I was gonna let my dog out and noticed a kitten (what I thought) in the pasture. Dog is in heat. I thought this cat is gonna bolt when my dog runs out and she may chase it too far away from the house. I said fugk that kitten I’m getting a 22. Grabbed the Marlin 39 and first ammo in reach is subsonic . Oh well. Loaded a single round and slipped out the side garage door. Leveled the open sights and dropped the hammer. LOL. It hit the deck and twitched. I headed over to make sure it was quick. Stone cold dead . Note: there’s no houses for hundreds of yards. Shoulda kept it at home anyway . It was a solid 5 lb kitty .
The feral cats are thick here. They will sh it in every flower bed and garden around, tear up garbage and scratch up your vehicles. I would bet they kill more wildlife than any other animal. If they don't have a collar they should be treated like coyotes.
The feral cats are thick here. They will sh it in every flower bed and garden around, tear up garbage and scratch up your vehicles. I would bet they kill more wildlife than any other animal. If they don't have a collar they should be treated like coyotes.
I noticed cat paw tracks on my windshield this week. Channeling Shrapnel
Out where I live the coyotes do a great job of keeping feral cats in check. My closest neighbor is over a half mile away and the next one is over a mile. Feral cats generally haul ass when they get close to a human or even a vehicle. If they tarry I shoot them with the 10/22 I always have with me. They are extremely hard on song birds and any bird that nests on the ground.
I used to work with someone that was always trying to give away kittens. She kept saying my wife needed one. One time I told her they are good for target practice. She never asked me again.`
I've told this story a bunch and will continue to tell it as long as people discuss shooting cats. I was in Scheels waiting for the ammo cabinet to get unlocked. There were two groups ahead of me, a dude solo and a young couple. The salesman is talking to the solo dude who needed some 22 ammo. What kind, doesn't matter really, well, what are you doing with it? Shooting cats. I found the situation hilarious. The salesman man and the young lady did not, judging by their facial expressions.
Killed one last week… Only two neighbors within rifle range and neither likes cats… it’s only the second one I’ve seen in the 9 years I’ve been here… probably because we have a fairly healthy population of predators.
Feral cats get the axe whenever possible. For those of you who care about things like ground nesting birds and other small land animals (Texas horned lizards/horny toads are an example here), you should also be shooting whatever raccoons, skunks, armadillos and coyotes that you can. Now that trapping and fur prices are down in the toilet, a lot of the varmints that eat things like duck and quail eggs have gotten to be much more prolific than when fur prices motivated trappers to earn their keep.
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
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.
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 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.
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
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
Cats is more important to a homestead than your bichonfriese.
Pussy.
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.
Every House type cat we see here on this ranch is feral, we hunt birds for a living feral cats cost us to much,as do Coyotes Bobcats Skunks, ect. we kill everyone we see. No cat lovers here. Rio7
My late father lived next door to a cat lady. She fed and housed a bunch of feral cats. They had a two car garage unattached that the cats lived/crapped in. You could smell cat urine when going from dad’s driveway to his front door. Forget walking barefoot in the backyard with all the fecal matter. I offered my assistance in cat removal when he was alive but he liked his neighbors and wouldn’t hear of it.
After he passed while my brother and I cleaned out the house for sale I had a few words with her husband. We would find water and food dishes under dad’s back deck. I explained that we didn’t need the cat’s deterring potential buyers. Of course he didn’t know anything about it. Mysteriously the bowls vanished. Luckily for us they seemed to be less active while the house was for sale.
Old woman out the ridge from me keeps feeding some ferals. Once in a while they'll make it down my way. I've contemplated shooting them but figure as long as they keep to a reasonable perimeter away from my house they're fine. Don't see em much anyway, and don't see any damn mice either, so they must be hunting them out.
A Stinger behind the ear and pfft all nine lives gone instantaneously !
I’ve got over 50K of those in storage.
I much prefer standard velocity.
standard velocity , round nose , gut shot , it's extremely impressive how high a cat can jump straight up and double its size by its fur puffing up at the same time and man can they run when they hit the ground...
