Outdoor/feral cats

I was talking with a friend the other day and he said he got into an argument with his neighbors. Apparently their outdoor cats have been trying to get at his chickens (he has a farm). He told them they need to keep their cats indoors otherwise he will shoot them the next time he sees them on his property. Furthermore, he said that outdoor and feral cats have a negative effect on the local wildlife population and should be shot regardless.

So what do you guys think? Is it ok to shoot outdoor and/or feral cats? Does it have to be only on your property or can you shoot them anywhere (where it's legally to shoot obviously) guilt free?

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independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/australias-war-on-cats-government-plans-to-cull-2-million-by-2020-10398555.html
catsaway.org/cats-hate-chicken-wire/
ecology.com/2013/08/27/global-impact-feral-cats/
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he shouldn't have told them he was going to do it and just done it

what kind of poor nigger has chickens lmao

Where do you think your food comes from?

Outdoor cats, feral or non-feral are the most invasive species to ever exist on this planet. They kill everything and are the cause of extinction many species of animals.

Absolutely justified in shooting if they go on his property and are attacking his livestock.

What else are you going to do? Call animal control like some liberal? They'll just euthanize them at the shelter like they always do.

Quick, swift death. Hunters are the most environmentally-minded people on the planet, way more than greenpeace faggots will ever understand.

>Canadian education

What kind of pussy ass chickens are vulnerable to a cat attack? Cat would get scratched to death before it killed one.

I will admit I have shot and killed 2 feral cats that were on my property. They were getting into fights with my own 2 cats. I didn't like or want to shoot them but I had to to protect my own.

I mean pretty much all chickens. It's not like they're cockfighting roosters. We're talking about chickens.

They're the niggers of the cat world. Shoot on site

Doesn't he have coyotes nearby? They'll take care of the cats for you.

Nature is a motherfucker.

OP, this was tried in Pennsylvania with dogs.

nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Man-Charged-Shooting-Killing-Neighbors-Dogs-192542251.html

The guy got 2 yrs probation.

I have two semi-outdoor cats that keep my property pest-free, but they sure as hell aren't feral. And they stay on my property.

If your pet enters another persons property and is attacking their pets, they have every reason to shoot it.

That said, shooting a random dog or cat that moseys into your property but doesn't do anything harmful is a dick move.

Anything attacking your pets or livestock is fair game
Otherwise you're a degenerate

>poor
American farmers make more than the national average GDP. They're richer than most programmers, even.

If they have a collar they get to live

Wild cats here get absolutely fucking huge and destroy all the marsupial and bird life.

I love dogs and kitties but I have shot many feral cats (and probably the occasional stray domestic)

I feel a bullet is significantly more humane than. Baiting, caging, transporting, euthanasia a feral animal which would live its last hours in terror/rage.

Muh feels people hate it because "Guns make a loud bang it must hurt! The poor animal."

I'm also being hypocritical because my cat from my youth lives with my parents in the country and regularly mauls all kinds of critters. 15 y.o cat climbing trees and eating introduced birds, cool.

independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/australias-war-on-cats-government-plans-to-cull-2-million-by-2020-10398555.html

Feral cats are a huge problem in Australia. Tell you friend to go back to his neighbours and warn them again, but this time make sure to record it. Tell them clearly to keep their cats off his property because they're attacking his livestock. If they don't listen, he should shoot them.

Yeah, there are coyotes and bobcats actually.

Dogs > cats, that's why.

good idea to kill them probably. Cats are notorious for killing for pleasure.

>not using a 7.62x54R on feral cats

Outdoor cats are the worst.

I don't remember the exact number, but I believe they caused three or so bird species to go extinct, and bird/small animal numbers are down with them around.

I trapped this filthy cunt that had been coming into my yard and attacking my own cat. It had a massive wound on its face so the pound wouldn't take it so I gave it to a vet to kill.

A lot of people don't live out west. Most of America lives in
1. The West Coast
2. The East Coast
3. The Gulf of Mexico
4. The Great Leaks

They have no coyotes (the e at the end is silent you dumb Eastern mother fuckers) there. Or mountain lions. All they have is deer. Granted, our deer are starting to go crazy and eat rabbits and birds now, but still.

This. If I wasn't in the city I'd shoot the damn ferals around here so my cat could chill on the porch in peace.

>He can afford a gun but not a simple fence to keep out a cat

My best friend has a husky and it would periodically break out of a town house, run 3-4km to a farmers field. Maul a sheep to death and eat its innards and run back home covered in blood.

The motherfucker was a death seeking missile for god know what reason, once literally broke through a chain link fence, mauled killed a sheep, came back the hole and pretended he wasn't covered in blood.

