Here, Kitty Kitty

[KeriAnnie]

What is the name of your state? Grady County, Oklahoma

I apologize if this is not the proper place for my question.

My neighbors have recently taken a liking to stray cats. They have been feeding and possibly housing in excess of 5 at a time. Unfortunately for us, the cats seem to think our front yard is their pooping/scratching/digging ground and the tops of our cars are their personal playground. Then, they find it necessary to fight and mate in our yard all night. They also like to go into the back yard and tease the dogs who *are* restrained.

I suspect a friendly tap in the rear from the BB Gun isn't exactly the most legal (thanks to "animal cruelty" laws) way to go about making them unwelcome. The neighbors refuse to restrain them, saying that cats are free range animals. I want to reclaim my yard!

Any suggestions?

[FarmerJ]

Call your city hall or county govt center to learn if there are any laws addressing the number of cats people can have or what sort of leash laws or other laws there are for addressing strays. If there are none then you will have to find another way to discourage the cats from comming over like repellants to treat the yard that are known to drive cats off but not bothersome to dogs.

[IndianaOwner]

Get a dog or spray with water (lawn sprinkler?).

[stuckinlamad]

If you call animal control in your area they can come pick them up as strays. I have had animal control at my house to pick up an injured dog (not stray) that came into my yard that had gotten out of someone elses house.

[Miss Smith]

I need more cats. Dig in the pocket and send them my way. Just send them on to main street the Mail-man. ( hunka hunka burning love) will know where to let them go to! YEah!! More kittie cats. I think I have to actually buy some stock in that flea go a getamim stuff.. Anybody want to buy in with me... You lknow... the same stuff as that Tv program?

[danno6925]

Boy, do I ever feel your pain. I have the exact same scenario with my white trash neighbors!! Just be careful with the bb gun (1 pump only on pneumatic guns, and don't use a CO2 or spring loaded one - too powerful). Remeber - you don't want to inflict injury, just "remind" them that your house is your house. You don't even have to shoot the critters. A warning shot between the feet will also send them running.

I have had the problem with cats for the past 2 years. There are some good ways to get rid of them. Mace the area they like best with cayenne pepper spray - the personal defense kind - they REALLY hate that. Anything that smells like citrus seems to work ok, but the good old garden hose works the best. Although, some cats will "retaliate" by pooping near your door if you use too offensive a method. Every time I hosed down a cat, I ended up with poop by my door in the morning like clockwork.

[Proejo]

I had the worst neighbor for many years. There are too many offenses to list here. Probably the worst was their deep freezer breaking down in the summer and then being full of rotting meat. I'd come home every night and the smell coming out of their garage was atrocious. I finally had to call the county health inspector and file a complaint to get it taken care of (the husband and wife were spatting about which one got to do the dirty deed and each wouldn't budge on it for more than a week)

They took a liking to cats. I had dachsunds that if they caught one in the yard would literally tear them in two. Still, they kept multiplying. No tags, running free, in my garage, pooping on top of my cars, they made an awful mess and they screamed and wailed all night long doing what cats do. I borrowed an animal trap and kept it filled with tuna fish. Took about two months but I got all of them (41 total including the kittens I captured and the ones the dogs caught and mauled) out of there and dumped at the pound.

Get a trap. If they aren't tagged, drop 'em off at the pound.

[fairisfair]

heck, even if they are tagged, drop them off. Cats are held to the same leash laws as dogs, although it isn't as enforced. Let the neighbors bail them out.

[HappyHusband]

Originally Posted by fairisfair

heck, even if they are tagged, drop them off. Cats are held to the same leash laws as dogs, although it isn't as enforced. Let the neighbors bail them out.

Apparently, in California, cats are allowed to roam free.

I have used the trap method with good results;
1 racoon
5 opossums
7 cats (2 released on good behavior, being neighbor's pets. The rest were stray breeders, and were deported.)
My own cat, three times.

[Mister Darcy]

Originally Posted by rmet4nzkx

Mister darcy has a suggestion in this thread started by Miss Smith.
[url]http://forum.freeadvice.com/showthread.php?t=256609[/url]

He's a sicko.