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They kill over a billion song birds annually in US

I did my part. Fugker keeled over like Paul Bernard at Bonnaroo.

When I first moved here there were a lot of feral cats. The population has dwindled to near zero; I have helped, but much of the credit goes, I believe, to coyotes and horned owls. Racoons are another non-native to this area, but I seldom see them even though there are plenty of tracks. I leave skunks alone near my house, so far they haven't caused any unpleasantness and they are good grasshopper eaters, also raid mouse nests.

I have one that has taken up residence on my roof. It's mostly with with some orange and yellow coloration. I really would like to shoot the damn thing as it pees on my truck. Problem is there is no safe direction to take a shot without endangering people or expensive stuff like a freezer in my shed which out be in the line of fire.
There used to be a very large coal black cat but this one has apparently run it off.
There is a narrow space between the shed and my back fence. Whenever I kick that cat out it runs for that space. It might be a good place to spot a snare ot two. I'll have to think on that for a while.
PJ

How much bandwidth do you reckon the pumpkin stabbing video takes up when it's qouted again and again?

Awe [bleep], it's your fuggin sig line you [bleep]!

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The Kangaroo Island Cat Man

what recipe will you be using?

Neither of my cats have a collar but they keep coming home. Can’t get rid of them. One of them got a big rat and walked down the street with it, so none of the neighbors mind them roaming. Rats aren’t native here.

We need to lobby our fish&game depts. to establish a bounty on ferals.

Yeah, I know. Too many bleeding heart do-gooders to ever allow that. So the utterly stupid catch-neuter-release programs will continue. Catch-euthanize-throw in a dumpster would be a real solution.

Cats is more important to a homestead than your bichonfriese.


Pussy.

Who gives a fugg?

Too noisy anyway.

Pard, pard listen this is a thread about shooting cats, not dogs.

I go on the warpath every so often here on farm. Too much inbreeding gives rise to some nasty meat tomcats! I kill them with a vengeance. The one big one killed a newborn fawn across the street this spring. I got him in the open a few days later with the .22 MK II. I have one more to kill with extreme prejudice before winter sets in! I let the girls live as long as they are good hunters, if not, they will succumb when they least expect it!

I hate cats. You don't want em dead, keep em the fuuck home.

I have trapped two or three and taken them to the county animal shelter. Not safe for me to shoot around my house. Contrary to what I would have thought, ferals are large and muscular - not scrawny from living off the land. The giveaway of their identity is their scarred face and going nuts when caged and approached by a human.

Maybe a Sheridan 5mm would work? Or a Conibear?

A Stinger behind the ear and pfft all nine lives gone instantaneously !

I'm a little torn on feral cats. On one hand I know the population can get out of control, but on the other, it's kind of a choice between living with cats or living with mice and packrats. I have heard it said, there are two kinds of country dwellings; those which have mice and those which have cats.
As far as shooting them goes, I find it's not usually necessary. The dog keeps them in line and away from the house. Predators a little higher up in the chain skim the excess. GD

Yup. In some areas on ranches the mice are an incredible destructor of nearly everything including wiring, vehicles, atvs… etc. Park a vehicle out on range grass and overnight mice will be up in the engine compartment chewing away.
keeping cats around takes care of that. I still hear plenty of song birds.

Osky

"Maybe a Sheridan 5mm would work?"

It does.