Cats poisoned by antifreeze mixed with food

Steve Rosen wrote:

THANK YOU SUN-SENTINEL FOR TEACHING PEOPLE HOW TO POISON CATS. GREAT JOB!! WHAT A WAY TO SELL NEWSPAPERS. WHAT'S NEXT? HOW ABOUT HOW TO KILL DUCKS? DOGS? WILD BIRDS?
DON'T STOP NOW, YOU HUNGRY-FOR-A-STORY DEGENERATES ARE JUST GETTING WARMED UP. THIS WILL LEAD TO MORE POISONINGS. I HOPE YOU ARE HAPPY.

Cats do not deserve to live anyway.I made a sling shot out of 4 bunjee cords and a large tuperware bowl and when the cat got in the bowl with food in it.Slinggggg! I let her fly!That cat must have flown 100 feet.It was great it was dooing flips and when it got up the cat did not know which way to run.I will tape it next time and put it on you tube.Wish me luck...Tater

Any idoit that kills cats are stupid and should receive the same ingredients they suggest. Trap and take to a no kill shelter. Maybe some one would love this little creatures. I do!!!!!!!!!!

My neighbors were trying to kill another neighbors cats and left a bowl of antifreeze too close to the curb and my toddler wandered too far one day during a garage sale I was having and drank it. he died. I hope all of you who think this is a solution to your feline problem feel something about this. You can never be too SAFE! Just pick the cat shit up like the rest of us. They are serving a sentence for Involuntary Manslaughter, but that will not bring Adam back to his mother and me. I hope this makes you think before you do something stupid.

Everyone knows you are supposed to catch the cats in a trap, drown them, and then skin them. The skins are used to make a tarp to cover your boat, car, etc. just whatever of yours the cats used to like to walk all over after you just washed it. Whatever you do, don't poison them! They can crawl under your house or end up elsewhere on your property when they die, and then you have the smell to deal with. If you feed them right, you can also eat them. After a diet of low-grade for about a week they taste like chicken, but look like a squirrel or something in the pan. Or you can let animal control pick them up and they can do the killing for you, if you are squimish.

For years we had feral cats multiplying like crazy. Out of concern for my children and the spred of disease, I called the local animal control office, and for awhile they'd put out traps. Then one day I called and they said I'd have to trap the animal myself before they'd come pick it up. I did it once in a box and they came and picked it up. I felt I was doing their job for them, and gave up. Recently, I've only seen one cat around the yard, where there used to be dozens.

Yesterday, while cleaning my garage, I saw this cat close up. He/she was staggering like it was drunk and its eyes had trouble focusing. It makes me wonder if someone has been poisoning the cats. They used to crawl into my garage and use the bathroom; once a female delivered her brood in a corner under some wood.

With rabies on the rise again in our area, and animal control not helping, I have mixed feelings about their extermination. I am angry at people who abandon their animals, leaving them to breed unabated. Years ago before the feral cat problem surfaced, I adopted an abandoned female who had been spayed. It took her about a year to come to me, and I fed her after that until her death several years later.

Personally, I'd NEVER poison and animal (with the possible exception of rats or mice), but am not sorry to see them gone either. I guess you can say that I am ambivilent.

I'll tell you what....when you live in a neighborhood where irresponsible people are feeding feral cats and as a result, the cats are multiplying buy the hundreds in one summer and living in your garage, infesting it with fleas and who knows what other dieses, you will do whatever it takes to control the population. I'm all for neuter/spaying, but I'm not going to pay for a trap, then take them at my expense to the vet. Something has to be done about feral cats, and if that includes poisoning them, then so be it. The neighbors that are feeding them are not true "cat lovers" considering they are contributing to the feral population without having them neutered or spayed. I have dogs that I keep healthy and licensed and the last thing I want to deal with is them contracting something for these annoying stray cats. Absolutely ridiculous!

Alice Newton wrote:

Feral cats come to be because of cruel and heartless people who either receive a cat (free) or buy one for next to nothing at a pet shop. When they move or no longer want the animal, they let them fend for themselves. In my view, something has to be done to stop people from doing this, ie. licence for cats, sell for at least $100 per cat, etc. etc. That would settle the feral cat problem in my view. And if someone dare not comply with taking care and responsibility for their pets, hefty fines should be imposed. Cats are domestic animals and should be companions, not aimlessly roaming the streets and neighbourhoods. These animals should also be spayed and nutured. So you see, the problem is not with the cats, it's with the stupid, heartless people who leave them outside to fend for themselves. I can only imagine how they are flee infected, starving, roasting, etc, etc.
If I had the power, there would be none or at wrost, very very few feral cats. You don't see dogs out roaming the streets like cats. Dogs have a lot of respect (for the most part) by society but cats have next to none. It's time for someone to do something about this. And isn't that law about a fine for feeding strays just a 'little' cruel??? C'mon people! Have a heart.

If this were the case, what would you do with the strays? They will contine to breed, scratch your car, get in your trash, piss all over the place. This is a primitive animal, how do you think they survived before humans made them their pets. I think that all the wild cats should be eliminated in whatever manner people see fit. Its a cat!! Not a human.

I think cats are ok unless they begin to piss or shit everywhere or have a bunch of retarded kittens, in which case, you have to throw your cats off of a five story building ; )

I usually just put rat poison in cat food and leave it by the wall, it kills all the stupid cats.

Some rat poisons work better, strychnine seems to work well, it causes them to suffer greatly :)