Feral cats are a huge problem in some areas. Roaming freely in cities and in rural settings and reproducing with reckless abandon, colonies of feral cats can exhibit nuisance behavior that often results in unpleasant measures being taken to control their population. More humane programs, such as trap-neuter-return (TNR), seek to safely trap cats, give them basic vaccinations and neuter them, and either return them to their colony or, for a lucky few, ready them for adoption. Such programs are proving successful, but are not without issues. Enter Das Katzetelegraf.
You don’t need to understand a lick of German to figure out exactly what Das Katzetelegraf does from its name. Consisting of an Arduino, a GSM module, and a simple magnetic reed switch attached to the door of a humane cat trap, Das Katzetelegraf sends a text message to a TNR program volunteer when a cat has been trapped. Instead of waiting in the trap for the TNR workers to make daily rounds, the cats are quickly retrieved and the trap is reset for the next cycle. This reduces the time the cat spends in the trap, stressed and without access to food or water, and improves the animal’s outcome. As a bonus, each trap’s throughput is increased, so more animals can be cycled through the TNR program.
TNR can really help reduce feral cat populations, and Das Katzetelegraf can make them even more effective. But if you just have a stray cat pooping up your garden, a Raspberry Pi cat-deterring sprinkler might be a better choice.
It should include an RFID reader to pick up on pet microchip tags, so strays can automatically be routed back home. Additionally they could tag the feral cats they’ve neutered, and program the trap to auto-release animals that have already cycled through the system.
This is not trivial as pet ID tags have a rather short read range and are orientation sensitive. Power management is also tricky as running the reader continuously is rather power hungry.
Much easier to just scan the kitties after they are collected.
Also you could be detecting cats on the outside of the trap. This is a very neat idea, and I have passed the link on to a local animal rescue organisation.
Hmm….assuming a 13MHz RFID system, with a wavelength of about 23 meters, the mesh holes in the pictured cage are sized around 0.001λ. I’d say you wouldn’t have to worry about detecting animals outside the trap. :)
I’d pretend you never said that. “declaw it…oh really? an RFID tag? you don’t say… hmmm… here have the endangered animal it killed”
2nd time? And you didn’t address the problem. *nods head in sadness* You had chance to make sure that animal would be part of this world and not hurt other living creatures…
Sorry, I don’t have a clue what you are talking about; that RFID animal was never found.
“Auto-release animals” Like our current law system?
Sorry to point it out, but the author is not fluent in German. It should read “Der Katzentelegraf”.
I think it’s a new funny trend. Some germans using again german names for his programs instead of english ones, and now, other people are using german names too :D
And if it is female, they think it’s about something evil, as in the cookie recipe on Tool’s Ænima.
Hm, now I want to buy some butter…
It’s too early in the morning. In title of the recipe it’s of course the plural form of a neutral noun.
At first I hoped it would just be an error in the title.
+1 for changing the name to correct German grammar.
The HAD ‘editors’ command of English ain’t that great either.
This one, for example, certainly, likes his commas, even when, they aren’t required, and removing most of them, would make the text flow better. Removing around 25% of the words would be good as well (it does run on a bit).
I will give up my Oxford Comma, only when, you pry the key-cap off of my cold, dead keyboard.
That is not the correct use of the Oxford comma, is an annoying grammar-Nazi-ism, and wasn’t really funny anyway.
Correct on both counts.
It does not, however, address the point that the writing on this site is rather ordinary. Read the post out; you’ll, sound, like William, Shatner.
For [Steven], who should hand in his keyboard:
This, that and the other.
This, that, and the other. (Oxford comma enhanced version.)
Nice idea. The correct word in German were “Der Katzentelegraf”
Arduino not necessary – there are mobile modules out in the wild with IO pins and application program abilities.
For more fun, electrify the cages. First, buy a copy of 40 Uses for a Dead Cat.
