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So about a year ago, I got this cat from a guy I knew. It's an orange cat, we got it as a kitten. It grew up in a trailer park (first mistake). Got it home and it was ok for a few months. Everybody got along. Until he started to piss on stuff. My bed has been pissed on twice, various clothing articles, bags and customer items have been pissed on as well. I've got 2 HUGE black garbage bags full of stuff I need to take to the laundromat. A couple months back we (I got the cat for my mom since she loves orange cats) decided to let it out. Things were ok for a couple weeks until it came back with it missing a golf-ball size piece of skin/muscle on it's arm. Not wanting to pay a vet bill, we cleaned and helped him heal. He is a wild cat, literally, he's probably feral. So after doing good for a while healing his arm and bandaging it every day, he decided to bust out one of the window screens and disappear for 2 days. Of course he came back wounded again. We did this for a while, he busted out 3 window screens, hurt himself getting the screen door open. Now on top of all of this, he still pisses on things inside and howls at night (and during the day). He can't go out because he fights but keeping him inside and he pees on things and crys all the god damn time. It's gotten to the point where I could literally kill him with my bare hands and I've come close. On top of the wounds, piss and whining, it's summer. The smell of piss lingers in the house and we can't open windows so it's constantly hot, stuffy and piss-smelling.

So, we put him up for adoption (can't drop him off at the humane society, found that out after an hour drive and him bloodying up his arm to get out of the cage) and there's hopefully someone coming by on the 16th.

I guess the "question" here is, if you were so frustrated with an animal, what would you do? Is killing it (with your bare hands?) totally morally unacceptable? I know I'll get a lot of shit for posting something like this with animal abuse questions but the thing is... where's the people abuse defenders? It has been nothing but hell with this animal and there's not a damn thing that I can do.

all cos u didnt have the balls to kill it

If it was mine, I would have personally done that a long time ago. But it's moms and it costs money to have a vet kill it. Blah blah blah. I think the biggest issue here is that the cat still has his nuts. They say something like 90% of neutered cats calm down. I don't want to spend the $60+ just to see if he's one of those 90% cats. If someone else wants to and I can get rid of him for free, great! We'll see what happens on Friday though...

Here is my spill. I would honestly say to kill the damn thing. When it pissed on your shit the first time you should have beat the ever loving hell out of it. The second time would have been the kill. Either "accidentally" run it over, kill it, or stuff it into the mailbox of someone you despise and super glue the box closed, shake it around, alot, hit it a couple of times, shake it some more, possibly fart in or around the box's vicinity, and leave. Make sure you shake thoroughly tho. You want it pissed on a new level. That would be a funny yet convenient way to dispose of it. So why you are watching eating an ice cream, the guy gets clawed, you drive away laughing, and you tell your mom you last saw it on the porch. If it comes back after that, kill it.   

Here is my spill. I would honestly say to kill the damn thing. When it pissed on your shit the first time you should have beat the ever loving hell out of it. The second time would have been the kill. Either "accidentally" run it over, kill it, or stuff it into the mailbox of someone you despise and super glue the box closed, shake it around, alot, hit it a couple of times, shake it some more, possibly fart in or around the box's vicinity, and leave. Make sure you shake thoroughly tho. You want it pissed on a new level. That would be a funny yet convenient way to dispose of it. So why you are watching eating an ice cream, the guy gets clawed, you drive away laughing, and you tell your mom you last saw it on the porch. If it comes back after that, kill it.   

I'll be honest. I'm surprised it still has sense enough to walk after all the times I've slapped, chased, and whacked it with a broomhandle. It ends in just a couple days...

Rat poison.

FTW!

The way I think is that you can't talk to or rationalize with animals. They understand few things, some of which are pain and fright. Smarter animals understand more (like dogs understand rewards). But this cat doesn't seem to correlate anything to anything. It's been weeks since he's been out and I would think he would forget about being outside in that time. This animal is either really dumb or really set in it's ways.

can i choose option A?

Still got it.... waiting to hear from the person that wants it...

What a lucky fuck. Today is grocery shopping day and on the way into town we contemplated paying the $65 to have the cat killed. When we got home, the person that wanted him said they could come out today and pick him up. I'm almost disappointed the little bastard gets to live.