I've never known what to do with cats that come into my fenced in backyard. It hasn't been an issue for a while but I did have a dog that killed a cat once and I'd rather not have a repeat of that. It wasn't exactly my dog but one I'd taken in for a niece going through a divorce. My dog would bark at and chase cats out but who knew 12 year old, out of shape Mathilda would go in for the kill. I came out when I heard my dog barking to find Mathilda on her back with a white cate dug in with all four paws and its jaws on Mathilda's underside. She meanwhile had the cat's back in her jaws. When I got them to separate Mathilda with her thick fur had no injuries. But that poor cat was not able to crawl far into the bushes and was soon dead. Fortunately none of my neighbors knew who it belonged to so maybe it was a stray?

I'm not sure if I would be legally liable for damage done to a pet cat killed by one of my dogs inside my fenced yard. I can't imagine what sort of fence would be required to keep a cat out but I definitely don't want them stalking wild birds in my garden.

An electrified one. 

(August 30, 2018 at 3:25 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(August 29, 2018 at 11:06 pm)AtlasS33 Wrote: The cats came with their human masters, so their existence there isn't natural.
Banning them is common sense to preserve the wild life in the area if you ask me. Humans can be controlled with laws and fines though, but cats can't. So it's quite legit.

If you think cats have 'human masters', you have clearly never been owned by a cat.

Boru

Matter in fact I was. I suffered from their oppression for years, I served as a maid without any kind of payment, cleaning their shit. They even used sharp claw-like knives connected to their hands to injure me. I was never the same after seeing their brutality, and I will never be..

(August 30, 2018 at 4:59 pm)AtlasS33 Wrote:

(August 30, 2018 at 3:25 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: If you think cats have 'human masters', you have clearly never been owned by a cat.

Boru

Matter in fact I was. I suffered from their oppression for years, I served as a maid without any kind of payment, cleaning their shit. They even used sharp claw-like knives connected to their hands to injure me. I was never the same after seeing their brutality, and I will never be..

Have you considered getting a dog?

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(August 30, 2018 at 3:29 am)The Valkyrie Wrote:

(August 30, 2018 at 3:25 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: If you think cats have 'human masters', you have clearly never been owned by a cat.

Boru

Dogs have masters,  cats have staff.

There are far more cats staffing the asphalt surfaces of motor ways than there are dogs.

(August 30, 2018 at 3:29 am)The Valkyrie Wrote:

(August 30, 2018 at 3:25 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: If you think cats have 'human masters', you have clearly never been owned by a cat.

Boru

Dogs have masters,  cats have staff.

If we stick together and unify our efforts, we can change this terrible reality, braving the enemy's purrrs and claws.

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(August 30, 2018 at 5:01 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:

(August 30, 2018 at 4:59 pm)AtlasS33 Wrote: Matter in fact I was. I suffered from their oppression for years, I served as a maid without any kind of payment, cleaning their shit. They even used sharp claw-like knives connected to their hands to injure me. I was never the same after seeing their brutality, and I will never be..

Have you considered getting a dog?

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TBH I wished when I was younger, but around the Middle East dogs are "despised" by most of the population. They are considered "filthy creatures" by Sunni/Shiite Islamic sources, so nobody raises them in houses. So I grew to like cats as I grew up, dogs are still a far wish, soon enough the liking of cats became love. The cats I have are family, not just pets.

(August 30, 2018 at 5:05 pm)AtlasS33 Wrote: ....So I grew to like cats as I grew up, dogs are still a far wish, soon enough the liking of cats became love. The cats I have are family, not just pets.

This is called Stockholm_syndrome.   You need immediate and extensive psychiatric help. Otherwise you risk turning from victim to accomplice. Soon you too will sleep 20 hours a day, swipe at innocent humans with your claws, and act like you own the place.

Quote:but around the Middle East dogs are "despised" by most of the population. They are considered "filthy creatures" by Sunni/Shiite Islamic sources

Exactly why I consider Sunnis and Shiites "filthy creatures!"

No dog ever exploded a suicide vest.

(August 30, 2018 at 5:48 pm)Minimalist Wrote:

Quote:but around the Middle East dogs are "despised" by most of the population. They are considered "filthy creatures" by Sunni/Shiite Islamic sources

Exactly why I consider Sunnis and Shiites "filthy creatures!"

No dog ever exploded a suicide vest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tank_dog

Quote:Dogs strapped with explosives were unsuccessfully used by Iraqi insurgents in the 2000s.

Fucking muslims can't do anything right.

Still, it wasn't the dog's idea.

Let’s not forget good old USA also trained anti-tank dogs during WWII. American never deployed suicide dogs, but that is likely due more to operational and logistic reasons than humanitarian concern for men’s best friend.

Also, everyone knows the Japanese tried to bomb the US using robot balloons. But we on the winning side don’t frequently like to owe up to the fact that the United States attempted to bomb japan with bats. Someone in the army air force got it into their heads the bats likes to roost in the attics of highly flammable wood and paper traditional Japanese houses. So a tiny incendiary device was designed that could be strapped into bats. The idea was thousands of these bats would be raised and trained to fly with these tiny fire bombs. These bats will be dropped out of airplanes over japan, where they will find Japanese attics to roost in, and after a set time, the little clock work fire bomb on the bat will incinerate the bat, and in the process set millions of Japanese houses on fire.

Well, it got wackier when someone decided the bats need to be chilled before loaded onto the planes so they enter into a torpid state and not hurt themselves in their containers during the airplane trip. The problem is it takes too long to warm the bats back up to fly properly. So when the bats will test dropped they fell like paper weights rather than warm up and start flying,