I trapped my neighbor's cat once

[Tobin S.]

I had a nice little house that I was trying to sell and I had just done a lot of landscaping work to the property. Something started rooting around in it and generally making a mess of things as well as destroying a few plants. I thought it was a groundhog and set out one of those cage traps that traps the critter, but does it no harm. I would then relocate the critter to a place where it wouldn't bother me and I it.

So I set the trap and went to work. Nine hours later I returned home to find my neighbor's cat in it. Poor thing. It was howling and in a general state of distress. I opened the trap and the cat took off. I did not use the trap again although there was still something getting into my landscaping. I later saw that it was a groundhog, but I said to hell with it.

The people that bought the house from me immediately tore up all of the landscaping that I had done and planted grass. :shrug:

[Skittles]

1. I was doing some trap of releases of ferals

a neighbor's fat-ass cat would get in the trap, get trapped, chow down the food lure and sleep until I let him out - he did this several times :mad:

[Tobin S.]

2. Well, you know what they say about passing up a free meal.

:D

[joeybee12]

5. I have a feral colony, and one guy who has been trapped and fixed,

always shows up and goes into one of them every time I've trapped since then...he eats the food and then patiently waits to be released...they say once you trap ferals, you can't do it again because they get wise...well, this guy is in the 1% who has figured out the scam.

[MajorChode]

3. I trapped a neighbor's cat

It was hanging out around my house all the time and shitting in my flower beds on a daily basis. The city loaned me the trap when I complained to animal control.

It had probably been in the trap for several hours before I found it. I just let it go and never saw it hanging around again. I guess the bad experience left a lasting impression.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

4. I may have to go that route...

...the next door neighbor's cat has decided that the area right under my kitchen window is the best cat toilet in town. Animal Control loans the Have-a-Heart traps here too but you have to give them a credit card for deposit (they don't charge the card unless you don't bring the trap back).

I came home last week and found a little bulldog sniffing around for a comfy place to shit on my front lawn. Since moving here two years ago, picking up animal feces has become one of my major pastimes.

[Blue Diadem]

6. We had the same thing happen while trying to trap a raccoon.

We were living in the city then and had already seen the raccoon up one of our trees. Then it bit through the lid of our plastic garbage can so we thought it was time to trap it. Instead, we got the biggest meanest cat I ever met. The yowling,growling and hissing was frightening :scared: I'd never seen a cat that ticked off before. I swear if he'd been able to get to us we'd been a little pile of shredded flesh on the ground.

My husband opened the cage door very carefully and the poor kitty ran off. We had no idea who it belonged to but there was a family on the street behind us that used to have 15-20 cats at any given time.