I was gonna let my dog out and noticed a kitten (what I thought) in the pasture. Dog is in heat. I thought this cat is gonna bolt when my dog runs out and she may chase it too far away from the house. I said fugk that kitten I’m getting a 22. Grabbed the Marlin 39 and first ammo in reach is subsonic . Oh well. Loaded a single round and slipped out the side garage door. Leveled the open sights and dropped the hammer. LOL. It hit the deck and twitched. I headed over to make sure it was quick. Stone cold dead . Note: there’s no houses for hundreds of yards. Shoulda kept it at home anyway . It was a solid 5 lb kitty .
You're misnaming the critter, which is almost as bad as misgendering. They're called "field lions". Bring enough gun. I do draw the line at cats that appear to be someone's pet. If they are in a field very close to a home, they get a pass---unless they're close to a farm, in which case they're likely a farm cat and farmers usually have plenty of 'em. .22 WMR is good medicine for the lions. I swear, some of them do have nine lives.
I used a .17 pellet rifle in my mother's yard, neigbors all around so any firearm was out... A pellet behind the ear sure makes them acrobatic for a few seconds; any others will pause for a bit to admire them.
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.
I don't keep one on mine either, he was always losing the breakaways and not gonna put one on him he can hang himself or get stuck with. He's fixed so he rarely goes out of the yard. Gotten attached to him but I've already told the fam that if something happens to him it is what it is. He's a mole, chipmunk, and snake killin joker...and yes, he will bring a bird up to the porch on occasion. But everyday I get home, he comes to the truck door and lays on his back and I have to scratch his belly as soon as I get out.
Ten or fifteen years ago the animal rights people in Virginia lobbied the legislature (Democrats) to pass laws protecting domestic animals from abuse. Well before they were thru writing and passing the bills they had included basically that you could not kill a domestic animal, yours or someone else's, without animal control and/or veterinarian approval/assistance. An exception is to protect yourself or property from an attack.
Shooting a dog or cat in Virginia may subject you to jail time and fines, or at the very least an expensive court battle.
Cats is more important to a homestead than your bichonfriese.
Pussy.
I have to put out traps for mice and rabbits these days, never had to do that when we had our old black cat. He lived to be about 20, fox finally got him. Ornery old cat but a killing machine, used to leave rabbit's feet and hearts on the back step for us, the wife loved that LOL. I was the only one he ever warmed up to because I didn't treat him like a pet and gave him his space. He'd climb up on my lap, but only because I didn't try to pet him, just a little scratch behind the ears.
When I lived in the 'burbs, many fell to a 10/22 or a Mark II. Most were shot under my bird feeders. My libtard neighbor ran an ad, in the weekly free paper, about what is happening to all the cats in the neighborhood? My wife got upset and said no more noise from a 22. I tried sub sonics and they only wounded the cat. It left a bloody trail to underneath the libtard's car and died there. Fortunately, I got the pressure washer on the sidewalk before they came asking if I knew what happened to their cat. After that I went back to CCI Stingers.
I enjoy watching and listening to birds too much to have cats around.
Now that I am on 22 acres, the raccoons, foxes, coyotes, hawks, owls and eagles keep the feral cat issue as a non-issue.
Cats is more important to a homestead than your bichonfriese.
Pussy.
I have to put out traps for mice and rabbits these days, never had to do that when we had our old black cat. He lived to be about 20, fox finally got him. Ornery old cat but a killing machine, used to leave rabbit's feet and hearts on the back step for us, the wife loved that LOL. I was the only one he ever warmed up to because I didn't treat him like a pet and gave him his space. He'd climb up on my lap, but only because I didn't try to pet him, just a little scratch behind the ears.
He was a good cat.
I will take dealing with traps over stepping in cat schitt. All that stuff does is smear around like peanut butter on the bottom of your shoes.
Ten or fifteen years ago the animal rights people in Virginia lobbied the legislature (Democrats) to pass laws protecting domestic animals from abuse. Well before they were thru writing and passing the bills they had included basically that you could not kill a domestic animal, yours or someone else's, without animal control and/or veterinarian approval/assistance. An exception is to protect yourself or property from an attack.
Shooting a dog or cat in Virginia may subject you to jail time and fines, or at the very least an expensive court battle.
