Monday, August 01, 2011

Scratch another cat.

Well the neighborhood is short one more feral cat as of 11:02PM tonight. Murphy caught another one on the front deck. What is it with these things that they keep coming right up onto the porch like that? They have to know he's there.

This one managed to escape in the end by rolling/being thrown off the deck onto the driveway below. It happened too fast for me to tell for sure which it was. But the cat was mortally injured so I had to go down and do the humane thing. Apparently someone heard the shot and called it in though, because a Sheriff's Dept. cruiser is now prowling around. I should probably flag him down and own up, but frankly, it's just too late at night to have that discussion, especially since I forgot to call them up and let them know in advance that I'd be putting an injured animal down. My bad.

I have got to get a suppressed .22.


EDITED TO ADD @ 12:01AM: Saw the Sheriff's cruiser again as I was outside so I waved it down. Deputy was one I've known for quite some time and associated with both personally and professionally so I told him I did it. He called me a dumbass for not calling it in and making him drive all the way up here for nothing, then we shot the breeze for a few minutes before he had to go. I told him I'd make it up to him with a donut next time I see him. He replied with a rude remark that I won't repost here. But all is now well.

10 comments:

  1. check the internet on how to build one......I recall reading that a 2 ltr coke bottle will work well for a shot or 2, especially with a .22. I have never tried it, but it is plausible.

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  2. Aside from the fact that it's technically illegal, I don't want to have to chug two liters of soda every time I feel the need to make a quiet shot.

    I've been wanting a suppressed .22 for a while now anyway.

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  3. I use a cheap Chinese airgun. Up to 25' the pellet takes down tree rats. Point blank into a cat skull should work.

    So far the neighbors don't associate the loud "thunk" with a firearm.

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  4. I need your dog! My neighbor and I are disgusted about our friendly neighbor's outdoor cat. Pissing and crapping in our yard. Can you rent out Murph for a night! j/k....the sad thing is leaving bombs in our gardens

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  5. I feel sorry for the cats - they have bad people. You don't let your cats roam for exactly this reason - they spray, fight, crap, kill birds, get sick, get injured.

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  6. We have the same issue on a smaller level--four cats in a house but yet mice still come in. Don't know why, don't know how, but they do. And then I get the circle of life enacted under my kitchen table...

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  7. Sad. Both for the errant cat, and the police response.
    By that I mean, we have gunfire here on occasion, and rarely have any PD response.

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  8. Yep, you DO owe him one...LOL

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  9. I'm with you on the suppressed .22 and plan to do the paperwork for one myself. I wouldn't have called you a dumba** if I'd been the one to roll on that call, but you'd have gotten one of those look's I save for my people when they do something really lame.

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  10. Murphy's been listening to Uncle Ted?

    "I'm gonna get a Stranglehold on the next feline that ventures onto this property..."

    I guess it's all good - just so long as he doesn't kill it and expect you to grill it.

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