An even better hack, a free smartphone app, FeralCatScan. You just photograph where you’ve seen any vermin cats. If you don’t have the strength of heart to destroy them on the spot (as required by every last invasive-species-law and environmental-protection-act on earth in every nation), it reports their exact location for those who have no problems permanently removing these destructive invasive-species vermin from the planet by any means possible. Never to cause any further problems for any other life on earth — ever again.
http : // www . feralscan . org . au / feralcatscan / default . aspx
There are two wonderful little felines I’m in love with, a Calico and a Tabby. I need to use this as I can’t bring myself to pull the trigger (to head-shot) when in sight .
Thank you for this resource. They have killed several downy woodpeckers, yellow bellied wood peckers, Black-capped Chickadee, Tufted Titmice, American Goldfinchs, Cardinals, Blue-jays and a Mockingbird as well.
I’ll remove the grey squirrels as I get them insights but damn, I have seen some extraordinary things in the open air aviary that we have, that I fuqin cry to see killed. Red-winged blackbirds, Red-crested Grosbeaks, an even 2 or 3 I can’t ID.
Here’s a greatly truncated version of help that I often post to those plagued with vermin cats. A solution to your problem, no matter where you live on earth, within the socially-agreed-upon laws with which you are constrained, can be found in the following text.
The 100% effective and PERMANENT SOLUTION. Guaranteed. Tested and approved.
No trapping program in the world has been able to catch-up to cats’ breeding rates, this is precisely why Trap & Kill failed as well as Trap, Neuter, Re-abandon (TNR) is an even bigger failure. Actively and aggressively hunting them down, employing “Hunted to Extinction” methods, is the ONLY way to get ahead of and stay ahead of cats’ breeding rates, their ability to out-adapt to any trapping method used, and also the rates at which criminally-irresponsible cat-lickers let more invasive-species vermin cats be born and dumped illegally outdoors.
Licensing and laws do nothing to curb the problem. If cats are required to be licensed then these lying, deceitful, manipulative, and conniving cat-lickers just stop putting collars on their cats; as they did by me. And they won’t even bother getting them micro-chipped, especially not that. They want absolutely nothing that can hold them legally accountable for their actions and the actions of their cats. We’re not talking about the topmost responsible citizens of the world, you know. They don’t want that responsibility of what they and their cats have done coming back on them. If they had even one iota of a sense of responsibility and respect for all other lives on this planet we wouldn’t even be having these discussions.
Any non-native cat that is allowed to illegally hunt our native wildlife where I live then in turn gets hunted until dead. No delays, no excuses, NO EXCEPTIONS. That’s the very best way to keep these invasive species vermin from destroying any more native wildlife or spreading any more of their 3dozen+ deadly diseases to all other animals and humans. They had annihilated all the wildlife on my lands for 15 years, until on advice of the Sheriff I shot and buried every last one of hundreds of their vermin cats for them (AS-IS THE LEGAL RIGHT OF EVERY LAND-OWNER). Collared or not — for you MUST destroy ALL stray collared cats as well, they are the very source of every last feral cat. If you don’t destroy them too then you have done NOTHING to solve the feral cat problem. Guaranteed. All the cat-lickers by me told me for over a decade that all their “pet” cats were sterilized. But upon inspection during shooting and burying hundreds of them, NOT ONE of their cats was sterilized. Cat-advocates and cat-owners who let cats roam free are manipulative and deceptive LIARS — one and all.
If you live where its not legal to use firearms (areas zoned as “residential”) then check into 700-1200fps air-rifles and round-nosed vermin-pellets. Many of the new ones come with their own sound-suppressor designs built-in, specifically designed for shooting vermin cats in urban areas, the demand is that great. Just remember, shoot-to-kill is a perfectly legal way to rid your homes and lands of these diseased vermin cats. Shoot-to-maim is animal cruelty, and rightly so, all hunters know this. Don’t let them parade another illegal shoot-to-maim case in the media to exploit yet another suffering cat for donations for themselves. They torture enough cats to death with their TNR programs for that and make $millions by doing so.
