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Neighbor catches ladies cat, has it euthanized :(

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Originally posted by: PingSpike
Originally posted by: DrPizza
Originally posted by: Insane3D
Originally posted by: So
Russian Blues are a nasty breed of cats, if that woman didn't keep it penned up, iguarantee it was making a problem.

<--- I love cats, but there are two sides to every story.
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Two sides huh...sounds like a cop out. So, what pray tell do you think is missing from the story that makes it ok for the guy to have this ladies cat killed?
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How do you know the guy had the cat killed? At many shelters, it's simply a matter of policy that after a couple of days they euthanize cats that haven't been adopted. They simply can't hang on to every cat until they find a home for it. The cat was put down 2 days later, not the same day the guy took the cat to the shelter. While he may have been hoping the lady wouldn't have thought of looking at the shelter for her cat in time to save it, that's not a crime.
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Have you ever heard to a shelter that kills after 2 days? I sure haven't, I think 2 weeks is the least I've heard of. How the hell would anyone expect to get an animal adopted in 2 days? Considering most adoptions occur on the weekends, and every time we've adopted an animal it took like a week of paper work and crap. I think its more likely he brought it in and asked it to be euthanized, but the article doesn't say. At the very least, he knew what he was doing and what would likely happen if it was a 2 day kill shelter or something.

Thats not a crime though? C'mon...whether it is or isn't, it certainly isn't the right thing to do.
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I didn't say the guy wasn't a douchebag... I agree that he is.
However, I googled "cats are euthanized after"... although I only had a few hits for that search phrase, the consensus was THREE days, not 2 weeks. Simply, a higher percentage of dogs are adopted than cats. And, generally there are far more stray cats than stray dogs. As someone above stated, many shelters will no longer respond to reports of stray cats... they simply can't handle the volume and time required.
 
Well Along similar lines. My neighbor has 21 Cats. I got a new car, and I don't want them climibing all over it scratching it up/getting paw prints all over it. I am going to put traps in our FENCED in back yard, and in our flower bed in the front yard, a good 25-30 yards from the closest point on her property.

If I trap a Cat I will go over to her house, show it to her and ask her if it is hers. If it is I will take a digital picture of it and tell her if I trap it again its going to the pound. If she says its not hers off to the pound it goes. She is the only person in my neighborhood who has free roaming cats.....

Most useless animal in the world anyway.
 
Originally posted by: jcovercash
Well Along similar lines. My neighbor has 21 Cats. I got a new car, and I don't want them climibing all over it scratching it up/getting paw prints all over it. I am going to put traps in our FENCED in back yard, and in our flower bed in the front yard, a good 25-30 yards from the closest point on her property.

If I trap a Cat I will go over to her house, show it to her and ask her if it is hers. If it is I will take a digital picture of it and tell her if I trap it again its going to the pound. If she says its not hers off to the pound it goes. She is the only person in my neighborhood who has free roaming cats.....

Most useless animal in the world anyway.
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Thank you for taking reasonable action, but please inform her first that you are putting out traps.
 
Originally posted by: Citrix
Originally posted by: F22 Raptor
Originally posted by: Citrix
Originally posted by: piasabird
I could say the same thing with kids that like to cut accross my grass on their bicycles and neighbors who throw their bear bottles or cigarette butts out on my corner, or cut accross my yard on the corner. Even had problems with stupid school bus drivers. However, I never trapped a child and sent him off to be euthanised. Owners sometimes walk their dogs and leave dog **** in your yard. Total Yucko. Cats as long as they are not strays keep the population of nuisance animals down. I dont see how a cat can cut down on the property value of a house.

If a homeowner wants his property to be separate he/she has top put up a fence and no tresspassing signs. Otherwise you have to deal with your neighbors. You might try talking to your neighbors instead of stealing their pets. I had one nosy neighbor that would call the city and said I had trash all over my yard. Usually it was when some loose dog had gotten into my trash. Sometimes her dog. People got a lot of nerve sometimes. Things have been great since I moved.
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cats running loose is a nuisance animal and I will not put up with it. if you let your so called pet run loose and it comes on my property its dead. stray cats or cats in general has cost me several hundred bucks in damage they caused to my house the past couple of years and I have had enough of it. Animal control in my county WILL NOT respond to calls about stray cats.
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I am going to restrain myself from flaming you, as I can see your side of the story, but if I knew where you lived I would inform the police about you (they probably would not do anything), make a short call to PETA, and inform all your neighbors about your intentions...just so everybody is informed.

There are better ways of handling things.
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news flash for you, killing a animal on my property is not against the law. I should not have to deal with spending money on damage caused by stupid ass neighbors who let their stupid cats out to roam. oh and i am not the only neighbor who takes care of this problem, because most of the damn cats running loose in my neighborhood are ferrel as in wild. caused by owners who let their stupid cats out and they breed causing more cats...
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Newsflash to you: killing dogs and cats on your property IS against the law in most states. In NY, it's a felony offense. I don't know what the offense is in Colorado, but I doubt it's legal to do so.
 
