Cat Trappers?!

[rachiechu888]

What's a crush trap?

[Bad Habit]

Uhm, racoons are attracted to cat food, so are skunks, weasels and other small carnivores. Maybe they were trying to catch their cat, to take it to the vet or something? Maybe something had been fighting with their cat and they wanted to trap it. Regardless, your cat was roaming at large and went into an animal trap on someone's private property. Then your mom trespassed to get the cat back. And how do you know your cat wasn't caught after the home owners went to work, and they hadn't been home to check the trap yet? Hopefully they weren't trying to catch their cat for w/e reason, maybe it is severely injured and needs the vet, or needs medication, because your mother has now made it quite clear that someone trespassed and made it impossible for the trap to work. If I were your neighbours and were trying to catch a nuisance animal, I'd start putting out crush traps after that little trick your mom pulled.

Since you obviously don't know what indignant means, here's a definition.

in·dig·nant
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adjective
feeling, characterized by, or expressing strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base:

Thus. You are indignant, and you shouldn't be. Your neighbour was in the right and, in my area anyway, you/your family broke at least 2 laws.

Okay, I know what indignant means, and I'm not that. I am angry that someone captured my cat, not offensive or insulting. Though who wouldn't be displeased if they found a cat in the cat trap? You may be right about something else fighting their cat, because there is this black and white cat who fights our cat, but I think she is a stray. You are right; it was wrong that my mom trespassed, but what else could she do? You maybe are right about her not being caught for very long, but my mom also saw the people's cat, and she never said it was hurt. Also, my mom didn't want our other cat to get caught. Yes, I'll talk to my mom about the trespassing, though I'm assuming that was her first thought, and she went with it. Sometimes, our instincts get the best of us. What is a crush trap? Are those the traps hunters use for bears, foxes, wolves ( ) and such? If so, I wouldn't suggest using those, because they might hurt another cat. Which law would my family have broken except for the trespassing one? I also had nothing to do with this, my mom did most of it; I'm just concerned about my and other people's cats.

in·dig·nant
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adjective
feeling, characterized by, or expressing strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting

Fits the first post of this to a tee.

The other law you broke would be allowing your cat to roam at large, and there is possibly a third, in mischief, by leaving the trap closed.

If I were trapping something in my yard, for whatever reason, with a LIVE trap that doesn't harm the animal, and someone trespassed on my land and sprung the trap, I would resort to harsher traps. A crush trap is two metal bars, spring loaded, that will snap shut on whatever trips the plate. I'm just saying there are far worse things that your neighbour could be legally doing.

You can try and convince yourself that your neighbour was intentionally doing this to catch your cat, but whatever their intentions, the fact remains that your cat was at large.

[SecretsLive]

Like I said before, the trap had cat food in/around it.

On the first post you said that your cat was left to starve, but here you're saying that there was catfood..

[rachiechu888]

Yes, I see.

[falloutboyfan]

My neighbor down the street uses live traps for cats. She has a beautiful pond with really expensive fish, well they look expensive. Anyway, I don't mind that she uses the traps at all! Actually its a blessing, in my case. My family has three cats, two of which born/raised outside until we adopted them. So, of coarse, they try to get outside, and occasionally they succeed.
When I first heard that she was trapping cats I was really worried, I'll admit, since our county shelter is always overfilled and I was frighted one of our cats might end up at said shelter. I actually talked with the neighbor about her trapping cats, she explained exactly why she traps, her prized fish being killed left and right. She was really nice about giving her reasoning too. She informed me she makes an effort to find the owners' of the cats she occasionally catches and if no one claims them within the week she does send them to the shelter.
She promised me if she ever came across cats, that I described as my own, she wouldn't send them off to the shelter. She'd give me a call. She actually trapped my Boots the first time he escaped. I was so relieved when I got the call!

