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  1. #1
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    Default Sick of other people's cats

    New neighbors with 3 cats and the damn things are all over my property at night. I have lost my sunbirds nest to one of them.

    I spoke to the neighbors when they first moved in. The attitude was their tiddles would never do anything like that and yet they declined to put a collar or a bib on the creatures.

    Pretty sure of the offender as he has a distinctive colour and I saw it on the roof the same day we discovered the remains on the sunbirds nest. We have the had these little birds with us for 25 years off and an on. I have not seen them now for months.

    The same cat was observed under my house stalking my cockatiel and it drives my (locked up) dogs crazy as night time.

    I had to move my caged cockatiel upstairs at night as I don't want him traumatized by a cat attack.

    Daytime is OK as he spends the day with us following us around the house

    Have already caught a couple of other stray cats -no id or collars - and they were delivered to the council pound. Apparently there are more residents than I who are sick of them. There are half a dozen local residents who trap and deliver cats to the pound. Only 67% find their way home according to the local paper.

    For now I'll just obey the law and just hope the cat has road accident in the night-not my fault.

    The law stinks as far as the discrimination between dog and cat regulation is concerned with cats permitted to roam all over where dogs must be enclosed behind a fence.

    Cats caught with out the collar bib and ID should be eunathised outright.Those owners who have them caught roaming id'd, bibbed and registered and should be fined as dog owners are. The numbers of wildlife killed by cats is unbelievable.

    I am currently trip wiring the top of my 1800 high fences so cats and their b*****d mates the possums cant use the fence as a spring board to my roof. The wire is strung taut at 100mm above the top of the fence.

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    Sounds like you need to buy a rifle.

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    People get upset by loud noises in suburban areas. Seems to attract those flashing blue light taxis.
    Of course this is only to be considered academic, but I would favor immersion controls as this is quiet.

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    I do a letter box drop advising neighbors in my vicinity thst i will be operating a cat trap periodicly for next 3 months between sunset and sunrise. Any cat caught without a collar and owners phone no will be taken to AWL for destruction. Those that have owners phone number will be required to pay for vet fees for injuries to our birds due to cat terrorising them.
    If necessary the trap will be operated during the day.

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    I live in the countryside and it annoys me to see cats on my property, in my opinion cats don't belong in the countryside as they are wildlife killing machines. They are hard to catch and kill... I think an air rifle would be the best bet. They are very good at not getting run over!

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    Air rifle eh..... and for something totally random those round silver cake decorations
    Gold, the colour of choice for the discerning person.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grahame Collins View Post
    There are half a dozen local residents who trap and deliver cats to the pound.
    I recently bought a fox trap to try and catch the local foxes that cause the neighbours' dogs to bark like crazy at night. My tally of catches so far is 0 foxes, 1 cat and two dogs (we don't have fences). The cat wasn't chipped and had no tag. It went straight to the pound. The dogs were tagged so I sent them home.

    I bought this company's fox trap. Made in Melbourne. Very sturdy, but not cheap. The cat trap is smaller so should be cheaper: https://www.wiretainers.com.au/index...m/121-cat-trap

    I use fresh chicken as bait and sardine oil as a lure. I agree that cats don't belong here. They are just killing machines.
    Chris

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    Our dogs are chickens when it comes to any altercation but they set off an infernal racket when any cat enters our back yard so they don't stay long. Unfortunately they have no access to the front yard so every now and then I see the remains of a bird, usually an indian dove which are an introduced species anyway.

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    Many years ago I owned a German Shepard, Irish Woolfhound cross, who as a pup got beaten up by a wild black cat he cornered. When he was fully grown (a very big dog) he used to jump the fence a night and go on cat hunts. Funny but annoying when I had to go out in the early hours of the morning and bring him home.Cats I do not like, but irresponsible cat owners I hate with a passion. I like the guy (in SA I think) who wears one on his head.
    Nev.

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    According to the stats I have read, cats kill a million wildlife animals a day. I have no reason to believe the figure is untrue.

    At that rate it is a wonder we have any wildlife at all.

    Grahame

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grahame Collins View Post
    According to the stats I have read, cats kill a million wildlife animals a day. I have no reason to believe the figure is untrue.

    At that rate it is a wonder we have any wildlife at all.

    Grahame
    If only the figure was that low. I read somewhere recently that its more likely to be 6 million a day.
    Being wild life carers we have seen plenty of dead and dying animals and birds that have been attacked by cats. Living in the suburbs they are not feral cats but ones where their owners don't give a rats about what their animals do at night.
    Unfortunately due to the natural bacteria that all cats have in their mouth's, a native animal only has to have one small puncture wound from a cats tooth and its dead if it doesn't get treated with antibiotics.
    peter

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    Many many moons ago, one night I got up to go to the loo and heard a crunching sound coming from the kitchen. When I went into the kitchen and turned the light on there was the neighbours cat that had torn its way through a flyscreen and was feasting on a half frozen chicken that had been put out to defrost. I stupidly grabbed the thing by the back of the neck but it twisted and sank its fans to the bone down on the back of my hand. I grabbed it with my other hand, stepped outside, and threw it over the neighbours fence. A second later I realised I was standing next to a deep fish pond and that I could have engineered an alternative fate.

    The wound on my hand didn't bleed much but by next morning my hand was throbbing and starting to puff up. later in the day I went to see a GP and he prescribed antibiotics but before they could take effect my hand looked like one of those blown up rubber gloves - man did it hurt and I felt really sick and I could not sleep for several nights seven after taking a heap of codeine painkillers. The pain eventually subsided but the wound stayed infected and I could not use that hand and it got worse so I had to have another course of different antibiotics. It took months for it to heal. I never saw that cat again but there were others (the neighbours had dozens of cats) and the fish pond, a small hessian bag and brick were gainfully employed several times. After we caught a couple the remainder were much harder to to catch.

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    I have the box style trap with a trap-door. Works well.
    Load in a 90 cent can of tuna, and it is full of cat within 24 hours.

    I do the right thing and take them to the pound. I like to give them the benefit of the doubt, but all of them I've caught so far have no collar, owner or microchip- and have one heck of an attitude.
    The pound staff believe that cats will reach breeding age in a under 6 months- so in the right conditions, they will breed to plague proportions. They take in approx 8 cats a day where I'm from.

    I'm told a bottle of welding gas and a garbage bag over the outside of the trap would also work to dispatch them, according to the prophesy. I'm close to a pound, and I don't like wasting good welding gas, although it'd only take a little bit to do the job

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    Quote Originally Posted by Commander_Keen View Post
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    I'm told a bottle of welding gas and a garbage bag over the outside of the trap would also work to dispatch them
    you have to dispose of it anyways...better to take it to pound so that you dont get into trouble with RSPCA

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    I have a cat here, but it is too lazy to go out killing animals. Just lies around doing nothing and is rather skinny.





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