Need to devise a cat trap

[RU482]

I've got a sandbox in the backyard that a neighborhood cat has recently discovered. I want to catch the little critter and see if he has a tag so I can identify the owner. I suspect it is the lady across the street, as I have seen her cat wandering every now and then.

Anyway, I'm thinking of using one of those motion detectors and an AC motor I have to pull up or drop down a cage over the sandbox upon Mr Kitty's arrival.

any thoughts or ideas??

 

[DaTT]

.22?

 

[FoBoT]

go with a large net, drop it from above

 

[spaceman]

some would say you can only build a great cat trap by building a better mousetrap...

 

[NogginBoink]

Just buy a large animal trap.

Or call your city's animal control center and see if they'll lend you one. My city helped me catch all the squirrels that had taken roost in my attic that way.

 

[QuitBanningMe]

Go to home depot and get a trap. Also many animal shelters will let you borrow them.

 

[mwmorph]

get a LARGE box, some catnip. place catnip on string. when string(may need some carrier, like a little plastic baggie with holes is disturbed, wooden stick slips and boxfalls on cat.

 

[Viper GTS]

Buy a decent sized live trap.

Viper GTS

 

[dullard]

If I had time I could try to help you devise a trap. But cats are notoriously hard to catch in a trap. The easier solution is to to what everyone else does. Get a ~$5 piece of thin plywood and use it as a cover to the sandbox.

 

[spaceman]

hire this guy
























it would have been posted eventually.

 

[KarenMarie]

go to your local shelter.
you give them $30.00 they give you a cat trap.
you catch cat
you return cat trap to shelter. Shelter returns your $30.00

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: NogginBoink
Just buy a large animal trap.

Or call your city's animal control center and see if they'll lend you one. My city helped me catch all the squirrels that had taken roost in my attic that way.

That's what I would do.

 

[mandala]

If it is actually someone's pet, chances are pretty good that it'll let you walk up to it close enough to see whether it has tags or not and possibly even close enough that you can check out the tags. Otherwise, find out if a local animal control/human society/animal shelter will let you use one of their humane traps.

 

[se7en]

tranquiullizer gun.. ..
night vision goggles.. ..
full black suit.. ..
black face paint.. ..

no seriously the poster up there is on the money animal shelter will let you use one.. ..and bring it back BUT the animal trap is NOT.. i repeat NOT big enough to catch a person.. ..

 

[jammur21]

super soaker

 

[ThisIsMatt]

Fences make good neighbors' pets.

 

[Baked]

Throw your laundry basket at the cat.

 

[aidanjm]

find something better to do with your time

 

[Sheepathon]

Does it exhibit characteristics like the cat mentioned in this thread?

 

[HardcoreRobot]

bear trap