Reply to: Those Bloody Cats

[El_Diablo]

Meow

[Ruprect]

Do you think you would get in trouble if your dog killed a cat whilst it was in your garden ?

I've had one come into my house (the cat flap locks, but it must have closely followed my cat), then p!ssed and sh it in my house. If I could catch the fecking thing, would I get into trouble for putting it in a bag with some bricks and dropping it in the thames?

[Fran]

He should've increased the tension on the trap - £50 for a new cat v £2000 to get the old one fixed...

Simple catonomics!

He would have been all for that!!

[Churchill]

My uncle had a cat that sneaked into his garage and slept on his car. He got so peeed off with the paw prints on his bonnet that he came up with some ingenius ways of beating that cat. His attempts ranged from sprinkling a line of pepper accross the floor to electirifed wires!

What finally got the cat was a spring loaded wire trap. However he got hit with a £2000 vets fee from his neighbour when the wire ripped round and into the cat.

He should've increased the tension on the trap - £50 for a new cat v £2000 to get the old one fixed...

Simple catonomics!

[Fran]

My uncle had a cat that sneaked into his garage and slept on his car. He got so peeed off with the paw prints on his bonnet that he came up with some ingenius ways of beating that cat. His attempts ranged from sprinkling a line of pepper accross the floor to electirifed wires!

What finally got the cat was a spring loaded wire trap. However he got hit with a £2000 vets fee from his neighbour when the wire ripped round and into the cat.

[Denny]

No. But someone might just kill your dog "by accident" later: possibly in your garden too.

That's right. It's not a good idea to resort to harmful or cruel ways to rid yourself of cats - after all, they are not trainable like dogs, and they are someone's pet, after all.

[AtW]

Do you think you would get in trouble if your dog killed a cat whilst it was in your garden ?

No. But someone might just kill your dog "by accident" later: possibly in your garden too.

[Cooperinliverp00l]

cats are so variable. our cats now are very timid - will only take on anything smaller(like squirrels).

my mother had a psycho cat that hated everything. came home evey week with a new injury. was banned from the local vet. once swiped a Rotweilers nose before running off - would not have believed if I had not seen it.

And it died of old age...

our dog has never been interested in cats until this morning whilst sat at the dinning room table with her by my feet and suddenly she spotted it in the garden and went crazy which is the first i have seen her like that. I gave her plenty of praise when she came in so hopefully she has remember what all that was about.

Do you think you would get in trouble if your dog killed a cat whilst it was in your garden ?

[Denny]

The best and safest way to keep cats out of your garden is to put lemon or orange peel (or any citrus peel will do) on the ground and around plants and trees. Cats hate the smell of it, but won't be harmed by its presence.

[BrilloPad]

Leave the dog free in the garden, it should sort out the problem unless it's a real wimp. When I was a kid I had a monster black lab/alsation cross, most amiable dog in town except when it came to cats, it mauled a couple of cats I know about, plus I think countless other victims I don't know about. It came home one night with it's nose hanging off and after that it treaded a little more carefully when cat hunting.

cats are so variable. our cats now are very timid - will only take on anything smaller(like squirrels).

my mother had a psycho cat that hated everything. came home evey week with a new injury. was banned from the local vet. once swiped a Rotweilers nose before running off - would not have believed if I had not seen it.

And it died of old age...

[Ardesco]

will this not also send the dog crazy ?

No idea, I would guess that dogs and cats have sufficiently different ranges for it to affect just cats and not dogs. Mind you if it makes dogs run as well you are killing two birds with one stone, not dog or cat poo in your garden

[Troll]

Anti-freeze left in a dish is I hear a good way of getting rid of the pests

[daviejones]

Lion tulip apparently they don't like the smell of it so they won't go in your garden.

On the down side, your garden will stink of lion tulip

And lion tulip is difficult to come by...unless you own a pack of lions of course...

[rootsnall]

Outside kennel for our dog

Leave the dog free in the garden, it should sort out the problem unless it's a real wimp. When I was a kid I had a monster black lab/alsation cross, most amiable dog in town except when it came to cats, it mauled a couple of cats I know about, plus I think countless other victims I don't know about. It came home one night with it's nose hanging off and after that it treaded a little more carefully when cat hunting.

[Cooperinliverp00l]

Apparently you can buy a thingy to stick in your lawn that emits a high pitched sound that humans can't hear but cats really really don't like. Just stick it in your garden and it should scare the cats away. Permie at my old gig swore blind by it, he used to come in every morning moaning about having to clear cat tulip out of his garden until he got this thingy.

will this not also send the dog crazy ?