Lovely new cat has settled in smashing into our family - eats well, toilets appropriately and is wonderful with my two small DC.
Just one issue - a neighbours cat seems to view our back yard as his and basically sits on the step outside the cat flap and makes my poor cats life shit. I think my cat, 6 yr old boy, is not the most dominant of fellows and is now too scared to venture out if black cat is on the vicinity.
It started as just yowling at each other out the back but this camping out by the cat flap is upsetting me - my boy won't go out even though, allegedly, he was a fierce hunter before he came to us.
Any tips - before I can even get the door open, black cat is gone so can't spray etc... do I just wait for my cat to grow a bit of backbone to wrestle his territory back or can I give him a helping hand in some way?
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My poor cat being terrorised by a big black menace!
FushandChups · 16/12/2014 18:56
What is it with black cats - my best friend growing up had a gorgeous black cat who was definitely the head honcho in his hood (when he died, their other cat got ten bells knocked out of him for months 
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I could never hurt him and, as mentioned above, it's pretty cold and wet already at the moment so not sure if a soaking would be particularly kind right now.
C'mon my cat - it's your garden so fight the bloody thing off!!
Evil cat has got much braver - I'm just sat in my living room waiting for my custard to cool (am in the depths of some Bavarian gateau nightmare for DD), glance next to me and there it is, bold as bloody brass, just sat tucked in beside the sofa 
I reached out to try and pet it so I could encourage it to leave and full on hiss - proper horrible and scared me shitless!
Promptly got a glass of water and dumped it on it, it then proceeded to race round my Xmas tree and then finally back out the cat flap
I can't afford a microchip cat flap at the mo (and I also rent so don't want to leave something that expensive behind) but that scared me witless! It was just sat there - staring at me!! You know when something just doesn't feel right and I just looked and arghhhh
Hope water has persuaded it to leave us alone for the festive season but given the sheer balls it's shown tonight, who knows...
My poor puss - evil cat is huuuuge!
I'm beginning to really dislike this big black cat...
After the water throwing, I think (only think mind you) that It has twigged not to come in but has now taken to battering the cat flap.. so my cat comes haring in followed about 10 seconds later by the cat flap being battered
I guess my cat has the safety of the house but I hate that he is so intimidated in his own yard..
Tried opening the only window that I could really get the cat from and it seems to be stuck. its also the old fashioned push up windows which weigh a ton so I think by the time I get it up and arm myself, like with the back door, cat will be long gone.. argh!
Kyles - it is horrible, isn't it? At least my puss has our house - although obviously that has been breached once. My cat was home at the time and I would never have known there was an intruder from his behaviour...
This is all new to me - my previous, tiny cat was very dominant and used to just sit and watch others fight in front of her.. like some sort of Queen watching her gladiators 
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