Needless to say my friend ended buying 4 dead sheep of various farmers and he is lucky his dog wasn't shot.

Sidenote he's made a good 5k from selling puppies.

my neighbors dogs went into my yard and killed my cat. He had a pitbulls and I unloaded on both dogs.

He should do a better job of securing the place that he keep his chickens. If he shoots the cats, hopefully his neighbours will burn his house down while he's asleep inside it.

>east
>no coyotes

retarded?

Both sides are wrong.

Keep your cats indoors, they are bad for the local ecosystem

Don't threaten other people asshat. Also a sociopath

There's coyotes in the great lakes

Guns literally grow on trees here. I have a S&W planted in my front yard. Winter's rough because I never have enough bullets after Fall.

>The responsibility of my animal lies with you not with me
>He should be more responsible towards his animals

0/10

>keeping cats out with a fence

How can a simple fence keep out a cat?

>OP, this was tried in Pennsylvania with dogs.

I'm from near the town that happened in, it was a completely different situation.

Some old wop shot two big purebred Bernese mountain dogs because they're big, despiite the fact that they were trained and are not remotely known to be dangerous. He got what he deserved.

>They have no coyotes

This is the dumbest post I have seen today. They are just about everywhere except the south east.

so he should secure his chickens but the neighbor shouldn't secure their stupid cat?

>Is it ok to shoot outdoor and/or feral cats?
No, cats are cute and they should be allowed to be cute.

He never threatened the people personally, just stated he would shoot their animals if they attacked his livestock.

Why would it be wrong to shoot anything on your property? Like why is there even an argument for this?

The only cockfight i saw today was in Sup Forums

If you clip a cat's claws they can literally kill nothing.

How is a 100$ fence not good enough to keep predators at bay? No got to spend 101$ on a gun, shoot the damn thing and yell, "that's what ya git boy!" Should he also pay for night vision goggles because those kitties are darker than Tyrone in the dead of night.

make it like 8ft tall

A Rooster could drive a feral cat off.. But a hen is easy pickins.

>Fences keep cats out

>Furthermore, he said that outdoor and feral cats have a negative effect on the local wildlife population and should be shot regardless.

Youre a fucking idiot, they keep animal populations down which prevents overpopulation and starvation, long suffering.

Bitchy neighbour shoots my cats is gonna have a lot of dead chickens. In fact no chicken may ever live on his property again.

>couldnt kill off Emus
>thinks they can win a war against fucking cats

You're gonna be ruled over like some Planet of the Apes parody when that is over.
We'll be sure to accept Australian refugees when your country is being used as a litterbox.

I work at a major tech company and I know 8 people with chickens, 4 of em make 75-90k a year, 1 120K and the other 3 range from 35-50K
I know their Hourly/Salary because I am on Accounts Payable and Payroll. Some are survivalist, others do it because they grew up with, one is an organic hipster (the 120K guy) who is trying to out authentic the Hillbillies that work here. BTW Median family income is 45K so even the lower paid people are quite well to do for our area.

Because cats can climb you fuck wad. Great education over there in Denmark.

Cats are pests. They breed like immigrants. Shoot to kill I say.

Cats to the ecosystem are like Muslims to our society.

They have made probably hundreds of bird and rodent species extinct. Dogs typically cannot live ferally, but cats can do so and must be purged before they are able to.

if they are feral then by all means shoot them, if they are your neighbors, but they keep killing your chickens on your property then he's within his right to shoot them.
I have a dumbass neighbor who has chickens that somehow get out of his fenced yard and into mine and my dog kills them, not my fucking fault, asshole should keep his animals in his yard.

They shit and piss in your Feed that can cause your animals to get sick and possibly die, they eat off your Farm-Animals (chickens/turkeys etc depending on how many cats there are) and they spray your house on occasion if they're little fucking cunts.

They're total target practice user, shoot them. Fuck those neighbors. If they gave a shit about you or respected your friend they wouldn't let their cats fuck with anything he owns' There's no reason you should respect their disgusting feral cats.

Feral ones are fine, but shooting outdoor cats is like shooting outdoor dogs. Would you like it if someone shot your dog because it was outside?

Abandon thread, it's all bait

First of all even a simple picket fence costs more than your basic rifle. Secondly, 8ft is nothing, especially if there's chickens to terrorize.

Killing animals that can't hurt you that you're not going to eat is reeeeeetarded
all it makes you is an asshole that feels empowered for killing things that couldn't possibly defend themselves and rationalize it by thinking of how they deserved it

if you want to kill something go kill yourself instead and actually make people happy.

