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Ecuador

My neighbour's cat keeps eating my lovely pumpkins. I've tried to shoot it but it always gets away. Any advice on how I combat this problem? I'm considering setting traps. Comes with the territory I suppose.

10/1/2003 8:54:15 PM

Russia

You cannot consider killing the cat no matter how many it eats. Pumpkin love is all very well but we must respect animals too. When you take the seed tenderly between your thumb and forefinger and plant it all you can hope is that it won't be bothered by passing cats, and if it is then let it go. Love it and leave it. I saw a cat the other day and I said "how did that get there" but I only had to look to my own house.

10/1/2003 9:00:32 PM

Ecuador

"Pumpkin love". Don't be stupid. I like my pumpkins but I don't love them. You sound like a treehugger. I don't want the cat to eat my pumpkins but even if it doesn't I don't love it. I think you are strange. See you in Disneyland.

10/1/2003 9:02:51 PM

Long Island,New York

A properly skinned cat makes a lovely hat......G

10/1/2003 9:05:16 PM

the foreigners are going at it again! i'd talk to your neighbor.

and remember people....PETA = people eating tasty animals. yum!

10/1/2003 10:22:09 PM

porterville, calif.

looks like it going to be interesting here this winter again. LOL..

10/2/2003 3:15:20 AM

Itzetown City

I never heard that cats eating pumpkins, but you never learned out. Could it be that you feed the pumpkins with too much fish that they smells like?

10/2/2003 3:29:35 AM

Knopp, Germany

foreigners? LMAO, here we go again......

10/2/2003 4:18:15 AM

Menomonie, WI (mail@gr8pumpkin.net)

Wow these two for being from different sides of the earth sure have good english and use alot of our phrases. I smell something fishy and its not fertilizer. Bring on the winter games....

10/2/2003 4:36:48 AM

Itzetown City

Now, since you say it, i smell it too!

10/2/2003 6:49:40 AM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

LOL G! Maybe we'll have to rade some Cat Hats for seeds!

Cats hate Hot Sauce. Spray it on the pumpkin.

I had no idea cats were such an international issue! In this part of the US we don't let the dumb cats wander. Too many Chinese restaurants.

Here the cats just scratch the pumpkins. Squirrels are my biggest warm blooded problem until Halloween.

10/2/2003 7:04:34 AM

Rocky-r@stny.rr.com

I like cats!!!



They taste like chicken..

10/2/2003 7:35:25 AM

Garden State Pumpkins

Nice Hats!!! LOL@G

10/2/2003 7:39:23 AM

Chippewa Falls, WI

poor dog:(

10/2/2003 8:17:29 AM

Itzetown City

poor cat!!!

10/2/2003 8:52:29 AM

Oz

talk to neighbor.

hot sauce is a good idea.

set out live traps covered in straw.
put in some tuna and cat nip.

id be sure it is the cat before u pass judgement.

the rule of law concerning property is this.
if you find property(gato)on your property,it then becomes your property.
what you do with gato is up to you.
unless there are laws there to the contrary.

10/2/2003 9:12:46 AM

Grants Pass, Oregon

I love cats also but it is frustrating spending all this time taking such gentle care of the pumpkin to have a stupid cat eating them. I am having problems with my own cat using my 790 as a scratching post. My foot has met her ass on numerous occasions yet she keeps coming back.I have finally used a big thick piece of foam over the pumpkin then a heavy sleeping bag on top of the foam. And if my aim was good her butt would have been plugged along time ago. Oh and by the way Ramirez, how big is your pumpkin this year? Let a neighbor cat come and start eating yours and see how happy you stay. Peace and love to all the pumpkin eating putty tats.

10/2/2003 10:05:18 AM

Eveleth MN

dang, My cats won't have nothing to do with the pumpkins. I've got a Clone growing in the house now they don't second look it, I also have my pride and joy of ONLY 54#'s (big max this year)in the house and they just sniffed it and walked away.

10/2/2003 10:33:26 AM

Ecuador

I am actually from Kansas, but was recently in Ecuador on a pumpkin-related excursion, visiting my cousin, who has pumpkins. However, they are of poor standard. I know the cat is the culprit, but I think I'll refrain from shooting it. For now.

10/2/2003 11:02:36 AM

In the shade - PDX, OR

Hot sauce - cats do not like pepper!
If you got time and you have good aim a slingshot can provide some good entertainment too.


It must seem like winter in the north for this type of banter to be hitting the boards already. This thread seems better suited for Jan or Feb.

10/2/2003 11:51:31 AM

Ecuador

No banter. I really desire a solution to this problem

10/2/2003 11:55:30 AM

Russia

I have big pumpkins this year. I'd take proper precautions against cats, and I'd never hurt them. Unlike Nilsen, he seems to want to cut them up and flush them down his toilet. It's pathetic. I wouldn't let him near my prize pumpkins.

10/2/2003 12:54:44 PM

White Plains, NY

I use a live trap (have a heart type) for many varmints. Once caught its my choice as to their future! Those that harm my garden have no future.

