LARP POLL: Your neighbor's cat still has its balls and roams the neighborhood. Do you get involved, and have the cat neutered yourself?

Why not ask the neighbor if you can help him get kitty to the humane society for a reduced cost, or free neuter clinic.

It will keep kitty from being so aggressive, and less likely to be hit by a car, or killed in kitty combat.

Leave ‘em alone.

“Have balls will travel” is my motto!

OP, what about you, are you already neutered and circumsized?

Let the man roam, Karen. If you neutered all the cats we would run out of cats. This would be a catastrophe.

It would be very Karen like to step in.

I don't mutilate my dogs and cats. You will get shot on sight if you trespass with intent to mutilate my critters.

That's the most mature approach.
I guess I'm concerned they might tell me to mind my own business and F off.
These particular people, I've don't know. But still might do what you're talking about.

Yeah, the only reason I care is I wanna keep the cat from getting picked up or killed, etc.

Other than that, I'd rather not get involved. (feral cat colony managing eperience, here, and I don't wanna get involved in any of that again!)

Yeah, I probably will do nothing about it.
50 50 I talk to the neighbor about it.

HAHA Well, I don't see hundreds of cats running around - he must not be knocking up too many female cats.

That cat comes onto my property all the time, which is okay. No way I'd walk onto their property.

Really, the cat acts more like a stray than their cat. They do claim the cat though.

No, only neuter the females. No matter how many males you neuter, the females will still get pregnant.

We need outdoor cats to take care of rodent populations. Leave the cats alone.

I know somebody that did this and it solved a lot of problems for everyone including the cat.

It's a cat. Basically, another type of rodent that hunts more harmful rodents.

All joking aside, for their size, cats are actually apex predators! They wipe out all kind of smaller mammals and reptiles.

Yeah. And the cat needs to be kept inside after neutering to heal. They just can’t be released. Keeping them inside when they are use to being outside and spraying is not easy. They will spray inside your house.

I would.

I have a live animal trap. I'd bait it (if the cat can't be caught up otherwise) and take it to an appointment at our low cost vet clinic.

Neutering a male cat is absolutely no big deal. Should be so inexpensive you won't even notice it in your checkbook.

And I would bring kitty home and never breathe a word of it to anyone.

Win, win, win.

Because who wants a kitty who sprays coming around? Not I!!

Didn't see the option to sell it to a Chinese restaurant.

They will take care of the weaker ones. The smart and strong ones live. Washington DC has such a bad rat problem they had to bring in cats that knew how to hunt. They can’t be domesticated. Outdoor cats are needed.

fucking busy body

keep your in-heat pets inside if you don't want my cat to rape them

duh

Males can still spray after neutering. Our local vet won’t keep them after fixing them because they spray. You have to come get them right away and keep them indoors while healing.

No.

Live trap it as it trespasses unleashed on your own yard. (Most places have equal leash laws for cats and dogs.)

Middle of night drive trespasser to nearest VERY large city and set it free.

Store trap in basement where no one ever sees it.

Until you need it again.

P.S. Something similar to this works when neighbor's kids continually pogo stick on their back deck.

No, it doesn't. Cats can heal like nobody's business. Our local feral cat got his leg torn open about a month ago escaping from a coyote.

We couldn't catch him, we couldn't treat him. He'll let us feed him, put wormer in his food, but that's about it. Probably because we trapped him and got him neutered when he was younger and dumber.

Anyway, it was amazing to watch that cat's leg heal. We tried to spray him with an antibiotic spray but could not and then he wouldn't let us within 10 feet of him.

He healed great. No help from us, except making sure his nutrition was excellent and he refused all the yummy food with the antibiotic.

We are happy. We have a lot of respect and affection for him, but he sure isn't a pet.

I would never encourage the fake pandemic.