Reply With QuoteThis guy has your solution. He has a number of videos on his channel which he started to stop them urinating everywhere but developed into protecting baby birds.
OldBushie
SupporterPet cats and rabbits ARE adorable But once they get into the bush they are an absolute menace to the environment and the native fauna culling cats is the only way to protect our native animals and birds from predation.Originally Posted by Epic_Dragon
Please don't shoot it!! Thats awful anyone who shoots a cat! It could be someone's pet! Please trap or catch and take it to a vet or pound and let them find if it has a home, or is able to be rehomed or it not, kindly put to sleep.
Disgusts me how folks think it's ok to just shoot cats. It's not ok! So many horrendous stories.
Its more likely catching mice than the native things and is much less of a danger than stray dogs could be.
I think all cats should not be allowed to wander and should be adequately and safely confined to their properties. Mine are indoor and go outside on leads or in a cat run.
Keeps them safe, keeps wildlife safe, numbers of mice increase outside, and no one can harm them like so many think is ok way to treat a cat!
Could always befriend it and have a new indoor lap warmer. Cats help regulate heart beats
Personally I would rather watch the native birds having a bath under the sprinkler in summer than raking up their feathers after being murdered by some feral cat.
As for befriending a feral cat, Good luck with that idea.
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This guy has your solution. He has a number of videos on his channel which he started to stop them urinating everywhere but developed into protecting baby birds.
ChatterBox
SubscriberI wasn't advocating it, just noting that lots of people who do dump cats seem to think that they'll be able to fend for themselves - apparently not, and that's putting to one side what native animals they'd be killing if they were fending for themselves.
Our farm was the first one near-ish to a side road about 5kms out of Horsham - we used to see cars slow down, stop, turn around and drive off. An hour or so later there'd be a new cat at the back door .... people obviously figured that it was far enough out of town that their cat wouldn't find it's way home and there was a house nearby for it to go to.
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ChatterBox
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How do you think we ended up with feral cats,
Ohh that’s right, someone let a some “feral” cats go years ago and that’s how we ended up with feral cat populations in all corners of this country 🧚🏿🧚🏿🧚🏿🧚🏿🧚🏿🧚🏿🧚🏿🤨
Right .... the point is that there's a pool of feral cats that aren't all recently escaped or dumped pets - they're the product of multiple generations of animals that escaped or were dumped in years past. And apparently they kill other cats, including recently dumped ones.
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Wizard
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No worries.I wasn't suggesting that you were advocating dumping cats: just worried that somebody might read it and think it might not be so bad after all....
John
Wizard
SupporterThanks for posting this. This fellow's videos are brilliant. Very refreshing to see something this engaging on YouTube....and all in the good cause of scaring the bejeezus out of a cat.
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ForumSage
SupporterYou could try the deterrent spray sold at the big green shed, but that didn't work on my cat however citronella oil did, as recommended by Dr Harry on a Friday evening show that is on TV about now.
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Swaggie
Ineresting article about wild cats.
"Australia has the worst mammalian extinction record in the world and cats have contributed to two thirds of these species’ demise."
Sign the petition feral cats - Invasive Species Council
Super ModeratorCitronella is great, more so when it gets on the cat.
When you have a dog who loves to muster cats into a tree, it’s like shooting fish in a barrel. Haven’t had the balls to ignite the cat once doused, but they never came back. I miss the dog.
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