When I was in my late teens there was a cat in the neighborhood that would piss in any vehicle that had a window even slightly open. I have never figured out how it could even get in a position to do that to many of them. Also, my mother had an old cat that started spraying furniture, which she wanted me to get rid of, but not where she could hear. I found an old sack to carry her cat, (a good use for old burlap rice sacks?) intending to take it to the dump to shoot it, and my pistol. Just then the stray popped it's head up, as mother's cat was noisily objecting; I shot the stray, then realized neighbors were watching. They grinned and gave me a thumbs up, no doubt they had their car pissed in, too.
Cats is more important to a homestead than your bichonfriese.
Pussy.
I have to put out traps for mice and rabbits these days, never had to do that when we had our old black cat. He lived to be about 20, fox finally got him. Ornery old cat but a killing machine, used to leave rabbit's feet and hearts on the back step for us, the wife loved that LOL. I was the only one he ever warmed up to because I didn't treat him like a pet and gave him his space. He'd climb up on my lap, but only because I didn't try to pet him, just a little scratch behind the ears.
He was a good cat.
I will take dealing with traps over stepping in cat schitt. All that stuff does is smear around like peanut butter on the bottom of your shoes.
I'm not a cat lover but like I said he was a good cat. I never saw any of his shìt much less stepped in it.
when I was about 8 years old my parents bought another farm three or four miles from where we lived. there's an old three story house (that included the basement) been an old couple lived in on this place. it was dilapidated and needed to be dozed in but it was agreed the couple could live there as long as they wanted.. as time goes on everyone begins to realize just how many cats there are running around this place. actually want seen the old lady (which I guess was probably starting to suffer from Alzheimer's) pour her some cereal and milk in a bowl with her breakfast table and about six or eight cats jumped on the table and ate out the same bowl she was.. the old man kind of screams out but damn cats are taking over the place, she jumped on him for cussing I thought it was quite funny at that age.. a couple years later they ended up going to the rest home. and it was my job at that point to start shooting cats.. I shot cats daily for a couple years. actually a pretty sad deal
My home health wound care nurse came to see me last week. I noticed bandages in his arm and he then displayed some on his bandaged legs. He had made a home visit and the ladies cat had attacked him! Bit his arm and scratched upper his legs. He had had problems with dogs before but a cat attack was a first. He had to fill out a workman’s comp form and check to see about the cat’s vaccinations. It wasn’t vaccinated and he’s worried bout cat scratch fever or worse. He was an EMT for 10 years before going into nursing and has a doctorate in nursing now. Has a wealth of experience and stories.
My home health wound care nurse came to see me last week. I noticed bandages in his arm and he then displayed some on his bandaged legs. He had made a home visit and the ladies cat had attacked him! Bit his arm and scratched upper his legs. He had had problems with dogs before but a cat attack was a first. He had to fill out a workman’s comp form and check to see about the cat’s vaccinations. It wasn’t vaccinated and he’s worried bout cat scratch fever or worse. He was an EMT for 10 years before going into nursing and has a doctorate in nursing now. Has a wealth of experience and stories.
When my buds first born was maybe 2 they had a house with a single car garage and the kids bigger outdoor type toys were all in there so they could get the little truck and whatever else out on the drive to play.
He used to leave the garage door up when weather was decent and never thought much of it until the toys and garage started smelling like piss.
One day he happened to look through the 9 window door that split the back room and garage and saw a tomcat in the garage passing on some stuff. He had a pump up Daisy .22 pellet rifle at the time so he got it loaded and pumped and eased that door open and gave the cat a pellet to the airbags, cat took off towards the old neighbor ladies house and he thought good enough.
A few days later he was talking to the old gal and she brought up a dead cat between her house and bushes and wanted him to get it out and gone. He was thinking oh he'll, I done killed the old ladies cat but come to find out she was tired of it pissing all over the bushes as they ran up to her front porch.
He had another get in the garage one day and was able to reach out and hit the button to lower the door. Cat just stood there watching the door go down. Once it was doen it got the .22 pellet treatment.
Made a few laps around the garage, up and over everything before it bled out and took the dirt nap. Looked like a murder scene for sure.