Then there’s always the “SSS and TDSS Cat Management Programs” that are exploding in popularity worldwide: Shoot, Shovel, & Shut-Up; or Trap, Drown, Shovel, & Shut-Up. Both methods are legal on every square foot of this earth. No local ordinances were violated if it never happened. In fact, most law-enforcement agencies prefer that you use either of those two methods so that these criminally-negligent cat-lickers don’t cause even more problems for your community than they already have with their disease-infested vermin. As we ALL know, the only thing worse than having feral cats is drawing feral-cat-lickers (criminally irresponsible cat-hoarders) right to your door. They will do everything possible to destroy your life even further than they already have with their cats if they find out you are even thinking about destroying their vermin for them. Cat-lickers delusionally believe that any land on which a cat has stepped-foot is their own property and they can manipulate and control the owners and all laws on it. There are dozens of their cyber-stalking and cyber-bullying attacks on individuals, businesses, whole towns, and even corporations on a weekly basis. One time so bad that they even drove a loving veterinarian to suicide, and she only tried to save the life of one of their outdoor hoarded TNR cats. http://banvetabuse.blogspot.Co.Uk/2014_03_01_archive.html They will even send death-threats to Congressmen and their families. Google for: Oda Lawmakers Shun Security Threats
Where cats have already learned to evade all trapping methods for trapping & drowning (and you aren’t confident with firearms or air-rifles (local ordinances permitting)), then inexpensive generic acetaminophen (overseas paracetamol) pain-relievers are a more species-specific vermin poison (though harmful to most reptiles, which won’t be dining on the cat-bait-foods that you’ll be using) — a method condoned by even Audubon, Smithsonian, and National Geographic today. Stray cats have been listed as “vermin” since the early 1900’s. (I learned this from a cat-licker. Thanks cat-lickers!) This is why it is even legal to use any and all vermin-poisons on them. For an even more species-specific vermin poison check into the toxicity of “Lilium” species of flowers too. Be certain the plant contains the word “Lilium” in the scientific-name (other plants with the word “Lily” in the common-name may be toxic to other species besides cats). Common N. American “Day Lilies” (Hemerocallis graminea) also work, they are the one exception to the rule that the name “Lilium” needs to be in the scientific name. Lilium species of flowers are 100% fatal to cats ONLY, even a bit of pollen on their fur that they lick-off will do. If they even drink a bit of water in which a bunch of Lilium flowers have been kept — that too is fatal, but totally harmless to all other species of animals (including dogs). Much safer for the environment and all other animals than the rat-poisons and antifreeze that cat-lickers have forced everyone into using on their cats. These plants when harvested and dried for year-round cat-eradication use is even better, as the unknown toxin is concentrated during the drying process (the blossoms and pollen being most toxic), and the dried plants are even more palatable to cats. An excellent mulch for anyone’s garden or a ground-up additive for any tins of food left lying around.
However, you really need to dispose of that cat safely and hygienically so that wildlife won’t die from the deadly diseases cats spread even after their death. Leaving ANY cat out in nature, alive OR dead, is no better than intentionally poisoning your native wildlife to death. I know this. I fed one of the hundreds of shot-dead cats on my lands to some wildlife under my care, those animals and their offspring that they had while under my care then died from some disease in that cat-meat. Cats truly are complete and total wastes-of-flesh. They can’t even be used to feed wildlife safely.
I don’t see anyone dumping cats where I live anymore. They don’t even adopt more than can be kept under lock & key 24/7/52. When driving through the area I don’t see even one cat on anyone’s doorsteps anymore. I always keep an eye-out to see if there are more free-roaming cats that will have to be shot. And if I’ll have to leave fish-oil trails on all the roadsides again, leading right to my IR surveillance system and laser-sighted rifle. The eradication of these vermin was so complete and effective that cats are non-existent from my area for over FIVE years now. Not seen nor heard a single one. So much for that cat-lickers’ oft-spewed and manipulative “vacuum effect” deception and lie too, eh?
