Need advice - stray cats

[Tiziano]

You can plant things to discourage cats, such as geranium, pennyroyal, rue, lavender, garlic, lemon thyme, lemon verbena, and other strongly scented plants. You can also lay chicken wire in your flower beds, as cats dislike like walking on wire. In addition to chicken wire, you can use pine cones, nut shells, and short stakes to discourage cats from walking in your yard; cats also don't like walking on coffee grounds and eggshells, both of which happen to make great fertilizer.
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[NightAngel]

anybody want a kitty? for free?

Can you tell me if the cat in the top left corner next to the white one is a male or female? Our kitty went missing about 10 months ago and we still look for him.

 

[NightAngel]

Gross. You have got to let your neighbor know they are creating a nuisance. It is only a matter of time before litters appear, compounding the matter. Get a nuisance animal removal service to round them up. I made a trap once out of a pet crate-opened it, put a plate of food in it, and had a string tied to the open door. When the cat goes in (and they will for food) just pull the string and 'snap', you have the cat. Feral cats are a huge problem around here. They tug at our heart strings, but these guys live miserable lives, are dangerous to kids and kill native birds and small animals. Someone needs to step up, adopt and spay/neuter them or they need to be euthanized.

So, just round them up and kill them? Seriously??? Our cat went missing about 10 months ago and we have looked and looked and looked for him. One night I saw a cat on the animal shelter website that looked so much like him but I needed to know a couple of things before we could be sure. It took 3 days to finally get someone who knew anything and it turns out that they had no idea where they picked him up and apparently he had already been euthenized but his profile was still up. My son was almost positive that was him but it was already too late. Now we will never know if they killed our cat before we had a chance to get him. I was so upset I told my son they had adopted him out as to not make him upset.
So, PLEASE try to contact a no kill shelter before you deal with the animal control, they have no heart and they kill them within a week.

 

[kitlit]

So, just round them up and kill them? Seriously??? Our cat went missing about 10 months ago and we have looked and looked and looked for him. One night I saw a cat on the animal shelter website that looked so much like him but I needed to know a couple of things before we could be sure. It took 3 days to finally get someone who knew anything and it turns out that they had no idea where they picked him up and apparently he had already been euthenized but his profile was still up. My son was almost positive that was him but it was already too late. Now we will never know if they killed our cat before we had a chance to get him. I was so upset I told my son they had adopted him out as to not make him upset.
So, PLEASE try to contact a no kill shelter before you deal with the animal control, they have no heart and they kill them within a week.

I completely understand what you're saying, and I sympathize. I'm so sorry that you've lost your kitty, but I take offense to your saying that the folks up at Animal Control have "no heart".

I think that they work very hard to do all that they can but unfortunately, like most of the other shelters around here, their hands are so often tied by circumstances they cannot, individually, control.

In a perfect world, they'd all be No Kill shelters. It is not a perfect world.

They are limited by funding, rules, and the fact that they are simply overwhelmed by sheer numbers! And, while there may have been a chance that, had time allowed, you and your kitty could have had a happy reunion, there are dozens upon dozens that DON'T have anybody looking for them.

I wish to God we could save them all! However, I think it's a little heartless on your part to accuse these workers (who are, after all, just making a living, doing the job they've been hired to do) of being heartless. I have no doubt that they go home each night, wishing that there had been a little more time, that they could have done a little bit more.

 

[scooterbug44]

It would be nice if there was room and homes for all of these animals, but unfortunately every shelter is full, funding is down, and people are dumping more pets every day.

Dia posted a picture of 4 unwanted cats in her yard - and that's just those who posed for that picture.

My cats have ranged from 1-6 ................... and I want ZERO! Nasty noisy animals who think the world is their litterbox.

 

[NightAngel]

I completely understand what you're saying, and I sympathize. I'm so sorry that you've lost your kitty, but I take offense to your saying that the folks up at Animal Control have "no heart".

I think that they work very hard to do all that they can but unfortunately, like most of the other shelters around here, their hands are so often tied by circumstances they cannot, individually, control.

In a perfect world, they'd all be No Kill shelters. It is not a perfect world.

They are limited by funding, rules, and the fact that they are simply overwhelmed by sheer numbers! And, while there may have been a chance that, had time allowed, you and your kitty could have had a happy reunion, there are dozens upon dozens that DON'T have anybody looking for them.

I wish to God we could save them all! However, I think it's a little heartless on your part to accuse these workers (who are, after all, just making a living, doing the job they've been hired to do) of being heartless. I have no doubt that they go home each night, wishing that there had been a little more time, that they could have done a little bit more.

Oh, I promise you, I say that and mean it. It took me 3 days to find someone who would look into it and about 10 calls. I would call and someone would promise to call me right back, they never would so I would call again and again and again. I found 1 person who finally told me that they had euthanized the cat and she sounded very robotic and I never got one ounce of sympathy about the situation from anyone in animal control so excuse me if I find it hard to believe that they have a heart.

 

[LuciferSam]

Of all the animals running loose and reproducing at will, the last thing I worry about is stray cats.