KoBear

ok, a couple weeks ago i read a post about how squirrels would bother you while deer hunting. well today while hunting, i saw a tabby cat sneeking along the weeds and it actually caught two mice in 30 minutes. i watched him and it helped pass the time. as it was walking away, some deer were coming my way from about 150 yards away. if they would have followed the trail, they would have been 40 yards, close enough for a 20 gauge slug. the lead doe looked right at the cat from 20 yards away, snorted and cut off the trail, passing within range of an unihibited stand. i am definitely gonna kill that cat next time b/c there was a nice 6 or 8 pointer with what looked like a 15" spread and very high. it would have been the second biggest deer of my short, 6 year hunting career. i hope a coyote gets that cat!!!

pabuckhunter

Better luck next time. I had a dog mess mine up one time after i stood in my stand for four hours i know how you feel.<img src=icon_smile_angry.gif border=0 align=middle>

murphy70

Hey,
the cats just hunting too

boltman

I don't believe feral cats or dogs belong in the woods. I've never seen a feral cat while hunting but I wouldn't hesitate to eliminate one if I saw it. I did get a couple of feral dogs this year and if I'd seen any more of them they'd be gone too.

RICHIE3

Cats are extremely hard on quail and pheasant young along with screwing up a deer hunt. If I am far enough away from farms or house, and do not recognize the cat, it will be leveled. I have also had to take out a couple dogs for a farmer after they ran his cattle into and thru a new barb-wire fence.

Tazman

First thing I would like to say is squirrel although harder to skin than a cat, taste a lot better.

Second I kill every feral cat I see. Feral cats are very easy to differentiate from domestic ones in one of two ways (sometimes both) if they have been feral for several generations they will actually have pads on thier hind legs like a bobcat and or they will run like a rabbit zig zagging unlike a domestic cat which for the most part runs in a fairly straightline.

The Tazman

IL_BOW_MAN

Taz, all I want to know is how you know it is easier to skin a cat?

We don't have any in the area I hunt in, but I would not hesitate to take care of the problem if one walked by.

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Tazman

Actually I do not know if a cat is easier to skin or not, but I know that a squirrel is a pain in the rear to skin, I quit hunting squirrel because of that. My cousin had a way of skinning them that he must have shown me 100 times and I still couldn't get it right. I would rather skin 10 deer than skin one squirrel, I know I could skin all the deer before I would have the squirrel skinned. The way my cousin skinned a squirrel was he held it by the tail and cut a slit through the skin between the anus and the tail, then he would step on the tail and pull on the hind feet, voila!!!! The squirrel was skinned, all I could ever do was succeed in pulling the tail off!

The Tazman

Robb92

I HAD THAT HAPPEN ONCE BUT IT WASN'T A CAT IT WAS A DARN GROUSE, I HAD A PERFECT SHOT A A DOE AND AS I GOT SET TO SHOOT HER A GROUSE FLEW UP AND SPOOKED THE DOE,

Russ otten

Taz,
Another way to skin a squirrel. Cut the skin around the midsection, then grab and pull both ways. After you get one or the other pulled over the head/tail, step on that one and finish the other end. Cut off head, tail and back legs. Then take care of the innards. It don't take long this way, in fact, you can skin 5 squirrels in 5 minutes.