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EVIL cats
- Thread starter PacificOcean
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turing test
Nearly Toowrong
For a while, we had a landlady who had four cats. One was a sicko. She was constantly bringing dead things up and leaving them on the porch. The worst was when she learned how to catch frogs from our neighbor’s pond. We would come home to find legless but still living frogs on the front porch.
Jonti
what the dormouse said
I agree you have the right to enjoy your garden, and the great wildlife that Britain offers, without interference from your lazy, anti-social and irresponsible cat owning neighbours.I have a bird table and feeders and throughly enjoy watching the birds. I have even started to get woodpeckers and jays which I have never seen before in real life.
However, this has attracted cats to my garden. I let the dog out and she dispatches of them. They shoot up and over the fence like no ones business when she comes thundering out.
However, not only do they shit everywhere in the garden, there is now Jay feathers everywhere in my garden
Cats = fail of epic proportions.
Most cats will quickly learn to avoid your garden if you obtain a small .22 bore air rifle (no license required) and use them for target practice.
A powerful "super soaker" type water pistol is a surprisingly effective alternative, and has the advantage it can be used against the anti-social cat owners as well, without overmuch fear of legal complications.
Jonti
what the dormouse said
Domestic cats, in common with other domesticated species, have weakened instinctual behaviours. They still like to hunt and chase, but the pathetic shadows of real cats they have become have largely lost the ability to deliver the decisive blow.
Sick, faux cats for sick, faux people.
Looby
Well-Known Member
If you threw stones at my cats I would throw rocks at your head or your children.
A water pistol is fine and a good deterrant without hurting them.
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
I think you'll find that there's pretty much no way on earth to really control the movements of the average moggy. No matter what you try, they will assert their right to roam and their instinct to hunt and kill.
Looby
Well-Known Member
You clearly have no knowledge of cats.
My point is that there is no need for cruelty. He wouldn't like me throwing rocks at his family so he should stop throwing stones at animals.
Bollocks. How come house cats are the norm in many a country then?
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
Some cats prefer to stay in, true, but most prefer to mooch out and about on their territory, patrolling their turf and going on hunting trips.
All the cats I've had, and I've belonged to quite a few, have been regulars at the old hunting and patrolling routine.
That's because they're used to it - it's not a matter of preference when it comes to it.
Most canaries, gerbils and dogs would also love to be able to roam free when they chose, coming back for some food and medical care from patsy owners when they wanted. But there's not this soft minded, romantic pile of tosh that they're fiercely independent and uncontrollable animals, more that there are different expectations of their owners. Cats can be house pets like many other animals- hell, cat leads and pens are even in use in countries where letting cats out isn't the norm.
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
I don't believe in denying cats their right to roam. I'm a country person and cats do us a valuable service by keeping vermin levels down, which would be rather difficult if they were cooped up in a house or pen. I've never had a cat yet that would tolerate being cooped up like a chicken all the time, although I acknowledge that some cats (the Ragdoll breed springs to mind) like that kind of life and good luck to them.
Cats are highly useful animals to us country folk, in addition to being great companions and very low-maintenance animals as a rule.
PacificOcean
Unhinged User
I would never hurt a cat. Despite being bird murders and garden shitterers.
I always rattle the patio door before I let the dog out so the cat knows the dog is there.
I always rattle the patio door before I let the dog out so the cat knows the dog is there.
You see, I'm actually a lot more sympathetic to cats in rural areas.
But that's a world apart from piss stained old dear in a terraced house in a busy urban area, selfishly letting her 3 cats out to shit in other people's gardens. The fact that they're low maintenance animals is little compensation for others, in fact it's a call to the lazy and irresponsible to bring more unsupervised animals into the world.
FWIW the right to roam is a bit of a misnomer as well - all animals are essentially due the same right by that measure, including species much more traditional or 'native' than cats. And simply, in this built up country, ain't a real possibility. Dogs can be highly useful animals in rural areas too, including real working animals far better at vermin control than the usual cat - nobody's proposing they're let out to roam
But that's a world apart from piss stained old dear in a terraced house in a busy urban area, selfishly letting her 3 cats out to shit in other people's gardens. The fact that they're low maintenance animals is little compensation for others, in fact it's a call to the lazy and irresponsible to bring more unsupervised animals into the world.
FWIW the right to roam is a bit of a misnomer as well - all animals are essentially due the same right by that measure, including species much more traditional or 'native' than cats. And simply, in this built up country, ain't a real possibility. Dogs can be highly useful animals in rural areas too, including real working animals far better at vermin control than the usual cat - nobody's proposing they're let out to roam
Looby
Well-Known Member
Same here. But given the number of cats and the fact that people work and sleep doesn't really make a supersoaker a practical or effective option in most cases. More should be incumbent on the pet owners.
I like cats, just not the effect they have on wildlife and gardens around them.
madzone
Physically unfavourable
I was joking
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
madzone
Physically unfavourable
That's what the staples and superglue are for
The only people who should be angry are the garden owners not the idiot RSPCA or the cat owners who should be flailed with the cats in question until they learn some common decency.It might stop such ridiculous statments such as those below.
Serial killers have instincts to kill so should we let them out of jail or mental hospitals and let them do as they please?
His kids wouldn't be the ones destructive on other peoples property.
I think this highlights the arrogant attitude some have that not only is it accetable to let your cats run wild but no one should even be annoyed about it.
T & P
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You're comparing cats to serial killers? Are you quite mad?Serial killers have instincts to kill so should we let them out of jail or mental hospitals and let them do as they please?
You can be annoyed if you want- just as I'm annoyed every time I see a dog turd on the pavement (never mind step on one), hear a dog bark in the night, or hear about a dog harming a person. Doesn't mean I should wish dogs are kept indoors muzzled up most of the time and be kept on a leash at all times when they must go outdoors.
Clair De Lune
Apocalypse cocktails
Unforutunately if you feed birds in your garden you will attract cats. Try to keep your bird table away from fences or trees so that a cat cant jump on it so easily.
