How to catch cats

Pal

Can somebody help me please. I want to catch the wild cats that live in my garden and release them somewhere else. Is there an easy trapping method ? something simple and cheap. I know its not hunting but you guys might be able to help. Thanks.

Rovi

Most vets and small animal clinics will have traps specifically for this purpose.

If you're planning to release the cats 'elsewhere', please have them neutered beforehand, and PLEASE don't release them where they'll become someone else's problem.

Your question has been answered several times over in Animals & Pet Issues.

Traumadoc

You can get cat traps they are a bit pricey but you can rent them-Where I lived in Australia the council would provide free of charge cat traps for trapping domestic cats.
You would do wildlife a favour if you had them put down or at least neutered after catching.

http://www.pet-bliss.com/acatalog/Cat_Traps_Humane.html

Pal

thanks. maybe I just sprinkle pepper about and hope they go away.

jwshooter

i have a friend that specializes in catching foxes,cats and badgers in city gardens .

not sure what he charges .

syconerd

Hav alook at this website mate

http://www.trapman.co.uk/cat-trap.htm

clivej

Try a 22 sub they don't need to be neutered after. :cool:

terminator2

Right on Clive

clivej

A feral cat should be killed or put down.
They have nothing that hunts them down and they are able to climb up trees and kill any and all nesting birds. They don't kill for food just kill.

Rovi

Folks, this thread is attracting attention from outside the Boards/Hunting community, so can I please ask everyone to refrain from the more tongue-in-cheek responses?

We Hunters/Shooters know only too well how offhand remarks made in jest can be misconstrued in the outside world.

Some 'less serious' posts snipped.

Overheal

Why don't you call the ISPCA/Animal Control?

jwshooter

rovi this is very true ,
people that do not live and work in the country side will never see a fox kill a lamb ,a grey crow pick the eyes out of a live sheep thats gone on its back .
or a magpie kill a black bird chick by standing on it and pulling the guts out of it .

they take from the country side ,what they think it should be like.
full of furry lovely creatures that meet under the big oak tree for chats .

i am a firm believer that the townies and the city folk should look after the crime, drug ,housing problems etc ,that comes with living in there urban environment .not saying we dont have the same problems in the sticks

and let the people that understand and live in the country side to do the same .
but we will try be as PC as possible not to offend any one .

lightening

jwshooter wrote: »

they take from the country side ,what they think it should be like.
full of furry lovely creatures that meet under the big oak tree for chats .

Eh, sorry dude, but that's just not true. Please don't tar all city people with the one brush, some of us even use guns (to hunt). Some of us fish, some of us spend time in the countryside at weekends, some of us have worked on farms, some of the best wildlife sanctuaries are in the city, we see the trials and tribulations of nature every day. (when we aren't sticking gear in our arms, robbing gaffs and musing about our housing problems)

Pal

Overheal wrote: »

Why don't you call the ISPCA/Animal Control?

I did.

They put me in touch with The Cats Protection Society who weren't much help and seemed to be on a different wavelength altogether.

The nice lady on the phone at The Cats Protection Society wasn't amused when I asked if my garden felines were a protected species.

I think she may have rumbled me.
It is fair to say that I may not have had the cats' best interests at heart.

Sparks

And some of us city folk were born in the countryside and lived there for quite a while before we had to leave to follow the work. Let's not slag each other off quite so fast!

Pal

clivej wrote: »

A feral cat should be killed or put down.
They have nothing that hunts them down and they are able to climb up trees and kill any and all nesting birds. They don't kill for food just kill.

that is true.
They killed a load of baby birds in a nest in the garden and left bits of them everywhere on the lawn.

jwshooter

my point is every one loves the country side not every understands how it works .,
i made no reference to weekend hunters.

Sparks

Point noted clearly jw.

thecornerboy

jwshooter wrote: »

rovi this is very true ,
people that do not live and work in the country side will never see a fox kill a lamb ,a grey crow pick the eyes out of a live sheep thats gone on its back .
or a magpie kill a black bird chick by standing on it and pulling the guts out of it .

they take from the country side ,what they think it should be like.
full of furry lovely creatures that meet under the big oak tree for chats .

i am a firm believer that the townies and the city folk should look after the crime, drug ,housing problems etc ,that comes with living in there urban environment .not saying we dont have the same problems in the sticks

and let the people that understand and live in the country side to do the same .
but we will try be as PC as possible not to offend any one .

Patronising nonsense. You don't own the countryside. I live in the city but get down the country regularly. Crime, drugs and housing problems aren't urban issues. They're problems everywhere, even in small little inbred towns.

And foxes and birds aren't out to get you or your property, they're part of the natural environment.

Pest control is one thing, but the problem people have and it's a legitimate one, is the perverse and sadistic pleasure some people who post here seem to get from butchering
wild animals whenever they can. I've had to do it the odd time and I just did it, didn't enjoy it, didn't hate it, it had to be done. But it's worrying that there are so many people
with a sadistic attitude when it comes to "hunting".

Vegeta

Feck sake lads can we get it back on topic please.

Sparks

Okay, and before the inevitable "you're monsters, I'm calling PETA!" -v- "you don't know what you're talking about, you leather-shoe-wearing hypocrite" discussion gets underway, thread locked. Hope the OP got sufficient information in the interim.