Aussie Finch Forum

bluebutterfly213 wrote:Depends how far you want to take it. The local press could be a friend, willing to take a snap or two each time you take a captured moggie into the local council meeting!

cheers butterfly , i'm thinkin about it. Anonymity goes out the window along with it though . I might ask the council to set traps in the reserve close by. I'm sure the majority of critters end up in there.

Budgie Smugglers - I will come and show you how you can make your cage cat proof...so it wont kill your cats...wont cost you much....if you like...??
I would love to help you fight the vermin..!!...
and never have a problem ever again....

ianmckenzie wrote:Budgie Smugglers - I will come and show you how you can make your cage cat proof...so it wont kill your cats...wont cost you much....if you like...??
I would love to help you fight the vermin..!!...
and never have a problem ever again....

Wow yr a champ Ian. Though not exactly down the road from each other ?

Budgie_Smugglers wrote:I wasn't going to continue ranting, but what the hell I've now caught 20 cats in just under 12 weeks ! !

you may catch the same cat twice soon. If their chipped, chance the buggers will be back for your birds......the pound isn't the best place really.

Do the pounds charge a fee for "recovering" your cat?
If so, the owner will soon get sick of the payments

Just thought i'd put my two cents worth in here. We recently lost 2 pair of BH WC gouldians to cats jumping on the cage.....when we trapped them, no where would take them. Vets wanted to charge us $30-$60 a cat to deal with them, RSPCA said they couldn't do anything, local council didn't want to even know about it, shelters wouldn't take them.....it was outrageous, eventually we did find a shelter that was willing to pay the money for us to take them to the vet. It really shouldn't be that hard to deal with stray cats.

That's ridicules what the hell are you supposed to do with the flaming mongrels.

According to the council...let them go. Thats going to solve the problem for sure

For all you new guys on here there has been many topics put up regarding cats,most if not all topics have led to many AFF members leaving the forum because of what has been said about other peoples remarks of how to get rid of them,some very disgusting.
Don't get me wrong,i am not a cat lover but many on here are responsible cat owners and or showers and also keep birds and there are the ones who are reading our posts as guests.
For heavens sake guys do what you have to do with them but don't advertise it on here and keep it to yourselves. Craig

My partner has a horse and therefore a solar powered electric fence for when attending shows etc.
Worked great to keep the dogs and cats from the new garden.
Had the power supply on for 24 hours and from then on removed the power but left the cord.
Our animals follow me every where EXCEPT if I head for the veg garden.They follow till they work out where I am going and then peel off.

I will consider installing to the aviary too for three reasons
1. Teach our animals to stay away.
2. Teach and deter any local strays that it is not a nice area to be near.
3. Once the word gets around the cat fraternity I should be free of cats.
it is free to run as it is solar powered and I have it free except for when we go to shows etc.
Once the animals get to know it you only need the cord and don't need the power supply

I intend to put one line just above the sheeting on the bottom and one around the top.
Hopefully this will remove the cat threat and also mean that I don't have to catch and dispatch.
Any one else tried this as it is harmless to the animals (does make them jump on the first hit and after the next one they wont go anywhere near it.)
Regards
Brian