Leaving ANY of their invasive species cats outside in my area means certain death for their cat, its further existence can be counted in hours. You’d think everyone else could learn from this simple lesson. The quickest way to solve an unwanted animal and irresponsible pet-owner problem is to let everyone know that you will quickly and humanely destroy every last one of their unwanted, uncared-for, or unsupervised animals for them. They either grow up fast or, far more plausible, dump their animals elsewhere to become someone else’s problem.
You just can’t be an enabler of criminally irresponsible spineless and heartless idiots — or they remain that way. (At least where you live, anyway.)
**IF THERE ARE NOT DIRECT AND IMMEDIATE IRREVERSIBLE CONSEQUENCES TO PET-OWNERS’ CRIMINALLY-NEGLIGENT AND CRIMINALLY-IRRESPONSIBLE BEHAVIORS AND VALUES THEN THEY LEARN ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.**
Please post the full version, I’m sure there are subtle details missing from the short text you’ve posted.
Can you make it all caps?
@Tony – Don’t sweat the small stuff. NatureAdvocate presents a fairly unique and interesting perspective. Truth be told we as humans have kinda messed up a ton of stuff and thrown our ecosystem out of whack. I’ve owned cats (usually 1 at a time). AND have been fortunate that they adopted me.
In fairness Conservation isn’t cheap and it isn’t pretty. If you want to read some REALLY messed up shit read about the Bronze Headed Cowbird. They typically migrated with the herds of American Buffalo (that we nearly brought to complete extinction) so there was a balance. The “Cowbirds” Now they just hang around cow pastures and track other birds.
Another one to cook your noodle is the European Starling, they actively attack the Brown Thresh (Thrashers), Red Bellied Woodpeckers, Downy Woodpeckers. The most f’ed up thing was several incident reports of Bluebirds mated pairs with the Starlings, killing both the parents, smashing the eggs, AND laying eggs in that f’ing nest.
We no longer have foxes, wolves, mountain lions or the number of large trees to support raptor/hawk/eagle/owl since the crap trees in our commercial district / Walmart parking lots will never get that big (and the fact the parking lots are ALWAYS lit) I mean really? IR cameras are everywhere now. Anyone that lives next to a car dealership knows how absurdly bright those damn lots are.
The only “wild” things that seem to thrive in our urban environment seems to be grey squirrels (aka tree rats) and pigeons.
We all love “Bambi” and such but there are no natural controls. Long and short of it natural Wildfires have very important purpose but 90% of folks say all fire is bad.
I still want that damn mosquito laser to put in my backyard like the Gates Foundation demo’ed and said it would cost $5 dollars to make. Hell even Makezine had a nice write-up on it. WTF.
I DO like the project posted above and for only one aspect of it. It notifies the trap was activated, i would prefer it notified the trap owner directly, so the animal wouldn’t suffer. No matter what the trap owner ultimately decides.
DeepDigger (Tony’s bambi-cartoon-educated, mommy’s-basement-dwelling, pavement-brained taunts aside), you make a couple of comments which I would like to address. Following is a couple of oft-used reprints from past posts of mine (used elsewhere) to address these issues.
“In fairness Conservation isn’t cheap and it isn’t pretty.”
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“The only “wild” things that seem to thrive in our urban environment seems to be grey squirrels (aka tree rats) and pigeons.”
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I bought 5,000 rounds of .22s on a close-out sale for $15, with about 4,000 left-over in case someone in the area wants to start up their vermin cat-hobby ever again. 3 cats per penny! Each cat vaccinated against ALL of their 3dozen+ deadly diseases (for which some don’t even have vaccines for them and are listed as bio-terrorism agents), each cat sterilized so they can no-longer reproduce, and each cat also given a permanent “loving furever home” (contained 2-3 ft. under). A TOTAL solution affordable to anyone, any size of community! With no further costs incurred by ANYONE EVER AGAIN.
