Feral cat problem

[waksupi]

James, if you don't want to do the research, you probably have absolutely no business hand loading ammunition.

[Trey45]

James, if you don't want to do the research, you probably have absolutely no business hand loading ammunition.

yup..

[Alan in Vermont]

Sell them to a Chinese restaurant

Yup!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmXxrMC5Pv4

[canyon-ghost]

.22 in the head. Quick easy and painless

Texas has no season on rabbits, you can get a license and book from the courthouse for deer season. I think the book is free.

[Suo Gan]

You have to understand something, feral cats, or even semi tame cats roaming at large are disease ridden (fleas, parasites, feces), very hard on wildlife, and in my opinion are an eye sore, an ear sore, they make your place smell like a zoo, and have about as much right to life than a rat or cockroach. This is an any means necessary thing.

[Trifocals]

Some years ago, I had a wildlife pest control business and had to deal with the fact that critters I live trapped could be rabid. Rabies is a VERY REAL possibility with feral cats and small wild animals and is a danger to yourself and others if you turn them loose to continue to roam. The vehicle exhaust system is humane. It is painless to the animal. Another method is to use carbon dioxide (CO2). Simply build a wooden box with a hinged or removable lid just large enough for your live trap to fit into and put a male air hose coupler fitting into a hole drilled into the box. You can rent a cylinder of CO2 from any welding gas supplier. Put a regulator on the CO2 cylinder and a length of hose with a female air hose quick coupler on the regulator. Simply put the live trap with the trapped animal into the box, close the lid, attach the hose from the CO2 to the box and turn on the CO2. Very low pressure or flow of CO2 is needed. The idea is to displace the air/oxygen in the box with CO2. In 15 - 20 minutes the animal will have expired. Several baits are useful for cats i.e.: dry cat food, cheap sardines, tuna...anything with a fishy smell or taste will work. However, these baits can/will attract possums, raccoons and on occasion skunks. Any of these animals can carry rabies. If you live trap a skunk do the following. Hold a large beach towel or small blanket in front of you as you slowly approach the live trap. Watch the skunk. If it begins to stomp its front feet , STOP. That is a warning. When the skunk has calmed down continue to approach the trap. When you reach the trap, drape the towel or blanket over the live trap. If the skunk cannot see you it will not spray. Pick up the draped trap and insert it into the CO2 box and proceed as above. Handle carcasses only with gloves. LOL Trifocals

[dsmjon]

Personally, I'd go with a 22. Cheap, and quick. No need to waste a useless nasty old sack on a damn ol' cat!

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[dsmjon]

Some years ago, I had a wildlife pest control business and had to deal with the fact that critters I live trapped could be rabid. Rabies is a VERY REAL possibility with feral cats and small wild animals and is a danger to yourself and others if you turn them loose to continue to roam. The vehicle exhaust system is humane. It is painless to the animal. Another method is to use carbon dioxide (CO2). Simply build a wooden box with a hinged or removable lid just large enough for your live trap to fit into and put a male air hose coupler fitting into a hole drilled into the box. You can rent a cylinder of CO2 from any welding gas supplier. Put a regulator on the CO2 cylinder and a length of hose with a female air hose quick coupler on the regulator. Simply put the live trap with the trapped animal into the box, close the lid, attach the hose from the CO2 to the box and turn on the CO2. Very low pressure or flow of CO2 is needed. The idea is to displace the air/oxygen in the box with CO2. In 15 - 20 minutes the animal will have expired. Several baits are useful for cats i.e.: dry cat food, cheap sardines, tuna...anything with a fishy smell or taste will work. However, these baits can/will attract possums, raccoons and on occasion skunks. Any of these animals can carry rabies. If you live trap a skunk do the following. Hold a large beach towel or small blanket in front of you as you slowly approach the live trap. Watch the skunk. If it begins to stomp its front feet , STOP. That is a warning. When the skunk has calmed down continue to approach the trap. When you reach the trap, drape the towel or blanket over the live trap. If the skunk cannot see you it will not spray. Pick up the draped trap and insert it into the CO2 box and proceed as above. Handle carcasses only with gloves. LOL Trifocals

And if YOU get sleepy while doing this, stop what you're doing and go outside quickly. Else there might be a cat murder/suicide story on your nightly news....

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[L1A1Rocker]

What's the best way to dispose of the cat carcass?

[oneokie]

What's the best way to dispose of the cat carcass?

In one of Dean D.'s postholes.

