One more good reason to shoot cats

[fatnhappy]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4729810.stm

[Dale53]

Reading the article, I see that there are 78,000,000 domestic cats in the U.S. There are another (est.) 78,000,000 feral cats. Man, that's a lot of targets... We're goin' to have to get crackin' if we want to make some headway! :Fire:

Dale53

[Buckshot]

................HA! Time to break out the lawn chair in the back yard with some 22RF Aguila SSS Super Snipers. Scudders drop down in the yard and skirt along the wooden back fence, then out between it and the neighbor's chain link. The neighbors have a couple big dogs so the cats use my side of the fence.

...............Buckshot

[OldBob]

Convienent ! Toss the carcass over the fence and the pups convert it to a playtoy, food, and fertilizer, ecologically very sound and no need to shovel !

[carpetman]

With all the other problems California already has,certainly a bunch of mentally retarded sea otters running around is not needed. 78million domestic and 78 million feral cats in US and the number has doubled past ten years the article says. Can you imagine what the next ten years will bring? Back about 1989 I bought a used homemade live trap for $12.00. This morning I have a coon in it. When animal control opens I call them and they come haul it off. Same with possums and cats. Skunks they euthanize on the spot. A new trap I think is about $60,but they last forever so to speak. I would hazzard to guess how many critters I've caught during the years Ive had the trap. The only problem is I have to suffer the embarrassment of being seen buying cans of cat food(bait). Fish flavored cat food seems the best bait. Funny thing is if the bait has been there a few days,a coon is most likely what I will catch---they seem to like the stinky stuff.

[Frank46]

We's gonna need belt feds with plenty of ammo to even make a dent in the feline population. My uncle had a dairy farm in pennsylvania. Darned cats were all over the place. You could not take a step and not hit one. But they sure didn't have any mice around. Frank

[Ed Barrett]

Probably no birds either.

[Scrounger]

Probably no birds either.

Nor a CarpetMan. He and his sheep are probably on the way there now...

[KCSO]

We talk of shooting cats ect...

Yesterday in Iowa the Chief of Police in a small community was charged with cruelty to animals for shooting 7 stray dogs. A recent resident complained (Female Peta type) and said the town needed an animal shelter or they needed to transport the strays to the closest shelter for housing and HUMANE execution. The complainant is insisting that the town hire an animal control specialist to capture and transport the strays.

We can shoot Gary Gilmore and not dogs? In most of the small towns in the midwest this is the JOB of the town cop.

At one time we were PAID by ordinance $1 for each stray dog shot. Now we have to catch them, transport them to a shelter and pay $40.00 each, plus housing to get rid of them? In a typical area community of 1000 people stray and varmit animals are a daily calland we usually destroy about 25-50 a year. At an average of 100 dollars a unit that is big bucks to get rid of a nuisance. I hate it when townies move to the country.

So for now you can shoot coyotes and bobcats, but it is cruelty to animals to shoot dogs and cats? Do you see where this is going?

rant off

[azcoyhunter]

Tonight I was reloading, on my bench and here comes max, put his damn paw in my coffee.

After the week I had at work, I needed some reloading time.

Clint

[Buckshot]

...............I think I posted this before. Maybe on the Aimoo BB. Anyway this is a true story. I cannot recall the medium or author, but I think it was a newspaper.

An office guy who lived in metro VA someplace retired and moved to Arizona. Why he'd do that is also in question. However what happens is coyotes get after his cat and the feline does not fare well in the contest. The owner manages to shoo the yodel dogs off, and rushes his kitty to the Vet.

Striving mightily with cost no object, the vet fails to keep kitties lifespark intact so he goes to the big litterbox in the sky.

The owner, who is an adult grown male (retired, remember) attempts to sue the State of Arizona for the death of fluffy. His suit maintains that if the Stae Dept of Game & Fish FED THEIR COYOTES BETTER, things like this wouldn't happen. He was sueing to pay his vet bills and mental anquish for the loss of his beloved pet.

The suit was tossed out of court. I can't remember if he'd retained counsel or not.

..................Buckshot

[wills]

Not as much fun as just staking them out over a fire ant bed,

http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/statutes/docs/CP/content/htm/cp.002.00.000011.00.htm#11.001.00

[StarMetal]

I had a gunsmith friend in Tulsa that had a german shepherd. My friend drank coffee. When his back was turned to the coffee the shepherd would take a sip of his coffee. One day I said "Hey Steve, you know your dog drinks your coffee when your back is turned"? He said that he did because he could hear him lapping. It was really funny.