What I'm trying to say is, maybe your neighbors are simply trying to protect what is rightfully theirs. Maybe they enjoy bird watching or maybe they don't want any cats possibly spreading diseases to their cat. You never know why they trap, unless you ask!
You can also ask them if they trap your cat ever, who really should stay indoors, if they can give you a call before sending it off to the shelter. With that being said though, if you think your neighbor is trapping cats for money, why do you allow your cat to get out?

[zboe]

My neighbor does this. I honestly HATE her strong word and I dont like to think I hate anyone but she is the exception. She just hates cats, she has two parrots a Quaker parrot and some giant parrot and she traps the cats because she feels she has a right to allow her parrots out on her deck and outside while shes off doing whatever, basically she lets them out unsupervised. I used to think she was really nice I loved her dog Taffy and she was always very friendly to me. I then found out what she did/does, she lured cats into traps with tuna fish and takes them across town (about 30 minutes away when we have a nice shelter that rarely puts down animals because of the good foot traffic they get) to a shelter that is a high kill shelter and gets a large amount of feral cats. She told us ''well I dont know if their feral or not so I tell them they very well may be because they sure arent friendly to me when I go out to get them'' What do you expect lady you trap them in a cage they arent going to be like ''I love you your my best friend'' they scared no their terrified. She wants these cats killed, so her parrots can go out on her deck. She knows/knew our cats weren't feral she catches her neighbors cats and says ''well I have taken the cats back to their owners before and you know what they yell at me for giving them their cats back so I dont do it anymore'' well duh your catching their cats in a trap I would yell at you too. This lady claims to catch 30-40 cats a week I have not seen more than 20 cats in my entire time Ive lived in this neighborhood which is about 8 years.
Also it is legal for your cats to have free roam in my city there is no laws against it.
I have had two cats go missing since we have lived here she wouldnt tell us if she caught either when we went to talk to her, I think after our first cat went missing she stopped taking them to the shelter she took them too before, she hated my cats and complained about them sitting on the fence watching her parrots multiple times -_- Oh and how we found out about her trapping cats her neighbor stopped by our house and said that she had heard traps going off in the lady's backyard and cats freaking out. I wouldnt mind her catching cats so much if it werent for the fact that she refuses to try and find the owners and takes them across town to kill shelters.

[rachiechu888]

My neighbor does this. I honestly HATE her strong word and I dont like to think I hate anyone but she is the exception. She just hates cats, she has two parrots a Quaker parrot and some giant parrot and she traps the cats because she feels she has a right to allow her parrots out on her deck and outside while shes off doing whatever, basically she lets them out unsupervised. I used to think she was really nice I loved her dog Taffy and she was always very friendly to me. I then found out what she did/does, she lured cats into traps with tuna fish and takes them across town (about 30 minutes away when we have a nice shelter that rarely puts down animals because of the good foot traffic they get) to a shelter that is a high kill shelter and gets a large amount of feral cats. She told us ''well I dont know if their feral or not so I tell them they very well may be because they sure arent friendly to me when I go out to get them'' What do you expect lady you trap them in a cage they arent going to be like ''I love you your my best friend'' they scared no their terrified. She wants these cats killed, so her parrots can go out on her deck. She knows/knew our cats weren't feral she catches her neighbors cats and says ''well I have taken the cats back to their owners before and you know what they yell at me for giving them their cats back so I dont do it anymore'' well duh your catching their cats in a trap I would yell at you too. This lady claims to catch 30-40 cats a week I have not seen more than 20 cats in my entire time Ive lived in this neighborhood which is about 8 years.
Also it is legal for your cats to have free roam in my city there is no laws against it.
I have had two cats go missing since we have lived here she wouldnt tell us if she caught either when we went to talk to her, I think after our first cat went missing she stopped taking them to the shelter she took them too before, she hated my cats and complained about them sitting on the fence watching her parrots multiple times -_- Oh and how we found out about her trapping cats her neighbor stopped by our house and said that she had heard traps going off in the lady's backyard and cats freaking out. I wouldnt mind her catching cats so much if it werent for the fact that she refuses to try and find the owners and takes them across town to kill shelters.

