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Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Annoying Cats are a Menace to Society!
Apparently I’m not the only one in Bakersfield who is plagued by their neighbors annoying cats. According to an article posted on Bakersfield.com Monday night, a local man is tired of battling scores of annoying cats in his neighborhood too.
According to the article, the man’s neighbor’s cats and various stray cats that his neighbor takes care of “are multiplying and treating his property like one big litter box, have been trespassing into his yard and are threatening to kill the birds at his bird feeder.”
This article could have been written about my own little old lady cat neighbor’s annoying cats and their adventures at my house. I thought while reading it.
The annoying cats at my house constantly loiter, lazily nap, and have cat conferences discussing new ways to torture and torment me in my yard and around my house. They use my backyard as their toilet and their non-stop cat-wailing and moaning and sex-screaming cat-sex rendezvous’ give a whole new meaning to the word ‘multiplying’ for at one time there were 3 pregnant cats hanging out at my house!
And don’t even get me started on the killing. These annoying cats aren’t just threatening to kill; they’ve already killed a dove and a rat! I’m beginning to think my backyard is a kill zone in a military war, as the casualties keep piling up.
Uh oh! Not again… I thought recently as I spied a bit of feathers poking out of the grass in my backyard.
I walked over to investigate…
Oh! A small bird… The annoying cats killed a Baby Bird!
What to do? I wondered.
Should I get the shovel my dad left here in case the annoying cats killed again and get rid of it?
Hmmm…
The gardener comes this afternoon! I remembered, I could let him get rid of it for me.
A solution where I personally didn’t have to dispose of a dead Baby Bird, this I liked. I left it for the gardener to deal with and the dead Baby Bird was gone when I got home from work. Problem solved.
While my little old lady cat neighbor’s annoying cats plague me, I rent and am busy so I deal with the annoying cats shenanigans. Not so the man in the article. He’s a homeowner and “has bricked in his front flower beds to keep the cats out, has scattered red pepper all over his lawn, laid mothballs out and sprayed an ammonia solution on his shrubs.” He obviously has much more time to spend fighting off his annoying cats than I do. I just blog about them.
Fed up, he is pleading with the Bakersfield City Council to “draft an ordinance that should, among other things, require cats to be licensed and spayed or neutered, and give animal control officers more power to round them up.”
I hope he’s successful.
In the article his neighbor calls him “unneighborly” among other things and says, “It’s not the cats fault they were born,” therefore she and other neighbors “feed the neighborhood cats.”
Geez! What is this world coming to? The annoying cats will never go away or stop multiplying if everyone has this attitude!
This article was also a topic of discussion on Bakersfield.com’s Talk of the Town community blog.
The blogger pointed out “that it shouldn’t take a village to raise a cat. And cats should stay in their own house or yard and they should be on leashes, just like dogs.”
I agree!
One of the commenters on the blog suggested the man should take up ‘archery’ since all of his other attempts to rid himself of the annoying cats had failed. My friends have suggested I buy an air pistol or a paintball gun to battle the annoying cats with.
According to another commenter: “Dogs are property and cats are wild animals which is why dogs have to be licensed and cats don’t. Also why you have to try to notify a dog’s owner if you hit one with your car but you can keep driving after taking a cat out.”
Dude, I am sooooo NOT braking for any more annoying cats that just sit in the middle of my street like they own it and won’t move an inch even though you honk the horn at them!!
Mel of New Leaves in March tipped me off to this story this morning in an email. When I wrote her thanking her for the link, she wrote:
“At least it’s not as bad as what’s going on in my neighborhood, in Houston annoying cats are attacking Australian Shepherds.”
If cats are wild animals and at the rate they are multiplying it won’t be long before dogs are on the endangered species list, or something bigger…
Apparently I’m not the only one in Bakersfield who is plagued by their neighbors annoying cats. According to an article posted on Bakersfield.com Monday night, a local man is tired of battling scores of annoying cats in his neighborhood too.
According to the article, the man’s neighbor’s cats and various stray cats that his neighbor takes care of “are multiplying and treating his property like one big litter box, have been trespassing into his yard and are threatening to kill the birds at his bird feeder.”
This article could have been written about my own little old lady cat neighbor’s annoying cats and their adventures at my house. I thought while reading it.
The annoying cats at my house constantly loiter, lazily nap, and have cat conferences discussing new ways to torture and torment me in my yard and around my house. They use my backyard as their toilet and their non-stop cat-wailing and moaning and sex-screaming cat-sex rendezvous’ give a whole new meaning to the word ‘multiplying’ for at one time there were 3 pregnant cats hanging out at my house!
And don’t even get me started on the killing. These annoying cats aren’t just threatening to kill; they’ve already killed a dove and a rat! I’m beginning to think my backyard is a kill zone in a military war, as the casualties keep piling up.
Uh oh! Not again… I thought recently as I spied a bit of feathers poking out of the grass in my backyard.