Originally posted by: F22 Raptor
Originally posted by: jcovercash
Well Along similar lines. My neighbor has 21 Cats. I got a new car, and I don't want them climibing all over it scratching it up/getting paw prints all over it. I am going to put traps in our FENCED in back yard, and in our flower bed in the front yard, a good 25-30 yards from the closest point on her property.

If I trap a Cat I will go over to her house, show it to her and ask her if it is hers. If it is I will take a digital picture of it and tell her if I trap it again its going to the pound. If she says its not hers off to the pound it goes. She is the only person in my neighborhood who has free roaming cats.....

Most useless animal in the world anyway.
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Thank you for taking reasonable action, but please inform her first that you are putting out traps.
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Yes, That will be done. We have contanstly had a problem with them on our vehicles, leaving little suprises for us in the flower beds, etc...

I figure I give her one chance to keep them put up, that should be enough.

I don't want to be cruel just trying to take care of my own property, I wouldn't want somoene to carry my dog off (when he was still alive), had he somehow gotton out of fence. I would want them to return him, and give me a chance to keep him put up better, so I feel she deserves teh same respect.

Josh
 
Originally posted by: F22 Raptor
Originally posted by: jcovercash
Well Along similar lines. My neighbor has 21 Cats. I got a new car, and I don't want them climibing all over it scratching it up/getting paw prints all over it. I am going to put traps in our FENCED in back yard, and in our flower bed in the front yard, a good 25-30 yards from the closest point on her property.

If I trap a Cat I will go over to her house, show it to her and ask her if it is hers. If it is I will take a digital picture of it and tell her if I trap it again its going to the pound. If she says its not hers off to the pound it goes. She is the only person in my neighborhood who has free roaming cats.....

Most useless animal in the world anyway.
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Thank you for taking reasonable action, but please inform her first that you are putting out traps.
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I assume he's using a humane type of live trap, not the type that snaps shut over an animals leg. I see no reason to warn her; in fact, I think it would be better not to warn her. She could raise a stink over your plans to have traps and you could ultimately find out that there's some old law on the books which prohibits the use of traps inside you city/village limits.
 
Originally posted by: DrPizza
Originally posted by: F22 Raptor
Originally posted by: jcovercash
Well Along similar lines. My neighbor has 21 Cats. I got a new car, and I don't want them climibing all over it scratching it up/getting paw prints all over it. I am going to put traps in our FENCED in back yard, and in our flower bed in the front yard, a good 25-30 yards from the closest point on her property.

If I trap a Cat I will go over to her house, show it to her and ask her if it is hers. If it is I will take a digital picture of it and tell her if I trap it again its going to the pound. If she says its not hers off to the pound it goes. She is the only person in my neighborhood who has free roaming cats.....

Most useless animal in the world anyway.
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Thank you for taking reasonable action, but please inform her first that you are putting out traps.
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I assume he's using a humane type of live trap, not the type that snaps shut over an animals leg. I see no reason to warn her; in fact, I think it would be better not to warn her. She could raise a stink over your plans to have traps and you could ultimately find out that there's some old law on the books which prohibits the use of traps inside you city/village limits.
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No I have already spoken with the animal control people. They provide you with the traps. yes it is the humane live traps, the box that closes on them basically.

You just have to take them to animal control when you catch them, and if its the weekend you ahve to feed/care for them untill you can take them in. I have no problem doing that at all.
 
Originally posted by: MaxDepth
And the cat is still dead...
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If she hadn't gone to the Animal Shelter and collapsed the wave function, the cat would have been neither dead nor alive though. 😛

ZV
 
Originally posted by: jcovercash
Originally posted by: DrPizza
Originally posted by: F22 Raptor
Originally posted by: jcovercash
Well Along similar lines. My neighbor has 21 Cats. I got a new car, and I don't want them climibing all over it scratching it up/getting paw prints all over it. I am going to put traps in our FENCED in back yard, and in our flower bed in the front yard, a good 25-30 yards from the closest point on her property.

If I trap a Cat I will go over to her house, show it to her and ask her if it is hers. If it is I will take a digital picture of it and tell her if I trap it again its going to the pound. If she says its not hers off to the pound it goes. She is the only person in my neighborhood who has free roaming cats.....

Most useless animal in the world anyway.
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Thank you for taking reasonable action, but please inform her first that you are putting out traps.
Click to expand...

I assume he's using a humane type of live trap, not the type that snaps shut over an animals leg. I see no reason to warn her; in fact, I think it would be better not to warn her. She could raise a stink over your plans to have traps and you could ultimately find out that there's some old law on the books which prohibits the use of traps inside you city/village limits.
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No I have already spoken with the animal control people. They provide you with the traps. yes it is the humane live traps, the box that closes on them basically.

You just have to take them to animal control when you catch them, and if its the weekend you ahve to feed/care for them untill you can take them in. I have no problem doing that at all.
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:thumbsup:

And, it's nice of you to give the neighbor the opportunity to claim her cat vs. taking it immediately to the shelter. However, taking it directly to the shelter isn't against the law, and as I stated above, many shelters tend to euthanize cats rather quickly. (within a couple of days.) Only a very small percentage of cats are ever adopted from shelters.

