First off, no offense to any cat lovers. I LIKE CATS. Cats that live inside or stay in their yard or are respectful of boundaries. I know some of you have cats. I like your cats. I like to see pictures of them and YOUR cats seem very civilized and if you were to ever grace me with a visit – you would be more than welcome to bring your bundle of love.
Does anyone have a good method of getting rid of cats that doesn’t involve nuking the neighborhood? Our neighbors have a bunch of the hairy bastards and they keep coming into our garage and pissing on everything. And shitting. There is nothing that will make your day more glittery-special than coming home from work and stepping in catshit. We have a cat (Girl) and I love her. I feed her wet food twice a day! I wouldn’t be as upset if it was her shit. But to have it coming from a nasty pissy cat that bullies the hell out of mine is too much.
When I’m home during the day, I leave the garage door cracked a bit so Girl can come and go as she pleases. I’m afraid it’s too hot for her to be outside all day and she doesn’t like being cooped up in the garage with the door closed. The other cats take this as their invitation to completely fuck my place up. They spray my tires! My sweet little car’s shoes have been violated! And the smell? For the love of all that is good and holy, it smells like bad urine in there. (not to be confused with good urine!)
One of them (a 3-legged bastard) actually got trapped in our garage last night when I closed it. My first instinct was to beat his piss-spraying self with a broom but I gave him a chance. I opened the door and yelled at him at the top of my lungs so his owners could hear politely gave him to the count of five to hop on out. He did.
I’ve already decided that I’m going to start collecting the cat turds and depositing them somewhere in the neighbor’s yard on a weekly basis. My first thought was to hurl them into their yard as I found them each day but I decided I wanted to go with the dramatic. A turd here and there? You might miss them. A pile of them decaying by your mailbox? No overlooking that.
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I have a friend who has been plagued with the same problem. they put moth balls around the perimeter of their house – no more spraying. But since you allow your cat to come and go from the garage – it might deter your own cat. Now the dilemma.
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Chickie said:
September 7th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
I am going to do this around the perimeter of our yard. Our cat doesn’t ever leave the yard so this might work. I’m going to sprinkle the yard while neighbor is outside and can see what I’m doing.
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September 7th, 2009 5:19 pm
So my mom read that when coyotes are coming near your chicken coops and you go out and pee all over the area because the smell of your urine repels the coyotes and therefore you’re protecting your chickens.
So, like, maybe cats are the same way? And instead of “chicken coop” it’s “your yard and house”?
Basically what I’m saying is I’m totally volunteering myself to come visit, get very drunk and piss all over your yard.
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Chickie said:
September 8th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
Consider yourself invited. I will let you lean on me for support.
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bekah said:
September 8th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
You’re the best.
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September 8th, 2009 12:31 am
I kinda feel like you wrote that disclaimer for me.
In any case, there is a black that had been coming around our window and Landon did NOT like this one bit. He would get so angry and then. . .well, It was a repeat of last year’s mental breakdown.
So. We use this stuff (http://www.petsmart.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2754438&lmdn=Cat) and spray it all over our porch. I mean, I’m not there to monitor it all the time, but I haven’t seen that black in forever.
On another note. I can’t believe you have a cat. I feel like this is the first time you’ve mentioned it and that cat must have a lot of resentment. That would be like me having a dog I never mentioned. It’s like the cat doesn’t even count.
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Chickie said:
September 8th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
If the mothball perimeter doesn’t work, I’ll give that spray a try. Heck, maybe I’ll do them both at the same time!
Girl is different. She’s kind of like a roommate that is never around. Trust me, she has NO resentment. She does shit on her own time and gets lots of attention when she wants it – which isn’t often. But now you’ve made me feel guilty. I will have to tell you all about Girl soon.
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bekah said:
September 8th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Yeah I remember when I was there and you were all, that’s my cat and my reaction was YOU HAVE A CAT?
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Jeni Angel said:
September 8th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
See!! I’m not the only one! You have cat shame
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Chickie said:
September 8th, 2009 at 11:51 pm
Cat shame? Hahahahahahaha!
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bekah said:
September 9th, 2009 at 12:23 am
You totally have cat shame.
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September 8th, 2009 11:32 am
Playing hooky and visiting blogs today!
OY I am the owner of 4 cats but I by-God-and-all-that-is-Holy do not like to step in catsh*t (even if it belongs to my cats) nor do I like the p*ssing. Ick. I say you were jusitifed in booting the invader from your garage and just maybe he would have spread the word to his kitty cohorts.
