[pKgGpUlF]

Is this a just a regional concern here where I am? Or is anyone else noticing a massive increase in wild cats?

5 years ago, we'd have the occasional stray cat wander up here, I've even tried to feed and befriend a couple. Today, due to the increasing amount of wild cats, I had 8 of them running around near the garage. One male cat, yellow stripped with a dark orange colored ear, came up and ate some of the food. It stayed around the house, and I've managed to pet it about 5 times since then. It gets along with the dogs well enough, as long as they pretty much leave him alone. And it doesn't mess with the wife's birds that she puts food out for. So I guess he's my cat now. He'll rub up against my legs when I go to the garage (sometimes),he doesn't want petted though, and trill loudly if his food dish is empty. And knock the fuck out of the min-pin, if it gets close to his food dish. We haven't named him yet. lol....he's just called the cat.

99% of the cats showing up here now, are just pure wild. You put food out, and they scatter and run off. They'll kill chickens. They tear open trash bags. They ignore food placed out for them. They have devastated the quail in this area. They're a pain, and they need to go. Some of them shit all over a box of rags I kept in the garage, and they've torn up a canvas boat cover, making a boat into a bed.

I live trapped a few of them (maybe 7) over the last few years, and took them to the shelter in town. The shelter billed me $18 dollars each, and ended up putting them to sleep.

It seems that getting the wild cats to accept humans, after they've reached a certain age, is difficult to impossible. I've been left little choice. I shoot them now.

I don't want to shoot them, I don't enjoy it. I like cats. I have 2 inside the house that are very fat and spoiled. But what else can be done?

I don't want to pick up trash every morning, and I don't want them ripping open bags of food, or killing our other pets/animals.

I can shoot them for a cost of .05 cents each, or pay $18 to have them put to sleep. Putting them to sleep, involves trapping them, which scares the hell out of them, and makes their last few days painful. IMO.

So Question: Anyone else have other ideas here?

[Xxmlqevq]

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I DON'T KNOW, OTHER THAN SECURING THE TRASH BETTER.

KEEPING THE TOMCAT AROUND MAY HELP KEEP OTHER CATS AWAY.


QUAIL USED TO BE THICK AROUND HERE, BUT NO MORE.

THERE ARE NO CATS, THOUGH.


COULD BE WILD PIGS OR FIRE ANTS OR DISEASE.


USUALLY, FOOD (OR TRASH) IS WHAT ATTRACTS WILD ANIMALS.


FERAL CATS AND COYOTES DO HELP A LOT WITH CONTROLLING MICE AND RATS, WHICH DESTROY EVERYTHING THEY TOUCH, BESIDES ATTRACTING SNAKES.


THEY ALSO CONTROL COTTONTAILS, WHICH CAN BE A REAL NUISANCE.

[Ecurrexchangess]

I DON'T KNOW, OTHER THAN SECURING THE TRASH BETTER.

KEEPING THE TOMCAT AROUND MAY HELP KEEP OTHER CATS AWAY.


QUAIL USED TO BE THICK AROUND HERE, BUT NO MORE.

THERE ARE NO CATS, THOUGH.


COULD BE WILD PIGS OR FIRE ANTS OR DISEASE.


USUALLY, FOOD (OR TRASH) IS WHAT ATTRACTS WILD ANIMALS.


FERAL CATS AND COYOTES DO HELP A LOT WITH CONTROLLING MICE AND RATS, WHICH DESTROY EVERYTHING THEY TOUCH, BESIDES ATTRACTING SNAKES.


THEY ALSO CONTROL COTTONTAILS, WHICH CAN BE A REAL NUISANCE.

I blamed trash on it at first too. But even with the trash in the back of the truck, the cats jump up, and rip open the plastic bags. They also rip open feed sacks. It's like there is a cat factory nearby. I'd estimate about 40 different cats have been seen near here this year. My neighbors are having the same troubles as well.

They've ruined the Quail around here. We used to have coveys of 20-30 quail, all over. I've not seen 5 quail in the last 2 years. Same with rabbits. I haven't seen any of those lately either.

A local hunting group brought a bunch of baby quail to turn lose.....cats got into their cages, and killed every one of them after they hatched.

I'm grateful for the mice being gone, because I fucking hate snakes....but still yet. The cats are a pain.

Why....are there so fucking many all of a sudden?

[Wymdqcvb]

my daughter captured a live feral cat when she was 6. she brought it into the house, but was afraid to let it out because it was REALY wild. i put on some thin leather gloves to try to pet the thing, and it assaulted my hand like it was the plague. i fixed it good that night. i put it in the second bathroom away from everyone, and every animal we had, took a flannel shirt of mine that wouldve turned a pigs nose inside out, draped it over the cage, and the next morning i went in there, opened the cage, it walked out, i picked it up and layed it on my lap and petted it.

[brilkyPlayday]

you need a predator, coyote should do the trick

[anderriter]

you need a predator, coyote should do the trick

Oddly enough, coyotes are a problem here too.

They're getting inside fenced in yards, and killing house pets. The state is talking about putting a bounty on them.

Predators are getting out of hand, in Rural Oklahoma.

[Quigoxito]

used to live in Oklahoma. loved the stories about abandoned dogs packing up and terrorizing people and animals. thought that was cool.

[kSmica]

I'm sure Rikshaw would be happy to reduce the number of cats in your neighborhood.

[giftbestcom]

just today i had a robin fly to my feet and flutter around on the ground asking for help. in the past two weeks ive also had one deer walk up to me, three folllow my back trail at 12 feet, and have had two litters of baby chipmunks playing at my feet. i dont see the problem yll have with wild animals. i realy dont. oh yeah. and two ducks completely ignore me even though i was parrellelling them at about 8 feet.

[RarensussyRen]

I'm sure Rikshaw would be happy to reduce the number of cats in your neighborhood.

LOL

No thanks. I'll figure out something else. Rickshaw would end up in someone's pond......with rocks tied to him.

[Keyclenef]

used to live in Oklahoma. loved the stories about abandoned dogs packing up and terrorizing people and animals. thought that was cool.

Never heard that one.

[pooncophy]

PUT TRASH IN METAL CANS.

EVERYONE IN THE AREA NEEDS TO DO IT, AND FIX THE CANS AND LIDS SO THAT THEY WILL NOT COME OFF OR TURN OVER.

FISH GUTS, DEER GUTS, ETC, NEED TO BE BURIED DEEP OR TOTALLY BURNED.

[duawLauff]

I love when Feral Cats kill birds especially Grackles. Have grackles made it to OK yet. Weren't there when I lived there. They are taking over the whole damn country.

[geraint.faughn]

FISH GUTS, DEER GUTS, ETC, NEED TO BE BURIED DEEP OR TOTALLY BURNED.

or placed in nosey neighbors mailbox.

[poRmawayncmop]

feral dogs and cats should be caught and fed to the homeless, mulligans stew

[xanonlinexan]

the american dingo has a bite about as powerfull as a chow, and running stanima thatll last all day.

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[GueseVekdet]

That's exactly what needs to be done. It's impossible to have an indoor cat that's not fixed. If you are going to have a cat or dog the decent thing to do is have it spayed or nuetered.

[orerviche]

used to live in Oklahoma. loved the stories about abandoned dogs packing up and terrorizing people and animals. thought that was cool.

That's a real fucking STUPID thing to say.

[ziIReIGS]