How do you get rid of stray cats around your house?
meow asked:
Is there any way aside from calling animal control to get rid of stray cats around the house? I wouldn’t normally care, but they keep getting into the garbage and recycling and starting fights with our cat at the window.
Like I said, I wouldn’t normally care, but they actually get at our windows at start fights with our cat at the screens. I could get the lids for the garbage, but that won’t help with the fighting problem, so we need they to leave the house alone completely…
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Is there any way aside from calling animal control to get rid of stray cats around the house? I wouldn’t normally care, but they keep getting into the garbage and recycling and starting fights with our cat at the window.
Like I said, I wouldn’t normally care, but they actually get at our windows at start fights with our cat at the screens. I could get the lids for the garbage, but that won’t help with the fighting problem, so we need they to leave the house alone completely…
August 17th, 2009 at 9:03 am
They’re looking for food. You might get garbage cans that have locking lids (a latch on them the cats can’t open.)
Are they ferral cats?
If so, the kindest thing for the whole animal population is to call animal control and have them put down. They breed and breed, and produce more cats that will all have very short lives - hit by cars, diseases, etc.
August 18th, 2009 at 7:46 am
its a shame those cats are starving and they don’t have a home, I have alot of strays around my house too but I feed them and give them water, no animal should have to starve.
August 22nd, 2009 at 11:55 pm
The most humane thing you can do is to call animal control. Or, you could go to animal control and get a cat trap. Bait it with a little cat food and you’ll catch them one by one. Take the full trap to the pound and exchange it for an empty one. In a little while you’ll no longer have a problem. You’ll have to get lids for those garbage cans, though, or new cats will constantly come calling.
August 23rd, 2009 at 11:00 am
Definitely call the animal shelter in your area. Often times they may be too overcrowded to take in new cats so I would check other shelters in your area (sometimes called second chance shelters). They should provide you with the cages and means to capture the cats who have claimed your territory as their own.
As strange as this sounds you might want to try a watergun as well. You can shoot a watergun through the screen at the fighting cats. I would water them down with hose or watergun as much and as often as you can. Cats will go to another house/vacant area that is less troublesome to them.