Shooting feral cats (legal?)

[NodakBuckeye]

Overheard in a suburban while headed from goose pits to town for world goose calling championship:

"Left's good, right's good, 'pop!' Cat's good."

 

[guywhofishes]

have a bunch of cats in Minto, they decided to move under the skirting of the daycare in town that my niece and nephew go to and the smell of ammonia from all the cat piss underneath there was stinking up the whole damn daycare center, now tell me how exactly is a person supposed to deal with that since these cats according to some of you shouldnt be taken care of? cause i know how i went about it and a feral cat in a live trap is no joke you want to see something stare at you with the hate of the devil that is it!

they moved under my trailer in college in Dickinson early 80s. I taped a flashlight to my .22, bought some shorts, and took care of bidness. Shorts made dents in my skirting but wouldn't penetrate (corrugated steel)

two or three nights of those buggers having sex (i.e. making dying baby sounds) and you lose your sympathy and get real serious real fast

 

[lunkerslayer]

If your comment is not "bagging" me I don't know what is. I call that bagging. But..i don't care. Its a cat. I guess most farmers I know don't have much to do with cats. They are a part of the farm. Majority are not spayed/neutered or even given appropriate vaccinations. They are simply just there. Maybe fed food. When I did that I just hoped they would blend in with other cats on farm. Some may have, some probably never even made to the yard. My friends and family live on farms and they have them come and go all the time. Don't think they get to worked up about it. So i never have either. But, I do understand your thoughts.

Cats that are not fed on a reguar basis will search for food which are like other domesticated animals like the pig. They will return to thier wild side also much like other animals of the wild cats are territorial creatures who will kill any stray . I would be willing to bet that if you found a farmer they would most likely take then in but only if they are being fed.
My great grandfather was a cat person living on the farm we always had cats around even bobtail cats. Which were half house cat half lynx no tail and thier back end was much higher then a regular cat and when they moewed it was much deeper sound. Once gg stopped coming out and feeding them they all left.
I was working on a property owners farmsteqd doing a section break down so the owner could sell off just the farm. The first time we went out to meet the owner, there was movement infront of the barn not knowing what it was and thinking it was a bunch of chickens. It wasn't until we got closer to the barn that I noticed it was cats. There had to be 100 cats in front of the barn and 90 percent of them were tame becuase they all would stay close to you wondering when they were going to be fed again.

 

[gst]

Just so folks are aware the Century Code is a bit grey in this area as to what constitutes "cruelty". Dispatching a feral cat with a well placed shot on your property might not get you charged, whacking the neighbors cat with a pellet gun to have it crawl back home and die likely will.

HSUS has expanded in our state and is eagerly awaiting chances to try and push LE to administer the new animal cruelty laws that include FELONY penalties for cruelty.

Seriously they are.

 

[Livetohuntandfish]

If they are causing problems within your yard or neighborhood have at them but just a heads up if I'd ever catch some idiot shooting cats right next to my farm or around the area ( a lot of us farmers have them for mice control and yes they don't live in our houses and roam around wherever the hell they want) you'll be either getting drug out of your truck and chewed out or kicked in the head and told your a dumbass. Serious guys. If your out hunting and shooting cats in the country for target practice get a life or else look up a gopher or black bird. and just for you to understand I'm not a cat lover nor do I like them, but in the country they keep mice down in yards and I don't think I've ever seen a feral one causing enough trouble for target practice.

 

[You]

personally, i only shoot feral cats. pretty easy to tell them apart from someone's pet imho.

a cat that runs is feral, and any cat that stands still, is a well disciplined feral

 

[Captain Ahab]

they moved under my trailer in college in Dickinson early 80s. I taped a flashlight to my .22, bought some shorts, and took care of bidness. Shorts made dents in my skirting but wouldn't penetrate (corrugated steel)

two or three nights of those buggers having sex (i.e. making dying baby sounds) and you lose your sympathy and get real serious real fast

Cbee .22 are a favorite out of a long barrel rifle. Quieter than a pellet gun. You can actually hear the firing pin strike the case.

