My dad trapped his neighbor's cat

[MikeWaters]

What other people would have done is put the cat in the animal shelter. Even if the owners were not notified that the animal had been placed in the shelter, owners often check there.

Your father has done his best to ensure that the cat can never be recovered. It's an asshole thing to do. But again, you could probably confirm, just the tip of the iceberg.

[Clark Addison]

I need to move next door to your father. I have a cat that needs "taking care of".

[Runner Coug]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

What other people would have done is put the cat in the animal shelter. Even if the owners were not notified that the animal had been placed in the shelter, owners often check there.

Your father has done his best to ensure that the cat can never be recovered. It's an asshole thing to do. But again, you could probably confirm, just the tip of the iceberg.

No, drama queen. Most people would have beat the cat to death with a shovel, or left some rat poison in the tuna. Only people who want to keep dealing with the same crap over and over would take it to the shelter.

[MikeWaters]

Originally Posted by Runner Coug

No, drama queen. Most people would have beat the cat to death with a shovel, or left some rat poison in the tuna. Only people who want to keep dealing with the same crap over and over would take it to the shelter.

Wow, what world do you live in? Apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

[The_Tick]

I agree with RC.

I removed 5 cats from my neighborhood last year using this same message.

And I dropped them all off at a friends farm cause he needed mousers.

The cats kept shitting in my wife's flower bed and "spraying" our house and cars. We have no cats.

Cats had no collars and no tags. If someone doesn't mark the pet it isn't a pet.

Either way...if someone doesn't do their best to help respect my stuff, I don't need to respect theirs.

[MikeWaters]

Originally Posted by The_Tick

I agree with RC.

I removed 5 cats from my neighborhood last year using this same message.

And I dropped them all off at a friends farm cause he needed mousers.

The cats kept shitting in my wife's flower bed and "spraying" our house and cars. We have no cats.

Cats had no collars and no tags. If someone doesn't mark the pet it isn't a pet.

Either way...if someone doesn't do their best to help respect my stuff, I don't need to respect theirs.

So do you think you are out of the norm, in that most people would kill them?

[The_Tick]

I don't know if most people would kill them.

It would have been easier to just poisen them, but there are rules out there against that and it could get one put into jail and have a big fine to pay.

There is no rule and jail time for trapping a cat and relocating it.

I went the cheaper route. Poisen would have been the easier route.

[hyrum]

Originally Posted by Runner Coug

If your wife is thoughtless enough to let her cat roam free, ruining other's property despite being asked to stop it, I would suggest she get ready to be depressed, because it's only a matter of time.

Personally, we don't have that problem because the cat is mostly indoors and when its outside it doesn't dig up stuff in the neighbor's property -- barely strays from our yard at all.

However, there are much more humane ways of training a cat to stay out of somewhere -- for example they hate water -- so spray 'em a few times with a hose and they'll learn. I am sure if your dad tried he could find other means. As I mentioned if the cat is semi-feral, just roams around all day and night, and has set this as his territory, etc, I can see how it could become a greater nuiscanc, and maybe is not so endearing to its owner, either. Why not, at least once, trap the cat, bring it to the owner and give a warning that next time its going to the pound or the countryside?

[Jeff Lebowski]

We had a cat disappear a couple of months ago. I think I am starting to understand what happened.

[The Borg]

This is a funny thread.