Even $0.003 spent on any one cat is too much as far as I’m concerned, but that’s all that I’m willing to pay to “fix” YOUR vermin cat for you. I have plenty of .22s left-over after shooting and burying HUNDREDS of your vermin on my lands. I only used one 1/3-cent bullet per cat. I shouldn’t be forced to pay even that much, but since you won’t pay to “fix” your vermin cats and “contain” them, then I will “fix” them for you and “contain” them in the most humane and cost-effective methods on earth. And not one 1/3rd of a cent more than that — unless I miss, which is not likely. Everyone’s free-roaming cats taught to me and proved to me that I had a hidden skill as an expert-marksman. I never knew that, having never hunted anything before being forced to eradicate every last one of hundreds of your cats in my area. (Thanks cat-lickers for teaching me of this hidden skill!) Out of hundreds of cats that I had to shoot and bury I didn’t waste even one 1/3-cent bullet. Except one time when people advised that I use a fatal head-shot instead of a fatal chest-shot. It took 3 more precision point-blank shots to the head before it would die. (Which resulted in my having to hose-down the area to disperse all of that diseased-cat offal so that native wildlife wouldn’t track through it and spread it to kill even more wildlife. What a freakin’ mess that was! Cat-brains splattered all over the place.) I now surmise that cats survive more by their reptilian brain-stems than any of their unused gray-matter above it (just like cat-advocates do). An experiment I never repeated, because even one 1/3-cent bullet is worth more than any cat’s life is worth today.
And (re: squirrels) …
A couple more tips for those trying to clean their lands of cats (btw: destroy the stray collared ones too, they are the very source of every last feral cat):
For some of the most wary ones I built a “cat call” out of a small MP3 player and some battery-powered pocket-speakers (also a $3 ebay deal). Then downloaded all kinds of cat sounds from cat-lickers’ sites online. They LOVE sharing the sounds of their cats. Put those to good use. Get all kinds. In heat, mewing kittens (attract toms that come to kill them if not their own), cats fighting, etc. ALL attract cats. Curiosity DOES kill the cat. Sage advice from generations past.
And oddly, one of the most beneficial cat-finders of all? Believe it or not, but … squirrels. I learned their predator calls. They would alert me anytime a cat was anywhere in the area during daytime. Their predator alert starts out with a “chuck … chuck … chuck … chuck …” followed by a mimicry of whatever predator’s voice they know. They can emulate the sound of a hawk so surprisingly well that even I would mistake them for a hawk that flew over the area but was now long gone. For a cat they make more of a strangled meowing or mewing sound. It’s not as clear as the hawk sound (probably from the cat being a recently introduced predator), but they do their best to sound like a cat. If you’re lucky, sometimes up to 3 squirrels will have spotted a cat, and then by triangulating where all their noses are pointing you can find a cat in the densest of brush. Plus, the squirrels nearby will also start to mimic the warning call. By following where these calls spread through the woods you can follow exactly where the cat is headed to. I no longer think of squirrels as the “tree rats” that so many (and even I) used to think them to be. They are an integral part of a wildlife community’s defense mechanism. All other animals also respond to their predator calls (probably from sounding so much like the predator), and they all react accordingly. I realized that they do this to effectively destroy any stealth tactics that a predator might try to employ by loudly mimicking the voice of that predator. Plus, they might even attract the enemy of their enemy, just like they used me to destroy their enemy. Squirrels ain’t so dumb after-all. :-) (Though I did jokingly say to some of them a few times, when it comes to hawks and other native predators, they’re on their own again. :-) )
Your level of derangement is impressive.
I don’t really disagree with you, but in your “shoot, shovel, shut up” method, I think you’re a bit weak on the “shut up” part.
