First of all, I did an exhaustive search of the web to figure this problem out. Second, I spent a great deal of money on sprays, chemicals, and spices to stop this from occurring. Let us do a little background shall we?
My neighbor decided about 5-6 years ago to bring home a female kitten. This kitten grew and started going into heat so instead of getting the cat spayed, she just kicked it out. She replaced the female with a male kitten that eventually grew and started spraying the house so she kicked that cat out also. Male and female hump, have a litter of kittens and then there was 7 cats. One of the offspring impregnated mother cat and 7 cats became a family of 13 cats some obviously inbred. A few got hit, and a few got pregnant, but somehow the number stays around 12-13 cats. We live in the suburbs in a really clean and quiet community so at midnight, when cats start fighting, it scares the s**t out of people because we can leave our windows open without fear of burglars and/or rapists. Anyhow, over the past several years, the cats have inbred so much that one actually has an undeveloped twin stuck on it’s back. That’s the history of where we are at now.
I made hundreds if not thousands of inquiries both on the net and over the phone to seek guidance on alleviating this problem to no avail. I see hundreds of blogs and websites that seem to promote just accepting the cat problem or whatever. I even see suggestions like: "Put out a litter box for them to poop in", or spend 0 on automated sprinklers, etc. I don’t think so.
My kids play in the back yard and every other day, one of the freak cats from next door poops under the wooden swingset (stones). I paid almost ,000 to have my front and side yard landscaped professionally and the freak cats from next door keep pooping in the mulch.
Here is my dilemma: They are not my cats, therefore, I will not pay anymore to buy useless chemicals that don’t work. I will not buy wire mesh to place over my mulch, plant upside down forks, mix rose bush thorns in the mulch, put nasty smelling moth balls all over my yard, put eggshells where they do their business, sprinkle 3lbs of cayenne pepper all over every other day, buy a dog, or a BB gun. I also will not sit like a freaking sniper behind bushes for hours with a super-soaker to spray them. No… I found a better method.
Before I speak of that method, I have a few things to say to the backwoods cat lovers that say "they were here first" or "cats are people too" – B.S. These cats were kittens well over two years after I bought this house. The rotten little things don’t pay my mortgage, clean up after themselves, cook me dinner, pay my taxes, or add any aesthetic value to my property. Cats are not people or remotely close to it. How would you "cat Lovers" like it if my kids and I walked over to your yard and started dropping loaves all over your landscaping and near your swingset?
So here’s what I did to alleviate the stray cat problem- I went to the local (about 60 miles away) farm supply store and bought 2 of those live animal traps. I stopped at my local grocery store and purchased a half dozen cans of cat food and cheap plastic bowls. Six nights in a row, I placed the trap inside my garage with a cheap bowl full of Purina and watched Netflix. Every night, no fail, I would hear the traps spring shut and a lot of hissing. Around 1am every night, I packed the little s**t factories into my trunk and drove about 8 miles to the local trailer park. I dropped off said s**t factories and cheap plastic bowl full of food at every trailer I could find that had a Taurus with 18-20 inch rims on it. Suffice to say, I have not had to pick up a cat turd from my yard in over 6 months now and have yet to see a single cat in our neighborhood running around freely.
Cost: for two traps, for 24 plastic bowls, .50 for a few cans of cat food, and for gas.
Peace of mind knowing my yard has no poop and the trailer park is in worse shape: priceless
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