Operation Hot Foot

it's no secret how i feel about cats.

i don't hate cats. i just like it better when they're not around. i like them better when they aren't scratching the shit out of my new couch. i like it better when they aren't up in my lap, shedding all over me. i'm allergic, and they close my airway pretty effectively. i like cats better when they are not shitting in and around the outside of my house, where my kids play. i like cats better when their diseased feces are offloaded elsewhere, not here.

i have launched a successful campain to rid this property of the feline offenders, well, more like, offender, as really it was one cat doing most of the doo-doo-ing around here. "operation hotfoot", started about 2 weeks ago after taking a look-see around the property and finding mounds of semi-buried cat poop in the dirt flower beds surrounding my house. the offending cat, i deduced, was well fed as the size of these droppings were that of a medium sized dog, impressive.

now, i don't know if the offending feline was a stray, or lived in an adjacent house, it had no collar and seemed to adapt us as it's toilet. my battle with the critter started almost as soon as we moved in at the end of october. i tried buying some of that all natural stuff that supposedly scares the cat away because it's claim to smell like the urine of a predator; coyote, mountain cat, etc.
that stuff didn't work at all. back to the drawing board.

a cheap solution was found online, and yes, non-lethal, and "all natural" and it works. just think of the ingredients of a hot n spicy bowl of chile, or hot sauce, yes, pepper. as it turns out, cats hate pepper, the smell. the creepy little critter may have come through here once, but that was it, as soon as he left to go groom hisself and licked the bottom of that hot-foot....bam! sizzle! message recieved loud-hot-and clear.

as far as a 'humane' solution for a cat reppelent goes, i don't know where the red pepper powder is ranked. i'm guessing that some kind of lazer-light sensored water sprayer thing is the most 'humane' because cats hate water. but those high tech gadgets are expensive, and probably break easily. i thought about going old-school and shooting the little guy in the butt with a pellet rifle, however, i live in city limits, and one call from the neighbor about 'man with gun' and it's hello s.w.a.t. team, don't want that. all said and done it's about 20 bucks for a pump sprayer and a few packs of the ground pepper, (which should last for awhile, don't put a whole pack of ground flakes in your sprayer, it will clog up.)

yeah, i figure it's humane. i don't want to kill the cat, i just want it to go away. so far, it looks like he did. -operation hot foot-