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So if you had a cat or dog that ran onto my property, you're OK with me blasting them ?

Since I have no idea where the "land of milk and honey is" (it sure isn't where I live!) and a cat wearing a COLLAR is in my garage and putting his soft pads all over my car and belongs to a neighbor, maybe I'm just odd, but the civilized part of me says to first go over and inform said neighbor of the problem, then if it persists, I would seek other alternatives.

Unless I or my family were in danger (as in a rabid cat/dog or one of TRH's Pit Bulls), I'm just not into killing pets.

I heard them in the garage, and fired off 3 rounds just outside to try and scare them off. Didn't work. I went inside, and they had him pinned between the car and the wall. They saw me, and started to come at me, so I shot the 1st one.

ya just gotta love folks that don't even give the owners a notice.....

I'd do some killing myself, but it might not be all 4 legged ones...

This. You gotta love a steely-eyed cat killer who doesn't even have the balls to tell the neighbor what he did. Probably feared having to pass his dentures a week later.

Actually turkey breath, my neighbours do know my predilection for removing unwanted pests from my property.

Now kindly toddle off and play with your other ped mates.

Boo...scat!

Not talking about you, idiot.

Normal Campfire procedure, once dialogue has reached the "or else" point is for you two to pick a bridge somewhere, meet up under it, and settle this.

Keep us posted (so's spreadsheets can be generated / bets laid,) take lotsa' pics, .....

Miles58, since SBTCO is making the call out, you get to choose the weapons.

Get with it, boys.

GTC

It would be refreshing to see a round of good old fashioned nut kicking.

Square off, take turns and see who's standing at the end.

Has either Miles or SBTCO had bionic knee surgery? That could be a "deal" killer.

I have no tolerance for what you say either, I just can't shoot pets. A weakness on my part. As to Australia, lovely place and lovely folks.

It does not matter how the cat got in, it was on another's property doing what it shouldn't.

So, dead.

As for your cat, who cares what your cat does on your property, off your property is another thing entirely.



This seems to be the crux of the matter...there are those that think their pet has right of access to everyone else's property...and you all seem to get upset when you lose the pet.

The fault belongs solely to the owner that does not control his animal, this is no different than a farmer allowing his stock to roam over a highway or a neighbours crop.

Not according to burglars themselves. Studies have been conducted where convicted burglars in prison are asked to rank dogs according to breed that would cause them to skip a house over. Pitbulls rate at the top. Dobermans aren't far behind.

Then do not raise cats here, for the overwhelming majority think as I do.

So does our Government, as we have untold millions of the bastard things roaming about.

RD, nice looking pups, take care of them well.

the rest of this reply is not to you directly.

What an interesting thread this has devolved into.

Nut kicking under bridges and all!

Yorkies vs pits!

Cats on roofs and in garages.

I'm probably forgetting something, but it's been an interesting read.

I'm not sure about which state the car owner (Shrapnel, MT?) with the "solved" cat problem lives in, but depending, it could have been no major offense for trapping a cat on one's property. My take on his post was not that the cat was in the garage for two weeks, but that the track making on the car was accomplished over the course of a couple of weeks. Perhaps I'm wrong in my thinking tho. However it was, those are a lot of prints on that car. And there should be no requirement that a person close their garage door fully either, during the day or night.

Used to be in California, cats were not considered domesticated animals, and therefor owners had no responsibility. Saw a case many many years ago on the "Peoples COurt" program, and Judge Judy was surprised when she dug into it and came back with her ruling. Condos, cat jumped from one balcony to another, knocked over table with expensive vase, vase owner "sues" on Peoples Court, Judy finds for the defendant as there was no basis in CA law for the vase owner to recoup funds from an incident involving a "wild" (non- domesticated) animal.

It also meant, (it may have/probably has changed over the years) that cats in your yard, garage, on your roof, etc were basically "fair game" as they weren't someones "pet". One might get in trouble for discharging a firearm in a closed area, but not in trouble for killing the cat. This I know, as my friend's father shot the neighbor's cat going back over the fence after weeks of it pis--ng on his brand new 1964/65 International Travelall. Getting in through a torn vent screen to sleep on the warm hood, then peeing on it. If recollection is correct, the neighbors were warned.

Neighborly thing to do? Civil thing to do? I'll leave that for you all to decide, individually.

JStuart, I hope this finds you well and enjoying life below the equator (unless one is looking at it from a "southern" perspective, then one would be above it?).

If I'm not mistaken, you folks have an entirely different problem there with feral cats, similar in some respects to your problems with foxes and rabbits, no? I'm assuming there is a year round "open season" on them. I can easily see your point of view of "euthanising" them on your property then.

I'll also hazard a guess you have no "open range" areas there? Your comment about stock getting into a neighboring farmer's land fits with many places in the eastern half of our country, but out west here there are many places where if you don't want the cows to eat your roses or cross your road, YOU better fence them out. (I have an interesting anecdote regarding that occurrence on a friend's ranch and a person who purchased a 40 acre parcel within the ranch's confines)

Mr Stuart, enjoy the rest of your summer, fall is approaching. I'm sure you'll appreciate the break in the heat. I'll be appreciating the break in the rain (hope hope hope).

Now, I'm hoping there is no nut kicking contest as we have no real need for such shenanigans, do we?


If there is, the WNKA (World Nut Kicking Association, official governing body of the sport) requires the contestants to wear a cup and to only wear slippers (Steel toes are an automatic disqualification. Fines will be incurred also, payable to Valsdad...... in cash, for tax purposes of course)

We need a volunteer to call the play by play also.

And do not, under any circumstance, schedule it on an evening when the Sharks are playing.

Geno

Where exactly is "the land of milk and honey"?. Scratch that. I see Australia.

I watched a program on your fantastic Bowerbird and it's struggle against extinction due to predation by non-native feral house cats. They were shown to be an enormous ecological problem in Australia.