Feral cats 🤬🤬🤬

PatriciaK

PatriciaK

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Pacific Northwest and Piedmont Triad
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...
 
Happens here too! Winter of 2019 was brutal here and I found feral kittens no more than a few weeks old and mom. We built a heated shelter and water dish and fed them high meat proteins through the winter. In late winter and early spring a local vet neuters, spays and gives all the needed shots for $15 a cat using a closed factory on Saturdays. We got mom and the kittens done up and found good homes.

I HATE the dipwads that let ANY cat outside. It's mean. 4000 years of breeding and they don't need to be out and about shittting in my garden,

I visited the local inhumane society and their inhuman cat cages. They scream about declawing but those are ALWAYS the first cats rescued. We think we do a better job of finding homes.

I feel your pain!

BTW A black-light will fluoresce any pee or puke spots.
 
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tomjasz said:
Happens here too! Winter of 2019 was brutal here and I found feral kittens no more than a few weeks old and mom. We built a heated shelter and water dish and fed them high meat proteins through the winter. In late winter and early spring a local vet neuters, spays and gives all the needed shots for $15 a cat using a closed factory on Saturdays. We got mom and the kittens done up and found good homes.

I HATE the dipwads that let ANY cat outside. It's mean. 4000 years of breeding and they don't need to be out and about shittting in my garden,

I visited the local inhumane society and their inhuman cat cages. They scream about declawing but those are ALWAYS the first cats rescued. We think we do a better job of finding homes.

I feel you pain!

BTW A black-light will fluoresce any pee or puke spots.
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Thanks for the black light tip!

Have washed everything twice, but still some odor. Add new gloves to shopping list...
 
We have feral cats like crazy in my area. We (wife and I) tried the trap, fix, release but the our city makes it such a hassle. And now it's kittens popping up to carry on the marking trend. I feel your pain on the garage stuff getting peed on. Happened to me recently. I got my Honda generator peed on. Of course it was the control side. Yuck!
 
I couldn't use any of the stuff that got peed on no matter how much I washed them.

Except the trailer.
 
Apple cider vinegar works pretty good as well, and an hour later doesn't smell near as bad as some of that citrus stuff.
 
New helmet, gloves, and reflective vest arriving Saturday from evil Amazon - until then, no riding for me 😟.

Hopefully, it will rain for the next 2 days, so I don't feel like I'm missing anything 🤣🤣🤣!
 
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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Some citrus cleaners do a better job. Just the experience we’ve had with 4 indoor cats (21 over 49 years of being married) trapping feral cats and paying to “fix” and relocate on local farms wanting a mouser. Some really tough critters living rough through Minnesnowta winters. It’s people that piss me off, not their victims. I’d be crazy though with Patricias event.

we spent more on airfare for our prize Siamese than my parents spent in a lifetime. An unfair comparison since they only came to visit Lost Wages twice. Kuching flew to the USVI, New York, Montana, Minnesota and Northern Wisconsin.

our always indoor cats are terrified out doors. Both have escaped made it ten feet and freaked. I never had to chase them.

After posting this I remembered the 100X beaver felt hat clawed and peed on in a stable in Missoula. I was really bummed. It was crazy expensive and I had spent my saving on a saddle.
 
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That’s really fucked up!
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Are you 100% certain that all those good homes you found keep the cats inside?

tomjasz said:
trapping feral cats and paying to “fix” and relocate on local farms wanting a mouser. Some really tough critters living rough through Minnesnowta winters. It’s people that piss me off, not their victims. I’d be crazy though with Patricias event.
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I guess not!

Am I reading this correctly - you catch feral cats, then release them into a farm shed ? I don't know where to start. How many native animals have been tortured / killed because of you keeping those killers alive?
 
PDoz said:
Am I reading this correctly - you catch feral cats, then release them into a farm shed ? I don't know where to start. How many native animals have been tortured / killed because of you keeping those killers alive?
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Is that the polite term for rats and mice? Have you ever spent any time around a farm?

Look into the feral cat catch/neuter/release program. It's actually one of the more humane ways of dealing with a feral cat problem.
 
tomjasz said:
Some citrus cleaners do a better job. Just the experience we’ve had with 4 indoor cats (21 over 49 years of being married) trapping feral cats and paying to “fix” and relocate on local farms wanting a mouser. Some really tough critters living rough through Minnesnowta winters. It’s people that piss me off, not their victims. I’d be crazy though with Patricias event.

we spent more on airfare for our prize Siamese than my parents spent in a lifetime. An unfair comparison since they only came to visit Lost Wages twice. Kuching flew to the USVI, New York, Montana, Minnesota and Northern Wisconsin.

our always indoor cats are terrified out doors. Both have escaped made it ten feet and freaked. I never had to chase them.

After posting this I remembered the 100X beaver felt hat clawed and peed on in a stable in Missoula. I was really bummed. It was crazy expensive and I had spent my saving on a saddle.
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I've had cats on and off most of my life. They were always indoor/outdoor cats until I started getting into the fancier breeds later on. Only one unfortunate outside "incident" in my memory. We'd raised a couple of pretty nice white cats, twins, from the time they would fit in our hands. One morning just one of them returned. Later a neighbor told me a pack of dogs (I have NEVER seen dogs running loose in our area previously) chased the twins into the lake, and one didn't make it. Those were my last "outdoor" cats. It was only after those that I fell in love with the Himalayan breed. A combination of Angora and Siamese, and very definitely an indoor cat. We went the "declaw" route just one time. It was expensive, but the cat suffered no long term effect that I could see. Just didn't see the need from then on.

Haven't had a cat for some time now, just a couple of dogs....
 
I haven't checked out my trailer since my PM "cleaned it up", but I'll take a sniff today. It's got a lot of plastic and nylon on it, and I'm really hoping I don't have to shell out for another one!
 
PatriciaK said:
I haven't checked out my trailer since my PM "cleaned it up", but I'll take a sniff today. It's got a lot of plastic and nylon on it, and I'm really hoping I don't have to shell out for another one!
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We senior staffed a girls' residential camp for 6-7 years. On one of our camping trips to Mackinaw Island, two skunks got in from two sides of the tarped trailer. They got into a huge fight. I never heard anything as crazy as two pissed-off skunks. We threw everything on the trailer away and ate in restaurants the rest of the trip. I guess it can always be worse...
 
I will say that evil Amazon is really on the ball with my new gear- delivering everything tomorrow instead of Saturday. Now I'm hoping it WON'T rain 🤞🤞🤞!
 
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