04/12/2025
KILLER CATS
These hunting and killing teeth are why native Australian birds, small mammals, reptiles and insects do not stand a chance against meat-eating predators called cats.
This local feral which is not native to Australia met its match in the Jindabyne Cat Trap. It had already killed the native Antechinus mouse-lookalike that had set up home in the vegie patch.
This feral was trap-shy and avoided the trap for around a month, even though it was seen furtively darting to the boundary fence nearby to the trap.
Someone in town may have previously tried to trap it and bungled it. Ferals do not come back to traps for seconds - until the look of the trap changed when it was covered with left-over renovation fabric and to darken the interior. This feral was caught soon after where it had been seen running in the yard.
The red leather welding gloves are to move a trap when a living, dangerous feral is inside. The low, threatening growl coming from the trap when getting close to it is a giveaway of what is about to happen. The clawed swipe was faster than the eye could see as it wants to rip you to shreds, even from inside the trap. The trap has high handles to carry a live cat in it but heavy leather gloves are still a must for self-protection.
Domestic cats allowed to roam uncontrolled off their owners property into neighbour's properties have the same hunting instincts (and teeth and claws) even if their owners are in denial.
Council Rangers will collect trapped cats if the trap is legal and compliant such as this one so that they do not get injured by a cat that wants to rip them to shreds.
The domestic cat owners have to pay the council if they want to get their trapped cat back from the pound, sometimes on multiple occasions, until they eventually get the message or they decide the unclaimed cat can be put to sleep.