 

[Obi-Wan]

Who's the douche? If you're going to leave a bad rep at least leave one that makes sense

Thread: Shooting feral cats (legal?) Opinions are like you, they have assholes...

 

[Retired Educator]

I'm amazed this topic received this many comments. Some cats need to be taken care of and should be done quietly so no one knows. In town, live traps and exhaust works well. Especially if you're the only one who knows where the cat went. Quietly take care of the problem is the key.

 

[guywhofishes]

Cbee .22 are a favorite out of a long barrel rifle. Quieter than a pellet gun. You can actually hear the firing pin strike the case.

never heard of em

tried the Quiets and thought they were loud

 

[lunkerslayer]

personally, i only shoot feral cats. pretty easy to tell them apart from someone's pet imho.

a cat that runs is feral, and any cat that stands still, is a well disciplined feral

Loosely based on Full metal jacket great show
Also shooting a gun in town is illlegal

 

[AR-15]

Next time the neighbor cat pisses on my garage door he gets to go for a ride, one way

 

[Bowhunter_24]

there is a big difference between a nuisance cat(s) living under your house and a cat out looking for mice in the country.

by the way I hate cats but would never just shoot them for fun. Different strokes for different folks I guess

 

[Captain Ahab]

never heard of em

tried the Quiets and thought they were loud

The key is a long barreled gun with them. I have an old single shot that is super quiet with them. They had a pretty good crack to them coming out of my little "chipmunk" .22, though.

 

[Vollmer]

Next time the neighbor cat pisses on my garage door he gets to go for a ride, one way

Pull !!!




:;: (or am I)

 

[Downrigger]

I noticed someone took the topic to the other site because they don't like the comments on this one I guess.

I don't shoot cats in the country but they are/can be a problem. Every once in a while you read about them in an outdoor magazine and the destruction they can cause especially house cats bc they go out and kill for fun and go home to eat.

Fyi...you shoot one of my cats and it won't be me you will have to worry about but the wife is another story....

 

[pointer]

actually a baby bottle nipple with an x cut into it and taped on a 22 with electrical tape makes an ok silencer so I ve hward

 

[fj40]

I live in the country. Nearest neighbor is a mile. I hate cats but consider a couple of them to be a necessary evil. Gotta keep the mice at bay. They stay in the barn when not roaming and causing death and destruction. I also have mine fixed and vaccinated. $180 bucks a pop. Please don't shoot them bastards. They cost me real money.

 

[db-2]

Educator

i to am surprise at the length of this topic.
as I kid on a livestock farm cats were needed and important. Milking cows would now and then squirt the milk at the cat. Always left milk for the cats after milking was done. I have seen cats out in the hay field and usually there one of ours. Had one cat spent his summer on gophers in the pasture every year. I just never thought it was a sport to shoot a cat when you seen one. Times do change. When the sickness came every so often to the cats on the farm one would soon find out how important they were. But that was a long time ago. Db

 

[Davy Crockett]

I have no problem with anyone shooting feral cats If you have cats getting in your garbage they are a pest, feral or not and in town cats should be considered feral if they run wild. Out in the country is a different setting , I've Lived on a farm all my life I know how important it is to have a good cat. You guys that shoot a cat out in the country because it is 440 yards from someone's house , What value do you put on your dog ? Supposing I'm out in the field and I see a "feral" dog running a deer and I shoot him then a few minutes later someone comes up and said they were hunting and their dog took off running, Pretty sure if the shoe was on the other foot the fur would be flying.

My Dad could shove a tomcat head first into his stovepipe contraption and scrub tom cats nuts with warm Lysol water and have both nuts on the ground in about 30 seconds the helper (usually me) would wear leather gloves and hold the back legs. Now days it's easy to get free cats that have had shots and fixed already. We have one cat, Yeti Boy, and no mice. He doesn't have nuts and he is a gentle giant but mean when he has to be. Before we got him the other cat was declawed and would run away from the neighbors black lab when he would come in the yard marking territory on my wife's rose bush then one day shortly after we got Yeti that all ended. I watched him put the hurt to the lab so bad that the dog hasn't been back since. I like having yeti boy around.

No idea how this guy ended up but two felony charges would take the fun out of your kitty hunts.

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