A small, basic chain-link fences can cost over $2,000, a basic rifle can be like a fourth of that. And cat's can easily get over any but the tallest fences, so it'd have to be tall as fuck.
Dumbass.

Your friend is a faggot

Reminder that people with ailurophobia are all fucked in the head, it's a fucking cat not a fucking tornado you weirdos

>Would you like it if someone shot your dog because it was outside?

If it's in some else's yard killing their livestock? No, I wouldn't like it, but they'd be completely justified regardless.

>blonde
>green eyes

And you killed him.

You're a pussy. You have no idea how the real world works. Wondering cats are absolute pests and should be shot. Fuck your feelings you faggot. I hope your cats give you toxoplasmosis.

catsaway.org/cats-hate-chicken-wire/
Now git out mah lawn and stay away from mah daughter ya hear!

ITS ALL BAITING ABANDON ABANDON

Doesn't matter, you shouldn't go around shooting people's pets.

Alabama here, we have coyotes

Fucking leaf.

>invasive species
>good

Leaf schools must blow

I'd kill every single one of the fuckers chickens and feed it to my cat if he ever threatened to shoot it

Real world is you kill my cat, I'll kill every fucking chicken you ever try to own.

You could say the same thing about humans, especially Australians.

We used to have stray cats in abundance when I was a kid, so my grandfather would dig a hole where there was cat traffic and we would sit there and shoot them with a 22 when they would walk by it and they would fall in dead. was much fun and funny too

Melbourne detected. People like you are the reason we're losing countless native marsupials and reptiles. Fuck off you bitch.

I think we need to reconsider what sort of pets we have.

We have cats to keep down the rodent population so we don't all get the plague and die.

We have dogs for similar reasons.

But guess what. 99% of people don't need those services.

Someday I'd like to get an opossum as a pet. They're creepy looking but harmless, they're resistant to all diseases, and they're the least likely animal to ever get rabies. The old hick saying "I gotta shoot da possums cause dey carry diseaze" is some back country urban legend.

They actually make good pets and can be litter box trained.

There's some pretty amusing videos of them on YouTube.

I don't know how legal it is to get yourself an opossum though.

How big/nice a fence do you think you're going to get for $100? Cause cats can get around damn near anything.

>survival of the fittest
>bad

Literally a marxist

so he should lock up his animals that he has no problem containing on his own property just because his neighbors are to retarded or lazy to do the same with their cats?

There's nothing wrong with killing stays. Fuckers can really get out of hand. I had a grandma who'd drown them by the bags there were so many. It's more humane than letting them starve/get mauled by other cats or killed by predators.

The only animals I do not kill with imputiny are dogs and livestock. And even dogs don't get spared if they are after the livestock or causing a nuisance etc.

Birds, fish, cats, hogs, deer, snakes, gators, frogs, squirrels, rabbits, coyotes, foxes, raccoons, and opossums are all fair game. If they are causing a nuisance they are especially fair game.

>My Dad tried this last year but the damn cats still used to walk on it and crap on his plants. They even used to sleep on it in the sunshine.

Keep googling and finding ridiculous posts you don't even read. Shouldn't you be asleep so you can go steal more from your neighbor tomorrow?

A feral cat is, by definition, a wild animal and not anyone's pet

People shoot coyotes, feral cats, and all kinds of other pests who hurt their livestock all the time, I don't see how this is even a question or issue

The reason we have cats and dogs as pets is because they're the most domesticated of animals. They're easy to live with and won't bite your face off if you look at them funny.

I used to tap the feral cats in my yard and have the city pick them up until I learned they just neuter them and release them back into the neighborhood...fucking retards.

Forgot armadillos and otters

>Frogs
>Causing a nuisance
>Better shoot them

What kind of bloodthirsty sister fucking hick is this

I have a Dog, two cats and 8 chickens freeroaming my yards and they all get along fine.

ecology.com/2013/08/27/global-impact-feral-cats/

In fact it is you who is the fucking idiot.

is this bait? do you have cats in the netherlands? They can get over just about anything... the mexicans of the animal world.

yah they cut a notch in their ear to indicate theyre fixed

OP wasn't talking about ferals. They belong to his neighbors. Outdoor cats are a shitty idea in general, but you shouldn't shoot other people's animals or else they'll end up shooting yours. Besides, he should invest in measures to keep predators away from his livestock anyway.

Even in socialist DK that shit is cheap as fuck. I mean fuck why try to make a Fort Knox out of your chicken pen. If you can't even keep kitties out how will you keep foxes and birds of prey out.

Farmers exist you fucking idiot.

Dog identified