My neighbor down the street uses live traps for cats. She has a beautiful pond with really expensive fish, well they look expensive. Anyway, I don't mind that she uses the traps at all! Actually its a blessing, in my case. My family has three cats, two of which born/raised outside until we adopted them. So, of coarse, they try to get outside, and occasionally they succeed.
When I first heard that she was trapping cats I was really worried, I'll admit, since our county shelter is always overfilled and I was frighted one of our cats might end up at said shelter. I actually talked with the neighbor about her trapping cats, she explained exactly why she traps, her prized fish being killed left and right. She was really nice about giving her reasoning too. She informed me she makes an effort to find the owners' of the cats she occasionally catches and if no one claims them within the week she does send them to the shelter.
She promised me if she ever came across cats, that I described as my own, she wouldn't send them off to the shelter. She'd give me a call. She actually trapped my Boots the first time he escaped. I was so relieved when I got the call!

What I'm trying to say is, maybe your neighbors are simply trying to protect what is rightfully theirs. Maybe they enjoy bird watching or maybe they don't want any cats possibly spreading diseases to their cat. You never know why they trap, unless you ask!
You can also ask them if they trap your cat ever, who really should stay indoors, if they can give you a call before sending it off to the shelter. With that being said though, if you think your neighbor is trapping cats for money, why do you allow your cat to get out?

@FallOutFanBoy - You're probably right since they live by a lake.
@zboe - That's really sad! Poor cats!

[MoonfallTheFox]

You have no right to be upset AT ALL. You left your cat outside and it wandered into a HARMLESS live trap.

You need to keep your pets in the house where they belong, or deal with the consequences of letting them out- they could get trapped, or they could get KILLED.

The people with the trap were probably after a coon, skunk, prairie dog, or doing a trap/release on a feral. There's all sorts of reasons to leave out a live trap with cat food in it. You ought to be thankful they are using a live trap, not a snare or crush trap or leaving out poison or simply shooting whatever wanders onto the property.

[Dappled Sapphire]

I don't think there is anything wrong with setting a trap in your own yard to catch stray or wild animals, really I don't think peoples 'pets' should be roaming the neighborhood obviously your cat went in to this persons yard to get into the trap.
Where I used to live I would always have cats coming into the yard and spraying and defecating in my gardens, it drives me crazy that people don't take care of their pets properly not only is it harmful to the small wildlife but its life threatening to your cat as there are many people out there willing to do harm to peoples cats they find as well as cars and wild animals

If your cat likes going outside build it a cat run


@zboe
if your cats are micro chipped you would get them back from the shelter
or keep them inside so they dont get caught

[zboe]

Cuddles and Tink werent micro chipped but they both had collars shes one of those people who would take their collars off in hopes of them being put down. Lucky our current cat is micro chipped but since I have two little sisters and all their friends come over and their always inside and outside and we also have a dog that opens doors we cant keep him inside we have tried and Im still trying but at this point there is no way we can my sisters and their friends dont care/are very very forgetful and well Molly will find a way to open a door if she wants in. We kept Cuddles inside for a few weeks successfully by keeping him shut in my room for 50% of the day but if a cat REALLY wants out he/she will get out and our cats Cuddles Tink and Now Lucky are truly Indoor-outdoor cats they are miserable when kept in side absolutely miserable.
Oh our cats are/were all afraid of ''Unknown'' dogs if you had a dog they wouldnt go in your yard without you having food out there and the dog being inside, I know because Cuddles and Tink's favorite house/second home well my friend got a dog and they would only go in her yard under those circumstances and these were the people who if they were using their grill give Cuddles and Tink a bite of their steak or some chicken they were spoiled when they went down there. If the dog was around they wouldnt get off the fence. They liked people though almost every neighbor we have loved them I highly doubt they were going to the bathroom/killing their gardens everyone in a three block radius knows their our cats if there was a problem Im near positive they would have told us.