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06-18-2017, 04:12 PM
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OT: Best way to catch a cat?
Our daughter noticed an orange lightly striped cat appear on our property a little while ago walking past the window she was sitting at with a big gash on its head. We tried to very go out very carefully and see if we could get it to come to us but it hid under a large bush in the yard, and then took off into the woods. A little while later I see it again from the other side and it looks like it might have had its throat torn up pretty good. Whatever it got into a scrap with did some damage. We again tried to approach but he slipped away. We've seen it a couple of times before over the past year and suspect it might belong to a neighboring horse farm but no one is home at the house at the moment.
Any ideas in case it appears again? William 
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06-18-2017, 04:18 PM
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Food and someplace you can enclose the cat once it's eating without startling it. Something like a havahart trap if you don't have the time to keep a lookout.
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06-18-2017, 04:24 PM
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06-18-2017, 04:27 PM
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06-18-2017, 04:34 PM
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Last edited by dustyrider; 06-18-2017 at 06:21 PM.
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06-18-2017, 04:41 PM
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a while back, I had some renters living in the house next door that were breeding feral cats, had to stop that action...
borrowed a live trap and put some cheap off-brand canned tuna inside...very efficient, caught one every night for almost two weeks. I'd check it every morning and there'd be a well-fed captive curled up inside. even caught my own cat once...doh.
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06-18-2017, 05:18 PM
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Call your local animal control officer.
It may be able to set up a have-a-heart trap. You may inadvertently trap something else however, i.e., a skunk or racoon. So maybe let the animal control officer take care of it. And if you do catch it, you don’t want to handle it. If it is feral, it may not have a rabies inoculation.
Last edited by djg21; 06-18-2017 at 05:20 PM.
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06-18-2017, 05:45 PM
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go to like a tractor supply or ag store and buy a trap. Put a can of tuna or whatever in it and be prepared for a trip to the vet for a neutering and whatever else. works with groundhogs too
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06-18-2017, 05:59 PM
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Thanks for the suggestions.
I've actually used the box, stick, and string method to catch a domesticated rabbit someone dumped on our property last year. I talked with someone over at one of the nearby horse farms and they said the son takes care of a few cats and it sounds like this may be one of them. He was out of State this weekend but was supposed to back today. In the meantime we haven't seen it again but I'm borrowing a Have-a-heart trap from a friend. Stay tuned... Willie E. Cayote 
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06-18-2017, 06:50 PM
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William
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06-19-2017, 10:42 AM
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With a have a heart trap, you can tie a string to the door. Then if you get something in there you don't want to go near (skunk for instance) you can open it "remotely". Can even tie the string off to a fence post with the door in open position to let the critter you don't want to mess with run away at it's own pace.
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06-19-2017, 11:49 AM
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06-19-2017, 12:38 PM
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No sign of the cat since yesterday. I did just see a Wild Turkey in the yard though...
William
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