Cats and more CATS

[majorcatfish]

Scat mat. From gardeners supply company

 

[Collector]

I have a Tom cat prowling around here at night and has attacked momma kitty in the garage a couple times. So old tomcat has a date with destiny as soon as I catch him in the live trap. I am not a person who enjoys killing animals or anything, but for me it just the practical thing to do here. @bobm, I think that you problem is only going to get worse once they start breeding if they aren’t already. I suggestion is do what ever you have to get rid of them. Maybe set up a shooting lane with a light,a backstop and some bait, then just wait them out. You could maybe get a couple before having to change your set up. Or maybe a dog that can patrol the yard at night. Good luck with whatever you decide to do.

 

[thistlebloom]

Scat mat. From gardeners supply company

That's ingenious. I may have to look into that...

 

[flowerbug]

My son's ex in-laws had the same problem. A neighbor that feed strays that stayed and had kittens until the populations was huge. It was finally solved with several neighbors doing the SSS and a county that was willing to pick up / take the ones live trapped.

our county will not transport animals so you have to take them in and pay a fee to drop off. they'll keep them a short time and then if nobody wants them they will kill them. that is probably what the fee covers.

 

[Nyboy]

Bob you don't have coyotes where you live ? At work there was a big problem with wild cats. Then the coyotes moved in can not remember last time i saw a cat

 

[ducks4you]

Bobcat decimated my little town's cat population. When we moved here in 1999 you sometimes had to stop your car to get a cat to move off of the street. Then our cat numbers plummetted. They found the skeleton of the bobcat, who had stupidly gotten it's head caught in a wooden pallet, along with numerous domestic cat skeletons. I recently heard that we had good bobcat hunting season, too.

 

[Nyboy]

I did not realize they ate cats. We had one here till it was secretly hunted and killed. I always felt bad about it because it did not seem to cause trouble. I guest all the gone cats where not just coyote food.

 

[bobm]

Bob you don't have coyotes where you live ? At work there was a big problem with wild cats. Then the coyotes moved in can not remember last time i saw a cat

On our ranch in Cal., we have at least a dozen coyotes on their community sing within 100 feet of our front door every night year round. The life span of a cat is about 2 weeks. We moved to a small town of 20,000 people in SW Washington about 5 years ago . It is a bedroom community near Vancouver, Wa. To date I have never seen much less heard a coyote here. So cats abound and song birds ( except starlings, crows and sea gulls ) are a rare sight.

 

[flowerbug]

i don't think i've ever seen a bobcat around here. foxes, coyotes are around but rarely seen (i've seen 2 coyotes in 20yrs), supposedly bear and wild pigs are around but they are rare too (so far) can't imagine what wild pigs would do to a garden... eek!

 

[seedcorn]

Small town of 20,000? That’s a city to me.....