Oct 28 2008
Feral/Stray Cat Control Los Angeles- Orange - San Diego
Anytime Animal Control is a company comited to helping people with wild life problems. If, after reading these helpfull tips, you decide you dont want to handle it on your own, feel free to call 800-714-8727 to set up an apointment with a wildlife professional in Los Angeles /Orange/or San Diego Counties.Go to anytimeanimalcontrol.com to see a list of our services.
Sometimes well meaning people feel that they are doing the right thing when its realy causing a problem for every one else on the block. Feeding feral(stray) cats because they may be hungry just draws in more cats to feed. Ive had jobs with as many as 19 feral cats to trap in one yard in San Diego. Most were in ill health. By company policy, no feral cats or other domestic animal may be euthanised by the field operator. All must be taken to the nearest nimal shelter for best chance of recovery/adoption.
The environmental impact of feral cats can be devestating! Cats will chase and kill for fun, rather than just for food. Several species of wild life are extinct in western Austrailia now because of a cat population left un checked. They kill more than mice and rats, Song birds and rabbits are on the list too. Not to mention these animals have no vaccinations, and are prone to some pretty ugly illnesses, and paracites. If you have a neighbor, please share this with them. It may seem like you aren’t doing much as one person, but as they say, inch by inch, life is synch!
Keeping feral cats out of the yard can be easy, or difficult. It depends why they are there. They will come in and lay down under bushes to escape the heat of the day, to use community toilet areas, to eat, or just because its a nice quiet place to relax.
So now you need to change the environment, to take the elements away which they seek. As stated before, no feeding cats.
Up keep on the house is important too, to keep them from living under it. Every year customers need cats removed from under the home when they could have been pro active and had a screen replaced and avoided the problem all togeather.
Trim the bushes so they are 2 feet from the ground. And don’t give them anywhere else to rest peacefully. Keep the garage door closed unless you need it open.
If the cats are using your yard for toilette, installing a scarecrow motion sprinkler may get them to choose some where else.
I hope these tips help you with your feral cat issues. If the problem is something you would rather not deal with, feel free to call 800-714-8727 and have a look at our website anytimeanimalcontrol.com
for a list of services we offer.
