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Old Jul 31, 2007 | 07:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Rough-n-Ready
Dad uses the same method with coyote urine to keep his neighbors dogs off his favorite bushes around the house.
Gotta ask. How does one collect coyote urine? Where and how do you buy it? By the drop, pint or gallon?
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Old Jul 31, 2007 | 10:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Mexstan
Gotta ask. How does one collect coyote urine? Where and how do you buy it? By the drop, pint or gallon?
I dont know , but I imagine ya gotta be REAL nice to teh coyote( uck uck uck)
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Old Jul 31, 2007 | 11:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Mexstan
Gotta ask. How does one collect coyote urine? Where and how do you buy it? By the drop, pint or gallon?
They coax the coyote up next to a bush and hold out a jug.

Just kidding, they collect it with a large needle and syringe from an animal that is trapped or shot. They collect bobcat urine and skunk scent the same way from animals that are trapped. The trapper supply store near me sells trapping supplies and different baits and scents in different size containers. They sell urine in a pint sized squeeze bottles for convienience of use when scenting trap sets.
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Old Jul 31, 2007 | 11:11 PM
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get some chickenwire and lay it on a piece of something that insulates good and cut one end off a extension cord and wrap the bare wires onto the chicken wire and plug it in, put a little bait on it and wait for the fun, we used to do this too keep dogs out of the garbage on the porch. i forgot they got the 100 mile shockers, those would work even better on about 100 foot of fence.
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Old Jul 31, 2007 | 11:51 PM
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Dang, some of yo guys are cold-hearted!

The best home remedy is..........chile powder!

Just sprinkle it over their tracks. They won't come back.....
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Old Aug 1, 2007 | 05:13 AM
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Originally Posted by halfpint23
Mmmmm..... PAINTBALL!

Son was a FANATIC paintballer before he was old enough to play (publicly) with the genuine article. He had some pretty high-tech gear then - heck, he still does, but it's noisier now.
Try dipping the paint ***** in liquid nitrogen before you shoot them, they seem to hit harder.

I had a local dog used to pee on my tires all of the time, to make it worse it was a Great Dane so it usually hit the side of my truck, I tried a commercial fence charger but they are not strong enough so I made a sort of humane one using a 50Kv. television flyback transformer but it still kept coming back so one day when I was welding I accidentally left the electrode holder from my AC/DC Arc Welder clamped to the bumper.
I saw a blue flash through the window and the problem took care of itself, the dog never ran straight after that.
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Old Aug 1, 2007 | 07:09 AM
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I posted the same post about a month ago and Jack removed it due to "bragging about exterminating cats" Wheres Jack now?
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Old Aug 1, 2007 | 08:41 AM
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Gempler's used to carry a very interesting line of predator urine based repellents, but I'm not seeing them on their site right now. A Google search came up with this outfit, though

http://www.provenrepellents.com/products.php?catID=12

I still prefer the bb rifle and a well-placed shot amidships - they do get pretty leery of crossing our ground after a while, and a bb from a couple of hundred feet away doesn't do much to them but STING.

For predatory feral cats (the ones you get sometimes who beat up your good barn cats) I prefer a bigger caliber. Problem is, they are amazingly tough - Last time I had to shoot to kill on a cat (who was raising havoc with both tame cats and my poultry) I nailed him dead to rights with the .22; walked up the hill to find only a copious blood trail that went AWAY from the farmstead. Three months later he was sighted (through the rifle scope!) skirting the area - with a big scar in his ribs and a significant limp. He never came back to our barn, though! After that, if I have to kill them I try to get close enough for a shotgun as a shoot-through is not a kind way to put them down.
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Old Aug 1, 2007 | 09:09 AM
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If you're not wanting to exterminate a straying cat use a live trap and leave the cat in the trap just as it is for 2/3 days. When you open the trap they scamper and do not return!

Make the right thing easy, and the wrong thing difficult!
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Old Aug 2, 2007 | 06:57 PM
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Originally Posted by JKM
this works for me , also works on human neighbours who wander around un wanted.


Why Jayme Can't use a paintball gun:

https://www.dieseltruckresource.com/...ight=paintball
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Old Aug 2, 2007 | 08:04 PM
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Cayenne Powder, a bunch of it. Especially in areas they like to lay or dig.

They'll have a hot temper and never come claiming your area as theirs again!

p.s. after handling cayenne powder make sure to wash your hands thurouly
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Old Aug 2, 2007 | 08:14 PM
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Originally Posted by BearKiller
I got a neighbor, that stays in the nut-house most of the time.

He gets a big charge out of live-trapping cats, then dunking trap, cat and all, in a fifty-five gallon drum of water.

I ain't got no use for cats, PERIOD; but, I ain't quite that heartless, either.
You sure you don't live in NC, and you aren't my neighbor??? I stay out of the nut house though, and prefer to use a pond instead of a 55 gallon drum. My mom calls me the "exterminator," because I do the jobs nobody else wants to do.


To the OP: Get a live trap. That is what we use for my stepdad's mom's cats she feeds in the yard. The food she feeds them attracts them from the horse barn across the road, and they get used to living on our farm, and they eat the quail and other birds. So, we get rid of them, for another one to just take over it's spot. I think we only have one left, but there is a trap in place for it right now, might have already caught it(I set it before I came back to school today).

If you do not want to spend the money on the live trap, the animal control will usually loan you one to use, and they are normally bigger than the ones you can buy. We have caught several cats at a time in the larger ones, before we bought our own. Then, they will take them off to the animal shelter.

Or, you could get one of those cheap BB pistols, the kind you have to pull the slide back then push forward to get it to shoot. If you just pull it back, and don't push it forward, it will still shoot, but will not have much power. This may be what you are looking for. My grandpa used one of these for stray dogs in his yard for the longest time, until I taught him to push the slide forward, then he would really put a hurting on the dogs(doesn't penetrate, but does sting them pretty bad).

Good luck. I still prefer the live trap and a pond, or a .22. I just hate cats.

Edit: For words about a pistol that are not allowed, because they might pertain to something else.
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Old Aug 6, 2007 | 11:10 AM
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Thanks for all the ideas, everyone. I'm not wanting to kill or relocate anyone's pet (even the pesky outdoor ones), but I'm thinking that the paintball gun might send the right message if the cat comes back home bright green . The fence charger is also interesting but probably illegal in my neighborhood. ?

My new problem is that their dog has learned to scale my fence (4' chainlink) and come into my yard. If my dogs and I are inside, it's no big deal since he hasn't gotten into the gardens or dug up the lawn, but Lord help the little guy if my dogs are outside. The neighbors are aware of it but so far are refusing to do anything. I really don't want anything to happen to the dog just because they're idiots, but I don't want to have to spend the money on a 6' privacy fence when my dogs are not the problem...

Chris
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Old Aug 6, 2007 | 12:53 PM
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This is what I use and it has worked great for the last year.
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Old Aug 6, 2007 | 12:57 PM
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My Shepherd and Great Dane keep the unwanted cats away from our place.
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