An even better hack, a free smartphone app, FeralCatScan. You just photograph where you’ve seen any vermin cats. If you don’t have the strength of heart to destroy them on the spot (as required by every last invasive-species-law and environmental-protection-act on earth in every nation), it reports their exact location for those who have no problems permanently removing these destructive invasive-species vermin from the planet by any means possible. Never to cause any further problems for any other life on earth — ever again. I personally shot and buried HUNDREDS of these vermin on my own lands to stop them from gutting-alive and skinning-alive the last of the native wildlife. If anyone reports any stay cats where I live, that cat’s remaining life can be counted in hours.
feralscan D0T org D0T au SLASH feralcatscan SLASH default D0T aspx
(typo corrected)
An even better hack, a free smartphone app, FeralCatScan. You just photograph where you’ve seen any vermin cats. If you don’t have the strength of heart to destroy them on the spot (as required by every last invasive-species-law and environmental-protection-act on earth in every nation), it reports their exact location for those who have no problems permanently removing these destructive invasive-species vermin from the planet by any means possible. Never to cause any further problems for any other life on earth — ever again. I personally shot and buried HUNDREDS of these vermin on my own lands to stop them from gutting-alive and skinning-alive the last of the native wildlife. If anyone reports any stray cats where I live (collared or not), that cat’s remaining life can be counted in hours.
feralscan D0T org D0T au SLASH feralcatscan SLASH default D0T aspx
The TNR CON-GAME
FACT: Trap & Kill failed because cats cannot be trapped faster than they exponentially breed out of control.
FACT: Trap, Neuter, & Re-Abandon (TNR) is an even bigger abject failure because these man-made ecological disasters cannot be trapped faster than they exponentially breed out of control, and they also continue to cruelly annihilate all native wildlife (from the smallest of prey up to the top predators that are starved to death), and the cats continue to spread many deadly diseases that they carry today — FOR WHICH THERE ARE NO VACCINES AGAINST THEM. Many of which are even listed as bio-terrorism agents. (Such as Tularemia and The Plague — Yes, people have already died from cat-transmitted plague in the USA. No fleas nor rats even required. The cats themselves carry and transmit the plague all on their own.)
FACT: Hunted To Extinction (or in this case, extirpation of all outdoor cats) is the ONLY method that is faster than a species like cats can exponentially out-breed and out-adapt to. Especially a man-made invasive species like these cats that can breed 2X-4X’s faster than any naturally occurring cat-species.
FACT: THERE IS ABSOLUTELY _NOTHING_ HUMANE ABOUT TNR. Nearly every last TNR’ed cat dies an inhumane death by road-kill, from cat and animal attacks, environmental poisons, starvation, dehydration, freezing to death, infections, eaten from the inside-out by parasites, etc. And if very very lucky humanely shot to death or re-trapped and drowned (the two most common methods employed on all farms and ranches to protect their gestating livestock’s offspring and valuable native wildlife dying from cats’ Toxoplasmosis parasites). This doesn’t begin to count the thousands of defenseless native animals that cats skin alive and disembowel alive for their daily and hourly play-toys. And pitting cat against cat to fight-to-the-death for territory is ABSOLUTELY NO DIFFERENT than those who run criminal dog-fight rings to see who wins. They spend YEARS in jail. IT IS A HIGHLY PUNISHABLE CRIME TO FORCE *ANY* DOMESTICATED ANIMALS TO FIGHT EACH OTHER FOR THEIR VERY SURVIVAL.
FACT: The only difference in destroying cats immediately and humanely instead of trapping, sterilizing, then releasing them to an inhumane death and forcing them to fight-to-the-death for survival; is that money isn’t going into Becky Robinson’s Alley-Cat-All-Lies pocket, or an HSUS or SPCA board-member’s pocket, veterinarian’s pocket, cat-food company CEO’s pocket, or a drug-company CEO’s pocket. And that’s the ONLY difference! Support yet another organization that exploits and perpetuates the suffering of animals for their own personal financial gain, then try to sleep well at night.
FACT: These manipulative, deceptive, and deceitful TNR proponents are now clipping cats ears ONLY. WITHOUT vaccinations nor sterilizing them. They do this to save money and protect their outdoor hoarded cat colonies from being trapped and euthanized by the state because the clipped-ear shows officials that they have been sterilized and vaccinated. Why pay $140 for each cat and all that time when just a trap and a simple snip of scissors on each one can also protect their hoarded cats from being destroyed? (I have absolute proof of this.)
