Saw these on AR15.com and was laughing my ass off at them.
About two years ago my neighbor's wife got a cat. It was a cool cat and all was good.
It started to get real smart as it got older. It found out it could jump on my fence and meow down at my two hunting dogs. The dogs could be heard for hours....This was an every night thing.
We tried to put things on the fence to stop it...nothing worked.
One day this neighbor comes to me and shows me a bunch of mouse traps he rigged to "snap" but that wouldnt hurt the cats paws. Good job. It would scare the cat off the fence and he also put eye hooks in them so we could secure them them from falling off the fence.
AS we were putting them up on the fence, his wife came out and said, "dont you hurt my cat." He assured his wife the traps would only scare the cat off the fence.
Can anyone see where this is going???
So we grab a case of beer and sit back to see if this was going to work.
Cat jumps on fence...meows...dogs come running foaming at the mouth...cat steps on trap...SNAP!! cat falls inbetween dogs...
It didnt suffer. The dogs are well trained to kill game quickly.
Should of kept the cat inside or confined to their own yard, cat got what it deserved for taunting the dogs and keeping the whole neighborhood up. My dog knows better than to bark at a cat or anything else unless it's an intruder (or he'll get his ass beat), he knows to just kill it and be done with it.
One of my neighbors had a cat I named "half-paw" cause he was missing half his paw. He made the mistake of pissing and scatching the seats of my 53 MG TD. I didn't know what or who's animal was doing it, so I set out cage traps and would find them set off but always empty. I got tired of the expensive damage to the car and set out some animal traps. I got busy and forgot about them, and about two weeks later a neighbor up the street asked if I had seen her cat recently, I hadn't. Two days later I saw the cat hobbling up the street and saw it was missing part of its paw and it clicked in my head to check the animal traps. Sure enough, there was the other half of his foot. After that the damage to my car stopped. Cat learned the hard way, and if my dog was damaging someone elses property, off his territory, I'd expect the same.
It does seem "cat people" are a little hard to please--true story, and I have posted it before, but it seems to fit here:
Years ago I had two excellent hunting dogs--English Pointers. The hunt was very strong in both of them, well bred, etc. I also had/have an excellent kennel facility--including a chain link top on it. I had lived here for several years, my dogs were well-disciplined and quiet. They would bark when the meter reader came around back, but that is to be expected. One "Be still!" would quiet them.
One day they were going absolutely nuts barking and literally climbing the kennel. I yelled "be still" and they kept on--very odd. I went out back and found a cat sitting calmly on top of the kennel looking down at them as they did flip-flops that would have made John Kerry proud.
I ran toward it and it jumped down and left my hard in a flash. Problem was, this had become the cat's new "hobby"--it came back every day for about a week. I sprayed it with the hose, yelled, chased it, and was at my wit's end. At this point my neighbor two doors down came over and kindly let me know the neighbor on the other side of him was very upset over my dogs barking. He wanted to give me a heads-up they had mentioned calling the law. No good this.
I was furious, at my wit's end, and needing quick results, so I bought a large Hav-A-Hart box trap. I set it and caught the bastard the first night. The next day I called Animal Control and they came and took it, all legal-like. I asked them what happens to stray cats, fearing they would let it loose and it would return. They said in three days it would be euthanized if not claimed. Good!
The feral beast didn't show up again, calm was restored, and all was well in Beekeeperland. A couple of weeks later I saw the neighbor out and told him to pass on I had fixed the problem and the cat was now dead, so there wouldn't be a repeat.
A few days after that he informs me the very people who were complaining had claimed that feral cat as theirs--owing to the fact they fed it. Now they were FURIOUS at me for "killing their cat"--and didn't speak to me for over ten years. I've outlasted the wife, as she died last year and the husband is now (overly) friendly, so we do have a happy ending. You just can't please some people.
Why is it that dog owners are legally required to keep their animals under control almost all the time, while nobody gives a damn about cats roaming the place, killing birds, pooping at random, and taunting other people's dogs, causing barking and howling which everyone hates?