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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Dear Drool Family, I am in need of a little advice
with a cat problem that I have here at the farm. First let me say that I
am not a cat person...I don't hate them but really don't want them directly
around me. Sorry to all the cat folks out there but its just how I feel.
Second this is not my cat...she was left here by the previous family that owned
the property and apparently they let her into the house. I don't know what
her health/vaccination/parasite status is so needless to say I don't want her in
my house or to close to Colt & Ruger. Hence this is my
problem, because she keeps trying to run into the house whenever you open a
door. I do not want her in the house, to me she is a barn cat therefore an
outdoor cat. She has a purpose on the farm and therefore I allow her to
stay here. She has access to get into the barn when there is bad
weather and we provide her fresh food and water at the barn...I said I don't
care for cats, but I am not a monster. However she is pushing me into becoming a
monster. Last night I opened the door to go check out a sunset and the
little -bleep- bolted into the house, hounds went nuts! Cornering her under the
kitchen table in a corner. Only thing separating them were the chair legs, so to
keep the hounds from tearing into her or keeping her from ripping into them I
had to get <A href="mailto:DamnC@at">DamnC@at</A> (that is her name by the
way, since it is all that we called her when we where trying to move into the
house and keep her out of the house) So I reached down grab her by the scruff
and tossed her out the back door. Dang thing came right back up on the
porch! I lost my mind and ran and grab the pistol...no I didn't shot her,
not even at her but I shooed her and I did fire away from her. Thinking
this would keep her away from the house. But NOoooo it did not, because
she was back at the front door this afternoon! Now she is incredibly stupid or
incredibly brave because I have, chased her, the dogs have chased her, I
have thrown rocks toward her (never trying to hit her) thrown water on her
(in the summer, not in the winter...again I don't want to hurt or
kill her). I even put fox urine around the front and back
porches. Yes it stunk, but no it did not keep her away because 30 minutes
after I spread it she was up on the front porch right up against the door.
So if anyone has any advice on how to keep cats way from your house especially
the doors of the house I would very much appreciate it. I don't want to
hurt her, just keep her away from and out of the house and at the
barn/pastures where she belongs. I have heard about ammonia and moth balls
but I don't want to put anything out that will hurt or effect the hounds because
they have to go in and out of these doors too. If I can't break her from
this I will have to capture her and take her to the pound...which I really don't
want to do...but I can't/won't allow her in the house. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Thanks again.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Michele, Colt & Ruger at Howling Hound
Acres<BR>Women are Angels...And when someone breaks their wings..They simply
continue to fly....on a broomstick...They are flexible like
that...<BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>