[Bagpuss]

Originally Posted by Tealeaf

I know that many of you on here live in the traditional Accy 2up/2 down terraced house and are as such are well used to the endless parade of ferral cat vermin on your backyard walls.Some of these animals may well pocess a domestic collar, their owners under the somewhat farsical fantasy that these flea-spreading, pi**ing, sh*ting, bird exterminating machines are some sort of domesticated animal. Others do not, simply living wild and interbreeding with their Whiskas-pampered cousins.

If, like me, you are unavailable most of the day to blast these little monsters away with a good .22 air rifle, may I recommend a cheap wire snare? For the cost of a few pence and 5 minutes of your time you should have no difficulty in rigging up one of these simple contraptions on your backyard wall.The good thing about them is that once the cat gets it's head entangled in the wire noose it usually panics and slips off the wall, usually slowly choking on the end of the wire. At the end of a busy day at work, it's simply a case of popping outside and cutting the wire, with said dead cat dropping into black bin liner for disposal. It should take no more than a minute to knot your new noose and attach to the top of the wall.

Simple, but effective.

Oh yes, could we have a diagram to work off please, although I'm having fun with my paintball gun your solution does have the final say.