There are two gray doves that spend their springs and summers at our place. They are calm and peaceful, hardly even walking away when you approach them. They don't even fly off when you're mowing the lawn, they just hop out of your path. We hadn't seen them this year at all until yesterday when Lovely Wife found one. It had been attacked by a cat. Its right wing was snapped at the pinion and it had wounds to its neck and belly. We wrapped it up to immobilize the broken wing and we put it in protective custody overnight.
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Lovely Wife called all over creation to find a place that would help it instead of euthanizing it. She brought it to the doc this morning. It's bad enough that these feral cats abuse my car. It's bad enough that they are a menace to my dogs. Now they are (literally) killing off the ambiance of our woodland home. No more mister nice guy. Lovely Wife checked and it's legal to trap and/or destroy feral cats here.
It's time to get biblical on those cats. I'm talking Old Testament.
Please just trap?
Please?
Pretty please?
A trap costs 25 dollars per trap/per week.I DO NOT HAVE THAT KIND OF MONEY!
I am sorry.I have to pitty to these nasty creatures (and I love cats,have two of my own IN THE HOUSE)that hang even at my bedroom windows and spread their fleas allover my house,rip my screens out (which I'll have topay for when we move out whohooo),shit in my kids play area and attack anything that comea near them.God only knows how many of them are infected with rabies because these fuckers even get it on with racoons here!And honest...we have a racoon here that behaves,the cats don't.Those cats have NO safe life.Death is safer for them then Hwy 120 nearby...don't you think?There is dead ones,hit by cars ALL over.
Following our counties law there is no leash law for cats and they are concidered game.Therefore...I PERSONALLY WILL treat them as such.Also I found out last friday (thanks UGA Vets!!!)that it only takes ONE millilieter of antifreeze to kill a cat.....
And those people who abandon their cats like this oughtta be SHOT in the head!The lady down the street who feeds them all,belongs in JAIL!
I'd love to trap them but Like Lovely Wife said, we can't afford the traps. Not that this would do anything except give them an extra day or so in any case. They are feral and dangerous and they'd be euthanized as soon as we turned them in to animal control.
Ilyka, I'm not sure if you've ever seen a pack of feral cats at work. These are completely different animals from the ones you (and we) have as pets. They may as well be a totally different species. There are a dozen or so in the group that's centered in our neighborhood and their agression goes up as the pack gets larger. They are not afraid of people. They're not even afraid of our dogs and we've got a beagle/terrier and a labrador.
Animal Control won't do anything about them except RENT us the traps. We're basically at wits' end over these beasts.
Yeah, traps, thats the ticket. Sub-quarter inch "traps". Or you could do like that schoolteacher did to the injured bunnies in front of her students weeks before Easter and pull out the old shovel "trap" (joking, ilyka), that was just wrong. Good luck Jim and LW.
How about a 12 gauge trap? It's humane and quick (unlike the shovel trap which usually requires a few whacks.) The only problem with the 12 gauge trap is that it can scare the neighbors…
I had a run in with a couple of the those feral cats once and barely got away with my life. I sure hope never to run across one of those again.