I trap cats. When I feel that a cat/cats routinely appear on my property, I put out a trap with a can of tuna in it. when I've caught the cat, I call the SPCA who comes to my house and picks it up. If the cat is not claimed in two weeks, the SPCA will humanely kill it. A few years ago, I trapped four cats this way. ...and recently more cats have been showing up. It's time, once again.
After the first seven pages I haven't seen anyone point out that a dog, if it's large enough, can kill you. A small dog can kill a child. That ain't happening with cats, which is why there are leash laws for dogs and not for cats. Not the house-cat-sized cats, anyway. Unless there's some crazy breed of ninja cats or something. Must be the ninja cats crapping in people's yards, too. Maybe it's been mentioned I don't know.
There is nothing wrong with this at all, it is YOUR property.....if the cat is someone else's PROPERTY they should not let it on your land. DD
So, if the SPCA kills someone's pet, and they find out after the fact, what is your reply? "Sorry, it was on my property."? If so, you're a terrible human being.
What do you mean? What kind of owner doesn't call the SPCA to see if their missing animal is there? If they didn't worry about it enough to check in two weeks, then they have no say, do they? And a responsible owner keeps control of their pets. I see nothing wrong with a 2 week window....at all.. DD
Yep...if an owner doesn't bother to control their pets, and then doesn't even bother to call the pound to see if their missing pet is there, well.....they really have no right to complain.... DD
It shouldn't even have to be dealt with in the first place. A domesticated house cat roaming on your property does not affect you in any meaningful way, yet you trap it, take it to the SPCA under threat of euthanization if the owner is a little slow in realizing that they should call the SPCA looking for it? You're really causing a lot of pain because you think: "OMG AN ANIMAL I DO NOT OWN IS ON MY PROPERTY, HOW INCONSIDERATE, IT MUST BE CAPTURED AND REMOVED". Get over it. Get the stick out of your butt. The cat is harmless.
The terrible human being is the person who allows their pets to roam around neighborhoods expsing the cat to a plethora of dangers - including my trap. It's your cat. You, and you alone are responsible for its safety. I'm not.
You'd think all the wild packs of dogs roaming around Circle C would help DaDakota with his cat problem.
Ya know what really was the last straw for me? One day I went out to my grill and fired it up to cook some chicken for dinner. It turns out that a cat had, once again, been on my property and sprayed on my grill. Now my backyard smelled like baked cat spray and I couldn't cook my marinated chicken. After tolerating cat spray, cats wailing in the night, cats fighting, cat puke, cat hairballs, and cat crap on my yard, house, driveway and cars, this was where I just couldn't take any more. Keep your cat off my property.
I sent my cats to do that. I am glad that they succeeded. I can not stand the smoke of BBQ. It makes me sick. I don't know why my neighbors think they have the right to make me smell their putrid smoke. The EPA should come down hard on backyard grilling.
Well, actually, we do have the right to make BBQ smoke outdoors. If the law changes and you have the ability to exercise your rights against my BBQ smoke, you can and should do so. But that time isn't today. Today, I get to exercise my rights to trap cats on my property and turn them over to the SPCA. Keep your cat off my property.
Isn't it funny how much leaps of logic go into these arguments. All anyone has to do is the responsible thing and keep their pet on their own property. I mean how hard is that? DD
