Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Mean cat showed up,..

,..a few weeks ago,...took over the back yard.

It kept attacking my cats,..had to take one of them to the vet.

Anyway,..I caught it in a box trap and hauled it to the "cat" pound. (humane society)

It's about 4 miles from here.

That was about 10 days ago.

That cat is out in my back yard right now.

I can't figure it out.

You caught a neighbor's cat, they retrieved it, and now it is back home in your backyard.

Don't you have a gun? A 22 works just fine. If it won't fit in, it can't stay. Simple.

That's the only thing I can figure,...but it stays in my back yard about half the time.

I'm going to make an honest attempt to find out who owns it,..and if they don't fix the situation, they're going to have a much more difficult time retrieving it next time.

Trap it again take out into the country and feed it a lead pill.

Problem Solved......

And don't get upset Terry, We've got four cats.

trapping a cat twice in the same box trap is no small trick.

You might try the ol' Red Ryder solution. That is pretty effective and not very harmful.

A good dog would take care of this nicely.

That's really surprising.

Cats are akin to raccoons and possums and they get treated as such.

S....S....S.

That is all.

Train that damn possum to git after the cat and make him earn his keep.....or did ya eat him this spring?

Yeah,..I hate to take it that far.

Mainly I'm just miffed.

I'm out $40 for a box trap,..a damn good can of sardines that served as bait, and a trip to the humane society,..only to find the sumbitch back in my yard,..just sleeping out there like it's lived here all his life.

I wouldn't mind if it was civil,....but it's pretty onery.

Haven't seen the possum lately.

That mean ass cat might have et it.

Can of sardines and he et yer possum...I'd shoot the bassturd!

lolol,...

There is something in your yard the cat likes.

If you have a garden hose handy with one of those high pressure handgun looking nozzles then every time you see it just give it a solid squirt of water and keep the hose on it until it skeedaddles out of the yard. The remedy may have to be applied a few times but hopefully the cat will associate your yard with an unpleasant experience and find a friendlier place to hang around.

It's perfectly legal, no extra ordnance to buy and no angry neighbors showing up with a perforated tabby and demanding explanations or asking suspicious questions about a missing cat, perhaps even with a police officer in tow.

It might not work but it's free and certainly worth a try.

I can't get close enough to it for that.

It makes tracks whenever anybody steps out the back door.

I think I'm going to have to give the BB gun routine a try.

I've been wanting a new Red Ryder anyway.

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At one time we lived in a somewhat rural area outside of Billings. My cats lived in the garage and I left the garage door partially open so they could come and go. We fed them and took care of their vet bills and they kept the mice away. A perfect arrangement. About a 1/2 dozen times a year a strange cat would come around and raise hell, usually in the early AM. I'd stumble out of bed with the old single shot .22 loaded with CB caps. I've shot them out of the rafters, under the car, and in the front yard. Double bag in Albertsons grocery bags and toss in garbage. Problem solved. No guilt.