I have 2 cats, both female, one nearly 3 and the other is just over 1.
they both wear collars with magnets and have mastered the cat flap, which is the sort where you need the magnet to get in, but not out of the house.
Some near neighbours have a few cats, and one has taken a shine to our house, to the extent that she keeps breaking in. At first, she seemed to get in by chasing one of ours and coming in nose to tail before the flap shut, but the little *** has now got devious.
She's realised that the cat flap can't be pushed inwards if she hasn't got a magnet - which she hasn't - and after a period of headbutting it, has now been seen by DH, using her claws to pull it outwards towards her, flip it in the air and dive under it!
I'm begrudgingly impressed. Senior cat is not, and has -I think - begun to spray in the house. (It is possible that it is intruder cat who had sprayed.) DH and I both work full time in the week so either had the opportunity.
It is happening almost daily, and starts at about 6.30am when I am woken up by hearing her at the cat flap. My bedroom is above, and if I wake fast enough, I can open the windows and shout / throw water and she will run away.
But she always, always comes back. I was ill in bed one day last week and was less alert, and woke to see her outside my bedroom door!
Does anyone have any ideas to get pestcat out of this habit? My two love going out, so don't want to turn them into house cats, but am getting desperate, and can't have them being harassed in their own house!
thanks for any help
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deeplybaffled · 02/06/2014 00:11
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