Joe

[Scrounger]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4729810.stm

Maybe PETA will give Ray a Lifetime Membership or award for his work on their behalf. But he's not going to be able to do it alone, maybe what we need is an internet contest for whoever kills the most cats with a cast bullet. Winner gets a $7.70 (now $8.10) Flat rate Box of wheelweights. Perhaps we can get Ray to autograph the wheel weights. Or ship the dead cats to him to make jerky... :kidding:

[redneckdan]

Here at my college apartment, there was this tom who used to sit out side my window and yeowll at sunrise every morning. Being a college student, I stay up till 2-3am doing homework and get up to go to class at about 10am. So this damn cat was pretty much waking me up in the middle of my night. After a particularly stressful bout of physics home work, I got pissed, stuck the barrel of my S&W 19 out the window and sent the bugger to the litter box in the sky. No sooner did that 158gr Keith Type shatter the skull of the critter and 3 chinese guys run out and fight over the remains...heaven only knows what they were gonna do with it....

[9.3X62AL]

You know, so, like being a Californian and all that--I try to like think in systemic fashion--close the loop ecologically, things like that, you know?

When I whack jackrabbits, I know that the local coyotes eat the results of my ballistics field work. So, I am concerned that with the growth of the town I live in--and the resulting push-back of the brushlands away from my home--that any cats sent to The Great Litterbox In The Sky might not be recycled as reliably as they would have been in 2001 when we moved here.

I may have hit upon a scheme to close the loop.

The great Brazilian soccer star Pele claimed that his incredible agility and short-burst speed on the pitch was enabled by eating cat meat before every match. I propose that our dispatched felines be referred to sports trainers for consumption by their clients, since anabolic steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs cause such a ruckus in the sports world. Instead of "doping" accusations, athletes could be encouraged to "cat-load" along with "carb-loading" before a game/match/whatever. If Rafael Palmeiro ate Tabby Burgers, life would be lots less complicated for him.

[Scrounger]

Good post, Al. That explains why Ray is so quick in running down sheep and why he so avidly hunts cats to make more jerky. Thanks for making that connection for me. I'll have to look at his activities in a new light.

[StarMetal]

Ray,

You any good at soccer by chance? :kidding:

Joe

[Frank46]

They was gonna eat the remains. Dog and cat are eaten in hong kong, and you do not see any strays on the streets. Come to think of it I seem to remember eating woof woof in hong kong and no it didn't taste like chicken. Frank

[nighthunter]

Quite a few years ago 2 friends and myself had a standing contest to see who could make the best shot on a cat. In order for the shot to be considered it had to be witnessed by at least one of the other 2. Over the course of a few years the lead changed hands quite a few times. Back then the areas we hunted had a very large abundance of feral cats. I don't think we really put a big dent in the population of them because we never ran out of targets. They sure played havoc on the small game populations. We sent quite a few to the big litter box in the sky.
Nighthunter

[nelson133]

When I had my farm, if the neighbors cats were gone for more than a few days, they'd ask me if I had shot it yet.
Before I married my second wife (oh for a time machine) She'd ask me to thin the cats in her barn occasionally. I'd just walk through with a Ruger Mark II Government Target Model and pop everyone I saw. There was always plenty more.

[Scrounger]

There are no longer ANY stray animals in the part of Orange County I used to live in. You have to remember that we eat things that people in other countries find strange. Jews and Muslims don't understand how we can enjoy bacon, pork sausage, ham sandwiches, etc.; People from India that won't eat beef, no doubt other ethnic culinary pros and cons I'm not even aware of.... So if CarpetMan thinks that will make him faster, enabling him to run down more sheep, more power to him.

[nighthunter]

Scrounger .... you have to post a pic of Carpetman on one of his hunting expeditions. It definately would make the boards top 10.
Nighthunter

[Scrounger]

Scrounger .... you have to post a pic of Carpetman on one of his hunting expeditions. It definately would make the boards top 10.
Nighthunter

This is the only photo I could get. Quite naturally he is reluctant to publicize his activities....:

[nighthunter]

That reminds me of a joke .... What do the Amish call a sheep in tall grass? ..... A good time. UHOH .... probably gonna get censored again.
Nighthunter

[redneckdan]

. I'd just walk through with a Ruger Mark II Government Target Model and pop everyone I saw. There was always plenty more.


Now thats my idea of an interactive shoot house.

[Dale53]

A number of years ago, my mother-in-law asked me and my two sons to thin out the cat population in their barns. I supplied the boys with a .38 special revolver and Speer shot loads (actually, reloaded with Speer shot capsules). They worked near perfect. Shooting around a barn can be dangerous to equipment,etc. The shot cartridges insured that there would be no equipment damage. As the British say, "It worked a treat!" :razz:

My mother-in-law asked that we leave certain cats alone. The boys were faithful to their task...

Since we are talking about cats.... I was given a "I hate cats" calendar. I thought it was hilarious. If you haven't seen one, make an effort to come up with one. In purely good natured fun hung the calendar up at work (I was a claims rep for a major insurance company). Man, you wouldn't believe the back lash!! Half of the girls in the department wouldn't speak to me. I thought that was even funnier than the calendar :razz: :razz: . Oh, they got over it. I left the calendar hang for a couple of months.

