I have six indoor outdoor cats (down from 10) not just one. Some meow all the time some don't make a noise so voice activation is a no go.

So you will also be able to eliminate even more cats, the one that don't meow. It is a win win.

 

How's your coding skills? OpenCV is a image processing library (C), that might be used.

application specific PLC/PLR ladder logic. That's all the coding I ever cared to learn.

I'm a power systems guy not software guy. That's why you never see me post anything in the digital circuits and programing sections.

 

So, do you always shoot critters that annoy you?

I think that's fair only if they are also armed with comparable weapons.

 

Not really. I hate killing anything where it's not justified. It's why I never got into sport hunting. Long range target shooting with old guns is fun and that's the limit for me.

Its just critters that have proven themselves to be nuisances and that do damage to property or can harm pets get put down. Or ones that are suffering.

I rarely enjoy doing it but it's the most humane way that's guaranteed to work permanently.

 

Not really. I hate killing anything where it's not justified. It's why I never got into sport hunting. Long range target shooting with old guns is fun and that's the limit for me.

Its just critters that have proven themselves to be nuisances and that do damage to property or can harm pets get put down. Or ones that are suffering.

I rarely enjoy doing it but it's the most humane way that's guaranteed to work permanently.

Okay.
But it hardly seems fair to put food out that raccoons like and then shoot them when they eat it.

 

Okay? If you haven't been reading the thread its cat food put out for the cats. I'm not bating wild animals in on purpose just for the fun of killing them.

Given the option I would rather catch them eating the cat food than tearing up the garbage cans, my shop or other stuff dong damage that cost me way more money than cat food is presently costing me.

Does that make sense now?

 

Okay.
But it hardly seems fair to put food out that raccoons like and then shoot them when they eat it.

By the Uni at work we had a nest in Attic of a house we purchased for a Department, they made their way in and carry diseases which could harm you animals and others. They are attracted by human existence.

kv

Edita: No, food was provided.

 

Exactly. They are opportunistic scavengers and by our own existence we are very favorable resources to take advantage of.

Add in the fact they are disease carriers plus all around destructive and known to tear up a cat pretty bad if not kill them and its not all that difficult to understand a person not wanting them around.

I saw my shop cat a bit ago and he's pretty beat up so I am guessing the racoon figured out where his food is at too and roughed him up for it. That right there is more than enough reason for me to shoot to kill.

Especially if it's living in my shop. No wild animals life is of that high of value to me to spare it and live with my pets and property getting trashed just so it can have a nice comfy place with free food to no end to live.

 

No wild animal life is of that high of value to me to spare it and live with my pets and property getting trashed

I have to go with you on this one. All the animals in the world can walk by me, and I don't care. I would never even kill one for food as long as I can find a grocery store. When they sink a tooth in what is mine, then we have trouble.

Rats in the duct work? Warfarin.
Snakes under my air conditioning condensor? Don't care.
'possums nesting in my car? I have a post hole digger for them.
Turtle hibernating in the flower garden? Don't care.
Bunnies, horses, stray cats and dogs, even the occasional hog walking by? Don't care...as long as they keep walking.
We only have trouble when they try to move in.

ps, I have had some raccoon visitors, but I don't have any cats or cat food, so they keep on moving and I leave them alone.

 

Unfortunately some people have a very hard time understanding and accepting that aspect of rural life and the animals that come with it.

Hence the term 'Nuisance animals' if it doesn't make a nuisance of itself it's not a concern and by far racoons have earned their place on the top of the 'Nuisance Animal' lists for good reason.

 

Okay? If you haven't been reading the thread its cat food put out for the cats. I'm not bating wild animals in on purpose just for the fun of killing them.

Given the option I would rather catch them eating the cat food than tearing up the garbage cans, my shop or other stuff dong damage that cost me way more money than cat food is presently costing me.

Does that make sense now?

Only if they do those other things if you don't put the cat food out.
Otherwise I think you could find another way to feed your cats besides leaving food out all night if you truly don't like killing them.

 

And that's just it. The cat food is the first defense line. They go after that and make themselves known before I have to deal with other damages and problems they cause.

Not liking something is not the same as being unwilling or unable to understand the justification for having to do it. Every day we all have to do some things we would rather not but they are justified necessities that have to be done in order to keep the things we do like in our life up to the standards and value we place on them.

Its part of dealing with life in general. (Unless you're a liberal snowflake.)

Anyway I just got it! Head shot right between the eyes so it didn't feel a thing.

 

Anyway I just got it!

You mean, you just got one. I got "it" once too, five times in a row before they moved on. I didn't shoot 'em, I just set a trap every night. I had to haul one across the river to release every morning for a week.

 

 

You mean, you just got one. I got "it" once too, five times in a row before they moved on. I didn't shoot 'em, I just set a trap every night. I had to haul one across the river to release every morning for a week.

So you must be one of the liberal snowflakes.
No self respecting, dog-eat-dog, right wing-nut, would do that.

 

I try to run critters off simply because I'm lazy. If they keep coming back until it's less effort to kill them...they were warned.

 

You mean, you just got one. I got "it" once too, five times in a row before they moved on. I didn't shoot 'em, I just set a trap every night. I had to haul one across the river to release every morning for a week.

After my (Trapping of the feral cat, I had no more trouble) but your cats (Multiple) are trouble some because you can't trap them. Moot. If your on the road for days it's an issue, catch 22.

kv

 

Fit cats with magnet-carrying collar. Put food in enclosure having locking cat-flap which is released by magnet. Cat-flaps of this type are commercially available.

 

You mean, you just got one. I got "it" once too, five times in a row before they moved on. I didn't shoot 'em, I just set a trap every night. I had to haul one across the river to release every morning for a week.

There wasn't enough food disappearing in a night to suggest more than one is around at the moment.

That and past experience has shown that when more than one is around they tend to get into arguments about who gets the most food and that gets my attention immediately.

 

Fit cats with magnet-carrying collar. Put food in enclosure having locking cat-flap which is released by magnet. Cat-flaps of this type are commercially available.

Back when I was married the not yet Ex tried to fit them with collars with dingle bells on them so they couldn't sneak up on mice and birds to catch and then bring in the house.

Never worked. Farm cats don't do collars. If one keep theirs on for a day it was a good day.