This morning.
Dublin 8.
Dara writes:
This is an abandoned house on my street in Dolphin’s Barn that somebody has recently started renovating. There’s been a family of stray cats living there as long as I can remember, getting in and out through a break in one of the window blockades. Some local pensioners feed them from time to time…
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Could’ve said please
Developers never say please they just say “bend over”.
Racists
Cattists
coming over here decimating the native bird population
Stupid birds should evolve faster
just cos its been renovated doesn’t mean its a developer you know.
It’s a protest against Andrew Lloyd Webber’s extraordinary measures in the House of Lords.
Cats are the worst though, in fairness.
“Some local pensioners feed them from time to time…”
Yeah that’s annoying for anyone living on the street. Stray cats are pests, not pets. Mangy old yokes.
I live on the street and it doesn’t bother me at all. I don’t mind the cats, and the old ones love a good chat about them. No harm. I can see why the builders don’t want them in the house, but they could just block up the way they’re getting in…
no harm, except for the sh*t and potential exposure to toxoplasmosis
choose life, choose dublin 8, choose a nice street with a nice fixer upper in a nice neighbourhood, choose grannies, choose crap graffiti about stray cats and 90s film references to junkies dying in the most unfortunate of circumstances.
Ye, seems to be a done thing in working class areas. In Ring’s End park the residents throw their old bread over their back walls into the park ‘for the birds’. Just attracts extra rats and then dogs get sick more frequently from eating random rubbish.
Call the pest control people, several operate in Dublin. I guess that could involve a whip-round with your neighbours though to pay them – but worth it in the end.
Yeah sure might as well kill them; they’re only animals trying to survive.
Pest control is an inappropriate entity to deal with cats and frequently engage in animal cruelty, a crime that is slowly beginning to be taken more seriously (finally). If you contact pest control for situations like this, should they engage in cruelty to the cats, you could potentially also be charged. The appropriate thing to do is to contact organisations such as North Dublin Cat Rescue, or Feral Cats Ireland, or Cats Aid, they have experienced people who can trap the cats, get them neutered and rehomed. A decent person would also offer them the fee they would have been willing to pay a pest control company
There’s a 20 or 30-strong community of feral cats living on the vacant lot at the end of Exchange Street at the west end of Temple Bar. Group of homeless guys who live in the lot feed them every day – they say it’s to keep the rats away. Apparently, last year, one of them took off his shoes at night while sleeping because he had gout – rats were attracted to uric acid in his toes and chewed them off him. So they brought in a couple of stray cats. I’d happily have cats over rats, thanks.
Has it cleared the gout?
I like cats, but it will take a long, lomg long time to get rid of the smell of cat piss in the building. Non neutered male cats are the culprits mostly, marking their territory. They will have argued about who owns that territory through the medium of cat piss for years. Good luck with the smell!
Yeah, there’s been some equipment that sounds like an industrial dehumidifier running in the basement for about 2 weeks now.
+1 nuke it from space the only option. That smell will genuinely not be going anywhere.
Ever lived with a lad from Longford? Worse, I assure you.