Dilemma..A Value Conflict, If You Will
 

Please study the attached photograph carefully.

Facts:

1) This is not my cat. This is my neighbors cat.
2) He has been there for more than an hour.
3) No amount of yelling or banging on the window will move him.
4) He does this all the time to all of my vehicles.
5) I am the only one home in the neighborhood.
6) I can reliably remove his brains from his head from here, without risk of damaging the car.

Conflicts:

1) I am an alleged animal lover.
2) I cannot get downstairs to hide the body.
3) I am currently not capable of rinsing the skull fragments from the car.
4) It will be loud.


Please assist me in making this important decision. Your input, as always, is much appreciated.

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A cat should only be allowed to do that once....ONCE!

if you spray the cat with spray bottle of water he won't go on the car again.

My old cat would claw up one my car covers, absolutely destroyed it. My neighbohr gave me the tip about the spraying water and he never went near the top again. I think there's also some sort of citrus spray you can get a pet smart that lingers for weeks and they can't stand.

Grizz, let the dog out!

As luck would have it, the dogs are at the beauty salon today.

Rubber bullets?

Taser it.

I had a cat do that to my wife's old solara and I bought this goofy device with a motion sensor that would send out high pitched noise that humans and dogs could not hear. It was supposed to drive the cat crazy. I think it worked, the car quit sitting on top of the convertible.

Less than Lethal rounds?

Do you own a BB Gun? If so a low pump, just enough to hit and scare the crap out of it but not harm it in any way. Or just use a water bottle sprayer. I'm glad I have a garage. :D

Does it have a license? Call animal control and say its rabid ;)

I like cats but I wouldn't want mine messing up my top.
My weapon of choice would be a paintball gun. It wouldn't kill it but it wouldn't go anywhere near the car again. Or you could try Sour Apple, it is a pet repellant, that smells awful. Pets avoid it like the plague, but I am not sure if I would rather have a smelly top or a cat on my top. A water gun would work too.
:cheers:

Grizz, you need a good recipe with cat. I'll ask some of my Chef friends.

Also, make sure to get it off of there ASAP. Cats enjoy clawing cloth. Like when they retract and detract there claws. It could be ruining your top.

What the hell is wrong with you?

You're seriously thinking of killing an innocent cat? What you plan on shooting it?


Geez just scare it off somehow.


I hope you were kidding about hurting that cat, if not you're a sicko.

Bill, you're a genius! Chicken Chow Meow it is!

Grizz, this Cat Braise sounds pretty good:

http://catrecipes.com/recipes/braisedcat.html

Jacques! Chill, sir! I'm kidding! I'm only kidding! I don't kill animals. I even refuse to hunt. In fact, I'm in the process, right now, of rescuing an abused Pekingese, seized from a puppy mill in Texas. I just thought the cat on the Box could make for an entertaining thread. Whew!

Grizz

Dont mess with that cat, one day when ur washing ur car he might get you!!!

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Grizzly, your post is lacking "body language" for Jacques!

Nicely done, Bill.

Blkboxster, I have that picture hanging in my office.

Not sure if you're actually concerned about the cat on the car or if you were just foolin' around with this thread, but, if the former: Cats hate stepping on stuff that sticks to their feet. Get some double-stick tape and put several strips of it across the width of the top. (I'm reasonably certain it would pull off easily even after a few days :confused: and wouldn't cause any damage.) We tell people that have problems with their cats hanging out on their kitchen counter-tops when they're not around to give this a try. It does seem to work. (And, as rick3000 suggested, if kitty decides to use the top as a scratch post, it could get ugly fast.)

How's the Pekingese rescue/transport mission progressing?

If you were in the neighborhood, my precision PCP (pre-charged pneumatic) .22 cal airguns come with a built in silencer and 18X vairable scope groups nicely under a half inch at that distance....

We have a cat and the neighbors in our area have lots of cats, and they love the top of my boxster. I try to hid the car in the garage when I can and keep hair-removing rolls handy. It really sucks to see the muddy paw prints going across the hood and windshield to end up with a bunch of fur on the roof. I guess it is one of the costs of lowering the suspension, ha,

Ed

:cheers:

I could bring my English Bulldop to visit, and if you are lucky you won't have to feed her.

No way, those things make it to the hood of my tundra with a leveling kit on the front, your resistance is futile.

Here is a link to my cat deterrent

http://www.amazon.com/Contech-CatStop-Ultrasonic-Outdoor-Deterrent/dp/B0001A9TE2

Thanks, Griz, I just spit water all over my laptop :eek:

Great post ! Either you're feeling better, or the pain medication is finally starting to kick in ;)

Nick

Sorry about the laptop, Nick! Yeah, I'm feeling a little better; bored but better.

At least the guys are having fun with the thread. I was only kidding. You know me and animals...the cat can have the car if he likes it that much.

