Cats!

[FishnLine]

I have a spot that cats are getting under my house and I want to get them out and keep them out before I close it up. Do any of you know anything that I can put under the house that may smell or something that they wouldn't like? I'm tired of heaing them at night when I'm trying to sleep and I don't want kittens. Thanks in advance.

[CatFan]

Firecrackers

[J White]

Big, ill-tempered hound dog

[ClarendonRiverRat]

If you live in town I'd try a .22 short with a baby-bottle nipple over the end of the barrel. The neighbors won't hear anything.
That'll get rid of them!

If that don't work, live trap them and dump them off at somebody you don't like's house.

[GRIZZ]

Problem is that you may have kittens down there already and if you scare off the paernts they will starve and die. Then you have another problem. I think you'll have to go down there yourself and look if its possible. I have a spot under my house with the same problem. Its a constant battle with the cats and woodchucks to keep them out of there.

[FishnLine]

Good point Grizz. I didn't think about them already having kittens. I like the different suggestions though. Keep em coming everybody!

[horseshoer]

I was over run with stray cats back in TX. I put out a live trap baited with
the cheapest canned cat food the Dollar Store carries. We took our dogs out around 10 PM everynight for last call and sometimes I had a cat already in which case it went in a burlap bag on the cool concrete floor of the garage, trap was rebaited & set, and most mornings produced the Daily Double. I caught 43 cats in less than 2 months (and 2 possums). Not a collared, healthy-lookin cat in the bunch, all alley cats. All cats were humanely
given a new residence, usually very near one of my clients horsebarns.
I called it the Cat Witness Protection Program and it solved my troubles with just an occasional upkeep setting after the initial thinning of the herd.

[Jim C.]

Kind of had the same problem but in a old barn. I got a have-a heart trap. Ended up with 5-6 cats 2 raccoons 2-3 possums 2 skunks. I just used cheep cat food it did the job. Jim C.

[jlaughlin72]

Supposedly moth balls are supposed to work, or maybe place a big rubber snake near the entrance. I know the rubber snake works most of the time to keep cats from jumping on your vehicles.
Good luck

[GRIZZ]

Sheesh, thats a lot of cats and your neighbors must hate you.

I was over run with stray cats back in TX. I put out a live trap baited with
the cheapest canned cat food the Dollar Store carries. We took our dogs out around 10 PM everynight for last call and sometimes I had a cat already in which case it went in a burlap bag on the cool concrete floor of the garage, trap was rebaited & set, and most mornings produced the Daily Double. I caught 43 cats in less than 2 months (and 2 possums). Not a collared, healthy-lookin cat in the bunch, all alley cats. All cats were humanely
given a new residence, usually very near one of my clients horsebarns.
I called it the Cat Witness Protection Program and it solved my troubles with just an occasional upkeep setting after the initial thinning of the herd.