Thread: Taumarunui golf club cat / Facebook mob

You can get a sprinkler with a motion detector used to stop pigeons shitting everywhere it would work on cats.

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https://youtu.be/ElcviGYMb3U
I helped a mate make a cat deterrent with a washing machine solenoid valve a sprinkler and a motion sensor, it worked well and auto watered his vegetable garden.
I believe spraying pest animals with water is SPCA approved.
We have a dog and no cat issues but our neighbour has a beautiful tabby that our dog has almost got hold of more than once, I would hate that to happen but don’t want it in our vegetable garden.

Originally Posted by 2post

We have a dog and no cat issues but our neighbour has a beautiful tabby that our dog has almost got hold of more than once, I would hate that to happen but don’t want it in our vegetable garden.

I’ve run into the problem of my dogs catching wandering cats in our property… it certainly isn’t a positive step towards friendly neighbour relations. I always remember this article from a few years back because of the interview with the cat owner…

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/870...o-his-backyard

Originally Posted by Flyblown

I’ve run into the problem of my dogs catching wandering cats in our property… it certainly isn’t a positive step towards friendly neighbour relations. I always remember this article from a few years back because of the interview with the cat owner…

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/870...o-his-backyard

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Cat owners do have a duty of care to protect their pets though. Letting them wander could be considered failing in that duty.

Well, the old fella that shot the cat on the golf club grounds got away with it… no prosecution. Needless to say the “justice for vinny the cat” Facebook group is apoplectic. The cat’s owner said:

The police advised me today that unfortunately they can't take the matter any further in terms of seeking a prosecution. They have spent weeks looking at all possible angles, looking through legislation/laws, going through case law and thoroughly investigating all possible options, with assistance from a detective, and talking to prosecutions, but have been unable to establish a case that satisfies the requirements of the prosecution team. It wasn't for lack of trying, and the officers who worked on the case are both cat owners and have no involvement with the golf club.

The golf club have apparently changed their pest control practices to exclude shooting cats and some time after lockdown ends I'll be meeting with them, probably at the police station, to find out exactly what their new policy toward cats is.

The shooter apparently feels bad about what has happened, and says he never intended to shoot a pet cat. I don't think I'll ever believe him though.


There’s a backstory to this. The cat owner (Geoff) is a cat nut who has multiple cats that come and go, lots of rehoming of strays and so on. One of those “community cat” people. At any one time he has 8 or 9, sometimes more, sometimes less, and they are free to come and go as they please. I have a big problem with that. Something that hasn’t helped him is that he has in the past posted several photos of the birds that his cats catch in the bush between him and the golf club. None too bright Geoff. The cat was shot a good distance away from his house. Definitely not in his backyard as originally intimated.

Word is some of the locals nearby are none too impressed with the burgeoning cat population in the north end of town. It seems that Geoff’s cats breed like flies. Again, all stuff he freely shares with the world.

So my take on it is that he has lost one cat out of a transient number of waifs and strays, and the more permanent residents as his place.

I would love to know how far the Police really took this investigation. If they were unable to secure a case against the shooter to the satisfaction of the prosecutor, then maybe some of the case law that has been mentioned in this thread isn’t as strong as was thought. Maybe they’re just fobbing him off. Maybe the mood towards wandering cats has indeed shifted in favour of birdlife and fewer feral / stray / companion apex predators marauding around on private property and public land. Ultimately we’ll probably never know.

Interesting case this, nothing is ever as it seems of course. Is it ever?

There's always two sides to a story and we only got to hear the cat owners story. It certainly seems it didnt quite happen as he indicated. Ie not even a charge of careless use of a firearm (cat owner had said the rifle was discharged while pointing at residential housing).

Good outcome by the sounds.

Originally Posted by hoang2022chinmpzz

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What's all of this then, an order number for cat at your restaurant?

Its in VietNamese, so will be the order number for dogs, not cats