What do you do about stray cats in your neighborhood?

They might actually have owners,but either way I don’t feed them.

There are tons of strays where I live. I put food and water out for them and a bit of shelter…even a box with an old towell just to keep them safer. If they’re too old, you have to let them roam most times because they can get vicious if you try to pick them up. The little ones, however, I’ll take them in for a bit until they’re strong enough to be on their own.

@lucillelucillelucille How long and how often have you seen them?

@westy81585 Aww man! I liked your response.

There are local shelters that will provide traps if they get bothersom.

my dad shoots at them with my airsoft pistol.. and trap them for relocation to another zipcode

@erichw1504 Yah I know, the mods have been kinda d-bags lately about a little bit of comedy. So I’ll just repost..

I pit them in feline to feline combat against one another to the death for my amusement.

Oh. My. Goodness. I live in the country (8023 people, the population sign says), so we have a garden every summer. For this garden, we have a compost pile. This compost pile is nearly calling out to the cats within a few miles, “Come one, come all! All animals welcome!” We just let them fend for themselves, since we think they probably do actually have owners. They actually do us some good – mousing. We haven’t seen a single mouse in the garage in a loooong time.

Then there’s the turkey that visits our bird feeder every single day. But that’s another topic.

If you like to rescue cats, don’t try to do so on a highway.

Nothing
The neighbor feeds them
I feel indifferent towards them. They have nothing to do with me, I have nothing to do with them.

Feeding them, if they are truly feral strays, will only make your problem get a lot larger a lot faster (the population will expand to utilize all resources. Fewer resources equal fewer cats). If you can prove that they are feral and not owned by any of your neighbors, see if your local animal shelter/rescue group runs a Trap-Neuter-Release program. With it, you would take responsibility for feeding and watering the cat colony, but you would not be providing them with an environment in which they can reproduce at a rapid rate. It’s been proven to be much more successful than trap and euthanize programs or just feeding them.

Feed and water them maybe ask around to friends and family i anyone wants a cat.
If not I would take them to a local shelter its better than having them wondering around outside

I cooks ‘em and I eats ‘em.

Penguins eat cats?!?!!!

@Mike_Hunt burp!

You don’t mention if the cats are feral or not, but I would recommend that you find a catch and release organization in your area. Four or five intact animals will result in 20 or 30 in no time at all. Catch and release programs will capture feral cats, spay and neuter, vaccinate, and then release animals that are determined to be too wild to be placed for adoption.

There’s one stray cat in our neighbourhood. There’s a lot of outdoor cats, but they have homes. The one stray cat is looked after by a… disenfranchised woman, let’s put it that way. (How would I know if she has a home or not?) She puts out tins of cat food that attract rats, so I can’t say I’m behind your practices, either. That is one tough-ass cat, he totally bullies the other cats (I’m being serious).

Anyway, I do love cats, and I think it’s very sad to see stray ones. This is why I’m against breeding: there are many cats in need of homes, there’s no need to bring new ones into the world.

They’re ferals here, they’re the reason a lot of native animals are in decline. If I had the time or resources, I’d catch every one I saw.

I like to make soup with them if I can catch them.

We don’t have so much as a cat problem as a rabbit and deer problem. And it’s bad. The local animal control ordinances are that we can’t relocate a varmint. They have to be destroyed. So Raccoon and Skunks that end up in cat traps have to be destroyed, but we can’t shoot them in the city, but can’t take them off our property. Trapping ends up a pretty sticky wicket. I put the traps away. Now Airsoft is plenty of fun.

I feed them when I can and took my current old guy off of the streets 3 years ago. He is about 18 years old and, other than some old age illnesses, the vet says he has years to come. That is after endless vet visits to save him from a nasty called FIA that almost killed him.

Plug for taking in senior citizens, including off of the streets: this is what can result.

All of my cats have come off of the streets or from abusive situations.

If I see a cat that is obviously in pain, abandoned, and I cannot take it in like I did the old guy above, I will trap it and take it to the pound. Yes, I know they are not going to live but that is better than dying on the streets. I have also taken females in, had them spayed, let them heal, and released them.

Personaly I love stray cats because they kill mice and other rodents. I will feed them, but only a small amount to insure they continue to hunt.

I would feed them if we had any around me.

My neighbors have cats that are not spayed, so the cat population increases regularly. They are fed outside, but skunks come around, and probably rats. The animal control drives through our neighborhood once or twice a year and picks up stray cats, but they only get a few each time, so there are nearly always a dozen or so.

I don’t like them because they leave cat poo all over my yard, and my grandson and I always have to wash off our shoes when we play out there.

Take a look at neighborhoodcats.org—they have some links that might be helpful to you in your area—some resources to help you out—sounds like a trap-neuter-release program might help.

We live next to a greenbelt, so we have a lot of wildlife in our neighborhood. The critters (homeless and feral cats included) avoid our yard because of our dog. But they don’t look unhealthy or hungry. I suspect they find a lot of prey in the parks and by the creek.

I don’t know if this actually works but someone once told me if you put a lot of windchimes around your home they get annoyed and go away. However more than likey you’ll just annoy the neighbors.
Maybe you can make a trap where they accidently step on something that would set off a horn sound next to where they are standing. Then when they get blasted they run away and remember your yard is not friendly.

I used to live out in the country. We would catch them make sure they don’t belong to anyone, get them fixed, and make sure they were healthy. we did adopt one orphaned kitten who would not have made it otherwise. If they are in a more populated area, I just assume someone owns them, and don’t mess with them, other than pets if they ask for them.