Cats shot by neighbour

all cat owners have the same responsibility of control as dog owners and under no circumstances should pet cats be allowed to roam uncontrolled/without supervision

Could you provide a link to the Control of Cats Act please?

I must have missed it.

Love the generalisation there, there are over 100k licensed firearm owners in this country and you’d be hard pushed to find one who would intentionally injure any animal in this manner.
Firearm ownership in this country is a privilege that can be withdrawn very easily.
Applying for a firearms license entails providing information to An Garda that no other law abiding citizen in any other sport or pastime has to provide and we also have to deal with clueless opinions like yours on a regular basis.
Can you please explain how you have come to the conclusion that firearm owners are dangerous or they’re cowards? Where are all the stories of legitimate firearms owners in this country harming others?

To the OP, unfortunately cats are a gray area when it comes to vermin. If they are causing a problem then a landowner may well be within their rights to humanely dispatch them. It’s highly unlikely anyone would use an air rifle to attempt this though.

Someone using an air rifle in an urban area in this manner is probably not someone who has a licensed firearm although that is speculation.
Your best way forward is to control your cats and inform Gardai of the situation.

You said - and I quoted your post "all cat owners had the same responsibility of control as dog owners."

The control of dogs is legislated for under the Control of Dogs Act. There is no equivalent legislation for the control of cats, so no, cat owners do not have the same responsibility of control as dog owners do, and your statement was false.

Most likely deliberately so, as you came back with "notice I didn't use the phrase legally responsible."

The rest I really couldn't be bothered wasting time getting into a debate about. Some people just hate cats.

Love the online hard man vigilante vibes here 😂😂😂

Yet you’re fine with insulting people you have no clue about anonymously over the internet. I never said I was a hunter, that was an assumption you made among many other assumptions.
The tone of your posts are a little concerning, vaguely threatening others because you don’t approve of their perfectly legal and acceptable choices.

Target practice, practice to what end? Practice just for practice sake sounds like you are a little over obsessed with guns whereas anyone I know with firearms views them as a tool to do a job.

I’m curious whether you hold all people who eat meat in the same regard or is it just the ones who are willing to take responsibility for the whole process of animal selection, slaughter, butcher and cook themselves rather than buy their meat in a nice clean sterilised pack from a shelf in the supermarket?

So rather than justify your prejudices and preconceptions or counter my points with reasoned arguments you’re resorting to silly faces now that you can no longer insult me.
That tells me all I need to know.

The Joule is a unit of measurement of energy, not velocity.

Velocity is a rate of change of position, so it'll always be expressed in terms of distance per unit time e.g. metres per second, miles per hour etc.

I'm sure it also came up about all the other wildlife that defecates in your back garden too.

Plenty of feral cats about too, estimated to be around 200k in Ireland.

Not all poop is created equal

Or delivered at ground level.

I find your replies on this thread surprising. Because wild animals do it, doesn’t exempt you from your cat’s nuisance.

I condemn what the neighbour does to the cats but if your cat impacts other people, don’t be surprised some of them are ready to take further actions.

Why should I pay the price for a decision you took?

It isn’t surprising but you also have some people that don’t see an issue with their cats going around hunting and digging to leave small “gifts” in other people’s garden.

Tell me, can you distinguish a feral cat's poop from a poop done by someone's pet?

You're making some pretty big assumptions here about my cat being a "nuisance" so I'll share this much. My cats (2) have a large litter box in the house which they both use daily and they are kept indoors at night. They don't spend a lot of time outdoors but they are allowed outside. Both wear brightly coloured collars with identity tags and loud bells and are microchipped to me as the registered owner. All my neighbours know them and know they belong to me, and I haven't had a single complaint about them pooping on anyone's lawn, so make of that what you will.

But also know that I won't keep them confined against their nature to suit any neighbour who is simply paranoid about cats.

So I'll leave it at that.

That's a bit unfair, they won't be kept in against their nature so tough titty to your neighbours. And if I had an issue with a cat **** in my garden the last thing I'm going to do is contact the neighbour because when the cat disappears guess who suspect nr. one is going to be?

I had an issue in my last house with cats pooping in flower beds/pots etc.

I didn't mind the cats, neighbour had about 6! But didn't appreciate the poop. I spread this green jelly stuff I got in the hardware shop 'stay off' or something like that. Threw it around the flowers, problem solved.

Never saw a mouse or rat in all my time there either🙂

I must say that while I haven't gone "hunting" in a couple of years, I did quite enjoy the peace of roaming the local farmland and taking my shotgun to any pigeons eating the crop the farmer had planted. These would then be thrown into the ditch for fox, or taken home to be consumed. My interaction with nature is to sometimes dispatch the animal and eat it. There's nothing quite like eating something you've killed and prepared yourself.

As to the content of the OP. It sounds like the neighbour shooting the cats needs to be challenged. Anything gun capable of causing a flesh injury at any distance is going to be a modified BB gun, pellet gun or less likely, an air rifle. All of these require license and such licenses require specific use on the application. I am pretty sure that if there were a license in place, the applicant didn't include the shooting of cats in an urban area.

Ask them for proof. As posted earlier, my cats are identifiable.

Because surely if you see a cat pooping in your garden, you can take a photo or a video of it doing it.

No proof that shows it's my cat? Then I'm not interested. It could be any cat.

And if they show you the photo/video?