Dale53

[Bigjohn]

G'day, this is my first post but it is a subject I could not let past. Some twenty years ago I invested in a trap for the purpose of sorting out the feral cats. Little did I know that it would work so well. At one address I lived it collected 32 felines and the landlords dog. All the feline then received a oneway ticket to kittylitter heaven. Since I moved from that address the numbers had increased again. The next address resulted in 16 with 6 in one hit. Many people have borrowed this trap for their own problems resulting in many more oneway tickets being handed out. I did have a little trouble casting enough to keep up with the demand.

[Joe Bob]

Many years ago, my grandma asked me to thin out the cats that had strayed up. There were probably 30 cats and they were wild as hell. We, I took muh .22 and commenced target practice and got nearly all of them... I really regret doing that.
JB

[waksupi]

Welcome aboard, Big John.

I missed a shot on a cat last evening. I was shooting my bow, and saw a dark spot on up the driveway about eighty yards. I kept my eye on it, and finally made it out as a cat. I knew darn well I couldn't hit a cat at that range with an arrow, but gave it a try anyhow. The arrow couldn't have missed by more than a couple inches, right over his back. Probably a good thing I missed, as the field point most likely wouldn't have done any serious damage, and the neighbor would have had a cat, with a very distinctive arrow to trace back to me.

[redneckdan]

now I don't endorse this but...the local divers back home have a "cat garden" going underneath the blue water internation bridge. They take one pissed off feral cat, 20' of parachute cord and one sash weight, assemble and pitch it over the side.

[wills]

That sounds like a waste of sash weights.

[45 2.1]

Not a waste if its the cast iron ones.

[wills]

Wouldnt mind having some of those, if I couldnt find a use for Vintage Sash Weights I could sell them on e-bay for $19.95, plus $49 shipping.

[carpetman]

Joe Bob---You regret killing nearly all of the 30 stry cats? I would regret it that I might have missed one. Is that the basis of your remorse?

[carpetman]

Cast iron sash weights are commonly used as a trotline weight.

[wills]

To fish for CATfish!

[Joe Bob]

CARPETMAN...I regret killing them. I'll answer for it and other things soon enough.

[Lee]

Ohhh, I'm gonna probably get flamed fer this one, but here goes.
Joe Bob, only feel sorry if it was yer neighbors pet cat, and ya just wanted ta hurt yer neighbor. Other, better ways to hurt 'em than that.
I have 3 cats. All fixed, from birth. Yes, they kill a few birds, usually Grackles and Starlings :razz: They do a heckuva great job on the mouse population around my house, which is the main reason I keep 'em around. And they respect the dog(who doesn't do a great job on the mouse population, but has an affinity for suspicious characters... :razz: ).
Feral cats? I've shot a few. Feral cats need controlled, period.
There I've said it.......................................Lee ;-)

[Frank46]

Well I got another reason to kill cats. It was announced on the boob tube that they had found a cat infected with the bird flu. Believe it was someplace in germany. Frank

[Haywire Haywood]

I see this cat shooting thread repeated over and over on every forum that I've ever hung around for long. All I've got to say is that if you go shooting any cat you see, then don't be surprised when your pet dog gets a greenie weenie snack late one evening and you notice an odd smirk on your neighbors face the next day. What comes around goes around.

Ian

[waksupi]

I don't discriminate, whatsoever. If a neighbors dog is chasing deer or elk on my property, I shoot them. Then I read the license, if the dog has one, and tell them to come get thier trash off of my property. I won't stand for so-called domestic pets being predators on my land. I generally have several coveys of grouse, rabbits, and flying squirrels on my property. A cat can wipe out a covey in less than a week, and make a lot of inroads on the rabbits and squirrels.

Those are MY pets.

In the area I am in, there are a lot of outsiders who have moved in over the years. They figure since they now live in the country, they can let thier dogs run freee. Wrong. One of my neighbors shot 37 dogs chasing deer in his swamp in a eight month period.
If the "green weinies" show up, they better be on your doorstep, and not on the other persons property.
Although, they do work well on wolves.

[fiberoptik]

They was gonna eat the remains. Dog and cat are eaten in hong kong, and you do not see any strays on the streets. Come to think of it I seem to remember eating woof woof in hong kong and no it didn't taste like chicken. Frank

Asians are really big on pet food. They eat cat/dog/bat/rat/lizard/monkey, etc.
The truth is, dog tastes like a cross between turkey (dark meat) and chicken. Monkey and rat aren't at all bad either. Cat is a little bit too tough, unless ya use a pressure cooker.

[Scrounger]

Asians are really big on pet food. They eat cat/dog/bat/rat/lizard/monkey, etc.
The truth is, dog tastes like a cross between turkey (dark meat) and chicken. Monkey and rat aren't at all bad either. Cat is a little bit too tough, unless ya use a pressure cooker.

I understand from one nameless member here that 'cat' works well for jerky. (You might say it's the cat's meow... :roll: ) No. thanks; I'll stick to pork and beef and a little chicken...