Then your stupid neighbors let out their little asshole to wander around outside where it doesn't belong.
by darkmeatnipples
Then your stupid neighbors let out their little asshole to wander around outside where it doesn't belong.
by darkmeatnipples
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My current cat is terrified of any outdoors that is not behind a screen door or a plate glass window. I would love to give her a screened n catio. I think she would enjoy that. My previous cat loved to be outside, but was content on a leash, so we would laze around in the backyard on a picnic blanket, watching the birds and insects. She would sometimes try to catch a vole. but always jumped to where it just was, not where it is now.
Trap and give it to the shelter, as many times as it takes for them to stop letting it in your yard
Infuriating!
I currently have the same problem in my yard, but dammit if itsn’t absolutely adorable.
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Totally understand this frustration. I am about as much of a cat person as a person can be, but they belong *inside,* for the wildlife’s sake and their own. I’m working so hard to make my little piece of earth a haven but I’m surrounded by so many people who think they’re being kind by feeding cats on their porches, as many as will show up. So they eat and then they come to my yard to hunt.
Just last week we came home after dark to find one of the cats playing with a tiny ringneck snake on our sidewalk. Fortunately we found it in time and secured it, and fortunately one of our neighbors is a wildlife rehabber and knew what to do, and fortunately we have a wildlife center here in our town. The little guy was lucky this time and I’m to go pick it up today to release, but it pains me knowing it will be right back at risk from the same cat because someone won’t either take the cat inside or take it to a shelter for a chance at a good life.
It’s a jungle out there and a cat is just part of the fabric.
I’m *constantly* chasing my a cat out from under plants where it stalks my birds.
At least 10% of the time, it has a bird or small rôdent in its mouth.
It’s really, really hard not to get furious.
I don’t know whose cat it is, but it looks domesticated, even if it never has a collar.
I’m thinking it’s time to talk to the SPCA.
I only take my cat outside on a leash or in my enclosed garden and she’s supervised
This frustrates me to no end. Our cat is allowed outside time in an enclosed, safe space. She can’t harm any animals in this space apart from the occasional lizard who is foolish enough to leave 1/2 acre of meadow and 10 acres of woods to squeeze into the house or outdoor space. If people properly exercised their cats they wouldn’t need to let them roam. Don’t want to put the time into exercising them? Don’t get a cat! Volunteer at a cat shelter or something similar to get your cat fix!
I trap the ferals that come to my yard and have them spayed/neutered. I can’t bring myself to have them euthanized. I release them but at least they won’t be reproducing.
I know it’s easy to demonize outdoor cats but they do have their place in any ecosystem and their bird kills compared to how many mice, rats and other disease carrying vermin they kill far out way their smaller harm to birds especially outdoor/indoor (collared) cats that don’t have to actually hunt for food. You should thank that cat for keeping the mice population in control and maybe even away from your house.
The biggest driver to losing native plant biodiversity isn’t cats by a long shot, it’s mainly the over development of our natural areas, climate change, invasive plant species and pollution etc.
Cats belong inside where they don’t contribute to declining bird populations!!!!!! >:(
We got a water turret to try to keep deer off the plants, but you can set it to sense small animals instead. It wouldn’t hurt them at all, but it’s like getting blasted by a super soaker, and it is very surprising indeed when you’re not expecting it!
Ya know what…i just don’t care about this issue.
Honestly, if it is on your property, trap it and take it to the shelter. Many shelters have fines for this type of thing and at the very least it will be a significant inconvenience for the owner. You’re not responsible for keeping track of which animals belong to certain people when they are roaming free.
But it’s such a *cute* ^(bird murder machine) 😻
We have a neighbor with an asshole cat too who eats birds, rabbits, etc, poops/pees in my yard, and does this to my garden. Makes me so mad.
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