Neighbour throwing stones at cats.

[soberton]

This morning around 7.30am I heard a cat fight going on outside in my back garden, by the time I got to my bedroom window I caught the tail end of it (excuse the pun). I didn't see my cat in the thick of it, although she may well have been involved. I did see next door neighbour's cat race back home through the gap at the end of the fence and another cat jump up over the wall and run down the back of the terrace. All three cats are black & white. My cat went to hide under some shrubs. The next thing I saw was man next door and his wife come out into their garden, he bends down and gets a handful of stones and takes aim ready to hurl them at the cat (probably mine, because he's always chasing her away if she shortcuts through his garden), I opened the bedroom window and actually saw him climb on the wall (just over 3 ft high) and his child's slide to see over the adjacent 6ft fencing where the cats went. As I said he had a fist full of stones from his garden border and his arm raised ready to throw them. The cats obviously had the sense to stay hidden and NDN eventually climbed back down. We're mid terrace but our back gardens back on sideways to the rear gardens of the houses of the next street. So the stones would have been aimed into another neighbour's garden!
Other neighbour's poor 12 year old cat was frightened by the commotion and might well have been hit if the moron hadn't got down. NDN are not tolerant of other cats going into their garden (it's a completely paved yard, no earth at all) however, it's pretty obvious that their cats is constantly going in other peoples, which nobody minds, but they obviously don't understand that cats are terratorial and will defend their 'space'. Please could you help me and let me know where the law stands on stone throwing and potentially hitting cats, is it something one would report to the police? On a different note they and their child are constantly kicking balls around in their back yard which inevitably come over the fences (sometimes several times a day) we & other neighbours are fed up with it, but just throw them back over at the end of the day.
Thank you for reading this far ad I'd really appreciate your replies.

[isseywithcats]

i would have shouted out the window dont you bloody dare throw stones at my cat but then im gobby , i would also keep the kids balls till the neighbour knocked and asked nicely for them back, might make his kids think about kicking them out of his yard,

[soberton]

Hi, thanks for your reply, although I suspect the scrap probably took place in my garden judging by the direction they all scarpered afterwards. It's a bit of a mudbath at the moment as we've just taken out some old shrubs and put grass seed down. I've seen NDN cat over my side a couple of times recently. The fact is that they'd dispersed just before he came out and tried to see over the fence with the stones in his hand. My cats have to go the the vets on Saturday (normal vaccinations) so I will try and find out where the law stands on NDN possible actions (it's a shame I didn't have a camera!). I wonder If I should warn other close cat owning neighbours?
TIA

[Kokusai]

I would tell your neighbors to warn them :-(

[RubbishMantra]

Bloody hell - I'm gobby too and would have had a shout. What a wanker of the highest order.

So he has a cat himself, and throws stones at your's? If he doesn't want your cat in his garden for whatever reason, he should buy a water pistol.

And yes, ring 101 and log it. Animal cruelty is a crime.