40+ years ago I worked at a Steel Shop The owners daughter was feeding the Feral Cats They would piss and crap all over the Steel and our Tools. Right before Deer Season the Foreman and (2) Son In-laws to the owner (1) married to the the girl feeding the cats. Decided on doing some hunting practice. The Foreman brought in a Bow and Arrow set up , the (2) Son in-laws brought in 22 cal rifles on a Saturday when the shop was closed.
The Foreman told me that they hunted cats for 2 hours and he was shooting 3 cats at a time with 1 arrow they were so thick.
They filled up a large trash bin with the body's.
The next Monday the girl was wondering where all her cats where only about 10 to maybe 15 showed up to be fed.
I got kinda pissed because they did not invite me to the cleansing.
Feral cats can be real nasty when you get to many in a small area.
The girl never found out what her husband and other 2 did.
My late father lived next door to a cat lady. She fed and housed a bunch of feral cats. They had a two car garage unattached that the cats lived/crapped in. You could smell cat urine when going from dad’s driveway to his front door. Forget walking barefoot in the backyard with all the fecal matter. I offered my assistance in cat removal when he was alive but he liked his neighbors and wouldn’t hear of it.
After he passed while my brother and I cleaned out the house for sale I had a few words with her husband. We would find water and food dishes under dad’s back deck. I explained that we didn’t need the cat’s deterring potential buyers. Of course he didn’t know anything about it. Mysteriously the bowls vanished. Luckily for us they seemed to be less active while the house was for sale.
Should of put antifreeze in the water dish, it works
Lilies are lethally toxic to cats. In fact, they are so poisonous that a cat can suffer fatal kidney failure just from biting into a lily leaf or petal, licking lily pollen from its paws, or drinking water from a vase containing cut lilies. The lily toxin, which only affects cats, has not been identified. If dogs ingest lilies, they do not develop kidney failure, although they may have an upset stomach.
All members of the plant genus Lilium produce a chemical that is present in all parts of the plant that can damage cat kidneys. However, Easter lilies (Lilium longiflorum), Stargazer lilies (Lilium ‘ Stargazer’ hybrid), and Asiatic lilies (Lilium asiaticum) seem to be the most hazardous. Daylilies, which are in the genus Hemerocallis, are also toxic to cats and can cause kidney failure. Other types of lilies that are not in the genus Lilium, such as calla lilies and peace lilies, do not cause kidney failure in cats, but can still be harmful. Lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis) can cause heart problems when ingested, including irregular heartbeat and low blood pressure, which can lead to seizures or coma.
Some cats appear to be more susceptible than others are to lily toxicity. The severity of the resulting kidney failure also varies from cat to cat. Some poisoned cats recover with minimal therapy, while others require costly dialysis to live long enough for the kidneys to possibly repair themselves. Many affected cats never recover kidney function following lily toxicity, and die or are euthanized within days of becoming ill. If you think your cat may have chewed on or ingested lily, seek veterinary care immediately.
People who prop up cats as beneficial in some way, ought to keep them contained to the area that's benefitting from their presence, instead of trying to convince intelligent people that roaming cats are anything less than the detriment to nature that they really are.
BTW DD is 100% right about 22 CBs. Headshots are quite effective.
Rancher in the valley used to occasionally call a buddy and me to help thin out the coyotes. They left the attached garage door open about 6” so the cats could get in and out. One night he awoke to a hell of a ruckus in the garage. He went in there and threw on the light to four coyotes chasing the cats back and forth from under the cars, on the shelves and tool boxes. Stuff flying everywhere. Apparently the wife left the door up a bit too high that evening. We went out a few nights later and used a cat in distress call. Had six coyotes come into that call almost immediately.
We weren’t allowed to shoot the cats but there wasn’t a need as the coyotes kept them in check.
Rancher in the valley used to occasionally call a buddy and me to help thin out the coyotes. They left the attached garage door open about 6” so the cats could get in and out. One night he awoke to a hell of a ruckus in the garage. He went in there and threw on the light to four coyotes in there chasing the cats back and forth from under the cars, on the shelves and tool boxes. Stuff flying everywhere. Apparently the wife left the door up a bit too high that evening. We went out a few nights later and used a cat in distress call. Had six coyotes come into that call almost immediately.
We weren’t allowed to shoot the cats but there wasn’t a need as the coyotes kept them in check.
