View Full Version : Too many cats
bugscufle
10-08-2006, 07:31 AM
An Austin lady is trying to get the City Council to pass an ordinance requiring that cats be kept indoors.
The Austin Humane Society estimates that there are a half-million feral cats in the Austin area.
The shelter received 7,600 cats in 2002, and last year, the number jumped to 9,800. The shelter had to euthanize 74 percent of them.
Kept indoors live an average of 17 years, but an outdoor, unneutered male cat lives an average of two years.
I would support an ordinance that required that cat and cat owners be kept indoors.
Whiskey_D.
10-08-2006, 07:46 AM
One cat is too many, indoors or out!!
Hey Now,
I love cats.
(they taste like chicken)
;D
Toad_Sticker
10-08-2006, 12:58 PM
suggest the city hire me for 50K a year and give me a pellet gun and a head lamp and I will rid the city of extra cats in 3-5 years.
People will learn quickly to keep thier cats indoors.
TS
Whiskey_D.
10-08-2006, 01:45 PM
Hey Toad, where can I send the pellet contributions. ;)
leera
10-08-2006, 05:29 PM
Hey now!!!!!! >:(
Be nice!
I like my cat,but she does stay indoors only,and is spayed.
I agree that there needs to be something done about feral cats though.
It doesn't matter if it's Austin or any other large city,the cats are everywhere.
lost1
10-09-2006, 04:49 AM
The usual method of unwanted pet control around here is pretty simple. Just pull up a little way from the end on my lane so that I can't identify you, kick them out of the car and disappear in a cloud of dust and gravel. End of problem apparently.
Tightwad
10-09-2006, 05:11 AM
Sadly, Post such as this invite every smart a$$ on
the board to post their personal feelings about cats.
Domesticated cats that are pets serve a very real,
and healthful, purpose for their owners. An exploding
cat population happens when owner abandon these
cats thus forcing the animal into a survival mode.
Since we humans cause this overpopulation it makes
little sense to comment with all the ways to inhumanly
'dispose' of them as many are want to do. If anything,
we should leave the population control of all pets to
people who do this job with dignity because they care
about all the animals in their care.
That said, Please remember you own humanity when you
comment on this thread and not be a total a$$.
DonnaKay
10-09-2006, 05:46 AM
Like any other law only the folks that are responsible would obey it anyway. I do not have a cat right now but would like to get one when I move back to the states. I want a cat that is indoor/outdoor. I do not want a litter box in my house. Of course I will make sure my cat is spayed or neutered as soon as possible.
Donna
ArmySGT.
10-09-2006, 08:26 AM
I was going to school with a young fellow from Port Huron, Michigan. This is where he is from and tells me they have a short season on feral cats.
I wish we had a problem with feral cats around my house. Everytime one comes within a quarter mile, my wife or kids adopts the stupid thing. Problem solved! It's no longer feral; it lives at my house.
Why is it that every time we get a free cat it winds up costing me $150 to get the silly thing fixed, vaccinated and dewormed?
And God forbid the creature should eat anything but the most expensive cat food on the planet.
We need a good chinese restaraunt around here.
;D
MNMOM
10-09-2006, 09:27 AM
Aw Rick, you're just an old softy, and thank goodness there are still people that respect the lives of animals.
Lost1, we have the same problem here with people dumping cats and dogs, we've fed and sheltered many through the years.
Right now there is a feral cat that has learned how to use the doggy door in our garage, luckily it is an outside door so the cat can't get into the house. It comes in there at night and eats the dog food.
I'm keeping my distance though, two years ago I got bit by a feral cat and had to go through the rabies shots, plus I ended up in emergency one night two days after, I got a terrible infection from the bite.
Tightwad
10-09-2006, 11:20 AM
I was going to school with a young fellow from Port Huron, Michigan. This is where he is from and tells me they have a short season on feral cats.
Yep, I bet this guy also loved to drown babies and pull off fly wing
too.....didn't he??
God!! It's fun to kill things......ain't it!! ::) ::)
Holy Crap! :o :o Another wanna be Rambo heard form. >:( >:(
Not me, MNMOM, it's the wife and kids. I don't even like cats, well Moo Shu Cat is not bad. ;D
One of our cats is OK, he likes to hunt mice. The rest of 'em are just Alabama Couch Cats (no self respecting Georgia cat would be so lazy as these animals).
