Dealing with a feral cat

[big_white_dog84]

I've just moved to a new house, and one of my cats has been quite badly beaten up a couple of times over the past few days. I've been speaking to a couple of the neighbours with pets, and they've said there's a feral cat running around and that their pets have also been attacked by it. I was in the kitchen last night and heard a rattling at the back door - I looked through the glass to see a MASSIVE cat going absolutely mental trying to get through the pane of glass to get to my cats on the inside. I opened the door and tried to kick it, but it was long gone. The same thing happened tonight, and I think I need to do something about it.

Options I've considered:

- shooting it
- trapping it, and taking it to a vet to get de-clawed, or at least neutered
- trapping it, sticking it in the car, driving it miles away and releasing it
- trapping it and soaking it with a hose for hours so it doesn't come back

...any other options?

 

[Rotty]

declawing is illegal afaik


the taking it somewhere else sounds best idea

 

[JBuk]

Trap it and get the rspca or whoever deals with that kind of thing?

 

[Mr Jones]

- trapping it, boil the fur out then make feral cat casserole.

 

[starfighter]

How about calling the RSPCA.....

 

[Vonhelmet]

Trap it and RSPCA it.

 

[Vanilla]

I don't think there's really a lot you can do. It may be someones pet.....

 

[Greenlizard0]

Lay mines out side your back door.

 

[JayMax]

Options I've considered:

- shooting it
- trapping it, and taking it to a vet to get de-clawed, or at least neutered
- trapping it, sticking it in the car, driving it miles away and releasing it
- trapping it and soaking it with a hose for hours so it doesn't come back

...any other options?

Reminds me of an ex-girlfriend. If you can trap it then the RSPCA must be the way to go. How to you plan to trap it?

 

[datawrite]

Try and find out where it has a poo and then put several mouse traps under the soil in your garden!

 

[big_white_dog84]

Would the RSPCA (or more accurately SSPCA up here) be interested? There isn't actually an animal in distress....the feral beast seems quite happy to be terrorising the local cat population.

On another note, do you think you could take a cat in a fight? If it was HUGE and was really going for you? I'm not so sure. I think if I trap this beast I'll be putting on heavy duty gloves, goggles etc before I try and coax it into a box.

 

[Vanilla]

I don't understand how this is a feral cat?

Big = check
Mean = check

answer = feral???

You've just described half the toms out there. If that was my cat and I found out through word of mouth that you'd trapped it and done something with it i'd [insert keyboard warrior rant here] you.

 

[JBuk]

Actually to stop it invading your territory you need to show it who is boss by having sex with it


I saw it on a nature program

 

[datawrite]

Got a crossbow?

 

[Vanilla]

Actually to stop it invading your territory you need to show it who is boss by having sex with it


I saw it on a nature program

This ^^

Also, cats have a barbed penis. You need to ensure you replicate this by sticking toothpicks into yours.

 

[cheechm]

I'd catapult it into oblivion.

 

[big_white_dog84]

I don't understand how this is a feral cat?

Big = check
Mean = check

answer = feral???

You've just described half the toms out there.

I'm going on what the neighbours tell me. It doesn't look anything like a pet cat...it's difficult to explain, but it looks a lot more 'spitty' and 'hissy' than any domestic cat I've ever seen. I live in a fairly small group of houses, and nobody here owns it. It would have to walk ~ 2 miles from the next nearest set of houses.

 

[I get around]

- shooting it
- trapping it, and taking it to a vet to get de-clawed, or at least neutered
- trapping it, sticking it in the car, driving it miles away and releasing it
- trapping it and soaking it with a hose for hours so it doesn't come back

Shooting it, illegal, declawing it illegal, soaking it with a hose for hours, animal cruelty, illegal and i'm amazed you'd even suggest such a thing.
If you're that fussed, box it up, take it to the cat rescue centre or something.

 

[mr tommo]

Whats the best deterrant for cats by the way?

My next door neighbour has a cat and its destroyed the roof on my neighbours convertible Audi. If it moves on to my roof there will be trouble. Its constantly in our garden.

 

[datawrite]

Set up a security light's detector to set off paint sprays (multicoloured) to spray the cat!