Just to inform it is animal cruelty. It would be far better to kill them, than to cripple one and leave to die on its own. And paintballs will pop eyeballs very easily. If I were you and you have your heart set on hiting them with projectiles, you can buy a relitively cheap airsoft gun, the clear plactic ones are pretty harmless past 15 feet. Plus BB's are cheaper than paintballs. I bought one at Walmart for $35. Its afull auto too.

You could get a weaker drive spring as well as turn in your velocity screw all the way.

I think the hose is the safest way imho.

Edit: If you are set on shooting cats, try to get really really brittle paintballs. Breaks hurt alot less.

Well, at least this is thought out. The modorators here don't care if it gets off topic. Man, this place would be a nightmare if they did. Have you seen Thoughts and Opinions? This place is very self-regulated. The modorators keep the inappropriateness out and let us have at it, pretty much. We're like a miniature ecosystem, so it all balances out and we last. :)

Anyway, a paintball is a heavy object, and shooting a cat with one at pretty much any velocity is a bad idea. Also, unless you want to kill, stay away from any metal-launching BB gun (like the CO2 pistol you mentioned, which are mostly pretty powerful). I STRONGLY suggest looking at getting an airsoft gun like mentioned. I can see them being a lot less dangerous, but just as effective. We seem to be having the same problem, so I wish you luck...

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If an animal starts eating my garden vegetables they go down.

My back yard is fenced in for a reason.

If at any time a varmint wants to flip for my water bill and/or buy vegetables for me at the store I'll lay off.

I have had the same problem with feral cats over the past couple of years. The problem is the old lady next door is too kind hearted and keeps feeding them. There are two in particular that she likes, but doesnt realize when you put food out they ALL come for it. Until a month or two ago, we were up to 11 cats and two more were pregnant. Yay.

Last month I realized some of them were dying and figured someone was poisoning them. I felt this was cruel and decided to try and find a home for them. This is where the fun begins. The Humane Society will not take them, especially if they are feral, ESPECIALLY if they are pregnant. I tried 4 of the surrounding counties and they were all very sympathetic, but still no go. I tried to contact a cat shelter, but the only problem is, they want to take the cats, fix them and return them. Granted it keeps them from producing, but still doesnt rid m of them. Finally, I got a trap from the village and started trapping them and dropping them off close to farms at least 5 or 6 miles away. As we are pretty rural, it is easy to do. While this was my solution, it may not work for everyone.

One thing you may do is make sure your neighbor is feeding them indoors and that there is no food outside for them to eat. Typically, if there is no food or water, they will go elsewhere.

Another trick I hear of was to rub cayenne pepper or hot oil (look in Asian food section) and rub it on areas where they squeeze into the yard. Supposedly this will transfer and when they go to clean themselves get a little surprise. Personally, I don't think they would get the association, but may be worth a shot.

Truthfully, paintballs migt not even work. Kind of like the dogs, they will learn when you aren't around, they're safe.

Brianwawrz wrote: oldpbnoob wrote: Truthfully, paintballs migt not even work. Kind of like the dogs, they will learn when you aren't around, they're safe. If the cats are dead they won't know when it's safe to come in your yard. Because they're dead.

I don't condone killing cats even though I personally can't stand them. If people would spay and neuter their pets, we wouldn't be having this discussion.

I don't get that about cat people. Why do they think they can allow their cats to run free? IMO if cats are outside, they should be leashed or contained just like dogs. If you can't do that, keep em inside. I still think your best option is to buy a trap and make them disappear. Take them out to the country and let them loose near a farm. Check with your local municipality. They may have a collar law that require the cats have a collar and tag or you can call the pound on them. That way it keeps you legal. Last thing you want to do is go to jail for killing cats.

paintball437085 wrote: killing a cat is nothing when i go hunting i have no remorse for moose our deer

Difference being you eat the moose or deer. Are you Chinese?

notom66866 wrote: Feline i8s okay, it tastes salty. I've had lion before.

I wonder if it is because a felines diet consists mainly of meat? If you think about it, most animals raised and used for food are primarily herbavores.

I think we are way off subject now.

^I see what you're saying but the pet's owner should have more control over their pet.  Pet's are a big responsibility and if one can't handle it they shouldn't have a pet.

How much money and time should one spend for someone elses inability to responsibly handle their animals?

It's a tough issue.

Styro Folme wrote: The Guy wrote: trap them, and turn them over to animal control

If his animal control is anything like ours, they will "get back to you" the day after never. Unless you have a rabid pitbull chasing your grandmother down the street or an alligator jumping up out of your toilet biting your arse, they have little or no interest in rounding up stray cats.

pellet gun will hurt it, and it will run away, but itll be back later, a .22 will kill it, but it IS loud. try putting moth balls around where the congregate and enter into your yard, moth balls smell like  ur grandma's house, might have an effect, or pick up a skunk trap with fish guts inside then let them loose outside of town.  i like the idea of paintballin them. probbaly wont keep them away but when u see em PAINT THOSE SUCKERS

i have a groundhog problem at my place, digging holes underneath the garage and under the house. i've .22'd one of them. ran over another (semi-accidently) but they keep multiplying. i gutshotted the latest one hoping it will ran back underneath the garage and die, so nothing else will live under there, but it looks like his lil brother doesnt mind.  these things are like rabbits

Ok.  So the answer may be to spend gas money to purchase a trap, money on a trap, wear on your vehicle, mileage on your vehicle, money for a fishing license, parks fees, more gas money or money for fish at the store because some laimo can't take care of their pet's.  It's all relative but it's alot of work AND MONEY because of someone elses mistakes.

The whole "I can't properly take care of my own responsibilities" thing really ticks me off.

A better answer would be for cat owners to provide a fence system that would contain a cat which isn't very practical so the ultimate answer is that cat's make poor domestic pet's in the real world unless they don't mind their pet's receiving a pellet in their asses while mousing.

The blast from the gun without any ammo in it scares the hell out cats. Max out the velocity, make sure it's empty and get up close. They'll be fine but after one or two of those they won't be coming back.

As for domestic cats that roam around during the day, they are allowed to do that because they, in general, are nowhere near as dangerous as a dog. Cats that don't get out like that tend to get very depressed too. However once they start to inflict actual damage on stuff (not talking about minor stupid thing) then something needs to be done.