Tightwad, were just kidding around. Seems like you're getting pretty fired up. I do recollect reading something a year or so ago about a feral cat season being proposed somewhere in the upper midwest. It was all legit, voted on by the legislature and all that. I don't remember if they voted it up or down.
Whiskey_D.
10-09-2006, 11:52 AM
Tightwad wrote:
"Sadly, Post such as this invite every smart a$$ on *
the board to post their personal feelings about cats".
Yep, you sure did!
And
"That said, Please remember you own humanity when you
comment on this thread and not be a total a$$".
Easy on the name calling there cat!
Toad_Sticker
10-09-2006, 12:53 PM
feral cats should be shot........it is done routinely where I live.......
they are killing machines.....
They will kill anything small enuff(my two cats bring in rabbits often) and a lot of the time it is for fun..........
Yes it is a man made problem so that is why man should take care of it the right way instead of with an attitude that made the problem to begin with......
you think I'm a Rambo? thats ok you'll get over it.
TS
BTW ....when you pull the wings off a fly it is then called a walk....
We currently have Biscuit, Baxter, Scooters, D.J. Misty, Little Bear, and Cedar. Biscuit, the oldest, lives in the house with us. The others live in a cat condo on half of what once was our screened in back porch.
EVERY ONE of them was a stray cat that we adopted and all of them are fixed.
Both our dogs were strays. Each of them stay in a large fenced area adjacent to our goats....
Lost cost spay and neuter programs are what are needed in most of the country. Animal cruelty is not the answer.
Tightwad
10-09-2006, 04:58 PM
*
Animal cruelty is not the answer.
Pssssssssst! Don't tell the all the Great White Hunters this. ::) ::)
nancy1340
10-09-2006, 06:31 PM
Those who don't think that too many feral cats are a problem should take a look at Australia and see how feral cats have wrecked havoc on the wild life there.
Dozens of wildlife species are extent there because of cats that went feral.
lost1
10-10-2006, 01:45 PM
I have a cat, it stays in the barn and does it's job, I take care of it for that.
In general I don't like cats, if that is politically incorrect and offends someone all I can say is aw shucks.
I don't like cats and I feel I have a right to say that.
okiefrmsapulpa
10-10-2006, 05:39 PM
I have a friend who doesn't like cats. She says they're sneaky(they are, that's how they hunt). Me, on the other hand, loves cats. Have six: Harley Anna(15), Buddy Renee(10), Stinker Winker(5), Little Sh$t(3), & sisters, Jules & Bella Marie(11 months-Little Sh$t is mom). My babies are all indoor & when I get moved, they'll have a nice screened-in porch to play on(when they're running the walls, they can really wreak a house).
Tresa
I agree with Toad Sticker and nancy. Feral cats are wildlife killing machines and have to be dealt with. A shotgun is nice because it's such overload they don't feel anything and are dead before they stop rolling.
As for neutering, a good friend fron Canada told me how to do it. Just grab Whiskers and stick him into a boot head first. While your accomplice holds the hind legs, use a goat bander and some rubber bands from the dental office (very small) and slip them over Whiskers' "equipment" and then turn him loose. No pain, (unless you get scratched) and the reproduction problem is partially solved. It's a good idea to put some Neosporin on the rubber band prior to application. Goat bands work well on dogs too.
jim
Mysticdream44
10-12-2006, 12:29 PM
The usual method of unwanted pet control around here is pretty simple. Just pull up a little way from the end on my lane so that I can't identify you, kick them out of the car and disappear in a cloud of dust and gravel. End of problem apparently.
I admit when I read your post I laughed ;D but it is very true that people just dump their cats on someone else or they go off and move and leave the cat. We have a lot of feral cats here, I called the local aminal shelter, and they won't even take them. They will take dogs but not cats. :( So right now we are feeding anywhere from 2 to 7 cats :o , one big male cat keeps the other males at bay, he seems to have adopted us and doesn't want to share. So the other male cats come when he is not around. Most of the cats that we feed are very shy and won't let us near them. We feed them cheap cat food. One cat is a kitten that I felt sorry for because it was so small and appeared to be straving, so that is why all this started. I'm going to have her spayed as soon as I can.
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