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further problem with street cat
ok im getting really fed up now
further to my previous post the cat mention continues to try and get into the homes of people in the street, its even climbing over my (& maybe others, I dont know) gate, when the backdroor is open.
It is also rubbing itself next to the wood on the doorstep and the wooden gate.
Seriously I woul dlike to know how to prevent the cat from wanting in my house. The garden would be ok if I didnt know it wanted to get in.
further to my previous post the cat mention continues to try and get into the homes of people in the street, its even climbing over my (& maybe others, I dont know) gate, when the backdroor is open.
It is also rubbing itself next to the wood on the doorstep and the wooden gate.
Seriously I woul dlike to know how to prevent the cat from wanting in my house. The garden would be ok if I didnt know it wanted to get in.
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Anyway. I used a spray bottle. I don't actually spray him, just near him whenever he jumps onto the fence. He now doesnt come into the garden at all. I keep the bottle near my back door which deters him. Also just the sound of the spray is enough for him to leave the garden.
I felt awfully cruel but I couldn't have any windows or doors open, leave any food out and the children couldn't leave a toy for 5 minutes. I did have a locking flap but I don't know how he still managed to get in.
Yes I am aware cats roam, but prior to this one, ive not had one run to the door, the moment I open it, and certanily none so bold as to run in my house, up my stairs and into my bedroom.
If you like the cat so much, you can come down and claim it.
That said I think my sister wants to keep it :mad:
Have you tried a cat flap that reads the chip. My cats can ram raid cat flaps so i no it can be done.
Poor thing needs love and some din dins. Cats rub against things as their own sat nav system.
Perhaps you would like to come to my garden and clear up the damage a cat has caused to my vegetables?
I am fed up of clearing up their droppings from my vegetable beds and not to mention it digging up my seedlings causing around £100 of damage,
Cats shouldn't roam, If a dog roams it's classed as a stray,
You want a cat, You keep it in your own house I don't want one on my property because I can't stand the bloody things
Not to mention another cat terrorising our pet rabbit
May I suggest you put up mini fencing (preferrably a pointed one) or wire mesh around and over your vegetable patches. I have 2 cats and one of them particularly used to keep digging up my plants to do her business and damaging them, so I put up a mini fence and placed a wire mesh over the plants and it has worked wonders.
Also try placing large stones or small pieces of rocks if you can get them, in the soil and around the plants and vegetables - cats don't tend to dig in areas if these things are placed in the soil I've discovered - mine haven't anyway since I've done this.
it's really not any different. the cat is causing damage to someone else's property, maybe that property doesn't matter to you (obviously) but it damn well matters to them and i don't really think that a bit of water used as a deterrent is going to harm the puss now is it?
it's highly unlikely to even come into contact with the cat.
Now i don't mind cats, i just wouldn't have one myself. (at the moment we have no choice though as one seems to want to move in)
they can come into the garden as much as they want, but if they soil my grass or try hunting my pets (guineas, rabbits, quail) frankly, i don't give a hoot if the dog chases them out or if i have to get the water gun, they're being removed from the area in the quickest way possible and that is that, that grass is a food source and those animals have a right to exercise without disturbance.
i'm happy for the cat to come in and wander among the big guineas & rabbits while they're out, he doesn't bother to chase them & they're not really bothered by his presence.
but when he went after the 4 week old kittens which were hopping around the garden with their mum then he was forcibly chased out with a net (the only thing i had to hand at the time)
http://www.ecocharlie.co.uk/cat-clear.html