We've been having problems with stray cats the past few months. Recently I resorted to shooting them with a pellet rifle, the ones you use in airsoft. I'm a good shot so I hit them all the time. But they keep coming back. Pellets probably aren't painful enough.
This evening was my boiling point. Saturday morning 3am I left for the fish port at Paranaque to buy fresh fish for my family, and this dinner we were serving 1/2 of a 2 kilo "talakitok" fish I had bought and we were going to grill it for the family.
The maid was suddenly apologizing in droves to me, she said the stray cats had eaten the fish! She had let down the plate of 1/2 of the fish while answering her cell phone, after her call, the fish had disappeared.
That does it. My other kids ate baked chicken, but my 2nd son has a moratorium on chicken so he had left over goat instead of the fresh fish.
Grrrr.... no creature takes food away from my family.
Kid gloves are off. No more pellet gun. This time I got a bunch of fly paper and set traps in the usual places the stray cats go and put bait in them... fish entrails / organs... so far after 1 hour of baiting, 2 cats have been fly papered. They are smart animals, I've seen one test the fly paper... but eventually the fly paper got him.
Let's wait through the night.
Maybe tomorrow and the next days I will get cage traps. This should be a job for the city pound. Maybe I should call them up as well.
Any other ideas to get rid of stray cats?