What to do about mean feral cat?

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Shovel, hammer, bb gun, bat, they'll all get the job done. Sorry but if it attacked me, it's dead.

 

[BladeVenom]

Where's your dog?

 

[wabbitslayer]

It's also attacked me a few times.


Any suggestions?

 

[Schmide]

More like

 

[Leros]

Animal control won't pick up a stray? Call your county admin and file a complaint against them?

As for the cat, contact some rescues in your area and see what they say. They are usually pretty good at trapping advice, and may be able to help you.

Animal control said it would be impossible to catch considering how everybody in the neighborhood has a fenced in yard. They basically said they can't do anything about cats.

 

[Leros]

I've kicked it a few times. Doesn't seem to scare it away.

It tries to sneak into my house when I'm using the door. The first time it tried, it succeeded. Once it got inside, it immediately went and attacked my cat. I was able to kick it out of the house.

 

[Leros]

I don't own a gun and wouldn't want to use a real gun in my neighorhood if I had one.

I'd be ok with a pellet gun if I could be sure I could kill it. I'd prefer not to half kill it and have it slowly die due to a wound. I might have to resort to something like that.

I was really hoping to catch it, neuter, and drop it off somewhere far away from my house.

 

[Moonbeam]

I don't own a gun and wouldn't want to use a real gun in my neighorhood if I had one.

I'd be ok with a pellet gun if I could be sure I could kill it. I'd prefer not to half kill it and have it slowly die due to a wound. I might have to resort to something like that.

I was really hoping to catch it, neuter, and drop it off somewhere far away from my house.

So I take it you didn't meditate.

 

[Newbian]

My cat just wants to go anywhere that she perceives that she's not allowed to go. Closed doors bug the shit out of her. Any time she gets the opportunity to go in she races through the door, looks around as if to say "Ok now what", and wanders back to more familiar territory.

 

[bononos]

I don't own a gun and wouldn't want to use a real gun in my neighorhood if I had one.

I'd be ok with a pellet gun if I could be sure I could kill it. I'd prefer not to half kill it and have it slowly die due to a wound. I might have to resort to something like that.

I was really hoping to catch it, neuter, and drop it off somewhere far away from my house.

Electroshock trap.
Youtube didn't have one for cats but theres one for monkeys.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iLPaFMP5m8

 

[ahenkel]

Just noticed the OP lives in Austin... Seriously, you should already have dealt with this with the gun you should already own. Wtf?

To be fair Austin is the Berkley of Texas

 

[DigDog]

Tiger urine
http://www.predatorpee.com/

 

[Sonikku]

Train a pet Wolf.

 

[HAL9000]

Do a better job at catching the cat

 

[Ichinisan]

Tiger urine
http://www.predatorpee.com/

Neat. I didn't know the "Fisher Cat" was a natural predator of the porcupine.

 

[Perknose]

My cat whines at the furnace room door every day and wants to go in there. I do not let him in, nor do I assume that he just would be happier if he were a plumber.

Mice. You probably have mice in there.

 

[CZroe]

I've kicked it a few times. Doesn't seem to scare it away.

It tries to sneak into my house when I'm using the door. The first time it tried, it succeeded. Once it got inside, it immediately went and attacked my cat. I was able to kick it out of the house.

Truly feral cats wouldn't be caught dead inside. A similarly notorious mean, ratty, nasty, stray that would never get near anyone and fought with every other cat turned out to be tame once caught and cleaned up at a vet. I never would have believed it because it looked and acted as feral as they could possibly come.

Just noticed the OP lives in Austin... Seriously, you should already have dealt with this with the gun you should already own. Wtf?

Austin is well known as being completely different from Texas, besides being surrounded by it. It's a hippy/liberal outpost.

Her dog is worthless.

Her dog is fenced in.

 

[Ichinisan]

Truly feral cats wouldn't be caught dead inside. A similarly notorious mean, ratty, nasty, stray that would never get near anyone and fought with every other cat turned out to be tame once caught and cleaned up at a vet. I never would have believed it because it looked and acted as feral as they could possibly come.



Austin is well known as being completely different from Texas, besides being surrounded by it. It's a hippy/liberal outpost.



Her dog is fenced in.

She was supposedly "defending" her dog from the cat.

 

[DrPizza]

We had a male cat show up last week & hang out around our porch. It sprayed a couple of times on our porch - I *hate* that smell. Alas, our cats are smart enough to stay on the porch late at night, or under the porch, or in the barn, or wherever the heck it is they vanish to after dark. The male cat stayed out in the open. And there they were yesterday morning - three sets of tracks of a sprinting animal that terminated at a big bloody spot in the snow, strewn with cat fur. Then, a trail of blood leading down the sidewalk and out the driveway. Good-bye male cat who sprayed my porch.

 

[OutHouse]

Just kick snow at it, nothing will happen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMNSVMyxzxA

That cat would die.

 

[DrPizza]

That cat would die.

Yep, before the video ended.

 

[highland145]

Mice. You probably have mice in there.

No. It's the little people that come out at night and drag your spouse inside.

 

[Jaskalas]

A rather mean feral cat has showed up in my neighborhood. The thing has terrorized my cat making her not want to go outside anymore. It's also attacked me a few times.

Animal control won't do anything about it. They told me to go to the animal shelter and pick up a trap. I did that but I caught pet cats both times I set it out. I figure I should stop with the trap since I'm catching the neighbors' pets.

Any suggestions?

Wouldn't the neighbor's pets already know about the trap now? :sneaky::whiste:

 

[MrColin]

A rather mean feral cat has showed up in my neighborhood. The thing has terrorized my cat making her not want to go outside anymore. It's also attacked me a few times.

Animal control won't do anything about it. They told me to go to the animal shelter and pick up a trap. I did that but I caught pet cats both times I set it out. I figure I should stop with the trap since I'm catching the neighbors' pets.

Any suggestions?

When you find your neighbor cats in the trap you must frighten but not hurt them. They wont go back in the trap. If you start catching opossum, give up on the trapping, they're fearless.

If you tell AC it bit you causing broken skin and/or it is drooling and walking in circles growling they might be more motivated to come get it.

 

[jagec]

I've kicked it a few times. Doesn't seem to scare it away.

Then you need new boots.