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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Harmon" data-source="post: 3002867" data-attributes="member: 24357">Couple of thoughts (hoping to help)First off I recall the thread and as I did then express my concerns that you and yours are taken care of while maintaining the welfare of the animals.  I know you are mad and you have every right to be, the animals that are not your responsibility are making your life difficult.Second- Pit Bulls aren’t dangerous by nature, they were bread to be killers yes, but there are more then a few that have not been.  Our family had an American Pit Bull that loved children (and I don’t mean with steak sauce, he loved to play with kids) for nearly fifteen years.  He was smart, a great guard dog, and never took a bite out of anyone.  Unlike a little terrier I recall from my youth, but that is another story, and a bit of a hijack to this thread.Third (I think) I am a cat lover- well not a cat lover, but I have two cats that are my children and I love them as such.  It would just kill me to find out that one of my neighbors had killed one of my kids, and I know that I might seek some form of vengeance if something like that happened.  I have a cat that stays pretty close and another that ventures out a distance, I fear for them both but rather think its better for them to know what’s beyond the windows and doors then to live a long boring life inside wondering.Next (I lost count) I do not believe that you would feel very good about killing the cats, you don’t seem like the type- though you might be happy for a time that they are dead, you might feel a bit to bad later and that would be bad for you.  Consider the trapping of said pests.I know you like us all are more then likes strapped for coin and purchasing live traps and such seems really stupid but consider buying one, trapping the cats, then taking a picture of them, then return the cat to the owner- “I catch this cat again, and he’s going to the pound to be put down.”Also consider taking all that cat crap- take pictures of it and the clean up, take some soil samples nearby, then take the cat crap to the owners house and deposit it on her porch.  Save the soil samples and the pictures for any future legal actions, inform the owner- “I just spend X number of hours cleaning up cat crap- your cat’s crap.  The next bag of this stuff that I clean up will be scattered about your yard and every bag there after.  I suggest that if you continue to let your cats be cats then you spend some time in my yard with some tools for clean up.”  Oh, and record all conversations, if you have a video camera that would be better- oh, and let her see it.I Googled live cat traps and came up with a few sites with traps for sale, expensive but consider your future feelings and not the ones that come from anger now.You are correct to feel this angry and I hope you see some logic in my thoughts and suggestions.  Please consider them before you do anything rash or out of anger.Take care, and peace.</blockquote>

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