So, while it appears that the jerk had a stolen trap, the frequency of problems in that neighborhood indicates a cat problem. We still don't have all the facts. It appears he didn't get along with his cat owning neighbors. Perhaps it was because he complained to the owners of those cats on numerous occasions about the cats leaving presents in the flower beds, prints on the cars, etc.?

Suppose the OP of a different thread was this:
"My neighbors cats are constantly spraying my house, leaving prints on my car, and ruining my flower beds. I complained to them about it, but they say tough sh**, that's just their natural instincts and we don't like to keep our cats confined to the house. Well, I set out a trap to humanely capture the cat. Should I take the cat back to the neighbor (again) only to have them yelling at me for catching their precious cat? Or, should I take it to the humane shelter. That way, if they don't claim it within a couple of days, the cat will be euthanized humanely and the problem will be solved. Besides, how much could they possibly care about the cat if they didn't look at the humane shelter within a couple days??"
 
Originally posted by: Ronstang
The problem isn't the cats, the problem is cat owners who think their cat has the right to roam the neighborhood. Cats can be quite the nuisance and they should not be left outside to go on other people's property. I don't have cats because I do not particularly like them so I should not have to deal with them in my garage, on my cars, or in my yard. Unfortunately most cat owners are so blind they cannot understand that their cats don't have the right to roam.
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Meh, I grew up with barn cats. The idea of an "indoor cat" just seems silly to me when one has a couple acres.

In an urban setting though, I can completely understand trying to keep the cat within your own yard. Un-naturally small though it may be.

ZV
 
Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Originally posted by: Ronstang
The problem isn't the cats, the problem is cat owners who think their cat has the right to roam the neighborhood. Cats can be quite the nuisance and they should not be left outside to go on other people's property. I don't have cats because I do not particularly like them so I should not have to deal with them in my garage, on my cars, or in my yard. Unfortunately most cat owners are so blind they cannot understand that their cats don't have the right to roam.
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Meh, I grew up with barn cats. The idea of an "indoor cat" just seems silly to me when one has a couple acres.

In an urban setting though, I can completely understand trying to keep the cat within your own yard. Un-naturally small though it may be.

ZV
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My cat never, ever leaves the backyard. He's got a "cathouse" and gets fed regularly. So he's just like a dog.
 
Keeping a cat in your yard is so much easier said than done. I have a dog and a cat. My backyard is surrounded by a 6' high privacy fence. It obviously keeps the dog in, but kitty scales the fence with no problem. I would prefer it if she stayed within the bounds of our property and whenever I have the opportunity, I actually chase her off of the neighbors property. I've never had any complaints from any of our neighbors, probably because our cat is so friendly. As for doing her business, I think she uses the green belt that is directly at the back of our property and leaves all the flower beds alone.

As for the guy that trapped the woman's cat and had it killed, he's an asshole and deserves a keyed car and all four of his tires slashed.
 
Originally posted by: Boxxcar
Keeping a cat in your yard is so much easier said than done. I have a dog and a cat. My backyard is surrounded by a 6' high privacy fence. It obviously keeps the dog in, but kitty scales the fence with no problem. I would prefer it if she stayed within the bounds of our property and whenever I have the opportunity, I actually chase her off of the neighbors property. I've never had any complaints from any of our neighbors, probably because our cat is so friendly. As for doing her business, I think she uses the green belt that is directly at the back of our property and leaves all the flower beds alone.

As for the guy that trapped the woman's cat and had it killed, he's an asshole and deserves a keyed car and all four of his tires slashed.
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I find "it obviously keeps the dog in" to be humorous. I have a dog that can scale fences as well as any cat. Several kennels don't want us back (to board our pets while we're on vacation) At one kennel, our dog hopped out of its kennel, opened the door to the office, and proceeded to ransack the office to get dog treats. Then, she went back to her kennel. It took them a couple days to figure out which dog was the culprit - only because she went into the wrong kennel one night. 6 foot privacy fences are nothing for her.
 
Originally posted by: DrPizza
Originally posted by: Boxxcar
Keeping a cat in your yard is so much easier said than done. I have a dog and a cat. My backyard is surrounded by a 6' high privacy fence. It obviously keeps the dog in, but kitty scales the fence with no problem. I would prefer it if she stayed within the bounds of our property and whenever I have the opportunity, I actually chase her off of the neighbors property. I've never had any complaints from any of our neighbors, probably because our cat is so friendly. As for doing her business, I think she uses the green belt that is directly at the back of our property and leaves all the flower beds alone.

As for the guy that trapped the woman's cat and had it killed, he's an asshole and deserves a keyed car and all four of his tires slashed.
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I find "it obviously keeps the dog in" to be humorous. I have a dog that can scale fences as well as any cat. Several kennels don't want us back (to board our pets while we're on vacation) At one kennel, our dog hopped out of its kennel, opened the door to the office, and proceeded to ransack the office to get dog treats. Then, she went back to her kennel. It took them a couple days to figure out which dog was the culprit - only because she went into the wrong kennel one night. 6 foot privacy fences are nothing for her.
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Strange as it seems, our dog can't quite manage the fence, but we've often caught her on the net surfin' kitty porn sites!
 
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