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Any cat on my property is feral unless I recognize it as the neighbor's. This thread is a helluva lot better than another thread on how we better vote for Jethro or the Supremes are gonna "go" liberal.

As an aside, a Para double-stack .45 makes a good cat-gun.

Genius Award , right there. And funny as Hell.

Sycamore

Sometimes metal blunts with the four wire prongs stick in them and they can steal your arrow.

Hope you had a good stock of mercurochrome laid by before you started!

Sycamore

I figure any cat i come across several miles from town while quail or coyote or deer hunting is a feral quail killer.

Quit trying to un-hijack this thread. Can't you see people are enjoying their little hissy-fits? Live and let live, dude.

So, I have reviewed the posts here and developed some definitions and guidelines for myself:


Do not shoot cats that are on private property that is not your own.

A feral cat is not a barn cat, a haystack cat nor is it your neighbor’s daughter’s cat.

A barn cat, haystack cat or your neighbor’s daughter’s cat is not a feral cat unless said cat is away from it’s owner’s property may be considered a feral cat.

If the cat is wearing a collar, it may indeed be your neighbor’s daughter’s cat and should only be shot if there are extenuating circumstances.

Cats may only be dispatched if my wife is not at home. Oddly, it is the same for coyotes. I am down on them since coyotes killed my daughter’s dog. (btw, I have since gotten two of them near my house)

TF

rule at the farm is.. if its more than 1/4 mile from the barn it gets wacked, we've had the same 5 cats prowling around killin chit for a few years now, and they dont get out of the barn yard. I do have to wack a feral tom every once and awhile. Kilt' one during deer season last year with my ditch cougar load. 7wsm 63.5gr rl22 and a 120gr vmax.....poof

Sean now knows what's it's like to be Donald Trump.

"Australians are killing feral cats."

"Don't you be killing my barn cat!"

Crats that come up and eat my barn cats food and chase them off, big toms that pizz all over my buildings, the spooks that hang out in the timber and run when when they are out in the light of day, the ones you see a 1/2 mile from any house or more. Bang flop

i helped while there

Just so folks realize that feral cats in Australia are even worse than feral cats here, the little native marsupials they are wiping out are considerably less on the ball in that regard than are reg'lar placental rodents like we have here.

Anyways, I'll be surprised if Australian authorities succeed in carrying out this plan, over all the protests and legal challenges that are gonna break out.

Around my place as best I can recollect we have lost like nine or ten cats in the last fifteen years. What seems to happen is about six or eight months of age they discover they can get up on the roof and how much fun it is for them to run around up there after dark.

Great horned owls.

Earlier this year the lady across the street had her three tiny chihuahuas "stolen". About a week later around 4am I seen a huge owl perched in the tree in her yard. I didn't have the heart to tell her.

Birdwatcher

4ager: I always check to see if the field lions (feral cats) have a collar/license on them before I shoot them!
If they have a collar and are Hunting birds they get a pass or two - the third time I see them they get shot.
I live 3/4 of a mile from the county road and am just outside a small SW Montana town - in 18 years here I have seen five vehicles pull up near my mailbox and dump cats!
I watch them do this with my binoculars and sometimes with my spotting scope.
Sometimes these turds even leave the cardboard boxes they transport them in!
Lazy, irresponsible and cruel are these folks.
I often find cat carcasses (usually small ones/kittens!) that die of cold or starvation (no bullet holes) around my place.
Once I even saw two dudes park their pickup truck in our downtown area and they opened up a cardboard box in the bed of the pick-up and went into a tavern. I saw this from the window of a restaurant and by the time we were done eating 6 or 7 small cats had bailed out of that trucks bed!
All of this in a town WITH a humane society affiliated pet shelter - that will take in unwanted pets for free no questions asked and a no kill policy (unless the animals are sick)!!!
I have tried humane live traps but feral cats are tough to catch and a skunk in a live trap IS a mess.
So, long time back I developed my song bird/game bird/baby cottontail saving, current policy.
Shoot and shovel.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

Ya got critters -
keep 'em home!

(Then they're your problem, and nobody else's)

I remember a policeman vs fireman hockey game years ago with a dinner afterwards.
After the dinner a friend says "Do you know what you are eating? Dog killed deer
"
I just happened to have a 3" buckshot load handy on the way home when I saw a feral dog.
My wife whimpered a little
. I felt fine about it.

Gracey ATE one of my neighbor's cats once, Mark.

I was trying to be stern with her, and she kept giving me that zany grin of hers,...I wound up laughing my azz off,...

I vetted the crap (literally) out of her,....and am thankful she did not catch something off the bugger.

GLAD I live in a zone with a fair population of Coyotes, it simplifies the whole issue.

GTC.

There is a difference between a farm cat and a feral cat.
If you know what to look for . . .

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Pure SO AZ awesome.

Cheers cross!

Had a neighbor who brought home some female cats to control mice and rats in his horse barn.
He paid no attention to neutering them and you know that they created a population explosion of feral cats until a couple of 'yotes moved in and cleaned house.
About 6 of them disappeared in 2 - 3 weeks.

We have also had several kittens disappear when we found a hawk hanging around our place.

Myron

My house in AL was in a very small subdivision outside the city limits. I had a pre-built "cave" of landscaping bricks, and when I saw a cat in the yard, out came the sardines and a body gripping trap. Almost always had a dead one in the morning.