[dsmjon]

What's the best way to dispose of the cat carcass?

Dispose? Hell, leave it as a warning to the other cats!

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[dsmjon]

What's the best way to dispose of the cat carcass?

Dispose? Hell, leave it as a warning to the other cats!

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[geargnasher]

Ok, FIRST, there are some pretty severe legal issues here in Texas with what some of you are suggesting.

1. It is a State Jail Felony to cause one animal to fight another (old cock and dogfight laws, but no matter, it covers ALL animals), so trapping a cat and releasing it so a dog will deliberately kill it is a MAJOR no-no, and running your mouth to some tofu-muncher-in-training is going to get you in a world of s**t that you can't even imagine. But really I should let you find all this out for yourself!

2. Can't shoot 'em. Not legally, anyhow. What really needs to happen to the feral cat menace is simply kill them as humanely as you can and bury them DEEP. Keep your mouth shut. Unfortunately, the lawmakers don't cotton to that. Law enforcement and the judicial system can go either way, depending on their motivations.

3. The local, taxpayer-funded county rabies and animal control agency needs to be the one to handle this, and the head dog-catcher is an elected position IIRC, so you need to get in contact with HIM/HER and tell them exactly what your problem is, offer them the solution of catching them for you (they probably won't like that much, but you can press the issue), and remind them that their JOB as a public service is to handle problems like the one you have, and you're even offering to help by trapping them. Be firm but polite.

Don't think you won't get nailed to the wall if you get caught or turned in by someone who thinks you're "torturing cats", because if things get slow around there with law enforcement, or somebody's trying to win an election, you might just end up being turned into an example or political pawn.

But again, I should just let you figger this all out for yourself, maybe you'll get lucky.

Research "cruelty to an animal" in the Texas Criminal Code, the game laws, and the Health and Safety Code and see the guidelines by which your actions can be judged before you do something stupid.

Gear

[Jamesconn]

Yea ok sorry guys I'll research it.
Ive researched reloading for months during almost every waking moment cause it interested me.
Killing is no longer an option my father apparently just turned tree-bigger on me.
Yes having women do some work for me is wrong but it seems I can't get into anymore trouble with them.
I will have to search for a humane method but it seems like I haven't any time if I catch another cat tomorrow I'll have to do it.
I baited the traps today with sliced apples on somebody's suggestion.

[Blacksmith]

Apples will catch groundhogs not cats. Be very carefull with all wild animals last week we just had a ferrel cat bite two people in the high school parking lot it was confirmed it had rabies. Those two are getting shots and they are looking for others who may have been exposed. Untreated rabies is fatal in humans.

PS - If it needs to be tested for rabies don't shoot it in the head, that is what they need to test.

Blacksmith

[crabo]

crabo are you pulling our legs? usually we would shoot reject bullets out of the sling shot lube will just junk up the pouch. Round balls work good but it seems the longer projectiles hit with a bit more authority roller bearings are great also!

yep!yep!

[Beagler]

All the rabbits vanished around my area. Between the cats, foxes, hawks, and now the coyotes its gettin real hard for the Beagles and I to scare up a bunny. I trap, shoot, run over, every cat I can! I hate'em. The cats ruined my Ghost Peppers last year. Those seeds where not cheep. Not to the mention time growing them. A .22 CB to the head and its all over for the kitty. The mother-in-law decided to start feeding them one year and they started disappearing (cough cough). She figured out what was going on and said I couldn't wack a big orange male. Well I saw it spraying the truck and that was it the 17HMR came out. She would notice it missing so I threw it up on the road and ran it over with the truck. She boo-hoo'ed and she scraped it up with the shovel. I can be a mean bastard!!

[WILCO]

She figured out what was going on and said I couldn't wack a big orange male. Well I saw it spraying the truck and that was it the 17HMR came out. She would notice it missing so I threw it up on the road and ran it over with the truck. She boo-hoo'ed and she scraped it up with the shovel. I can be a mean bastard!!

That's just too damn funny!

[WILCO]

but it seems I can't get into anymore trouble with them.

Quickest way to lose half your things and sit in jail is to get involved with the wrong one.

[firefly1957]

Beagler I have used the simulated road kill trick myself only I ended up using 7 passes to remove bullet hole.

Ghost peppers I did not get many peppers of my plant I am only up to 16 and the plant is over two years old (indoor plant) Do you want some seeds ? if so PM me I have some available from the peppers.