Feral cats 🤬🤬🤬

PatriciaK said:
Damn it!!!

Went down to our garage this morning all set to take my La Free out for my first ride back on Whidbey, only to discover that while we were gone, some 🤬🤬🤬 feral cat had somehow gotten in, and peed - repeatedly - all over everything stored in my bike trailer! Cargo net, shopping bags, visibility vests, even my helmet!

So now, instead of riding, I'm trying to salvage what I can, and need to walk down to my LBS and buy a new helmet!

PM contacting animal control to arrange for trap...

I blame the crazy cat lady who lives over the hedge and feeds the strays!

Not a happy rider today...
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JES2020 said:
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Thanks, but I already got rid of everything that was affected - we had been gone for months and had no idea how long it had been sitting there like that.
 
Gionnirocket said:
For the most part I'm animal friendly but I will kill every feral cat that comes near my property. They've become a invasive parasite around here killing every bird, squirrel, rabbit and chipmunk they can while filling my shrubs with the smell of urine to the point that I can't open a window on a nice day.
Add I'm allergic to the sons of bitches and I have no love for these cold useless creatures.
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Animal friendly here as well, but we don't welcome rats, mice, and chipmunks around this household. WAY WAY too invasive. I hate it when I find evidence of them in our house. Rabbits are cute and harmless, but can destroy veggies and flower blossoms overnight, so I consider them barely tolerable. Squirrels? They can't stay out of the bird food. Some think that funny, I don't.... Deer are beautiful animals - but they aren't welcome either. If you haven't had the privilege of having them destroy your veggie plants and flower gardens over night, your opinion here doesn't count.....
 
It’s the asshats that let cats out that rile me. I get the frustration, but most cities consider killing cats a criminal act. There are kinder ways to end the feral madness. Squirrels are hysterical. We quit feeding birds when the vast majority are introduced s*it bird sparrows. It’s disheartening to see the native birds out competed. I too hate feral cats. I just have a different approach.
 
tomjasz said:
It’s the asshats that let cats out that rile me. I get the frustration, but most cities consider killing cats a criminal act. There are kinder ways to end the feral madness. Squirrels are hysterical. We quit feeding birds when the vast majority are introduced s*it bird sparrows. It’s disheartening to see the native birds out competed. I too hate feral cats. I just have a different approach.
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Again, are you 100 % sure those cats you left in a farm shed have not been let out?
 
Gionnirocket said:
For the most part I'm animal friendly but I will kill every feral cat that comes near my property. They've become a invasive parasite around here killing every bird, squirrel, rabbit and chipmunk they can while filling my shrubs with the smell of urine to the point that I can't open a window on a nice day.
Add I'm allergic to the sons of bitches and I have no love for these cold useless creatures.
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That's really unfair to female dogs
 
AHicks said:
Animal friendly here as well, but we don't welcome rats, mice, and chipmunks around this household. WAY WAY too invasive. I hate it when I find evidence of them in our house. Rabbits are cute and harmless, but can destroy veggies and flower blossoms overnight, so I consider them barely tolerable. Squirrels? They can't stay out of the bird food. Some think that funny, I don't.... Deer are beautiful animals - but they aren't welcome either. If you haven't had the privilege of having them destroy your veggie plants and flower gardens over night, your opinion here doesn't count.....
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The difference is that those are native to my area and we need to live with nature. I've dealt with my share of squirrels in the attic, flower beds overturned and such.
 
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People think raccoons are cute, but just try and live with a family of them when they move in and decide to aggressively defend what they now consider to be their territory. I found an electric airsoft machine gun to be a fun and effective deterrent for animals that decide they want to live on my property uninvited. And it doesn't kill them so you can stalk and hunt the same ones over and over until they decide to leave.

This comes after all manner of nonlethal, supposedly kinder/gentler persuasive chemical scent nonsense failed. Plus its fun to sneak up on them and start blasting. I was almost sorry when the pigeons decided they'd had enough and moved out. I got pretty good tracking them in flight. Feral cats, on the other hand, those are uncontrollable unless you get really serious. Have them at the office and they render some areas impassable thanks to the smell. I threatened the crazy cat ladies feeding them (thru the landlord) with stronger measures unless they moved all their damn feeding dishes to their side of the office building.
 
PDoz said:
Again, are you 100 % sure those cats you left in a farm shed have not been let out?
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Of course, they're out. Feral adults will never adapt to indoors. Kitty Cat 101.
They're busy with the barn mice mostly and at least they can't have more kittens. Living rough like they had as adults typically shortens their lives significantly. The bird kills suck. But I can't fix the world. I can only do my little bit.
 
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We're fixed and are good cats. We don't pee on stuff. Mostly we lounge around and scare the mice away.
 
chunk said:
We're fixed and are good cats. We don't pee on stuff. Mostly we lounge around and scare the mice away.
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...and kill birds. They pee and poop in my garden. They are indoor animals. Illegal to allow to run outdoors here.
 
I constructed and maintained Siegfried and Roy's Secret Garden and then maintained it for a decade. Yeah, I like kitties too.
 
This is a stretch, but I don't get to say it very often. I met Gunther Gabel-Williams. I got to load up the circus manure and put it on my garden after some composting. Elephants and lions, etc.

TT
 
AHicks said:
Apple cider vinegar works pretty good as well, and an hour later doesn't smell near as bad as some of that citrus stuff.
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Smells like cedar trees or pure ethylene Glycol, it fades, never bothered me that much, when you grew up around livestock and an outhouse you tend to ignore stench.
 
AHicks said:
Animal friendly here as well, but we don't welcome rats, mice, and chipmunks around this household. WAY WAY too invasive. I hate it when I find evidence of them in our house. Rabbits are cute and harmless, but can destroy veggies and flower blossoms overnight, so I consider them barely tolerable. Squirrels? They can't stay out of the bird food. Some think that funny, I don't.... Deer are beautiful animals - but they aren't welcome either. If you haven't had the privilege of having them destroy your veggie plants and flower gardens over night, your opinion here doesn't count.....
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Mice in the silverware is not welcome.
 
Gionnirocket said:
The difference is that those are native to my area and we need to live with nature. I've dealt with my share of squirrels in the attic, flower beds overturned and such.
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Blacksnakes are native as well, not much fun in the house in the middle of the night, had a hell of a time catching and relocating a red squirrel.If you try to have a garden the little beasties like what you like as well as those 4 legged destroyers called deer. Finally got the handle on the deer the two rescue cats keep the rodents and rabbits down to a manageable level, if I catch them torturing something though its not allowed.
 
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