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Posted on 8/22/13 at 3:57 pm to
Posted by Sus-Scrofa
Member since Feb 2013
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Posted on 8/22/13 at 3:57 pm to
Added benefit: the cat seems to be the right distraction to get one of my dogs over the mishaps that happened over the fourth of July weekend.
Posted by W
Baton Rouge
Member since Nov 2007
6100 posts
Posted on 8/22/13 at 4:00 pm to
You won't be so inclined to keep this cat when your yard becomes infested with fleas or the cat digs up your garden to shite.

Posted by faxis
La.
Member since Oct 2007
7773 posts
Posted on 8/22/13 at 4:13 pm to
I'd leave it up to him. If he sticks around and earns his keep and can survive the dogs, sounds like you were destined to have a good cat. Which is more than 99.9999% of cat owners can say.
Posted by Sus-Scrofa
Member since Feb 2013
10647 posts
Posted on 8/22/13 at 4:18 pm to
quote:

You won't be so inclined to keep this cat when your yard becomes infested with fleas or the cat digs up your garden to shite.


Also a concern. the cat seems to have been dumped at a nearby church and like several dogs in the past, I'm an easy mark.

I had one dog that I actually liked. I eventually put a collar on him before deer season. I eventually found the collar in the lawn and no dog. Figured the real owners saw him and grabbed him.

Back to the post. I keep my dogs doped up, no fleas or tics on them. I'm not a vet, but I can usually look an animal over and decide if it has a flea or tic problem. This cat does not, but I think it was recently dumped.

That's part of my original question, I'm not footing the frontline bill for this thing, is that going to be an issue? Considering my animals are doped up as recommended.
Posted by Nodust
Member since Aug 2010
22770 posts
Posted on 8/22/13 at 4:26 pm to
I got a barn cat. Well he stays close to the barn. Not sure if he is really mine or just bases his operations there.

But no mice snakes or any critter invades the barn.
Posted by W
Baton Rouge
Member since Nov 2007
6100 posts
Posted on 8/22/13 at 4:40 pm to
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is that going to be an issue?


I have no pets. I spray my yard twice a summer with Bifen Insecticide/Termitcide.

I know when the cats are around again, without even having to see them.

Poop in my garden, sprouts are dug up and fleas bite me while I'm on a concrete patio.

I get pissed but not enough to outright kill them.

So I get even with the marker.
This post was edited on 8/22/13 at 4:42 pm
Posted by Sus-Scrofa
Member since Feb 2013
10647 posts
Posted on 8/22/13 at 4:56 pm to
quote:

I have no pets. I spray my yard twice a summer with Bifen Insecticide/Termitcide. I know when the cats are around again, without even having to see them. Poop in my garden, sprouts are dug up and fleas bite me while I'm on a concrete patio. I get pissed but not enough to outright kill them. So I get even with the marker.


and no harm by this, but I assume there is a suburb/country divide here.
Posted by W
Baton Rouge
Member since Nov 2007
6100 posts
Posted on 8/22/13 at 5:03 pm to
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and no harm by this, but I assume there is a suburb/country divide here.


Sure. My yard is part of only five acres. Not a farm, either.
Posted by CVX
Member since Aug 2013
273 posts
Posted on 8/23/13 at 1:19 am to
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I pop the feral cats around my house with a .22LR.
FIFY
Posted by Sus-Scrofa
Member since Feb 2013
10647 posts
Posted on 8/30/13 at 8:20 pm to
Cat still here.


Also a dirty springer spaniel has been setting up shop in my shop whenever I leave the door open and my dog doesn't catch it before hand.

It's kind of dirty and skittish as all hell. The cat's going to the pound, if the dog sticks around it's getting peppered and ran off.
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