Stray cats visit and to date have been helpful,I hope they continue killing mice, voles, chimpmunks, catbirds, etc.

10/2/2003 1:03:15 PM

Grants Pass, Oregon

Nilsen do like I am doing by putting foam on the pumpkin and covering it with an old sleeping bag. The cat should not able to eat it or scratch it.

10/2/2003 1:20:39 PM

Utah

Nilsen - g_butchard@hotmail- from Kansas/Ecuador
Ramirez- youmustbejoking_4@hotmail- from Russia

cats eating pumpkins ?

come on people!-
these two totally new to BP, supposedly foreign people are fictious and pullin you leg for cheap entertainment.
take it elsewhere guys.

10/2/2003 2:57:10 PM

Montoursville, PA

No don't trap or shoot cats. Ketch 'em and tie their tails together then toss them over a clothes line. They will settle the matter as to who is boss right quick. You turkeys should be more humane. :)

10/2/2003 3:16:35 PM

White Plains, NY

Docgipe,

Is that where the saying came from "the fur will fly"?

10/2/2003 8:59:13 PM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

youmustbejoking_4@hotmail.com doesn't sound serious?

Sounds like PETA to me.

10/2/2003 9:33:47 PM

Oz

i got online in 1996, i have never spoofed or yucked around at anyones expence.
and i have alot of time to do so.
so what is the point?
power hungry loosers? nintendo broken? mom at work?

if they are for real then fine,,if not,,yahoo has all kinds of looser chat rooms and make belive sicko rooms.

10/3/2003 11:52:54 AM

Russia

I can't speak for him, but I'm certainly not 'spoofing' or 'yucking around'...... Why the diatribe about nintendo or powerhungry? I was really hoping for a community feeling on this site, not meaning to sound melodramatic but I'm actually quite upset about all the adverse reaction.

10/3/2003 2:16:46 PM

Utah

i'v never heard a Russian ever use the words diatribe or melodramatic.
i'm upset that you can't be honest and be yourself, because that is what 99% of the people on this site are.

10/3/2003 3:05:58 PM

Menomonie, WI (mail@gr8pumpkin.net)

òûêâà

10/3/2003 4:25:11 PM

Garden

Spoof or not, I thought it was good morning entertainment.
On a serious note, maybe you could secretly swap out your neighbors cat with this one. Its for adoption on the "pets with disabilitys" page:

http://members.boardhost.com/petsdisability/msg/1972.html

10/3/2003 6:39:21 PM

Appalachian Mtns.

kill the cat, get over the loss...pumpkins come first!

10/3/2003 7:28:25 PM

Russia

hahaha never heard a russian use words like 'diatribe'... He said he's from Kansas, I'm actually from Kentucky... Ahh well, what I put as location isn't true, I can't speak for him though

10/3/2003 8:07:42 PM

Oz

my mother told me as a child that when someone begins with little lies, they tend to finish with bigger lies.
maybe i am fulminating.
i dont see most posts as the ephemeral diatribe of a faction.
most are ambivalent.
i wont fustain any longer.

10/4/2003 10:04:19 AM

Hobbiton New Zealand

man you people sure know some big words I cant even pronounce them let alone have a wild guess at what they mean LOL

10/4/2003 3:54:34 PM

Russia

Pumpkins are great!

10/12/2003 9:00:31 PM

Ljubljana, Slovenia

Just this: my pumpkins are being vandalized by rats (or let’s say mice). They constructed tunnels into my pile and took my seeds. I can only suspect they came from the neighbors and if someone desires a hat or better a soup let me know :-)
Jernej

10/23/2003 3:57:08 PM

Massillon, Ohio

this may be the funniest stuff i've ever read

10/23/2003 4:03:24 PM

Phoenix Az

i agree.lol

10/24/2003 6:47:20 PM

New Brunswick

I came in here to get advise about real threats to pumpkins and here you are or at least some of you accusing cats of eating pumpkins! Either that "cat" is literally starving to death or you are full of it...and I don't mean pumpkin! I am the proud owner of 12 Tonkinese, 2 Siamese and three d.s.h. (Tow of these are barn cats which I bought, yes I said bought (from our local animal shelter) for the purpose of keeping rodents out of my artichokes (moles love them) and my pumpkin patch. The poor cat is probably keeping rodents from your pumpkin patch you stupid doofis! Cats eating pumpkin...get real....their teeth are not designed for such a thing. Now they just might use one for a scratching post..in which case use a few animal repellant pellets around the plants. To keep rodents from chewing your pumpkins get some "bitter apple" spray from the pet store. You can get the type to protect plants from chewers. Also you might try erecting an electric fence (with fencer of course) about 4 inches high and another strand 4 inches above that. Use as many strands as you need, so long as they are connected. I use instant fence rods (rebar)to attach my insulaters to. Once zapped the cats will keep clear. Works great for dogs and raccoons too. Cats eating raw pumpkin...cheesh....

10/27/2003 11:58:43 AM