Ever head out to school or work early in the morning to find paw prints all over your clean ride? Along with the tell-tale signs of strewn garbage in your lawn, you deduct that it is a neighbor's cat or local stray that had decided your clean ride needed some handy artwork to reach the level of purrfection. After a reverberating yelp of "SOB!", you begin to craft measures or revenge on Old Whiskers.

Oversensitive car alarms are reactive (cat must land on car; too late) and can cause numerous false alarms. Motion lights rarely work more than once or twice till the cat ignores it. BB, pellet, and airsoft guns force you to stand guard. Crappy aim and you might nick/dent your pride and joy. Poison (cats reportedly love to drink ethylene glycol; old style radiator fluid) can target the wrong animal (Fluffy- Oh No!), be in reach of children, and can cause legal issues. Land mines; well they are just too much hassle with black market procuring, setting them without blowing yourself up, and just plain remembering where the heck you planted them. Oh yeah, they might just be illegal.

OK, so what to do. Well fear no longer as a solution is readily at hand. A quick call to the local Animal Control Shelter can put you on a long waiting list for small animal traps or you could procure your own from hunting supply, outfitters, feed stores, and even Harbour Freight. I purchased the medium sized one from Harbour Freight for $22.00 on sale. I just caught my first contestant, a lil black devil of a cat, about an hour ago. This is the second day of setup. I am stoked and the cat is uber pissed. A call to the local Animal Shelter and this cat is out of my life and hopefully to a home.

If you go this route, you need to check your local Animal Shelter about any Ordinances about traps and if they will pickup the animal. Be patient on your setup till you get the bait (canned tuna) and location of the trap right. There will be some trial and error for the locals as Fluffy and Mr. Kibbles errantly find themselves in the trap. No harm, no foul but maybe that overnight experience in the pen will set them straight.... scared straight.

Wish I had another cage as a Tomcat just came up on the lil female that I have trapped.

Good Hunting!