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Conference 7.286::pet_birds

Title:Captive Breeding for Conservation--and FUN!
Notice:INTROS 6.X / FOR SALE 13.X / Buying a Bird 900.*
Moderator:VIDEO::PULSIFER
Created:Mon Oct 10 1988
Last Modified:Tue Jun 03 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:942
Total number of notes:6016

32.0. "varments" by SVCRUS::KROLL () Tue Oct 25 1988 20:06

    Has anyone found out how to make a ring tailed cat stay away from
    an outdoor avery?  My sister has one that is jumping from trees
    onto the side of the pens.  She can not put out posion or large
    rat traps due to the neighbors cats and her dogs.
    
    Any suggestions would help.  Have a heart trap is not working.
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32.1Animal Control OfficersSQUEKE::HUTCHINSFeathered Obsessions AviaryWed Oct 26 1988 15:089
    Call your local police station and ask for the Animal Control Officer.
    He/she can probably help quickly.  Some officers use tranq guns
    to stun the varment, then he wakes up someplace else.  Traps and
    poison are inhumane....but sleeping and waking someplace else should
    not be too bad!
    
    Good luck to your sister!
    
    jean
32.2Well..SQUEKE::HUTCHINSFeathered Obsessions AviaryWed Nov 02 1988 16:094
    Well Charla, what's happening?  Still have the varments?
    
    J
    
32.3extension agentSVCRUS::KROLLThu Nov 03 1988 01:414
    last time I talked to her it had not attacked for 5 days.  seeing
    how she has a bad heart I talked her into checking with the county
    extension agent.  I know this stresses her & the birds out to the
    max.
32.4Extension ServiceSQUEKE::HUTCHINSFeathered Obsessions AviaryThu Nov 03 1988 15:274
    Excellent idea!
    
    j
    
32.5testONTIME::SYSTEMMon Feb 20 1995 12:3310
                       <<< Note 32.0 by SVCRUS::KROLL >>>
                                 -< varments >-

    Has anyone found out how to make a ring tailed cat stay away from
    an outdoor avery?  My sister has one that is jumping from trees
    onto the side of the pens.  She can not put out posion or large
    rat traps due to the neighbors cats and her dogs.
    
    Any suggestions would help.  Have a heart trap is not working.

32.6the weight of the cat should make it happenTAMDNO::WHITMANI'm the NRA and I voteTue Feb 21 1995 12:0823
<    Has anyone found out how to make a ring tailed cat stay away from
<    an outdoor avery?  My sister has one that is jumping from trees
<    onto the side of the pens. ...

    Assuming that a BB gun is either not practical or not acceptable for other
reasons, I'd suggest playing with the idea of 2 layers of aluminum screen that
would act as a switch. Place the 2 screens far enough apart so normal breezes 
won't cause them to make contact, but the weight of the cat would.  These 2
sheets of screening would be used as the switch to make a battery powered bell
ring or turn on sprinklers or lights or however exotic you wish to get. No
doubt it would startle the birds too, but I'm sure the cat's already doing
that. 

    Be sure the screening is aluminum and not nylon.  This mechanism would be
inexpensive (less than $20 for everything), easy to install, environmentally
safe, no danger to kids, requires no monitoring by your sister and, at least
the first few times, should scare the rings out of the cat's tail... 

   Good luck

Al