So, I need a Cat whacked....

[Rel]

There is one product I know of, though I forget the name that consists of a stake which emits a smell that cats find distasteful. My grandfather lived in a rural area where ferel cats were commonplace and he would put a stake in below each of his birdfeeders, worked like a charm.

It works even better if you put the stake through the actual cat.

 

[Finster]

'Cause I'm armed and I don't believe in Karma.

I luv this! Yoinked for sig. Rel, are you from Texas?

What ever you do, remember it's not the cat's fault. Wild animals do this to feed. If the cat did not have ready access to a steady food source I don't think there would be any corpses laying around. Antifreeze is a horrible way to kill an animal (it's slow and agonizing). Better to catch it and turn it over to the authorities.

But if you want to have some fun...I saw a show on the learning channel. A group of engineers built a scale replica of a trebuchet. It should be able, if aimed correctly, to hurl the cat into the air high enough that it would pass the magical height from which cats can fall without incuring severe injury. Just aim this at your neighbor's property and return her animal.

the preceding was written in jest, and in no way should be taken literally. Finster has never partaken in, nor does he condone, the hurling of small fury animals.

 

[Dark Jezter]

the preceding was written in jest, and in no way should be taken literally. Finster has never partaken in, nor does he condone, the hurling of small fury animals.

Small fury animals? Are those things like wolverines or wild boars?

 

[Rel]

'Cause I'm armed and I don't believe in Karma.

I luv this! Yoinked for sig. Rel, are you from Texas?

I am not a Texan, nor do I play one on TV. I'm from the great state of North Carolina.

In an amazing coincidence however, I am currently wearing the "Don't Mess With Texas" shirt I picked up while I was in Dallas.

And I'm a big Cowboys fan from since I was a kid.

 

[Bryon_Soulweaver]

The Misses has allergies.

A poisonis snake?

 

[Vraille Darkfang]

What ever you do, remember it's not the cat's fault. Wild animals do this to feed. If the cat did not have ready access to a steady food source I don't think there would be any corpses laying around.

You mean like the all the cat food she sets out for it? It doesn't kill for food. It has plenty of food. It kills to kill. (Some of the corpses are just left there).

Its a documented fact that many well-cared for house cats develop a pshcyo-killer mentality, slaughrtering animals all night, with no intetnion of ever eating them. (Usually indoor/outdoor cats that have a constent food source & don't NEED to hunt for food).

Scientists are not sure why they do it, or why not all cats do it, but they do. In fact, studies have shown some house cats kill THOUSANDS of small mammels/birds/reptiles a year. One case had a cat average over 100 kills a night. Never ate them, came to the food dish for food, just killed things in its spare time. It's these cats that are putting a tougher hit than their wild, feral brethern (depending on the size of the feral population). The feral cats only hunt to survive, so like most cats species, they make a kill, eat it, then save up energy until they need to hunt again. They also have shorter lives. Domestic cats live longer, tend to be in better health to begin with & hunt much more frequently (as they HAVE food, they just wan to kill things). Thus a domestic cat kills a lot more animals & kills them for a longer time than a wild cat. Unless an area has a big feral population, the domestic cats kill more birds than the feral ones do.


Not all cats are like this. Some domestic cats are content to just lay around and not turn into lil'serial killers.

 

[Tewligan]

A poisonis snake?

"Honey, we don't have to worry about that darn cat anymore!"
"Oh, good! What did you do?"
"I released a cobra into the back yard! Be careful when you go to the car."
"..."

 

[Vraille Darkfang]

"Honey, we don't have to worry about that darn cat anymore!"
"Oh, good! What did you do?"
"I released a cobra into the back yard! Be careful when you go to the car."
"..."

We did have an 8' Black Snake in our yard a few months ago (before killer-kitty showed up). But as we live in town & near a main road, that snake was gonna die, So I got him in a box & called Animal Control. The AC lady was deathly afraid of Snakes as it turned out. Ours was the biggest one she's ever seen inside the city limits.

Cobra's don't last in Missouri. But maybe a Nice Rattler, or a Water Mocassin (of course no water near us).

I've stopped putting out bird food for a while (until I do something about that cat). I hope it doesn't extend its range (well, the good part of me hopes). As the people across the street have rabbits. They just let them run around in their fenced yard. They are, nice freindly rabbits that act like dogs. I'm afraid of what would happen if the cat saw nice, fat rabbits.

I'm still trying to think of the best way of doing this without her getting ticked off at ME. The more the cat runs around, the more people will notice it. The more people will complain, the more targets she'll have to think as to 'who Snitched on her illegal kitty'.

 

[Finster]

Yeah, that's exactly what I mean. I did assume she left food out for it. Otherwise it probably wouldn't hang around.

I've seen cats do what you have described. They are pretty good at it too. We ended up placing a 3' (~1 meter) tall wire mesh fence around the bird feeders outside of pouncing distance. We didn't really care what it looked like (it was pretty barn-yard-esque), we just like to feed the birds as they migrate through. After hurling themselves against the fence for a couple weeks with no success, they just gave up and went away. This may not work in your case, our landscaping (or lack thereof) allowed for it.

 

[Vraille Darkfang]

Just a quick update.

I went to Petco & picked up some stuff that you can put in your yard that supposed to keep cats away. I'll see how it works. It's a powder that comes in a paper milk carton. It was the only thing they had that didn't need to be applied every 24-48 hours.

Still, at 13 bucks a carton (it should last a few months, at least during winter; it needs to be re-applied after it rains), this is an expensive option I shouldn't have to resort too. Plus, I have no idea what the product will do to our grass/flowers over time.

As the cat is Black & we've re-arranged our deck furniture to take away its prime hiding spot, I figure the birds'll be OK for the winter. Kinda hard for him to sneak up over a blanket of snow. I'm going to take pictures of any kitty tracks in the snow, as well as any photos I can get of that cat in our yard/stalking the birds/ pooing in the yard. That way, if I do have to resort to Animal Control, I'll have photo proof its doing what I'm saying its doing (eliminating any he said/she said with AC).

Come spring, I'll have to do something one way or the other. The cat'll eventually get smashed flat living next to our busy road, but who knows how long that will take. She lives in an old-rental place, it's got orginal single-pane windows & poor insulation, She might be forced out by utility bills this winter (she has yet to begin to winterize the place). Still this gives me some time to come up with other options. I don't really want the cat dead & I don't want to tick off this lady, but, at present if she won't try to deal with HER cat, I'll HAVE too.