The Neighbors cat ate my Parrot. His name was Fido, he was an 8yo Green cheek Conure. He used to talk and sing songs, I would imagine that he screamed when they grabbed him!! !!! !!!!

Anybody try frozen paintballs on a cat?

Carpetman, you now have a new convert. I wont be playing catch and release though

Skip the frozen paint balls. I like 3" turkey loads on cats inside of 30yds. Although if your in town a 220 conibear mounted in front of a fishy five gallon bucket does the trick to. Good luck on the payback.

Neighbors and cats! When I bought my home, I was overrun with cats. I have beagles and like to run my hounds in the evenings some, but had no rabbits. The cats were rough on em. I bought a 22 hornet to use as a cat gun and it works great. My bigger guns made to much noise. I would pop a cat and put him in the back of the truck and drop it out on the hard road on the way to work the next morning. The neighbors were all talking about how many of their cats had been run over! Been at it for 8 years now, about have them taken care of.
An old beagler friend who lives in town told me that he catches them in a wire box trap at night, sets them at the back of his truck, puts a blanket over the exhaust and trap and starts it up. He gets rid of the cats and the neighbors still love him! Cats! I don't care for em.
W.B.

Had friend that tried the exhaust into a tarp trick---didn't work guess too low emission. Rope on trap and toss into river etc works. I like that shoot em and leave on street --that would hide evidence well.

Not to turn this forum into the "small game" forum but i had the same problem when i bought my house. Feral cats EVERYWHERE!! It didnt last long. I had cleaned most of em out in the first year. The next year we actually had some rabbits in town! I have been here for about 13 years now and have had to clean em out severals times now. Wish people would leave em at the "pound" instead of draggin em home and then turning em loose....

Carpetman
My Dad does the rope on the trap in the creek. It works good for him. I don't have a deep enough hole behind the house. The drop em on the road works great. I have been reading your cat post for some time so I'll tell you one I think you will find amusing.
I had one in my truck and was leaving for work one morning, it was just gettig light. I had to find a new drop place as new neighbors had moved in the house at the old drop. The house had been empty. The road is a single lane paved road and I stopped in kinda of a bad spot close to a curve. Just as I was going to do the drop I heard a car coming fast. I gave Morris a toss and it went under my truck. I jumped in and dumped the clutch. The cat was stiff and I caught it with my rear tire. I saw it in my mirror still air born when a lady came around the turn and she ran over it with front and back tires. She stopped and started crying and going on. Said there wasn't a thing she could do, it had jumped right out in front of her. I agreed with her and went to work. I laughed all day!!
W.B.

Lar45

You may want to consider going to court. When I caught one of the two dogs that tore up one of my cats ($245 for the vet) I called the Animal Control Unit. After hours, on Saturday. After 6 calls to the Sherrif and police department (and my offer to take a one-way hunting trip with my 10ga - (CAST SLUGS)) they came and picked up the dog.

When the owner picked up the dog he had to talk to the judge first. It cost him my vet bill, the vet bill ($500+) of the other cat the dog killed, a fine and was slapped with the restrictions of keeping the dog fenced in (even though he rented only a room in a house) had to keep 10,000 in liability insurance, walk the dog leashed and muzzeled!

That was MUCH more satisfying than going hunting could have been. Consider your options.

I would only need to dig one hole to bury them both!

I called animal control and said if the neighbors dog got into my yard and killed and ate my cat, would there be any recourse. They said H*LL yes and were already to come storming over. I then said it wasn't that way, but that they neighbors cat killed and ate my parrot. They said that I could file an aggressive pet complaint, but that it probably wouldn't fly because it was a cat and a bird. I have boxers and if it had been the other way around I'm sure there would have been all kinds of SH*T happen to me. My dogs are very gently and loveing, they would probably adopt and nurse a litter of kittens.
The down side of justice here is that the neighbor just had open heart surgery. I'd hate to upset him too much and have him die over it.

I really like the sounds of hit on the road though.

I watched "Peoples Court" on tv for years when Joe Wapner was the judge. If a dog so much as breathed out of rhythm the owner lost. I don't recall ever seeing a cat owner lose. The explanation was something along the lines of a cat being a wild animal by nature not capable of being tamed----some such. I saw cases where cats had done major $$$ damage--but owner didnt have to pay. It was like they didnt actually own the cat since they were instinctively wild. Now my question---how could you kill someones cat?

I'm having problems with too many damn Beagles in the neighborhood. I just use a daisy red rider bb gun. Cowardly little dogs ain't got much spunk

With a hammer?

