How to get a cat out of your house?

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Have been woken up a few times by a cat miaowing. Our cat is shut downstairs. I shine a light under the bed and it's my cats mortal enemy . It's injured my cat on a few occasions. It's pissed under the bed ☹️ I've tried to get it out of the house for 3 and half hours now. Offering treats , even blown a pet dryer at it. It's bitten my DD on the leg. It's now perched on top the windowsill and won't get down even with food there. I've blocked all exits apart from the front door. Hesitant to wrap it with a towel as it's a nasty thing.

Water spray bottle. Spray it & it will bolt

Can you all run around making the shush noise they hate so much, maybe whilst running a broom handle under the bed?

This is presuming your own poor dc is safely in another room!

Make up a solution of lemon scented washing up liquid and put it in a spray bottle. Follow it around, spraying it with the washing up liquid solution, hissing at it. Do that every time you catch it in the house, it'll soon get the message.

Cats hate the taste of soap and anything citrusy.

Towel or water spray. Towel is preferable as you can pick it up and take it straight out of a door, a water spray will have it running all over the place,

You seem so calm. Terrifying!

I find the hairdryer makes them bolt

How is it getting in? If through a cat flap, can you get one that works via microchip and only lets your cat in?

Oven gloves

Throw a huge blanket over it. Then take it to the council. They can find the owner

If it's on a window ledge personally as it's a vicious little shit of a cat I would open the damn window and knock it out with the broom.

Is it a stray? Can you call RSPCA?

Please don't spray directly on the cat or leave wet spray where they might wall. Citrus is toxic to cats and if it gets on their fur/paws they'll lick it off and ingest it. That would be horribly cruel.
(Citrus spray can be useful if sprayed carefully in areas that unwanted cats frequent and then left to dry, because the smell repels cats for obvious reasons).

What I would do is close all doors except the exit route, then grab a soft broom and use it gently to encourage the cat towards the exit. A cushion (that you don't care about claws destroying) can also be a good tool for gently encouraging a cat in the right direction. Gardening gloves and a sturdy coat/layers might come in handy for protection (especially if you resort to the towel method - if you do this I'd have a carrier next to you to bundle the cat into before you move it out of the room). Be careful doing anything that might antagonize the cat too much unless you want to risk further urine on your carpet or bloodshed... if your first attempts don't work, give it a break and then try again once the situation has calmed (just make sure that doors to other rooms stay closed and ideally that the exit route remains as free as possible).

Once the cat is removed, blot up as much of the urine as possible with kitchen roll, then use warm water with a little detergent to remove what you can (wet and then blot frequently with a dry cloth). You want to remove much of the urine as possible before using any other products (better to remove the issue than try to cover it up). Then use a stain and odour remover like this one from Pets at Home. If you can't get hold of an odour removing spray, try diluted biological laundry detergent, the enzymes will help to break everything down (in fact, I'd probably try biological laundry detergent first, as it often works really well and might save you from buying an expensive one off product). I'd leave the final product (bio laundry detergent or spray) on for a good half an hour to an hour before blotting dry (do check an area of carpet for colour fastness if you're worried about using any products on it).

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Poppins2016 · Today 06:23

Please don't spray directly on the cat or leave wet spray where they might wall. Citrus is toxic to cats and if it gets on their fur/paws they'll lick it off and ingest it.

Ah, sorry - I hadn't realised, I just thought it was nasty tasting.

To be fair, bog standard lemon washing up liquid probably won't do too much harm (although it could irritate the eyes, mouth and nose), but some washing up liquids (usually the eco friendly ones) contain concentrated citrus oils and extracts. I wouldn't risk it with my cats.

A nice big bottle of water spray/a water pistol on the other hand... I'd say that's fair game and a highly effective!

Sounds like Putin.

Hopefully the cat is now gone OP.

i know it may have disturbed a neighbour, but I would have turned on the vacuum cleaner and put the nozzle in the general direction of the cat. They usually scarper before it gets anywhere near.

I hope your dd is OK. Cat bites can turn septic easily. Personally I would have used a broom to get the vile thing out. How disgusting that it pissed in your bedroom. I can imagine the outcry and demands that it be put down if you had posted that a dog had come into your house, bitten your child and pissed everywhere.

I managed to get it out at 6am. The problem is my cat is disabled (he's an amputee) he gets bullied by all the local cats. It's even done a shit in his litter tray and eaten his food 😠 then pissed under the bed. I think while DH was doing his motorbike the cats gotten in I have told him to always keep the door shut . Poor Dcat can't even relax in his own home.

It really is hahaha invaded my house hopefully the little shit never comes back.

Get the hoover out! It’s the mortal enemy of all pets

Chuck a blanket over it, grab it by the scruff of the neck and take it to its owner if you know who that is, if you don't then just get it out of your house.

Hopefully it will dislike the treatment of it so much it will be put off coming back again.