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  Phaedrus on January 27 at 9:56 a.m.

  9:36 a.m. Oscar reports his neighbor’s dog is eating his cat’s food.

  He called the police about this? And did the dog brek into his house? Or does he feed his cat outside and let it crap in his neighbors’ gardens?

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  Wes on January 27 at 11:20 a.m.

  9:36 am: Unbelievable.

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  Norther on January 27 at 11:31 a.m.

  I am glad Phaedrus and Wes mentioned it. I was afraid to say anything because I didn’t want to seem evil, but I have a BB gun and a water hose. I don’t need a LEO to come save my kitty dish from the big mean doggie.

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  Aaron on January 27 at 12:04 p.m.

  Tomorrow we’ll see reports of a dead cat in oscar’s neighbors yard :(

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  powderfarmer on January 27 at 12:20 p.m.

  sorry, but cats should be inside animals. you can’t keep them contained in an outside setting.

  caveat: if you live on a farm where the neighbors are a good piece away, outside cats living in the haystack or wherever, are fine with me. urban setting, outside cats suck. i live in the LCZ in boise and cats are friggin’ everywhere. come home from work and a couple of the neighbors cats will be lounging on my deck furniture. go to do something in the planting strips, smells like cat pee with buried mounds of poo.

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  Norther on January 27 at 12:22 p.m.

  @powder - wanna borrow the bb gun or hose?

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  Norther on January 27 at 12:23 p.m.

  and…whatza “LCZ”?

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  powderfarmer on January 27 at 12:29 p.m.

  I live in the north end of boise. the LCZ stands for “Liberal Containment Zone”.

  got a BB gun for the rotten squirrels, if my wife or daughter caught wind that I used it on a cat it would not be pretty. i hosed the heck out ‘em in the summer, they cared at the time but were back the next a.m. a motion sensor operated sprinkler is in the works for this spring for the planter beds.

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  Dennis on January 27 at 12:33 p.m.

  ……if my wife or daughter caught wind that I used it on a cat it would not be pretty.— powder

  Shoot / Shovel / And Shut Up!!!

  ;-)

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  powderfarmer on January 27 at 12:44 p.m.

  5 years ago when we only had neighbors on the “non-shooting” side of us, possible. Now that there are 4 houses with direct viewing of the “shooting” side, unpossible. Neighbors would be over here quicker than the decline of LIndsay Lohan’s career. As Billy Clinton found out, loose lips sink ships.
  
  The girls would hear about it from the neighbors. Can’t even plink the squirrels anymore without going to great lengths to conceal everything. I could go night vision on the cats.

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  Norther on January 27 at 12:50 p.m.

  airsoft guns are good cat repellents but the accuracy on most models suck. I can hit a dog’s butt at a gallop with my son’s red rider from almost fifteen yards pretty easily, but the airsoft gun is more designed for close quarters pest combat.

  I am going to look into motion detected sprinklers when I get home. I think I could have a hoot with that…especially if there was a remote control. My children will fear me.

  @Dennis - that is the mantra I had to adopt following a minor scuffaw with the family over the yelp a neighbor dog let out when I shot him in the keister while he was poopin in my yard.

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  Dennis on January 27 at 12:54 p.m.

  Gotcha powder.

  I have a friend who solved his cat problem with a bio-degradable concoction he came up with. Not sure of all the ingredients but I know the main one was habanero powder.

  I was at his house the evening he decided to test it under his backyard bird house. The neighbors cat strolled in to the impact area and proceeded to conduct business when it let out a howl reminiscent of a lost coyote. That critter hasn’t crossed the property line since. If I remember the next time I see him, I’ll try to get the recipe for ya!!!

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  Dennis on January 27 at 12:59 p.m.

  You gotta be a little more stealthy Norther!!!! ;-)

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  powderfarmer on January 27 at 1:00 p.m.

  me likey Dennis.

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  Norther on January 27 at 1:03 p.m.

  when you get that recipe, can you post it on the wild card? I may need to invest in that, too. I wonder if that would keep the black bears and deer out of my yard? I need a taller fence methinks.

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  Dennis on January 27 at 1:06 p.m.

  @ Norther,

  He hasn’t said anything about the bears, but he did comment that he hasn’t had a deer problem since he put it out…… ;-)

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  Dennis on January 27 at 1:09 p.m.

  BTW Norther, I know my dog avoids the impact area like the plague. So I would venture to guess the bears won’t be a likin’ it too much either.

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  Norther on January 27 at 1:15 p.m.

  That would be amazing. I have two of the fat little snorkers who love the apples in the empty lot across the road. But my yard is all that stands between them and those apples as far as they are concerned. There are literally acres of ways they can get to it but they like the draw up from the river directly across my tiny little fence (don’t laugh, my dog is a sheltie…little legs). Same issue with the deer, but they like the grass in that lot, too not just the apples.

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  Norther on January 27 at 1:16 p.m.

  makes me wonder…

  What would the guy in the original call do if there were black bears eating his meow mix instead of the neighbor dog?

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  Dennis on January 27 at 1:22 p.m.

  @Norther,

  LOL!!!

  Well, I’m trying to get a hold of him to see if he can E-Mail the recipe over to me. I know that he gets the habanero powder from a family member in Texas, I don’t know if it can be found in N. Idaho, but I would think that cayenne would work AND you wouldn’t have to wear gloves to handle it…. :-) The rest of the mix I’ll have to wait for him to send over. As soon as I get it, I’ll let you and PF know.

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