to have just thrown water over my neighbour's cat?

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I usually miss but got him this time.
I have a cat and wouldn't mind someone squirting him out of their garden but I just used a saucepan full and swore at him too.
Cat poo is so yukky. I have put up a fence to stop mine getting into my neighbour's garden after they complained and totally see where they're coming from as they grow a lot of food.
I'm on both sides of this arguement!

I obviously can't speak for all cats, but I don't think it causes them serious distress. It just pisses them off a bit, and they do learn from it.
I've had to bath cats a couple of times, now that does upset them.

I obviously can't speak for all cats, but I don't think it causes them serious distress. It just pisses them off a bit, and they do learn from it.
I've had to bath cats a couple of times, now that does upset them.

if getting wet distresses cats, why do they sit out in the rain and then jump on the bed with soggy paws?

I have 2 cats and have no problem with anyone getting them with water if they were pooing in their garden. I do this to the horrible Ginger Tom that insists on coming through my cat flap.

My tribe have probably had a fair few soakings in their time, and I don't have any issues with them. They're not sat in puddles of woe refusing to go out.

I tend to welcome most cats into my garden, though I did wage a war of watery vengeance on the feral fucker that ripped my left arm to shreds. He no longer comes in the garden (he seemed to take getting a direct hit on his backside from a washing up liquid bottle full of COLD water personally) though I have seen him once or twice using the fence at the bottom of the garden as a pathway. If I catch him in my garden again he's getting crated into a cat box and shipped to the nearest cat rescue centre.

Frequent visitors to my garden are the petite black female that scares the crap out of my three strapping ginger boys, and Mr Mao, a loud shouty tomcat who enjoys chuntering for five minutes while he is stroked.

Would love to see my boys react to a squirrel, it was funny enough when we had hedgehogs. All three of them sat looking at the 'hogs eating their food, and all too afraid to go claim their biscuits

I use a supersoaker - I do know someone that used an air gun - I thought that was a bit out of order - and i HATE cats.

I try and soak the ones that come in my garden to cr*p. Not had huge luck yet though unfortunately, as the plates I covered the bare soil in can attest to. No cats bury it around here unless it's in the gravel, and even then it varies depending on mood and cat artistic ability.

This year I am pregnant so have been unable to grow food in two out of three of my raised beds due to incidences of cat poo and never having had toxoplasmosis. This has cost us around £200 in lost GYO food as a minimum estimate. Add to that the cost of the failed attempts at repelling them (humane), including the netting that I have had a cat jump into so it can poo in the beds (5 foot high but too near a fence). Oh, and the damage to our drive (dug down to the hardcore to the extent that we can't fix it and will most likely need to redo it in that area) and we're quite seriously out of pocket for other folks pets right now.

So yeah, I try and soak them. :)

(as for the asthmatic cat, is it not unwise to let her out of the house at all given her condition is sparked by being startled?)

Are you not worried that if you throw water at said cat, after midnight, that it may produce further miniature cats that can cause havoc in computers and tie up people? Or have I just watched Gremlins....

(I chuck water at my own big fat spoiled cat when he meows to get in at 5am. He learned his lesson. He did not produce minature cats that cannot be fed after midnight. Nor did he die from getting a bit wet).

I don't think I can spell miniature. Cheers

I have used a water pistol on my own cat when training her to leave the lounge/curtains alone.

She appears completely untraumatised by this and made the connection between clawing my stuff and getting squirted pretty quick.

I wouldn't throw water at random kids.

I would use the hose.

I have used water with my cat's annoyingly loud meowing.