Maybe I'll just shoot it with bright orange paint balls everytime I find it in or near my yard. Paint balls hurt, maybe I can "train it" to stay out of my yard. Then they will know when their cat has strayed.
I have a Spyder that I've converted to select fire. With short bursts I could probably send it home covered. Maybe I should mix the colors, it would probably look much better that way.

How could you kill someones cat? Since the cat has been declared a wild animal, what is the difference between killing the cat and killing a rabbit? Or a rattlesnake?

The exhaust execution reminds me of a story.
When i still worked on Big Lodge Ranch, the ranch next door was a large commercial egg ranch.
The way they would dispose of the hens, once they were "laid out", was to put several thousand into the back of a large truck, and run exhaust into the back on the way to the dump.
On one of thier trips, something didn't work right. They dumped the thousands of apparently dead chickens, and drove off.
Shortly thereafter, the fresh air revived the dead chickens, and they were everywhere at the land fill, enjoying thierselves immensely.
The local papers and tv got alot of milage out of the story.
One plus of the chicken ranch, the owner collected old double African type rifles, and I got to shoot a goodly variety. Several used cast bullets, just to keep things on topic.
A downside was, one of the flakes he had working there decided it would be ok to dump the liquified chicken manure on the surrounding forest roads. After a bit of wind, pine needles would cover it up. When you stepped onto a road, you were in six inch deep shit.

Lar45
Parrots being what they are, exotic birds, was the bird inside your house, inside it's cage at the time of it's death? If so how did the cat get into your house? Should we have a barn raisin' and patch the holes in your house? Or maybe hold classes on how to shut doors and windows?
Maybe the parrot was outside?
Seems there is more to the story here then that mean nasty cat done went and snuck up and et my bird.
Inquiring minds want to know.
Jim

Waksupi, Speaking about your story, OK and AR are having a serious chicken shit battle, with the EPA strongly involved in between the combatants with a hot poker to assure there is no literal stalemate. It seems a few rivers run into OK from the AR locations where the world chickens are raised. Chickens and catfish are becoming the only mainstays in AR, MS, and AL agrifarms, and Tyson's, the father of all chicken shit farms, the producer and promoter. ... felix

Do you know that the common house cat kills more small game than hunters do each year?, and yet most of the time they do it just for the fun of it. I just use anyone of my 22's with CCI Velocitors and a well placed shot in the head. Been wanting to try out those little 17HMR's though. Where I live, I have been building nesting areas for small game only to have those damn cats chase away or kill the game. What really gets me is, if one of my dogs were to kill say a rabbit and got caught doing it, I would have to pay a $300 fine for not being on a leash and than another fine for killing the rabbit. However that damn cat can get away with it. Not in my yard, nine lives or not, they kill...they get killed.

I resent this topic !!!!!!
I LOVE CATS THEY TASTE JUST LIKE CHICKEN !!!!

Ahhh the lines are drawn. As usual, I'll straddle the fence.

On the one hand, I have 5.5 (full-time equivalent cats) but on the other hand I have taken some strays over the mountain to live the rest of their natural lives briefly at the pound or an undetermined length of time in the woods.

There is nothing that beats the excitement of hunting with a cat. Either with cast bullets shooting the squirrel that is upset that you've set a cat into his turf; or flanking the other cat or the squirrel the first cat is faced off against. It's like watching Wild Kingdom LIVE!

So to are the irratations of the other cat eating one or more of your pets and then marking the area around the front door like it was their own.

Rant on!!

Lar,check out the viper thread in here,you might have some interest,better descripion in small game.They just showed "the shining"again on cable,have visions of croquet mallets floating in my head.I really hate cats,Clay.

trk - unfortunately, it is folks such as yourself that take them "to the other side of the Mountain", who cause the problems for we who live on the other side of said mountain. Please deal with them yourself, rather than inflicting them on others.
This time of year, the summer people are starting to leave, and we get a rather large influx of dumped dogs and cats in the area. Cats, I don't have much trouble shooting. Dogs, quite a bit tougher for me.

Ric -
Mixed feelings about taking the strays to the woods. IF it were within a few miles of people, I'd agree with you; but well into the National Forrest, to me, there's not much difference between the cat and the rest of the food chain.

Dogs, on the other hand, tend to run deer to death just for pleasure.

[ 09-05-2003, 04:31: Message edited by: trk ]

I had to shoot a Dog one day. I'd just gotten home from Goose hunting and there was this half starved, mangey diseased looking dog standing in the front yard. He was drooling heavily, had his head hung low and was growling at my Dog. I put a 3" 12ga BBB load into his head. I walked up to make sure he was dead, as he lay on the ground, his tail started wagging. I'm sure he was dead at the shot, but the wagging tail really got to me. Maybe he was happy to be put out of his pain and misery???
This was when I still lived at home. The parents place is about 1/2 mi from the National forest boundary.