I need your collective wisdom in helping my cat. He used to go outside daily and enjoy a good wander and snooze on the neighbour's shed roof in the sun. However recently another cat has appeared in the neighbourhood and has decided to claim the territory as his own. I call this new cat psychokitty because he has killed all of my fish from the pond and left them strewn across the garden, once spent several hours sat on my windowsill staring at me before launching an attach on the window, and has made all other cats in the neighbourhood scared. I used to see lots of other cats roaming across the high wall that divides the gardens of our street and the one behind, now only psychokitty. A neighbour who also has a cat has also told me that hers has refused to go out in weeks and psychokitty is often in their garden too.
If I open the door for my cat he'll sniff at the air and then go running back in to the house. He's very active and while he's not going outside has become very demanding for play. Keeping him in also means we need a litter tray which is causing problems at the moment as I'm very newly pg and my partner boaks every time he cleans it so it's causing tension between us. I really need to help my cat go outside! I've tried chasing psychokitty away with a water squirter every time I see him in the garden but he doesn't run far and soon comes back. Is there anything I can do?
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InsufficientlyCaffeinated · 18/12/2015 11:47
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