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Another kitty gets his wings

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velvett

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The weather's been fairly nice so some windows are open for fresh air...

A car drove by when we heard a pop, much like the sound a tire blowing out. Looking outside there are headlights and from the light comes a shadow of woman walking up to the house to apologize for hitting the cat that run out infront of her mini van.

One of the wild kitties that come by for food, chipmunks and birds took his last meal.

Very sad. :bawling:

He was a very pretty tiger kitty and as wild as he was he always looked like an indoor kitty.

There's not much you can do about the wild kitties that won't have being domesticated but if you do have a cat or dog that lives with you in your house don't let them roam free. Even the kindest and most careful of drivers can take their life in just a second.
 
oh, poor kitty.
That is why i keep mine in doors. They arent really that smart when it comes to traffic.
 
AWWWWW, I'm sorry.:(

It sucks to put an effort into helping an animal, only to have something like that happen. Where I use to live there were always wild cats around. People would drop a pregnant cat out and the kittens would not be use to human contact. Occasionally, one would let you get close to it, but very rarely. My dog actually made friends with one, a big yellow tabby. They would lay out in the yard together, you could feed it, but you couldn't get close to it. I never saw that cat with other cats, just hung out in the yard with molly.
 
That sucks.....I used to leave food out for a wild kitty in Texas and she got hit one day. She was a spitfire :bawling:


There is a program out here where people are taking feral cats and spay/nutering them and letting them free. It's solving rodent problems, they can't reproduce and keeps other feral cats from moving in.

The Flower District in LA and a Police Department out here could not get rid of rodents, even with pesticides...Solved with wild kittys.


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It was 70 here today and my two wanted to go outside so badly. I'm still trying to figure out how to fence in an area without ruining the look of my backyard.

Oceanfront with ass ugly fencing does not mix.

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starfish said:
There is a program out here where people are taking feral cats and spay/nutering them and letting them free. It's solving rodent problems, they can't reproduce and keeps other feral cats from moving in.
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They do that here too.

They tag their ears so you know who's who and there's a few little old ladies that drive about and feed them (they're groups of them in certain areas).

A wild kitty adopted the yard a few years ago - she's a cute feisty little thing - she has a little kitty house with a heating pad, another bed and a big maple tree for a scratching post. She doesn't often leave the property - she gets her food, milk, water and treats here but now when she is gone I will be more weary.
 
gotmilk said:
It was 70 here today and my two wanted to go outside so badly. I'm still trying to figure out how to fence in an area without ruining the look of my backyard.

Oceanfront with ass ugly fencing does not mix.

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Side yard?
Like a dog run?
 
gotmilk said:
It was 70 here today and my two wanted to go outside so badly. I'm still trying to figure out how to fence in an area without ruining the look of my backyard.

Oceanfront with ass ugly fencing does not mix.
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Install an invisible fence, seriously, it works. Look for dealers / installers in your area.
 
Ohhhhhh noooo........that's makes Jenskitty very very sad..... poor kitty
 
velvett said:
They do that here too.

They tag their ears so you know who's who and there's a few little old ladies that drive about and feed them (they're groups of them in certain areas).

A wild kitty adopted the yard a few years ago - she's a cute feisty little thing - she has a little kitty house with a heating pad, another bed and a big maple tree for a scratching post. She doesn't often leave the property - she gets her food, milk, water and treats here but now when she is gone I will be more weary.
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That's cool

I thought it was hilarious when I read the LA police had a Feline Division. :spit:

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Police cats go on prowl, er, patrol in L.A.
Los Angeles Daily News
PACOIMA, Calif. - There's a new kind of cop at the Los Angeles Police Department's Foothill Division.
"They're our feline warriors," said Foothill Captain Kirk Albanese of three recruits to his new cat patrol force, which will soon hit the streets around Foothill Station to defend against area vermin.
The Fe-9 corps, conscripted from feral cat populations citywide, have already purged the station's basement of rodents and will be moved outdoors this month to nab and deter rats and other pests.
"Nothing works better than Mother Nature," said Albanese, who two years ago worked with a Los Angeles rescue group to turn wild cats at Wilshire Division into a defensive force against vermin.
It was less than a year ago that rats and mice had the run of the 43-year-old Pacoima police station, according to police. They ran down the halls. Scampered past the duty watch commander. Sauntered past detectives. Scoffed at the jailers. And taunted the records keepers - who jumped on chairs in fright.
And then they ate their way through a labyrinth of internal police records.
Enter Melya Kaplan, executive director of Venice Animal Allies, the rescue group that converted the feral colony at Wilshire Division. Seven months ago, she introduced the three feral females into the Foothill basement.
Within weeks, most of the rats were gone.
It was Kaplan who also introduced a feral cat force five years ago at the Flower Mart downtown to deter rats with a fondness for red carnations.
Within months, her colony of 20 cats had sent the rats packing.
The secret: "eau du cat," a feline scent that shivers the whiskers of unwelcome rodents.
"They're not domestic house cats, they're working cats," said Kaplan, who is working to institute cat patrols at the city's 18 police stations.
 
velvett said:
There's not much you can do about the wild kitties that won't have being domesticated but if you do have a cat or dog that lives with you in your house don't let them roam free. Even the kindest and most careful of drivers can take their life in just a second.
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My cat has managed to be a responsible indoor/outdoor cat for over eleven years. I couldn't start locking him in now, I'd never hear the end of it. He has a healthy fear of cars. And at any rate, I'd rather him be a contented cat that a coddled, "safe" cat, in spite of the risks. At least while he's alive he's living. A cat is a ferocious nocturnal predator, not a fuzzy little animated teddy bear.