Rancher in the valley used to occasionally call a buddy and me to help thin out the coyotes. They left the attached garage door open about 6” so the cats could get in and out. One night he awoke to a hell of a ruckus in the garage. He went in there and threw on the light to four coyotes in there chasing the cats back and forth from under the cars, on the shelves and tool boxes. Stuff flying everywhere. Apparently the wife left the door up a bit too high that evening. We went out a few nights later and used a cat in distress call. Had six coyotes come into that call almost immediately.
We weren’t allowed to shoot the cats but there wasn’t a need as the coyotes kept them in check.
I would pay just to see that show.🤣🤣
When he opened the door and hit the lights he said the cats made a dash for the house with the coyotes hot on their trail until they we just a few feet away from him with the cats running between his legs. Both he and the yotes turned tail and ran. Him for the house and the dogs for the garage door. They were hauling ass across the field by the time he returned with the gun.
Rancher in the valley used to occasionally call a buddy and me to help thin out the coyotes. They left the attached garage door open about 6” so the cats could get in and out. One night he awoke to a hell of a ruckus in the garage. He went in there and threw on the light to four coyotes in there chasing the cats back and forth from under the cars, on the shelves and tool boxes. Stuff flying everywhere. Apparently the wife left the door up a bit too high that evening. We went out a few nights later and used a cat in distress call. Had six coyotes come into that call almost immediately.
We weren’t allowed to shoot the cats but there wasn’t a need as the coyotes kept them in check.
I would pay just to see that show.🤣🤣
When he opened the door and hit the lights he said the cats made a dash for the house with the coyotes hot on their trail until they we just a few feet away from him with the cats running between his legs. Both he and the yotes turned tail and ran. Him for the house and the dogs for the garage door. They were hauling ass across the field by the time he returned with the gun.
Too bad there were no security cameras inside to see all of the commotion before someone disturbed them.
Rancher in the valley used to occasionally call a buddy and me to help thin out the coyotes. They left the attached garage door open about 6” so the cats could get in and out. One night he awoke to a hell of a ruckus in the garage. He went in there and threw on the light to four coyotes in there chasing the cats back and forth from under the cars, on the shelves and tool boxes. Stuff flying everywhere. Apparently the wife left the door up a bit too high that evening. We went out a few nights later and used a cat in distress call. Had six coyotes come into that call almost immediately.
We weren’t allowed to shoot the cats but there wasn’t a need as the coyotes kept them in check.
I would pay just to see that show.🤣🤣
When he opened the door and hit the lights he said the cats made a dash for the house with the coyotes hot on their trail until they we just a few feet away from him with the cats running between his legs. Both he and the yotes turned tail and ran. Him for the house and the dogs for the garage door. They were hauling ass across the field by the time he returned with the gun.
Too bad there were no security cameras inside to see all of the commotion before someone disturbed them.
That was around 2005 before those were a thing. It would have been funny as hell to have seen it though. We laughed our butts off just listening to him tell the story and seeing some of the mess.
Sister-in-law keeps 2 (useless) cats out at the ranch. Feeds the bastids so much, they won't hunt. One reason to own a suppressor, I think. Neighbors in town feed feral cats - 10 pounds of feed, or so, free choice. I have a couple of live traps, catch them, and take them to the ranch - a one-way trip thanks to Mr. Mossberg. If anyone sees me, and asks - I'm "taking them to the ranch, they need a new home".
If you live in the sticks you have to have barn cats, mice and pak rats will over run your vehicle’s , all 4 wheeler’s, tractor’s, RV , anything they can get into, I feed my cats every night when I lock them up in barns. I know mice move at night but can’t have cats out with coyotes roaming, I have a lot of money in these cats but it is nothing compared to taking a feed truck apart to fix all your heating and Ac systems because of rats, I shoot all strange wild cats because of baby turkeys and quail and disease to my cats, you can’t live without them out here and I treat all storage with mothballs too for mice.
We used to have some around because my old neighbor fed them. He’s dead, and now I’m the old neighbor, but I just feed birds, squirrels, and rabbits… plus the two pigs next door. The cats have left.
All those critters come when I whistle, even the woodpeckers. Funny as schitt….
The old guy that owned the farm I hunted on in the 80s once took a poke at a “fox” with his .22/.250. At the shot, the critter flew into the air and he knew he’d just shot his barn cat. The cat disappeared for a few weeks, but finally came back, with an eye missing.
