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Cat biting my little girl

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Mammaaof · 29/07/2020 13:01

I went out into our garden this morning and my little girl followed me out (enclosed garden no way she can get out) she started playing in her sand pit so I went back into the kitchen and left the door open, I was back and fore to the garden and back inside just pottering around. When I heard a scream, I ran out and my little girl was holding her hand saying the cat bite her, I asked her where the cat was and it was sitting on our garden chair but it was tucked under the table so I didn't see it when I was in the garden.
Now this car is known to be nasty, always hisses and shows its teeth at any neighbors who shoos it out of their gardens. This cat is constantly coming into our garden and sitting on our furniture.
Now I'm assuming my little girl has gone and tried to stroke the cat so not trying to make out she didn't do anything.
But aibu if I went and told the neighbour what had happened? Just to add we don't get along with these neighbours, neither does anyone in the street
Sorry for long post thank you x

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Mammaaof · 29/07/2020 13:22

@eatyourcake yes I've lived here 8 years but the new neighbours have only lived there 2 years, the cat isn't very old maybe a year old if that x

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BluebellsGreenbells · 29/07/2020 13:23

Can you borrow a dog?

Is there a male in yo house who can wee in the garden? That’s way they can smell a bigger predator and stay away. Or add something to your fence?

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Mammaaof · 29/07/2020 13:23

@Beamur I do feel sorry for the cat but I feel even more sorry for her child. SS are involved x

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Mammaaof · 29/07/2020 13:24

@BluebellsGreenbells yes we are having a puppy on the 13th but it's so small so worried the cat would attack the dog before it being scared of him x

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Beamur · 29/07/2020 13:24

Cats are territorial. This garden is it's territory. But boundaries change when new cats/dogs arrive.
My DH (before I met him) was actually attacked quite viciously by an adult male cat. DH's cat was 'new on the block' and kept getting into scraps with this cat and when he went out to rescue her the other cat went for him. He wasn't hurt luckily but was very shaken!

nothingcanhurtmewithmyeyesshut · 29/07/2020 13:25

If you can, trap it and take it to the vets so they can make sure it doesn't have some disease that could be passed on to your child. Extreme aggression like that, I'd be worried it has something wrong with it. Claim you dont know who it belongs to but it is vicious. They will scan it and neighbour will have to go up there to get it. Make sure its a pain to get to. Make her life inconvenient and maybe she'll keep it in especially if she has to pay for any care it receives while its there.

eatyourcake · 29/07/2020 13:25

I suppose there are 2 approaches, either with the squirting and the pebbles, or with love :) I wonder what would happen if you just ignore him completely, let him sit there and keep your distance, is he going to approach and attack? you could give him a treat to signal you're not a danger to him

Beamur · 29/07/2020 13:26

That's sad to hear.
Hope the noise/water deterrent helps!

GrannyBags · 29/07/2020 13:26

I have four cats and if they were causing trouble and someone came to tell me I’d keep them in. Agree with pp about having a water bottle to squirt it with.

brownchairs · 29/07/2020 13:27

Get some cat spikes for your fences. We had a similar issue except our neighbours cat used to shit all over the garden as well. Our garden was tiny so it made it impossible to just let toddler out safely. Cat spikes and also a water gun worked a treat.

JammyHands · 29/07/2020 13:28

Water pistol to discourage the cat, and explain to your daughter that she shouldn't go near animals that she doesn't know. That goes for any animal: cat, dog, hamster.

NoIDontWatchLoveIsland · 29/07/2020 13:28

All you can do OP is cat proof your garden. Google this, there are spikes etc you can put on fences etc.

vanillandhoney · 29/07/2020 13:30

[quote Mammaaof]@vanillandhoney that's so responsible of you! I think the neighbour loved this car when it was a kitten but since it's grown into a cat it's outside constantly waiting by the doorstep to be let in and when they don't let him in, the cat takes to entering other people's houses x[/quote]
Aww thank you! It's made easier by the fact that he doesn't want to go out - when a cat (especially a male) wants to be out and wandering it can be quite hard to stop them!

Hopefully your DD is okay

SomewhereInbetween1 · 29/07/2020 13:30

The difference between accepting responsibility for your pets between dog owners and cat owners is stark.

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Mammaaof · 29/07/2020 13:34

@brownchairs I did buy some spikes but they told me to take them off their wall, but that's the wall the cat keeps coming over

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User56781234 · 29/07/2020 13:35

Just a thought, is the cat neutered? It could be worth asking the owners although it doesn't sound as though they care very much about him.

I'm sorry about your daughter and glad her bite is now OK. I'd definitely invest in a water pistol for meanie cat and hope that she has better luck befriending the other cats.

heartsonacake · 29/07/2020 13:37

Let’s just say I would not be welcoming that cat into the garden ever again.

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Mammaaof · 29/07/2020 13:38

@User56781234 I don't think she is as I remember back in march she was advertising kittens for sale, we didn't see the car for about 4 weeks we thought she had ran away but it was back then assuming after she had the kittens x

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Mammaaof · 29/07/2020 13:39

I just find it so strange that if my dog had jumped into her garden and bitten her child, I'd be arrested probably (rightly so!!) But because it's a cat it's a different story

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brownchairs · 29/07/2020 13:43

Oh no. We were lucky in that the fence on our side between their garden was ours.
The other side didn't care what we did.

Water gun. Every. Single. Time.
It really is a pain.
Maybe throw catnip in someone else's garden ?

Littlemeadow123 · 29/07/2020 13:47

@LunchBoxPolice

It is not dangerous to children for crying out loud. The OP's daughter walked up to it and stroked it. It didn't attack her. Small children should always be supervised around dogs and cats, even friendly ones.

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Mammaaof · 29/07/2020 13:47

@brownchairs I know I wish it was my wall and it can't go any higher as it's already 6ft!
Thank you so much for your help! Will definitely be throwing tuna chunks in neighbours garden

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1forAll74 · 29/07/2020 13:49

I think spraying the nasty ferocious cat is the best thing to do, cats usually hate this., they will know to stay away after a while. It is scary for a small child to have experienced this though, and hopefully it won't make her think that all cats are like this.

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Mammaaof · 29/07/2020 13:50

@Littlemeadow123 it is dangerous, it's gone to attack another neighbour previously without her being anywher near it. So my children aren't allowed to play in the garden incase NEXT doors cats wants to lounge on my furniture

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Mammaaof · 29/07/2020 13:52

@1forAll74 we are trying to find a friend with a nice cat so we can take her to see the cat so she doesn't associate all cats being nasty, we my partner's brother is absolutely petrified of dogs due to bad experience when he was younger and it's really affected his life x

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