Getting hit by a car is probably a better end for a cat than dieing from some prolonged illness.
 
Mr. dB said:
My cat has managed to be a responsible indoor/outdoor cat for over eleven years. I couldn't start locking him in now, I'd never hear the end of it. He has a healthy fear of cars. And at any rate, I'd rather him be a contented cat that a coddled, "safe" cat, in spite of the risks. At least while he's alive he's living. A cat is a ferocious nocturnal predator, not a fuzzy little animated teddy bear.

Getting hit by a car is probably a better end for a cat than dieing from some prolonged illness.
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Well, ok then.

..and fuck me very much for my suggestion
 
Mr. dB said:
My cat has managed to be a responsible indoor/outdoor cat for over eleven years. I couldn't start locking him in now, I'd never hear the end of it. He has a healthy fear of cars. And at any rate, I'd rather him be a contented cat that a coddled, "safe" cat, in spite of the risks. At least while he's alive he's living. A cat is a ferocious nocturnal predator, not a fuzzy little animated teddy bear.

Getting hit by a car is probably a better end for a cat than dieing from some prolonged illness.
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True that. My family has an outdoor kitty. Smart little girl and is the ultimate predator. I've seen her snatch birds out of mid air. She runs from cars thankfully. She has dissappeared for a couple days at a time before. One time she was trapped in the neighbors garage, lol.
 
big4life said:
Install an invisible fence, seriously, it works. Look for dealers / installers in your area.
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I would freak if I lost my cats.

I do not have a side yard although I am thinking about cutting down some trees to expand. I have 13 acres but 11.5 are wooded.

Plus, we have coyotes and wolves and foxes...who could care less about sonic invisible fencing.

I'm also worried about the cats having access to the ocean. It's rocky and the waves crash pretty hard.
 
we have wild cats near the shipping docks in downtown Portland. Huge mixed cats..part coon, part Egyptian something or other.

The mice have no chance with those cats
 
thats so sad
cats are easy to hide too:(
one time one crawled up in my fan on my car
it wasnt pretty, i cried for 2 days and made my dad clean it up
 
My vet has a big yellow cat that they rescued. He just wanders around the office all day. They have a big cushion behind the desk for him to lay on. Yesterday when I took my dogs for their shots Molly would stare at him everytime he would prowl the office.
 
Mr. dB said:
Jeez, lady, no need to overreact.
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Sorry I was just a bit stunned by your post - strange thing to focus on.

I can't say I would change the habits of an 11 year old cat but all my indoor kitties will be only indoor kitties.

Call me crazy but that pop of an animal's skull cracking under a tire, having picked up a few dead cats and dog off the road with whatever I could find in the house or in my trunk and shooting a suffering deer makes me think that an animal that grows up indoors or in and out of an outdoor pen won't know the difference.

Maybe one just has to watch their own animal get run over to share my opinion.

To each his own.
 
velvett said:
Sorry I was just a bit stunned by your post - strange thing to focus on.

I can't say I would change the habits of an 11 year old cat but all my indoor kitties will be only indoor kitties.

Call me crazy but that pop of an animal's skull cracking under a tire, having picked up a few dead cats and dog off the road with whatever I could find in the house or in my trunk and shooting a suffering deer makes me think that an animal that grows up indoors or in and out of an outdoor pen won't know the difference.

Maybe one just has to watch their own animal get run over to share my opinion.

To each his own.
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Well, he was a wild animal, and wild animals never die a pretty death. Not many of them die of old age either. Prey animals are taken by predators and eaten. Predators usually meet with some sort of trauma, or are taken by larger predators who see them as competition.

As grisly as being run over by a car must be, at least it was over in an instant for the poor fellow, instead of the terror of being ripped limb from limb by a coyote.
 
Yeah db...my neighbors cat was attacked by a fox. The cat screamed the ugliest scream I have ever heard.

The fox was worse sounding when I shot it. Thankfully the cat survived and never went past their back porch again.
 
Mr. dB said:
Well, he was a wild animal, and wild animals never die a pretty death. Not many of them die of old age either. Prey animals are taken by predators and eaten. Predators usually meet with some sort of trauma, or are taken by larger predators who see them as competition.

As grisly as being run over by a car must be, at least it was over in an instant for the poor fellow, instead of the terror of being ripped limb from limb by a coyote.
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It was just a sad moment - no need to turn this into a debate.

That said - we're just animals too - we represent the hunter and the hunted.
The only difference being is that we walk on two feet and we think we're superior to winged and four legged friends.
 
If I knew what kinds of trouble and close calls my cat was getting himself into on a daily basis, I'd probably never let him outside again. But he's such a happy little prowler, I can't take that away from him.
 
Caring Cats
Appearing to be, just little brats,
Nevertheless, they are caring cats.
Qualified to leap, to unreachable heights
Always more frisky, particularly at night.

Able to run sideways, even on walls
Keeping in balance, never to fall.
Accused of being finicky, when I call it class
An affectionate nature, there caring cats.

When talking to a cat, to make you aware
They shift their ears, to tell you they hear.
The light that shines, from their eyes at night
Alone in the dark, a mysterious sight.

Captivating your love, with a relaxing purr
Displaying affection, attentive to words.
Their spirited nature, being mischievous cats
Compassionate felines, their caring cats.

by: T.A.S.Yoder

:rose: :kitty:
 
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