Large Ginger tabby has been coming into my garden for 3 weeks- several times a day. Fighting with my very old (18 year old) cat, harassing the birds and coming into the house- i've water pistoled it 3 times this week. Next door have had the same problem, and even had to take their own moggy to the vet.
It's the other next door neighbours. She is a pain in the arse. I've been over several times to tell her (as have next door) that she needs to keep her violent cat in doors. And it is violent- if you approach it, it hisses at you and lashes out.
Was disturbed 20 mins ago by a horrible catterwalling in the garden- this cat had mine literally pinned to the ground and was biting his throat. I couldn't pull him off- so I gave him (I will admit a bit too) firm booting and it ran off. My own cat was just lying there looking lifeless- so DP ran and called the vet and has taken him off to the emergency vet. Heaven knows how much it is going to cost us- and as DP has just taken voluntary redundancy we can't really afford it. It could honestly be the difference between saving our cat and paying the gas bill.
Neighbour has come over and claims that she has me "abusing her cat" on CCTV. She does have CCTV- but when I pointed out it was necessary for me to potentially save my own cats life, I was left with no option. This was happening over the garden fence and other neighbour came out and was backing me up and we have tried to tell her again, calmly, that she needs to keep the cat indoors if she wants to keep it. The cat isn't injured- I saw him bolting over her garden fence in another direction as we were talking.
I'm pissed off. I'm seriously debating calling the RSPCA and reporting her.
Someone please tell me IABU and talk me down because i'm not a nasty person.
AIBU?
To of given this cat a boot up the backside and to call the RSPCA?
katsopolis · 05/05/2016 22:02
YANBU at giving a cat a little boot to get it away from your own. I have 4 cats, love them dearly but if another cat was attacking ours to that extent I'd use my shoe-toe on it. Call the RSPCA and tell her what you're doing and that she's going to be held responsible for vets fees incurred by her devilcat from hell until she can either tame it or give it a lobotomy.
to you and your cat. Hope he's not too injured and home soon.
You can call the RSPCA but I can't see that they would care. The only "cruelty" here is you kicked the cat. (They won't prosecute her for the fact her cat attacked yours!)
Keep your cat in or cat proof your garden? It's unfair but you can't make the neighbour keep their cat in.
Or just persist with the water pistol.
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