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Chickie said:
September 8th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
I hope the fellow told all of his friends to stay the hell away. Sweety and the boys sanitized the garage today and I’m going to sprinkle repelling things along the edge of our whole yard tomorrow. Maybe that will keep them away for awhile!
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September 8th, 2009 2:16 pm
T says to step on their necks. But he’s a big dude, and doesn’t really appreciate animals using his garage as their toilet. He also said to put the cat shit on their doorstep instead of by the mailbox.
peace…
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Chickie said:
September 8th, 2009 at 11:52 pm
I can’t catch them to step on them. And my feet are too small. If the mothballs and other things don’t work – I might trap them and take them to the shelter.
It really pisses me off that the neighbors have put up a screened garage door so they can’t get into THEIR garage but get bent out of shape when people bitch about their cats running the neighborhood.
Hmph.
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September 8th, 2009 11:47 pm
I seem to recall a post about your sons learning to “hunt” with a pellet gun…. Then again, I remember the justification being that they ate what they killed. Have you checked out any Filipino or Vietnamese cookbooks lately?
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Chickie said:
September 9th, 2009 at 7:00 pm
*shudder*
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September 9th, 2009 1:39 am
IAs you know I have cats and don’t always like them because of the attitude,a but you could try cayenne pepper on the surface of the garage door. Oh, that would hurt your cat.
I hate to say this, but you could also try….firecrackers! It will sure scare the crap out of them and your neighbors. I forgot your track record with fire works! LOL.
Call the dog pound and have them loan you some live traps, and then carry them off to another world. The predator scent would probably work as well, I am afraid of moth balls because of the chemicals. I use to use them, They did work, but what if something ate them.
Thanks for comming by and commenting at my blog. I await to see how you fix this problem.
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Chickie said:
September 9th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
I’d use firecrackers if I could catch them doing what they do. They’re sneaky.
Moth balls worked for you? I was telling my other neighbor I was going to use them and he said they didn’t work for him. I think I will try them anyway.
I’m thinking of catching them myself. A neighbor across the street got pissed a couple of years ago and had traps laid. The catneighbor was furious. If I trap them, I’ll have to be discreet.
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September 9th, 2009 9:10 am
Go with what you’ve got. You live in Florida: borrow an alligator.
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Chickie said:
September 9th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
That is a fabulous idea! A hungry alligator.
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September 9th, 2009 12:04 pm
Well, it is amazing to read that you have a cat, my dear. I actually read the top post first so I see where someone had kind of the same reaction I would have had, if I had read this first…To have never mentioned “Girl”…I don’t know, my dear, it seems out of character!
But….I understand you don’t have very much to do with her, EXCEPT, you feed her and worry about her getting locked up in The Garage, etc., etc., etc……I love the picture of her and hope that you get some more at some point—even a little video would be fun!
As to HP…I love that you are giving him food, too….lol!
How to get rid of those neighbor cats….I don’t have a clue! All that spraying…OY! Not nice in any way….the poop too, YIKES!
I hope you will let us know your Neighbors reaction to the Big Pile by The Post Box….OH, and do take a picture of that, Pretty Please With Sugar On It!
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Chickie said:
September 10th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
I know it’s out of character…but she won’t even let me photo her. If she did that and actually came around me more, I’d have probably mentioned her sooner. But I do like her. But I don’t think she likes me.
And dammit, Tiny & Stinky LIKE me so they get face time here :)
Well, regarding the piles. I realized that it’s HP leaving them. I think he doesn’t want to go in Girl’s box because it’s hers. I’m thinking of getting him his own litter box if he keeps hanging around.
It is definitely NOT him pissing up the place though.
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September 9th, 2009 11:25 pm
If I could, I would send you some of the coyotes from around here. They love stray outside cats for dinner. Of course you’d have to guard Tiny. In the last neighborhood I lived in, they started eating small dogs because they ate every single outside cat they could find. Maybe you just need a bigger dog.
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Chickie said:
September 13th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
Two coyotes, please. Tiny will stay inside.
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September 13th, 2009 7:46 pm
I had NO IDEA that you had a cat!
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Chickie said:
September 17th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
Cat shame. I blame it on cat shame. I’m working on it though.
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September 17th, 2009 2:25 pm
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