I live in the country and there is this feral cat that has been hanging around my house for a few days. It's a male, not neutered so he is not very friendly. I have been just ignoring him, but I think he comes around because there is an overabundance of birds/squirrels for him to eat. I have not been feeding him or being friendly. I don't want to injure him, but I don't want him around. If I call animal control, they won't be able to catch him because there are woods all around my house. Does anyone have ideas on how to get rid of this pest?
2007-07-27 03:36:05 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Cats
About two years ago I had the same problem. A scraggly gray male cat started hanging out on the periphery of my yard ( I live in the middle of the woods, too). He was obviously wild and uncared for.
I have three other cats, and they are inside cats, but I do let them out when I'm at home and working in the yard or whatever. So, there's always food on the bannister of the covered porch. The stray quickly found it, and started visiting his reliable food source more and more often.
It took two years for the transformation to occur, but he's pretty much a member of the family now. Bit by bit, he learned to trust me as he observed my behavior and interaction with my own cats. It took a long time for him to allow me to touch him, but now he seeks attention just like mine do.
He's still a little skittish, but he has made our home his home.
I beg of you to reconsider your position.
These poor animals did not ask to be born, and they desperately need some kind human to adopt them.
He is at your mercy - cat food is pretty cheap.
2007-07-27 04:00:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
The humane trap idea is the way i would go too but if you call around, some humane societies will let you use one for free. In the area where i grew up there were tons of feral cats and there was a program where you could go pick up the trap and use it to catch the cat. Then you could take cat cage and all to a certain vet and they would spay/neuter for free as long as you turned the cat loose again when it was done. Check around and see if any of these options are available to you.
2007-07-27 03:51:02 · answer #2 · answered by Aj 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
ok - i'm returned! i'm recuperating from a TROLL attack, so be mushy. You even have 2 alternatives. call in animal administration or initiate stay trapping them your self and turning them into animal administration. you could desire to have additionally inherited a colony of feral cats for the reason which you seem to have lots of. i think that somebody on your neighbourhood is feeding them too. it relatively is beginning to happen in our section returned additionally. we are residing in a small village and we don't have the posh of an animal look after. you do no longer prefer to be responsive to how stray animals are dealt with right here. I basically rescued a cat out of the engine compartment of my college bus on Monday and we intend to maintain him. i'd relatively prefer to 'talk' to whoever enable him off right here, nonetheless. The temperature right here has been -10 to -20F all week and this variation right into a 2-4 month previous immature male cat. If the bus did no longer have a block heater and he hadn't got here upon our rubbish he would have perished. he will may be the final nonetheless; we've already got yet another cat and a canine.
2016-09-30 21:55:00 · answer #3 · answered by geissel 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I had a cat like this that used to hang around my old place. I went to the grocery and bought him some food and started feeding him regularly. He was never a pet but when I would come outside he would come and sit a few feet from me and just watch what I was doing. Once I tricked him and put some anti flea and anti parasite on him that I got form the vet. He was pist! But he needed it. It got to the point that I enjoyed having him around. Maybe you can see it that way if you try.
2007-07-27 03:49:20 · answer #4 · answered by I know EVERYTHING! 4 · 5⤊ 0⤋
You could try spraying him with water everytime he ventures into your yard.
Or buy some animal repellent at your local garden or hardware store and sprinkle it around the places you see him.
Have you tried trapping him with bait?
It also wouldn't hurt to call animal control and at least let them try to catch him, because the ONLY sure fire way to rid yourself of a pesky animal is trapping and removal. If animal control doesn't work, here is a nationwide list of professional animal trappers that might be able to help. You can search by state and narrow it down from there.
http://www.aaanimalcontrol.com/professional-trapper/nationwide-trappers.htm
Best of luck!
2007-07-27 03:40:48 · answer #5 · answered by Veritas 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I agree, spray him with a hose, and after a while, he might get the hint.
You could also put some cat nip in the woods and once you realize he is visiting that spot, you could try moving the cat nip further and further away from your house. He might eventaully move on from there.
If you call Animal Control, they could end up putting him to sleep.
2007-07-27 03:47:11 · answer #6 · answered by George P 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Buy a humane trap for him. Set some wet food in it or something that he will like. Set the trap and hopefully within a few hours or so you will have yourself a cat. When you have caught him bring him to your local humane society/shelter. YOu can buy the traps at local pet stores or at your humane society/shelter(the local humane society where I live sells them so maybe yours will to)
good luck
2007-07-27 03:44:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Nobody else wants him, either. He has a tough, lonely, probably unhappy life. He should have been someone's pet, but along the line, everyone has let him down through no fault of his own.
I'd feed him. Food is cheap and his life will probably be short.
2007-07-27 04:04:10 · answer #8 · answered by Kayty 6 · 7⤊ 0⤋