I walked over to investigate…
Oh! A small bird… The annoying cats killed a Baby Bird!
What to do? I wondered.
Should I get the shovel my dad left here in case the annoying cats killed again and get rid of it?
Hmmm…
The gardener comes this afternoon! I remembered, I could let him get rid of it for me.
A solution where I personally didn’t have to dispose of a dead Baby Bird, this I liked. I left it for the gardener to deal with and the dead Baby Bird was gone when I got home from work. Problem solved.
While my little old lady cat neighbor’s annoying cats plague me, I rent and am busy so I deal with the annoying cats shenanigans. Not so the man in the article. He’s a homeowner and “has bricked in his front flower beds to keep the cats out, has scattered red pepper all over his lawn, laid mothballs out and sprayed an ammonia solution on his shrubs.” He obviously has much more time to spend fighting off his annoying cats than I do. I just blog about them.
Fed up, he is pleading with the Bakersfield City Council to “draft an ordinance that should, among other things, require cats to be licensed and spayed or neutered, and give animal control officers more power to round them up.”
I hope he’s successful.
In the article his neighbor calls him “unneighborly” among other things and says, “It’s not the cats fault they were born,” therefore she and other neighbors “feed the neighborhood cats.”
Geez! What is this world coming to? The annoying cats will never go away or stop multiplying if everyone has this attitude!
This article was also a topic of discussion on Bakersfield.com’s Talk of the Town community blog.
The blogger pointed out “that it shouldn’t take a village to raise a cat. And cats should stay in their own house or yard and they should be on leashes, just like dogs.”
I agree!
One of the commenters on the blog suggested the man should take up ‘archery’ since all of his other attempts to rid himself of the annoying cats had failed. My friends have suggested I buy an air pistol or a paintball gun to battle the annoying cats with.
According to another commenter: “Dogs are property and cats are wild animals which is why dogs have to be licensed and cats don’t. Also why you have to try to notify a dog’s owner if you hit one with your car but you can keep driving after taking a cat out.”
Dude, I am sooooo NOT braking for any more annoying cats that just sit in the middle of my street like they own it and won’t move an inch even though you honk the horn at them!!
Mel of New Leaves in March tipped me off to this story this morning in an email. When I wrote her thanking her for the link, she wrote:
“At least it’s not as bad as what’s going on in my neighborhood, in Houston annoying cats are attacking Australian Shepherds.”
If cats are wild animals and at the rate they are multiplying it won’t be long before dogs are on the endangered species list, or something bigger…
I named my cat Prowler. BIG mistake. She is annoying too.
And a serial killer.
She keeps bringing me rabbits and mice without heads.
Q
cats are BAD! u know i'm not too fond of them... LOL...
I've not been attacked first hand, that is just what I heard from some neighbors here. In Bako though, a neighbor's cat like to sneak around my house and yard (which is still for sale if anyone is interested...)
Cat's are evil. And arrogant. And self centered. *hmmmm I wonder if I was a cat in a past life?
I always have bad luck when it comes to picking out a dog.And I always hated cats. But I finally gave in to the family's moans, and we purchased our first cat. It has always been an indoor cat, we even did the cruel front claw removal. She really has been a fun pet for the house, so much, that we bought another one. But they are absolutely indoor all the time cats. What I don't dig is coming out to my car every morning and seeing dirty cat paws on my car. Or losing sleep because some outside cat is freaking out some neighbors dog. And yes, the dead remains of night time feedings is always a stomach turn-er. People who walk their dogs and let them crap on someones lawn, people who let their cats run wild to ruin a neighbors living space, and people who put yard sale signs on posts in front of other peoples houses, and never take them down...well, let's just hope Karma is still alive and well!
Cats are cool.
You can't put cats on a leash.
Cats are supposed to kill birds. That's how God wired them.
howardowens.com
I have a friend who used to put firecrackers up cats buts. Now, I'm not saying to go around blowing up asses, but maybe you could find a fun solution, less painful, where you could spend your cat-hating time getting a little vengeance. I don't recommend squeezing pregnant kitties.
I used to like cats when I was a kid. Now I realize cats are just mindless vermin killers that half the time don't do enough de-populating of pests. Now barn cats, those are good cats for micing, cause they will eat rats or starve...
As for cats in your street. Just call those roadkill cats. That's about all they're good for. Unless you're a satanist, those old satanic books about demon possession that were popular in the Bako consciousness back in the day were always good about finding a use for kitty heads.
If you don't want cats in your yard, get a dog. My dog, at least, hates cats and chases them. Never cat poo in the flower bed for me.
Cats can be cute, but let's face it. They sit in the house and crap in a box. They stink the place up. Or, they meander around the neighborhhod annoying people.
sorry matildakay! I just HAD TO leave that dancing cat on your myspace. Ever since somebody sent it to me a few days ago I just can't stop thinking about this blog topic!