FACT: Cats are a man-made (through selective breeding) invasive species. And as such, are no less of a man-made environmental disaster than any other caused by man. Cats are even worse than an oil-spill of continent-sized proportions. They not only kill off rare and endangered marine-mammals along all coastlines from run-off carrying cats’ Toxoplasma gondii parasites, they destroy the complete food-chain in every ecosystem where cats are found. From smallest of prey gutted and skinned alive for cats’ tortured play-toys, up to the top predators that are starved to death from cats destroying their ONLY food sources. (Precisely what cats caused on my own lands not long ago.)
FACT: In _SEVENTEEN_YEARS_ Alley Cat ALL-LIES branch of NYC have only reduced feral cats in their own city by 0.08% to 0.024% (as the months go on that percentage becomes more insignificant), allowing more than 99.92% to 99.976% to exponentially breed out of control. Here’s how Alley-Cat-ALL-LIES’ deceptive math works: If you TNR 4 cats and 3 get flattened by cars this translates to 75% fewer feral-cats everywhere. Alley Cat ALL-LIES of NYC can’t even reduce cats in their own city, yet they promote it as a worldwide solution. Then even bigger fools fall for it and promote it.
FACT: When researching over 100 of the most “successful” TNR programs worldwide, JUST ONE trapped more than 0.4%. Oregon’s 50,000 TNR’ed cats (the highest rate I found) is 4.9% of all ferals in their state. Yet, by applying population growth calculus on the unsterilized 95.1% they will have trapped only 0.35% of all cats in their state sometime this year. Less than 0.4% is a far cry from the required 75%-85% to be the least bit effective.
FACT: Their mythical “vacuum effect” is a 100% LIE. A study done by the Texas A&M University proved that any perceived “vacuum” is just the simple case that CATS ATTRACT CATS. Get rid of them all and there are no cats there to attract more. I proved this myself by shooting and burying hundreds of them on my own lands. ZERO cats replaced them FOR FIVE YEARS NOW. If you want more cats, keep even one of them around, more will find you. That university study also found that sterilized cats very poorly defend any territory. Non-sterilized cats, being more aggressive, take over the sterilized cats’ resources (shelter & food if any). If there is any kind of “vacuum effect” at all, it is that sterilizing cats cause non-sterilized cats to restore the reproductive void.
FACT: During all this investigation I have discovered something that is unfaltering without fail. Something that you can bet your very life on and win every last time. That being — IF A TNR CAT-HOARDER IS TALKING THEN THEY ARE LYING. 100% guaranteed!
wow.
Indeed.
It’s a cat-free crazy cat lady.
(Paragraphs were a nice touch though.)
The only way to counteract their infinite amount of ignorance, stupidity, and unending criminal-negligence is with an equal and opposing force of knowledge, intelligence, and relentless hunting the vermin problem, that they have created worldwide, to absolute extinction.
Are we talking cats or crazy cat ladies now?
If both were legal, would it matter? I often tell people, “Oh, if ONLY there was a LEGAL cure for ‘stupidity’. We wouldn’t have the problems that morons just like you create for every other life on earth.”
Look at what karma did to this person for all the thousands of innocent animals that he tortured to death with his disease-infested, invasive-species, piece-of-shîť CATS. Outdoor cat-hoarding can be a dangerous hobby too. Feed vermin cats at your own risk.
“Cat lover shot to death” http://abc11.Com/archive/8898176/
LOL
Quite frankly, I think that ANYONE who promotes the existence of these man-made vermin cats deserves a death-penalty for how many native animals they have torturing to death with their vermin cats. That used to be the penalty for engaging in bio-warfare and bio-terrorism — EXACTLY what feral-cat proponents engage in.