Got any pictures of her? English Bulls are the best. I hope my present dogs outlast me; they own my heart. If not, I'm going to lobby hard for an English Bull.

That's a tough one, if you talk to the neighbors and they are not receptive you can't snuff Mr. Putty. That picture bothers me and it's not even my ride. If you value your neighbors, put some clear carpet runner upsidedown on the top, the little spines will dissuade him. Otherwise, a lil friskies & Prestone makesa a fine meal.

An hour -- what's taken you so long? Did you consider paying some neighborhood kids to tie some paper bags to his feet to teach that cat a lesson?

Or better yet, take him up to the sniper window & test if cats actually do land on their feet...

Just stick a piece of duct tape to it and let the owners remove it. They will think the cat accidently stumbled upon the tape and not knowing any better rolled on top of it... ;) (plus if you do it symmetrically about its back it will look like a skunk with a pink stripe once the tape is removed)

Disclaimer: I am only kidding. My fiance and I have two cats, Guido and Yolanda... okay that's not their real names and she prefers that I don't call them by these names... shhhhhh... ;)

If you continue to have difficulties, I can send over Mr. Mo. He will never be confused for a lean mean fightin machine, but he is an avid porsche lover, never sits anywhere on vehicles and will act as a secure deterrent.
After a recent foray/patrol:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...MotheKitty.jpg

Ever vigilant...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...amily/MO02.jpg

Mr. Mo is very beautiful...in the second picture. In the first shot, I was waiting for his head to spin around and green puke to fly out.

My ferocious Pekingese tag-team does a pretty fair job at patrolling for bogeys, but they were having a day of beauty today. :rolleyes:

She's is being treated for heartworm and ear mites. She needs a health certificate for interstate transport, so the ear mites have to be taken care of first. Thankfully, her last heartworm test came back light. Did I say that right? We think we're going to use a pet relocation service to transport her by truck. I can't begin to make her arrangements before she's healthy, though.

I got this picture of her from the rescue the other day. She looks so much better. The pictures from when she was seized? Well, take a look. Poor baby. Seven years in a wire cage.

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k2...11/gizzy-3.jpg
http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k2...11/gizzy-1.jpg

Hi, Grizzly pulled the trigger, here's the evidence, faked the year to cover his @ss. :mad:

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u...r/Photo191.jpg

grizz, you post count will go trough the roof :cheers:

btw, great pic, hang that up in ur office

All right I figured you were kidding but you never know these days...

I know a few sick people that have shot cats-dogs just for kicks....

I also worked for animal shelters and animal rescue groups for about 3-4 years so I'm pretty sensitive to this kind of stuff.

Glad to know you're not insane :cheers:

I have that same cat problem, the worst is the muddy pawprints on the hood or trunkand the glass. I also dont appreciate the hairy top. I even got some little scratches when the cat tried to get some extra traction.

Cats like high places since they feel safe. If that place is warm then so much the better.

You are not going to run out of a house and spray a cat with water. Unless the cat is dead or really slow or you can suprise it.

When I bought the box in 1999 I had 2 cats. At least one of them liked my top as a resting place.

It has been said that cats don't like stepping on strange things, like tin foil and tape. I could see the paw prints on the front trunk lid. I waxed the heck out of the trunk lid and the cat still got on the top.

I was not going to cover the front of my car in tin foil.

I put masking tape upside down all over the lid one evening. I expected to find a cat rolled up in tape in the morning.

Next morning I found paw prints on the exposed tape. The cat still got up there.

As for the BB gun....

Grizzly, my wife and I are up late tonight and we just laughed our butts off reading this thread.

It reminded me of a book I read at a buddy's house that I think you need to buy:

http://www.amazon.com/101-Uses-Dead-Simon-Bond/dp/0517545160

Be sure to check out the sample pages from the "look inside" feature on amazon.com

Quote:

"She's is being treated for heartworm and ear mites."

Posted by Grizzly.

Not surprising she's got heartworms with her background (abused, no medical care, probably never on heartworm preventative) and especially being from Texas. (I worked at a shelter for 5 years in Kansas City and diagnosed probably 150-175 cases during that time period. And Texas is much worse!)

If she's already been treated it's pretty important she be kept fairly stress free for awhile. (It takes quite awhile for the worms to die, break down and be eliminated by the immune system. Not like gastrointestinal worms that die and just get pooped out the next day!) This is even more true with an older dog. Occasionally dogs will go downhill and die following treatment. (It's fairly rare in my experience---I treated most of the ones I mentioned seeing in KC; I lost 2 or 3. Has she been showing symptoms (cough, exercise intolerance, etc.)? If so, it might be better to see if someone out there could foster her for a few weeks, until the critical post-treatment period is over.

I post this rather than via a PM as kind of a public service announcement: If you have a dog, keep him/her on heartworm preventative!