, Mocking birds etc. that feed on the ground. They are a very efficient predator. Seems the trash birds, Sparrows and Grackles etc are smart enough to stay away.

The final straw for me was drinking coffee & watching the Hummingbirds feed on the flowers one morning when suddenly the bushes exploded and a cat ate my Humming bird.

Feral cats are an introduced species no better than feral hogs to be exterminated on sight.

Now before anybody blows a gasket I do keep a few well fed, vet cared for, pet cats around that kill rats, mice and snakes.
 
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Do like my neighbor (un-named). He traps them, puts them into a cage, and has a door attached to a string to his sport window. He drives to town at night, waits until there isn"t an audiance, and pulls the door open. It"s split seconds of cats bailing out of the truck and he"s on his way home......
 
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