Neighborhood Cats

[Peter]

You have to shoot the neighbor's fern first.

I’m sure there is a stand your ground law somewhere that deals with plants.

 

[NWICY]

Is that the spray on cancer?

That's overblown IMO. Don't bother me to use it just follow the precautions. Gloves are a good idea, if you get some on you rinse it off.

 

[Peter]

That's overblown IMO. Don't bother me to use it just follow the precautions. Gloves are a good idea, if you get some on you rinse it off.

I might risk it just to deal with this rhizome from hell.

 

[chuckd4735]

Come on people get a grip. Someone planted a fern somewhere in the neighborhood and now it’s taking over my back yard. Should plants be kept indoors? It’s nature. Deal with it.

Do ferns make weird noises at night and **** in your yard?

 

[Doc]

Living in Iowa my whole life I had never even heard of BLM land until I worked at the ISU geology camp in Wyoming. The idea that there was land of so little value that no one but the government wanted to own it just didn't compute.

Yeah, you can just get a camper, park it on BLM land and live there. Just have to move every 14 days. I don’t think the government technically “owns” it. There’s some BLM land up in the Colorado river headwaters that’s really beautiful
and has good fishing.

If you have to work with the wrong BLM office on a project they can be more difficult than the National Forest people .

 

[NWICY]

I might risk it just to deal with this rhizome from hell.

Round up kills all so apply carefully, 24d kills broadleafs I'm pretty sure it would work on a fern. That way the grass underneath it wouldn't have to be reseeded.

 

[Doc]

This thread has been educational for me. I don’t have a cat, but I didn’t know they were so hard on bird populations.

 

[madguy30]

Do ferns make weird noises at night and **** in your yard?

Not a fern but this site has needed a 3 Amigos clip for some time coming.

 

[Rabbuk]

This thread has been educational for me. I don’t have a cat, but I didn’t know they were so hard on bird populations.

I'm pretty sure cats kill more living things than any other creature in America

 

[awd4cy]

Some cruel MF's in this thread.

None too surprising. People with miserable lives often enjoy seeing other things suffer.

 

[awd4cy]

I hope the neighbor cats come poop and piss all over my bushes. Makes for good fertilizer.

 

[BoxsterCy]

Round up kills all so apply carefully, 24d kills broadleafs I'm pretty sure it would work on a fern. That way the grass underneath it wouldn't have to be reseeded.

If you have an ornamental plant and a weed and spray the weed and come back the next day the weed will be laughing at you while the ornamental will be dead from drift. It's gardening 101.

 

[cyclone618]

I have one neutered cat that I allow to roam free during the day. He's not allowed to go out at night because our neighborhood has hawks, coyotes, raccoons, barred owls, etc. I know he's much healthier and happier when he gets fresh air. He definitely spends time in the neighbor's yards, but doesn't wander far. He rarely catches birds, but if he does they are always sparrows. In the spring he'll usually go on a baby rabbit killing rampage- alas, we still have plenty of those rodents running around. Two weekends ago he slaughtered a family of chipmunks. That was weird. I'm happy to report my yard & garden are vole-free. He often likes to bring his victims back to the house as a gift. He also pulls all this off without front claws (which apparently you're not supposed to do anymore- he's over ten years old now). The best way to keep him out of your yard is to get a dog.

This sounds exactly like our cat - and I mean exactly. If we lived close to each other (we’re in Ankeny) I’d swear we were sharing the same cat.

 

[Sparkplug]

Now, if you want to talk about squirrels, those things are a real nuisance.

We have an 89 year old neighbor that traps squirrels and take them to a park and lets them go. She has trapped 31 so far this year

 

[madguy30]

We have an 89 year old neighbor that traps squirrels and take them to a park and lets them go. She has trapped 31 so far this year

Or the same one 31 times.

I'm on board with placing in another spot though.

 

[Sparkplug]

Or the same one 31 times.

I'm on board with placing in another spot though.

We’ve recommended she tag them so that she knows if they return. The park is about a mile away so that’s a lot of telephone wires to walk

 

[CYCLNST8]

We’ve recommended she tag them so that she knows if they return. The park is about a mile away so that’s a lot of telephone wires to walk

I walked 47 miles of barbed wire. I use a cobra snake for a necktie.

 

[SpokaneCY]

I walked 47 miles of barbed wire. I use a cobra snake for a necktie.

Guessing your house was made of rattlesnake hide?

 

[madguy30]

We’ve recommended she tag them so that she knows if they return. The park is about a mile away so that’s a lot of telephone wires to walk

I'm actually curious to see if it's the same one. The distances animals travel to find a home or look for food or return home is pretty amazing.

 

[BoxsterCy]

We have an 89 year old neighbor that traps squirrels and take them to a park and lets them go. She has trapped 31 so far this year

Agree on the tagging comments. She should spray a big orange spot on their backs so when she traps them again she doesn't count them again.

I've shot or trapped a couple particularity troublesome squirrels, mostly leaders of either the Northside Gang and the Soutside Gang that battle over my yard. Any mass trapping is futile though. I live next to a black hole with a direct connection to the Squirrel and Oak Tree Universe. Nothing else explains the endless supply of gray squirrels or the enormous quantity of oak leaves.