You are aware, aren’t you, that out of ALL types of pet-owners on the face of this earth, that cat-owners and cat advocates are directly responsible for the suffering deaths of more animals and more species of animals than any other pet-owners on the planet. Cat-owners are a triple-threat to all animal life on earth. If not having animals killed for their own consumption, then they are having animals killed and crammed into bags and cans and having a “CAT FOOD” label slapped on them for their cat’s consumption, and if they let their cats outside then they are senselessly torturing billions of native animals and countless thousands of native species to death yearly just for their cats’ play-toys. As well as the countless BILLIONS of offspring of all those animals that are either starved to death or never get born. How many animals are you going to have senselessly killed or tortured today for your entertainment and your purely and wholly self-serving “BUT CATS MAKE ME FEEL GOOD!” values?
Throw some more cats under the wheels of cars or let them lap-up antifreeze in a gutter or let them roam where they will be shot to death, or where they will inevitably die any of the myriad heinous and inhumane ways that every last stray cat eventually dies; then tell us all again how much that “you love cats”. Let your invasive-species vermin cats torture thousands of native and more-valuable admirable animals to death just for your and your cats’ senseless play-toy entertainment, no other reason, as all their innocent offspring starve to death from the parents no longer returning to raise them and feed them; then tell us all again how much of an “animal lover” that you truly are. (Why all of you are not rotting in prison-cells for life somewhere for all your crimes and sins against all of nature and all of humanity worldwide is incomprehensible to any morally intact human.)
(typo: torturing => tortured)
Protip dude: no-one will notice the typo as no-one ain’t got time to read all that.
(In case you haven’t noticed, people who like to post their long rambling manifesto everywhere aren’t though highly of.)
I make no apologies to those who have severe reading and comprehension problems. That’s your problem that you must live with for the rest of your bliss-ninny’s self-inflicted-ignorance sorry-excuse for a life. Let me guess, your boss (if you ever had one) often yelled at you while wearing his paper-hat and standing behind the french-fry deep-fryer?
Luckily for us, most people are still more intelligent than today’s 140-character-comprehension-limited, attention-deficit-crippled, moron TROLL of a pavement-brained twitter-head. Perhaps you should peruse a more fitting media to which you are accustomed — one which has your information doled-out in tolerable and comprehensible 140-character quanta reduced to your obviously self-professed and limited (in)capacity. (Note: this text may be well beyond your comprehension and attention-deficit limitations, have one of your fellow twitter-heads who have fewer problems than you explain it all to you.)
In fact, that information is designed to filter-out loser moron trolls like you. It is meant for all your neighbors that; no matter where they live on earth, no matter what laws govern their lives; they now have a way to completely destroy every last one of your invasive species vermin cats for you without bringing even more problems into their lives from the likes of you and your vermin cats — and precisely why they MUST do so. THAT is the intent of sharing that information. I already know your kind are ineducable, so why would anyone bother trying. I just use your kind as my little online show-n’-tell puppets to prove to everyone on earth, without one doubt left in the known universe, that no cat-licker on earth will ever stop the ecological disaster that your kind created in the very first place. The ONLY solution that you have left for everyone is to now destroy every last one of your vermin cats for you — no matter how they have to accomplish that. Thanks for proving it again.
Like I’m going to read that, lol.
(I only came here to say lol. Shine on, you crazy diamond.)
Au contraire mon idiot! (“idiot” is the same in French or English, I presume so as not to confuse the idiots)
The “LOL” is on you. You just proved yet again that everything that I state is 100% absolutely true. (You just don’t realize why that is true.)
He who “LOL”s last ….
The layman’s definition of “moron”: one who is too stupid to even realize that they are that stupid.
Oh, if only the quintessential stereotype (always based on a modicum of truth) of moron didn’t exist there’d be no reason for you to exist. Without people like you there’d be no explanation for the word “moron”.
Lol.
Trap-neuter-return (TNR) is “more humane” only if you don’t like cats, or birds and small rodents.
(On the other hand, I guess it does provide more food for large birds of prey.)
https://xkcd.com/1338/