Need help keeping cats off vehicles

Haven't yall seen the Hangover? Tigers love pepper, they hate cinnamon :D

 
Sub sonic .22lr works great.
 
mommucked said:
Have a Heart and a half opened can of cheap tuna in oil............... then fire up the lawnmower and put the trap beside it, it muffles the sound of the .22 (especially if your mower backfires occasionally) if that's an issue in your neighborhood when dealing w feral cats.
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subsonic...no need for mowers and such.

last cat problem I had I actually solved with a Gamo Air Rifle...in the ear from a broadside shot or through the eye leading its instantly effective
 
I use subsonics AND the lawnmower. I have a nosy neighbor 2 doors down who feeds deer and stray cats if she sees them and recently a husband and father on our street shot and killed himself in his truck, in his driveway so I won't shoot guns around my house unless I see zombies commin! I hav'nt seen any feral cats in a year, I think the Coyotes are getting them. When we had a feral cat problem I caught a few that were obviously pets and released them after giving them a good bath or two w the hose and sprayer, that seems to send them home quickly when released and keep them from coming back.
 
in my neighborhood cats don't last too long.
just park your car on the street & see how long it takes
the tweekers to steal em. replacements are expensive so
i'm all for the lead posioning thing.
 
HAPPY said:
Thought about the black pepper but yeah that may be messy. The spray sounds pretty good. I really don't wanna kill it. I do like the idea of an air soft pistol, that sounds like it could be fun. After I get rid of the cat then I can sit around and shoot the old lady.
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The "old lady" disagrees with that last line a LOT.
 
20oz empty drink bottle on the end of a .22 and no more cat on car and no sound two problems solved. No need for noisy lawnmower
 
When i get my can out of atf lock up(waiting on tax stamp) i can help with your problem....
 
Landcruzn said:
20oz empty drink bottle on the end of a .22 and no more cat on car and no sound two problems solved. No need for noisy lawnmower
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Wait wait wait...
I have a little experience with a kid trying to use a pellet rifle and a homemade silencer...dont
 
Ron said:
Wait wait wait...
I have a little experience with a kid trying to use a pellet rifle and a homemade silencer...dont
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Yea DONT LOL i speak from experience ;) i had a really bad ground squarrel problem in so cal when i was a kid...... after the second one exploded i gave up
 
Dylan W. said:
Didnt Lane shoot himself in the hand or something?
@Ron
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Yep...two surgeries later.....Ive got x ray pics somewhere of a .177 caliber pellet stuck in the middle fanger joint.
 
Well this conversation took a turn.

So what happened? Was he was holding the bottle when he tried to shoot through it?
 
LOL...

My son who is otherwise a very mature, intelligent and responsible kid and alsovery creative and industrious loves guns, engineering, mechanics...basiclaly the same stuff all of us like. Only he was 12 at the time. He loves tha show sons of guns. He loved sniping rabbits of our 2nd story deck with his pellet gun. Only problem was he would kill 1 and the others would scatter...so he wanted a quieter pellet rifle.

He actually had a decent concept including fiberglass from an old fire blanket in the gargae and duct tape...and an industrial cardboard tube. He crafted this silencer and then went to test it. Well the cardboard tube wasnt perfectly straight and he was holding it ontot the end of the barrle thinking he had everything aligned. The pellet went through the fiberglass matting, through the tube, first pierced his hand at the heel (imagine your left hand gripping the forearm of a shotgun and the flight path is easier visualize) then exited his hand then re entered it just outside of his pinky knuckle. It traveled tansverse under the ring and middle knuckle where it took a turn traveling up the third finger to the knuckle where it lodged.

Quite a night at the ER when the paramedic thought "pellet rifle"= Daisy Red Rider and repeatedly assured me and the wife te pellet couldnt still be lodged in his hand and instead of an X ray they were going to do an MRI to check for muscle damage and me having to pitch a fit that rotating a high powered magnet around his hand with a piece of metal imbedded was a bad idea. I finally won and the X ray showed the pellet.

The add 2 surgeries to extract said pellet.
Probably the funniest part of the whole ordeal..actually 2 funny parts.
I walk in the door and he meets me (this happened mayve 5 minutes before I got home from work, my wife had called me hysterical when he came in the house bleeding) ...

Me: what happened
Son: Dad, look. I did something really really stupid. I mean I was a dumb butt stupid. But my hand hurts, I know I was dumb but please dont punish me right now just help me get the pellet out of my hand.

Then the day of the surgery (3 days later) wit was on a Thursday and that night we were going to the Clemson GT football game, he had a mild reaction to the anesthesia so we didnt want to leave him with a sitter so we took him with us and agreed he would miss Friday's school. Well my wife had posted the whole adventure on Facebook, when we pulled up to our tailgate our 30 or so friends had a banner made that said "Welcome Shooter" ...
 
Dylan is just mad Lane is bigger than him....heck he's taller that me now too!!
 
So we bought some cat repellent today. I sprayed around the entire car port and a few rugs that are out there. We will see.....

If that doesn't work, I am thinking bait a few mouse traps. Maybe a block under the wire so it doesn't snap completely close and trap its tongue. I figure if it got smacked on the nose a time or two it will learn.
 
Cat spray DOES NOT WORK. Think I will try the mouse trap.....
 
The cat's probly not gonna stick it's nose in the trap until it taps it w it's paw and should be able to remove it quickly if the trap springs.
 
I have caught it twice tonight and managed to spray it pretty good with the repellent. It keeps coming back.

I parked the J truck in the car port because it likes it better than the top of the Liberty. I can handle that better than a tore up soft top. The old lady says they hate orange scent. She put an orange in the driver seat ( it's preferred spot ) it hasn't been back in a few hours now.
 
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