Stray Puss

[R00TS]

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Take a long piece of string and put Vicks vapor rub all over it. Then take that string and put it where the cat hangs..they can tolerate it

[Dr.Dudd]

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If it is a feral cat, they will most likely put it down due to disease possibility.The cat may spread all sort of disease in the shelter and subject the operators to lawsuits,if they give away infected animals.<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Diabolical_Tanya</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: _______</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Nanook</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Oh geez. I guess is time to call animal control. The outcome may not be so great for puss but it is better than the life it has now.

They probably do keep the rodent population down though so expect a spike. It's one of the reasons I keep a cat. </div></div>

mi fraid fi call animal control.. dem gwen sen di puss go a shelter fi adopt or dem gwen put it down? </div></div>look for a no kill shelter </div></div>

[Peasie]

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First you wanted to give di poor likkle puss cyanide
An now yuh fraid to call Animal Control cause dem might put the cat down?

[julie*mango]

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I was being facetious...

[missus_vegas]

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calleck di puss and puss pickney dem inna one crokus bag. dem have river near yuh

[CeaBee]

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and put u inna one next crocus bag

u can swim good?

[missus_vegas]

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mi did kinda a learn likkle bit wen mi go yard.

i tink i memba how

[kia027]

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The neighborhood cats treat your garden beds as one large litter box.

THE QUICK FIX
Cats like their own smells to be the strongest ones wherever they’re making their mark, so you need to ward them off with strong smells. Chili powder or crushed-up moth balls sprinkled around the beds will usually solve the problem.

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[Peasie]

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Wandah if dis work wid squirrels?

[CeaBee]

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squirrels are rats with bushy tails.

suh look for a rat deterrent

[julie*mango]

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di same stray puss come back and have more kittens.....3 this time! saw them for the first time this morning....

strange enough i had been smelling the scent of decaying flesh for weeks around my deck....can't get below it...now mi know is muss one a di kittens dead an di mother go dump it round dere

also smelt something in the front yard under my girls' window...

[CeaBee]

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the man next door come ask me if me have a kitten cause one in him garage.

then him tell me seh him call animal control but him going out and if him can put the kitten in my garage till animal control come

then when i say ok...him ask me if I can come catch it cause him allergic

animal control showed up when me was in him garage wid a plate a food a &quot;sssss...here kitty&quot;..and trap the kitten and took it away.

i know that is not a no-kill shelter but i thinking that is prob better than than hunger, disease, and breeding and producing more unwanted kittens.

all that to ask if animal control in your city will come and get it.

[Nanook]

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So sad. But, the sorry truth is, if animal control does not get involved the kittens today will become breeders in the next short while, and each will either have a litter or father one.

Here are a few tidbits I ran across:

<span style="font-weight: bold">Population Explosion</span>

Because cats can reproduce several times a year, and kittens mature quickly, just 2 feral cats (the wild offspring of domestic cats) can quickly become 2,000. In fact, the feline reproduction statistics are staggering. 2 uncontrolled breeding cats produce: 2 litters a year, at a survival rate of 2.8 kittens per litter. Continued breeding will produce 12 cats the first year, 66 cats the second year, 2,201 cats in the third year, 3,822 cats in the fourth year, 12,680 cats in the fifth year, and on and on . . .

<span style="font-weight: bold">Unaltered Cats Spread Disease</span>

Many of these feral cats are actually unaltered pet cats (or their offspring) that were released by owners who could no longer care for them. A colony of feral cats can spread diseases among pet cats and dogs in the area.

Even when these cats are fairly healthy, they are usually infested with fleas. Hungry cats will raid trash cans, and playful kittens will destroy shrubbery and soil lawn furniture.

<span style="font-weight: bold">Noise Pollution From Cats In Heat</span>

When female cats are in heat, the colony can keep neighbors awake all night with their fighting and howling

Spaying and neutering cats provides several important benefits in addition to reducing the number of unwanted cats. If you have an un-neutered female cat at home, the sound of her mewling pitifully at the door will soon be joined by the yowling and shrieking of every tomcat in the neighborhood.Both indoor and outdoor tomcats will try to mark everything in sight with their odorous spray.

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[jamaica_dreamin]

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What Nanook said. Sad but true.