Cats

[Meece 1,958]

Not the big cats that are supposed to be out there. Moggy type cats. Does anyone get problems with moggies being a nuisance out on shoots?

[blackmaggie 3,377]

I have bolted a fair few over the years with terrier on shoots  my lurchers have always been broke to cats that said I did have a accident with a young bull x when one bolted much to the delight of the keeper who normally keeps things tight with any predator but had kept seeing it but couldn't get any were near it I suppose they will get dealt with quietly if they become a problem on any shoot 

[Greyman 28,914]

41 minutes ago, Meece said:

Not the big cats that are supposed to be out there. Moggy type cats. Does anyone get problems with moggies being a nuisance out on shoots?

 

42 minutes ago, Meece said:

Not the big cats that are supposed to be out there. Moggy type cats. Does anyone get problems with moggies being a nuisance out on shoots?

I catch lots of feral cats on the cameras mate, surprised me how many are out there when I first started 

[Ted Newgent 4,896]

i used to shoot them when we seen them.

some would come to the rabbit call when we went out lamping.

the landowners would have a list of live or die policies.i adhered to it.

[mackem 27,482]

Theres a village in new Zealand at the moment trying to phase cats out,all are chipped,as they die the owner isn't allowed to replace them as they are so destructive.

[Meece 1,958]

It has surprised me over the years where we have found cats out in the field. I remember we were out having a walk round, just rough shooting and my mate looked up and there was a cat layed out on a branch right up in the top of a big oak tree. It was only a fluke that he spotted it. Another time my lab  bolted a cat out of some rushes on the side of a small ditch in a narrow  strip of trees

Edited September 3, 2018 by Meece

[Meece 1,958]

3 minutes ago, mackem said:

Theres a village in new Zealand at the moment trying to phase cats out,all are chipped,as they die the owner isn't allowed to replace them as they are so destructive.

Also this......  http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-18/feral-cat-management-in-the-apy-lands/9269240

[mackem 27,482]

5 minutes ago, Meece said:

Also this......  http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-18/feral-cat-management-in-the-apy-lands/9269240

I didn't realise how bad a problem it was over there,that machine is serious business.

[bird 9,977]

my  big dog killed few feral cats , around woods , he looks for the bloody things , a  fox  or cat  in his mind all the bloody same  thing  lol .

[dytkos 17,819]

Not on shoots but my next door higher up has two, told him it's just question of time before they get nailed in my garden, he's ok with that, they're his mrs.'s

Cheers, D.

 

[Caravan Monster 323]

I could imagine cats taking smaller birds like partridge. According to google, cats that are fed don't tend to travel over more than 5 acres, but feral males have been gps tracked over 1200 acres. Don't see them around here so much since most of the land has gone under the plough, but when it was mostly pasture they would show up a fair way from buildings. My old lurcher was an absolute fecker for cats and had been through a few homes because she would jump the fence at the first opportunity and go hunting pet cats around the neighbourhood. She was ok here because no pet cats around. Did have to be wary around civilisation though and did my best to keep her away from the ferals because I didn't especially want her coming into contact with the manky things. Cats are ok, but some people seem to collect them and there seem to be so many around these days they must damage wildlife populations.

[peterhunter86 8,627]

37 minutes ago, bird said:

my  big dog killed few feral cats , around woods , he looks for the bloody things , a  fox  or cat  in his mind all the bloody same  thing  lol .

My old lurcher got a few big feral cats when out bushing some of them put up a good scrap I used to hate when he got them I used to have to put him in the bath to clean all the srapes from its nails and he hated it and wouldn't come near me for days

[Gav 1,708]

Get loads of ferrals here, the do gooders were trapping them a while ago neutering and putting them back. Shot a few that were hassling Warren's I was doing, until I saw posters round the village looking for poor timmy who I'd shot a week or so previously

[Deker 3,478]

I have one site full of ferals and I have had numerous cats in the sights at night over the years, they seem to turn up in the strangest places sometimes.

None really caused any problems that I can think of!

[shovel leaner 7,650]

I don’t shoot cats , I don’t think they do any harm on a pheasant shoot , although one year a cat got into a release pen just after the birds went in and really spooked them , and they never really settled after that . We don’t have feral cats just pets from the village . If a cat goes missing I always get a call “ have you seen my Tibbles “? What  they really mean is “did you shoot my cat “? No killing pets is one way to become very unpopular. A keeper mate of mine has no problem dealing with moggies though as they wander around at night and disturb his partridge, they are a bloody nuisance to partridge keepers.