Comments on: Domestic matters

By: Zorro

Zorro — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:25:55 +0000

It’d take a lot more than a few housebricks Cabalamat…

By: MikeinAppalachia

MikeinAppalachia — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:06:54 +0000

Pat’s solution does work pretty well-has to be a pretty large Tom for best results.

By: Pat

Pat — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 08:56:08 +0000

The best helpful suggestion I can come up with- get a large active Tom, have him vasectomised (not neutered), let him do his thing with the local females- and keep other toms out of the territory.

By: Cabalamat

Cabalamat — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:44:32 +0000

May I suggest a sack weighted down with a few housebricks?

For Bob Piper I mean, not the kitties.

By: David Gillies

David Gillies — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 04:11:20 +0000

Pat’s nailed it, really. If you won’t kill ‘em and you won’t let ‘em starve, then you have no option but to look on the bright side. You are of course going to have to nip any incipient cat explosion in the bud by spaying the female kittens in the new batch and being more aggressive about shooing away recent feral visitors.

It’s a bit like illegal immigrants (I’ll catch hell for this but the comparison is apposite). You can do your damnedest to keep them out but once they get here they have to be treated humanely.

Julia. lim n+1/n, n → ∞ = 1 so we were in diminishing returns a long while ago.

By: john malpas

john malpas — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:24:26 +0000

You let the market sort itself out. If there is spare food the cats flourish. If not they don’t.
If the cats flourish the local villagers shoot you.

By: Pat

Pat — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:00:56 +0000

Well at least you won’t have a plague of mice

By: Monty

Monty — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:29:00 +0000

Isn’t there a humane society in Portugal? If this cat is only semi feral, it should be quite easy to make here kittens quite sociable. Then they could go for adoption at a city shelter, once they have been fixed.

By: Bill Sticker

Bill Sticker — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:40:50 +0000

Oh dear Tim, you’ve broken out in chronic cats. There is no real cure.

By: jus'askin

jus'askin — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:14:17 +0000

There are recipes I’m sure……

By: dearieme

dearieme — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:35:23 +0000

Are there any wolves in Portugal?

By: Pamela

Pamela — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:40:39 +0000

Don’t they have animal shelters/adoption centers there? How about pet supply stores? Here, they have adoption weekends.

By: AntiCitizenOne

AntiCitizenOne — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:10:38 +0000

It’s the worstall welfare state.

By: JuliaM

JuliaM — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:27:17 +0000

I knew there was another reason (besides the obvious) why I detest Bob Piper…

By: Bob Piper

Bob Piper — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:19:28 +0000

Yet another example of Portuguese good sense. Bloody horrible sly creatures.

(Cats, I mean, not the Portuguese)