I moved house a few months ago and used to live next door to an animal killer. I don't want to appear over dramatic, but my neighbour systematically killed anything that entered his garden. He works for Rentakil and had traps and bait boxes literally everywhere, even in the trees. I have witnessed his catching squirels, rats, foxes etc and when our beloved cat went missing in the spring of this year my wife was at the point of killing him (not joking). Our cat had never stayed out overnight and always stayed in the gardens close by so it was very odd when he left one evening and was never found. We put up posters, adverts, rewards RSPCA, cat sanctuarys etc but nothing. Losing her 10 year old cat was devastating for my wife following the passing of our daughter last november. Anyway we've moved house now thankfully but still his behaviour unnerves me.
Just wondered what others think about this kind of behaviour.
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Just to add i contacted the RSPCA and they said 'nothing we can do as it is perfectly legal, just very offensive to some.'
Terrible about your cat, that guy sounds like a real psycho
Nothing wrong with rent-o-kill type outfits and pest control is unfortunately necessary and ok provided its done humanely. This on the other hand is apalling and I can't believe it's legal.
whats in the box - poison??
Depending on what techniques the fella is using, he could be breaking the law.
The only way he would've caught your cat is with a live capture fox trap, in which case he should've released it as a non-target species unharmed. My guess is that your cat has eaten a poisoned rodent, thus suffering secondary toxication/poisoning. It shouldn't have been fatal, unless the cat has eaten a significant amount of dead mice. How long ago did your cat go missing? I'd suggest checking with all your local vets as a start.
I'm going to start up a Grey Squirrel Association.
Not only did the seagull kill it, it ate the whole thing. Brightened up an afternoon at least.
I hope you threw him around hard and then put him in the bin.
Depending on what techniques the fella is using, he could be breaking the law.
The only way he would've caught your cat is with a live capture fox trap, in which case he should've released it as a non-target species unharmed. My guess is that your cat has eaten a poisoned rodent, thus suffering secondary toxication/poisoning. It shouldn't have been fatal, unless the cat has eaten a significant amount of dead mice. How long ago did your cat go missing? I'd suggest checking with all your local vets as a start.
I tried every possible place to find our cat, believe me. We put up around 30 posters with a picture and £100 reward over a 1 mile radius in the local shops, post offices, hairdressers, bus stops, even the local schools. We door-stepped every house for 100 metres also. The cat was chipped and tattoo'd so if he was found we'd have had him back.
The other traps in the neighbours garden at ground level were either rodent bait traps, like a flat green shoebox with a hole in the side. others looked like a post box cage, like you have on the inside of a door to catch the post and stop your dog eating it. There are 3 of these with a lift flap big enough for a cat to get in that once entered the animals catch get out. My other neighbour has seen him loading black sacks into his van. My guess is he doesn't put the dead animals in his own waste bin, instead choosing to dispose of them at work. I have found a dead adult fox at the end of our garden and dead rats with no obvious signs of injury. We back onto a public common/wooded area so of course the area has plenty of wildlife. My daughter's have seen these dead animals and it is very unpleasant.
The sad thing is his garden has empty food trays all over the place, like bait. This included empty tins of tuna/sardines etc. It's one thing to stop things coming in, it's another to entice things in then kill them.
The other traps in the neighbours garden at ground level were either rodent bait traps, like a flat green shoebox with a hole in the side. others looked like a post box cage, like you have on the inside of a door to catch the post and stop your dog eating it. There are 3 of these with a lift flap big enough for a cat to get in that once entered the animals catch get out. My other neighbour has seen him loading black sacks into his van. My guess is he doesn't put the dead animals in his own waste bin, instead choosing to dispose of them at work. I have found a dead adult fox at the end of our garden and dead rats with no obvious signs of injury. We back onto a public common/wooded area so of course the area has plenty of wildlife. My daughter's have seen these dead animals and it is very unpleasant.
The sad thing is his garden has empty food trays all over the place, like bait. This included empty tins of tuna/sardines etc. It's one thing to stop things coming in, it's another to entice things in then kill them.
The large boxes are not traps, but tamper proof rat boxes. They hold bait and are used so people do not come into contact with the poison.
Sorry about your cat mate.
But on a side note, an ex girlfriends cat once caught a seagul, didn't kill it but removed its beak. I had to finish the poor thing off with a club hammer.
We as human beings have a duty to protect other sentient beings but far too many people have the arrogance that because we've hit the top of the food chain we have the right to kill, maim, exploit and demean animals and to be honest it makes me f**king sick. Sometimes I think evolution should have stopped at the Great Apes.