My father used to have an old Jeep Cherokee at their vacation house. In the Winter, he'd cover the Jeep and in the Spring the mice would eat the inside of the Jeep and schit everywhere. So when he'd put away the Jeep for the Winter, he used to put Decon in there to kill the mice. In the Spring there would be dead mice in it and stunk really bad. One Fall he was talking to a lady at the hardware store and she said to put moth balls in there and it would keep the mice out. So he did along with Decon. The following Spring, it was filled with dead mice and the Jeep smelled like dead mice and moth balls. We never got the smell out of it. The Jeep's nickname was "The Mouse Mobile".
Had a stray that came around 7 years ago. Very wild. Put a bit of food out to keep it interested as we had problems with mice on the porch. She stuck around and took care of the mice. Moved her to a new house we moved to that had a detached garage infested with mice. She sleeps in that garage and keeps the mice out of a 68 Pontiac and tractor I store there.
Now have a second stray that sleeps in a outdoor kennel near the house I use to store firewood, no more mice there either.
Chipmunk population around the house is also way down. Have also found 2 large moles the cats caught and killed but apparently dont want to eat.
When we moved here we used to hear owls calling around the house most nights as apparently there was ample food for them. Now hear them calling from the woods but rarely by the house.
A true feral cat is something spectacular in a live trap. They turn satanic.
A guy I used to work for had trouble with a tom cat coming over and pissing around his house. I took a box trap over and we sat in his screened in porch and waited for the cat. When the trap door fell, that cat practically turned himself inside out and went berserk. We took him across the river and let him go, never had a problem after that.
We had a big, yellow tomcat makin' trouble on our property. I caught him in a box trap (not a Havahart, but a cheap knockoff sold by Tractor Supply).
I was carrying the trap to my truck, to take him for a looong ride, when he slammed around and actually bent the trap enough to squeeze out! It only took him a few seconds.
Unfortunately, shooting was not an option, not where I live.
A true feral cat is something spectacular in a live trap. They turn satanic.
Was at a buddies one afternoon shooting the breeze around the rear of my truck when his wife noticed a catch cage in the back of my truck. Asked what I did with it and I told her I was catching critters and cats from a farmers barn because they were schitting on his stack of lumber he used for wood working.
She asked how I got the cats out once I had em in there because when they accidentally had a cat in their live traps it would go crazy.
I glanced at her husband and he was just grinning. I told he no problem, just grabbed the trap by the back end, opened the door and kind of shook the trap open end down and they just kind of slid out. It took her a second but she put 2 and 2 together and said , "Oh, you're killing them them". Yep, you're right I said not turning them loose to keep schitting on everything again. Everybody had a little laugh.
I used to trap problem cats with a box type rabbit trap. Drive across a river and pull the door open. One time I did it with a big tom cat while rolling reached through the back glass. He came out. Jumped over the cab of the.truck. Slid off the corner of the hood and landed right in front of the tire. Ran right over his head. Perfect ending. Animal nuts here have convinced the.legislature that harming a dog or cat is a felony so you can't handle nuisance animal problems like shooting one anymore.
I had a somewhat feral cat in the backyard a few days ago. Yes, I can easily shoot there. I let it be, if it hung around too much, or grabbed one of my bluebirds(in season) I’d take action.
My Cooper 17 HMR is the preferred iron for the task.
My uncle is a farmer and he told us boys to shoot all cats we see. He says feral cats are killing off all the quail in his area. They had an abundance of feral cats around his place. We started killing all we could get a shot at. He says they will kill out whole coveys of quail.
An area I walked my dog, I started seeing bowls of water and cat food. After a few weeks I see an older lady refilling the bowls. I ask what she was doing, she said she felt sorry for the cats. I says, you are just bringing the cats to a place where the coyotes can get them easier. No more bowls.
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They're called "field lions". Bring enough gun. 
I do draw the line at cats that appear to be someone's pet. If they are in a field very close to a home, they get a pass---unless they're close to a farm, in which case they're likely a farm cat and farmers usually have plenty of 'em. .22 WMR is good medicine for the lions. I swear, some of them do have nine lives.
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