&*#^@#$%& Cats

[Iceberg]

Our neighbor, the cat lady, has moved out because of health issues and left her cats. She was suppose to come and get them, but hasn't as of yet. Her daughter stops by twice a day to feed and water them, the window by the deck is open so the cats can get in and out of the house, I can only imagine what the inside of the house looks like!!
 What can I do short of pulling out the .22   ::50cal::  to get rid of them, they are digging up the flower bed and using the front yard as a litter box.  ??? ??? I have complained to the property manager. I just want them to stay out of my yard.
I was half tempted to let the dog loose the other day but decided that wouldn't have been a smart move on my part.

[Outdoors Junkie]

Call animal control or the sheriff's dept.

[Joe]

Well, there are all kinds of things that come to mind, but calling Animal control sounds like your best bet.

[Realtree]

 :stupid:         ::dito         :stupid:         ::dito         :stupid:         ::dito         :stupid:        ::dito         :stupid:        ::dito

            ANIMAL CONTROL

[ChrisWallace]

bow and arrow.

Cats are the other white meat....

[tripnchip]

once their all inside close the window

[WoodChuck]

 ::cheers:: DECON AND TUNA !! end of story!!

[captkev]

once their all inside close the window

 ::dito ...  ::cheers::  Thats what I was thinking

I know someone who was just in the same situation and the city of ----------- told them to just get a live trap. I happen to know that this guy did just that, and his fresh grass seed is no longer a litter box

[JackpineRob]

A good pellet gun is always handy in such situations.  Those break-action jobs that spit out the pellet in excess of 1000 fps, topped with a good air rifle scope, and cat problems vanish in one grand hurry.

[Realtree]

Does the Human Society or Animal Control know about this situation? If this is a vacant home with as many cats as it sounds like she has, this sounds like a situation where they can come in and help out in a Humane way where the cats can be placed in homes where people who can take care of them instead of neglecting them.

[Iceberg]

The lady has cancer and is going thru Chemotherapy and staying at a relatives house, the Daughter is feeding and watering the cats everyday so there is no neglect there, it is more of a nuisance than anything. I think the property manager is giving her until this weekend to take care of the situation,because of her health issues. 

I am just tired of stepping in the crap in the front yard.  I am getting my hands on one of those one pump BB guns this weekend, just to give them a scare....

[Grute Man]

One of those splat ball guns might send a message to someone.   :bandana:  Send it to both the cats and the feeder.

Seriously, leave the lady a note on the door telling her its a problem and the window needs to be shut.  Tell her that her responsibility of feeding leads to something else which shouldn't be your problem.

Vee have our vays of makink you shut zee vindow.   :euro:

Good luck. Grute Man

[Outdoors Junkie]

My family and I moved to SD a few months back.  The lady next door likes to feed stray cats.  We have tons of cats all over our yard.  They used the flower beds for their bathroom.  The males cats sprayed (marked their territory) on anything they could in our yard (lawn furniture, grill cover, tires, bikes, lots of other things).  This lady carries a garbage can lid out filled with cat food and puts it in her yard.  We asked her to stop doing it.  She continues still today.  We called animal control.  They couldn't help because we live two blocks out of the city limits.  We called the sheriff's Dept.  They came out and said they could shoot them if they continue to cause us problems.  My wife didn't want them killed (even tho she hates them now).  So, I bought a live trap and began catching cats.  Then I would bring them to an uncles ranch.  The first night I caught 9.  I trapped them for two weeks and ended up with 28 cats.  I stopped for a month or two then (some of them were catching on to the trap).  I put the trap out again for a week and caught 8 more.  Now, I put it out every month or two for a couple days and catch one now and then.  We rocked in the flower beds.  So we no longer have the cat pee oder around the outside of our house.  We still have about 8-10 stray cats roaming around, but that is more tollerable.  I noticed one had a liter of kittens in the ladies junk pile.  So, I will have to catch a few more this summer.  If it was up to me, I would have took them out hunting and they wouldn't have come back. 

I feel your pain!

[Mayfly]

Your neighbors pets should not be a nuisance to you. Your city should have ordinances put in place to prevent this. You need to get in contact with animal control. If you call the local sheriff or police they will refer you to animal control most likely. Talk to the other neighbors. I'm sure you are not the only one. You should not have top step on cat crap in your front yard if you do not own a cat. I hate cats! I have noticed a few of them around my yard lately. Not sure where they are coming from but if I see one during the daylight hours I will shoot it

[Realtree]

While we were working on our landscaping last week, my son wanted to play in his sandbox so my wife got his bucket of sand toys out and went to rake the sand level for him (first time he had played it in since last fall) and she found piles and piles of cat crap.

We used that sand out of his sandbox for leveling our landscape blocks and put new sand in his box, now I have to build some kind of removable cover to put over it when he is not playing in it that the wife can take off by herself.

Nothing better than kneeling down in the hot sun to level landscape blocks and getting a nice strong whiff of cat pee and crap! Ahhhh, how revigorating!

OJ, that is crazy that you have removed that many cats from your yard and they just keep coming... What kind of a place does this lady have that she has so many cats?

[guythathunts]

I would wait it out... maybe! The only thing is if you take it into your own hands the sheriff may be showing up at YOUR door. Be carefull! Your concern is extremely valid. If they were in your fav. pheasant field... but at your home the authorities may have some problems with pegging them off from the bedroom window.
~ Greg

[captkev]

  Like I said in my case    I mean my friends it was the property next door that has a shed that is in bad shape and needs some boards fixed. It probably would not be so bad if others would not feed the cats like someone else mentioned. I myself my friend called the sheriff in his case and they also suggested a live trap. What you do with them after you catch them no body has to know. Myself I would not release them to the wild they might start eating birds I might like to hunt this fall.

 A friend once told me that there is a place that might take them for collage students to dissect :death2:  ... what the heck... something good for medical research ::

[iceman]

hey kev

they sound like muskie bait !

[The General]

If you live out of town how about a dog.  If you don't like your hunting machine to be out roaming around pick up a mutt out of the paper for free.  I'd also go with a paintball gun.