PSA for dealing with stray cats

Lizooki

Lizooki

Samurai Frogger
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Location
Stokes Co. NC
The "what's this poop" thread brought this to mind.
Back in the 80s and early 90's, all of the pressrooms I worked in, part of being a pressman was fixing what broke yourself .... no maintenance department.
I never threw away a good size bearing ... cut them apart, keep the balls.
They make great wrist rocket ammo!

I got pretty good at hitting stray cat sized targets.

I even kept the precision barrel shaped balls ...... not as accurate, but they make a wicked sound as the spin toward the cat, er target.

Matt
 
Live trap and a ride down the road in the back of a pickup truck with plastic bed liner. Early morning is best so you can practice starts and stops and warming the tires.
 
GotWood said:
Live trap and a ride down the road in the back of a pickup truck with plastic bed liner. Early morning is best so you can practice starts and stops and warming the tires.
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Also known as the Freddie Gray Ride.
 
jeepyjman said:
agreed. Damn I didnt know they were that much a nuisance??
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If they are around my house they are.
If I had to choose between shooting a coyote and stray at the cat gets it first.
Hate those God forsaken critters.
 
I commented on the sound some objects make when launched from a slingshot. Not about the target.
I have two cats. They are indoor only, for a reason. Not everyone likes cats.

Launch a lug nut or large open nut from a slingshot - it makes a sound that would not be out of place on an old Star Trek episode.
 
All I have to say is if my dogs are found outside my fence with no leash running free they get picked up by animal control. Now my neighbors' cats can be all in my yard, and roaming all over the neighborhood and no one says a word... I am fine with people having cats, just keep them indoors, or build a cage for them that can't get out of outside.
 
BigClay said:
a cage for them that can't get out of outside.
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That is also known as a "house". :D
Cats can get into and/or out of about any damn thing with a hole in it.
 
The old school coax cable fittings whistle as they fly from a wrist rocket. The sound scares the crap out of squirrels and other critters w a near miss. A .50 cal lead ball will fold a cat in half if hit broadside.
 
Never understood the h8 for cats. It’s not like they bark all night, attack people, or viciously hump peoples legs.

FYI my cat is reading this thread :flipoff2:

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NickMaul said:
Never understood the h8 for cats. It’s not like they bark all night, attack people, or viciously hump peoples legs.

FYI my cat is reading this thread :flipoff2:

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They shit in the house, then walk on the countertop where I make food. Nuff said.
 
I have a wife, has cat and dog (ours if it stayed outside all the time, son has dog, daughter has two dogs (came home with her when she moved back in).....one outside cat.
Daughters two stay mostly in her room, other two pups out during the day. House cat is the Queen B in all respects.


Was raised with NO inside pets as a rule. This is the only reason I question my home sanity. Its also why I don't chime in on all the mushy love for pets much. Damn animals. Give me a shinny tool and I'm happy.
 
Gave my wife a dead cat for her birthday one year. She loved it. Literally shot it while her parents we over at our house to eat, said happy birthday and threw it in the garbage.

Didn't have paw prints on our vehicles after that.
 
I had a sling shot once...ONCE. Set up shop in my parents car port. Had a good bucket of rocks. Did I mention cars were in the car port. At one point I decided to see how close I could get to the ‘lip’ of the carport without hitting it (shooting from inside to outside). Apparently I didn’t understand ricochet. Then I suddenly didn’t have a slingshot any more.
 
I agree with the whole outside cat thing. I can't stand outside cats, although I can't see inciting unnecessary punishment to them. My dogs on the other hando_O I hate all the birds, rabbits, squirrels, etc they kill.
 
She and I had 2 cats shortly after we started living together in our early 20s. A " friend " gave her 2 cute sister kittens and who was I to object about 2 cats in a 2 bedroom apt? I did try o_O we were on the second floor w outside steps to the balcony/front and back doors......... about a year later a feral tomcat found out we had 2 young, unspayed pussycats who were never let outside. The apartment was the last one on the street and big woods all around. It started w the tomcat spraying on the front door now and then, always in the middle of the night, never saw the culprit or any loose cat around the apartment. I tried hard to find or see it in the daylight for a month and more, to no avail. One late summer/fall night w the front window open and one of our girls lounging on the sill the tom jumped on the screen and started a fight w Sasha and tore holes in the screen before I could stop it. The tom left in a hurry when I opened the door beside the window, the first time I ever saw the sneaky sob........... Now the tom was spraying the front door about every night, I had washed it many times before this and NOW it was spraying the new screen/window too. Now I was really mad. I thought about trying to trap it, but worried about someone finding and taking my havahart and the weird neighbors. I had kept a wrist rocket in the den w a few musket balls for weeks before the screen incident. A few weeks later, one afternoon I saw the sob slinking out of the woods out back and towards the end of the building making it's way to the front. I went out on the front balcony and waited. The tom came around the corner of the building, stopped and looked right up @ me. I let the lead fly about 40' and hit it square in the ribs. The .50 cal. lead ball folded him up and drove him 5', it's nose smacked his butt hole w the impact. It streaked off back into the woods to never be seen ..........or smelled again.
 
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When I was in college a few of my friends girlfriends got the bright idea to get ducks from tractor supply around easter one year. As normally happens when idiots get animals, they turned out to be a lot more work than they planned on. They wereally getting rid of the ducklings and I decided to keep one. He was a blast. Mine was a little mallard. It would follow me around the yard, swim in the pool I bought it. We had some good times. Until the cat showed up. We lived in a house that backed up to govt housing through some woods. Those folks always have animals that they don't feed well and don't keep contained. I had seen a big white Tom cat lurking back there and I caught it around the ducks pen a few times. I always managed to run it off before he got inside. One day I got home from class and there were nothing but feathers in the pen :( I was pretty bummed. My duck was a cool dude. The next day I saw that stupid cat come across the backyard. Fukker was going to pay. I was an avid archer in college and my bow was never far away. You guys know what a muzzy 100 will do to a white cat? It makes a big red hole. I smoked that sucker from about 35yds. He never ate another duck.
 
awheelterd said:
When I was in college a few of my friends girlfriends got the bright idea to get ducks from tractor supply around easter one year. As normally happens when idiots get animals, they turned out to be a lot more work than they planned on. They wereally getting rid of the ducklings and I decided to keep one. He was a blast. Mine was a little mallard. It would follow me around the yard, swim in the pool I bought it. We had some good times. Until the cat showed up. We lived in a house that backed up to govt housing through some woods. Those folks always have animals that they don't feed well and don't keep contained. I had seen a big white Tom cat lurking back there and I caught it around the ducks pen a few times. I always managed to run it off before he got inside. One day I got home from class and there were nothing but feathers in the pen :( I was pretty bummed. My duck was a cool dude. The next day I saw that stupid cat come across the backyard. Fukker was going to pay. I was an avid archer in college and my bow was never far away. You guys know what a muzzy 100 will do to a white cat? It makes a big red hole. I smoked that sucker from about 35yds. He never ate another duck.
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Been shooting Muzzy for decades.The 100 4 blade is my favorite now. I've stuck 5 deer over the years that appeared to not know they were just punctured. Some would jump and look around, some would bound a few times and stop, and one only shook and stood there. One doe started picking up acorns again after the shot. Another walked a few yards and then bent her neck to lick the blood pouring out of her from the exit wound.I only had one buck that ran out of sight after the shot. The rest I watched fall within 50 yrds. because they did not run off before they expired. I've never not had a pass through w the Muzzies. I know mechanicals are all the rage now, but I will never use them.
 
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