Trap neighbors' cats and send them to the pound? Sick and tired of cats s****ing in our yard

[Anonymous]

You need a motion activated wildlife camera. My bet is that it’s not a cat.

Every year people in my neighborhood go ballistic about people stealing their roses, complaining that they look like they were “cut by scissors”. Except I watch deer out my window chomp roses in my neighbor’s yard like they are candy.

[Anonymous]

In Arlington and the same thing. Definitely the neighbors cat. Drives my DH nuts bc it’s usually pretty close to our front door and we can both smell it. We’ve caught the cat in action. Ugh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Training a cat? That’s hilarious

Clearly you are no Jack Burns.

Whether it’s easy or not, just know: some of us have a visceral hatred for these rodents. As Richie Aprile said to Chris Moltisanti: just give me a reason.

What on earth are you talking about? Cats aren't rodents. And your old people references don't mean anything to me. Go lie down and have a nice cup of tea you seem riled up and that always worked on my grandparents

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Love all the cat people rushing to tell everyone cat shit doesn’t smell. Yeah it does. I’ve smelled it. I smell it every time I walk into one of your disgusting houses. I’ve also seen cats shit and not bury it. Let’s not deflect.

100%

My friends with cats have homes that smell like cat pee. They don't smell it because they're nose-blind to it. You have to be out of your house for 3 days for you to even smell what your house actually smells like to visitors.

I love cats but I'd never have a cat because I hate litter boxes and the cat pee smell.

I don't usually notice a dog smell at a friend's house unless it's raining or has been raining. Then I get a whiff of that wet dog smell, ick.

[Anonymous]

Could be foxes or raccoons too.

[Anonymous]

What do you do about the rabbit

[Anonymous]

Water guns - that is what we did at our old house. First we talked to our very nice neighbor, she did nothing, I gave up gardening in the ground because herbs with cat pee are not edible, tried tin foil on the ground, other ideas. Finally water guns. Only thing that worked.

[Anonymous]

The entitlement of cat owners is bizarre.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow you sound unhinged. They probably keep mice and rats away from your house.

Unless the cats are going into her house to get the mice, that’s a big no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You sound like a psycho

You sound like a crazy cat lady.

[Anonymous]

I’m allergic to cats but I actually like it when neighbors cats play in my yard. I figure it helps with rodents, snakes, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We had this problem too OP. But the cats were destructive to our outdoor furniture. After taking pictures of the destruction and their cats at work doing it the neighbor was still letting cats roam. I warned them we were going to trap. So we would trap and bring them over and knock on door. I warned them we would trap and take to shelter. When again nothing was done I trapped and took to shelter. Shelter called them to come get their cats which they never did.

Now no more cats! Better for the environment and the entire neighborhood.

That makes me sad. Hopefully the cats weren’t euthanized. Abs I’m not a crazy cat lady, FFS; I just really care about animals. It’s not their fault they had a-hole owners. We never let our cat out.

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Let's stop with the "crazy cat lady" insults. I think it got started in the witch trials.

Toxoplasmosis, which makes humans like the smell of cat pee, is real. Crazy cat ladies are real—if there were men like this I’d be the first to call them out, but you never hear about them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So many salty and irresponsible cat owners.

Who in their right damn mind let's their cat run around outside? Thanks for killing all of the birds.

This is so laughable. In my lifetime I've seen almost all the trees in this area cut down. I've seen all the insects killed with insecticides. I wonder if there are any worms left to eat under that manicured grass. There were literally so many bugs in the air that people cleaned their windshields with every tank of gas. (Ever wonder why there are squeegees at every gas station???) Now there are literally none.

If anything, more cats are kept indoors than when I was a kid. This is such laughable nonsense that cats are decimating birds. Human beings are.

I have an exclusively indoor cat BTW.

Science disagrees with you. Cats are the second leading cause of bird mortality after habitat loss. Cats kill 1.3-4 billion birds and 6.3-22.3 billion mammals annually. Scientific studies back this up. https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2380

[Anonymous]

All you people threatening OP with criminal charges for trapping her neighbor’s cats are wrong, at least in MoCo. Don’t know about DC or VA counties, but wouldn’t be surprised if they are similar.

In MoCo, roaming house cats must be spayed, can’t “trespass” onto a neighbor’s yard without the neighbor’s permission (MoCo Code Chapter 5 Sec 5-203(a)(3), and can’t poop outside the cat owner’s own property (Sec 5-203(a)(2).

Also, MoCo will loan humane traps to people dealing with nuisance situations.

So, OP, depending on where you live, the law may be on your side.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Training a cat? That’s hilarious

Clearly you are no Jack Burns.

Whether it’s easy or not, just know: some of us have a visceral hatred for these rodents. As Richie Aprile said to Chris Moltisanti: just give me a reason.

What on earth are you talking about? Cats aren't rodents. And your old people references don't mean anything to me. Go lie down and have a nice cup of tea you seem riled up and that always worked on my grandparents

Cats are rodents and your apartment is gross and stinks. You have disgusting hair all over your clothes when you go to work. Nobody likes you.