Crazy cats

[Kirova]

My neighbours have two Bengal cats. They are very beautiful, very affectionate but INCREDIBLY noisy and they have no boundaries at all.

We cannot open a window or door because one or both of them will immediately run in and start roaming around, leaping on surfaces and rolling around. They miaow loudly and (seemingly) incessantly, and for no discernable reason. One of them has taken to killing things and presenting the offerings to me. The other has started using our entire place as an exercise circuit, which involves energetic leaping off roofs and through windows.

My two elder daughters adore them, whereas my youngest and very docile black cat are less keen. I know, they are cats... They can't be told what to do... But they are driving me a bit crazy! They are everywhere, all the time! What can be done?

I had this problem. Sending the neighbour's cat into exile in Scotland (after 5 years) was the only answer 🤣.
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnetclassics/3564597-Next-doors-thug-cat

I can't open the link, sadly, but I'm curious about how you deported the cat to Scotland!

Try again.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/3564597-Next-doors-thug-cat

The deportation to Scotland worked so well for the first exile that there’s now a second cat trying his luck.

Bengals should be indoor cats. They are incredibly valuable and many are stolen because breeders sometimes assume they aren't spayed or neuteured. Really irresponsible of your neighbours to just let them roam about.

This happened to us but he was walking about a mile to get here. No one on the road could leave a door open or he'd be in. My cats were terrified of him. I used to ring his owners to get him, sometimes they did if he'd been missing a while. They sent us all a leaflet explaining where he lived and how we weren't supposed to let him in. He had 2 trackers on him unless he'd slipped out while they were charging them.

I suggested keeping him in, at least for a while, but he didn't get on with their other cats.

He ended up getting knocked over crossing the busy road between their house and our road. Think they probably still blame other people for it.

This is no help to you, but I understand your problem!

There was an amazing thread on The Litter Tray area of Mumsnet, following the chronicles of a man who lived next door to a bengal known as TC (Thug Cat)

This sounds annoying. It's ridiculous that these animals are being bred more and more as they don't work well as domestic pets for most people. Keeping them indoors isn't really practical or fair on them as they're active and need to expend energy. Poor cats. Whats wrong with a moggy?

Sorry OP, not sure what to suggest!

You may have missed my comment and link above.
Glad you appreciated my thread 😁.

I'd love them to visit me. But then I prefer all cats over people any day of the week. Don't think my cat would welcome them though.

Get yourself a water spray bottle and if they’re bothering you on your property give them a quick spray. It’s harmless yet will hopefully make them scamper.

@Grumpyoldpersonwithcatscant believe I missed that Grumpy!! Think I took too long to reply 😄

I’m always astonished when people let their very expensive purebred cats outside. I used to catsit in a wealthy area and they all had designer cats, kept inside with exercise wheels, massive houses with loads of climbing areas and often a purpose-built catio!

I’m a rescue moggy girl myself and one of mine is so territorial no neighbourhood cats dare darken my door.

I doubt these are very valuable ones - I feel like the owners would be making a bit more effort to keep track of them if so! Maybe they're sort of lower-classification Bengals.

Anyway, they are very sweet and not at all aggressive. But they are totally hyperactive and they get into everywhere and everything!

I'm not sure that water would work, as they seem to love playing beneath the sprinkler...

Thank you for the suggestions though! I'm not a cat hater at all... But these ones are taking over!

Update. I've tried to be hard-hearted and was hoping the cooler and wetter weather might deter them, but no change so far. The boy is constantly crying outside the window and in the end it seems less painful to give in rather than listening to his mournful yowls. I have never come across such noisy cats as these.

I love animals but this would drive me mad, OP.

I have been looking after DDs cat this week. Not a Bengal or any sort of valuable breed, just a moggy. But a very beautiful Tuxedo moggy.

Anyway, he is a housecat and I let him have the run of our house apart from a couple of rooms he is not supposed to go in. Of course he got in one of those forbidden rooms one day and seemed reluctant to leave. What I found was a very effective way of shifting him was to start playing the recorder. He lasted less than five seconds and then was out of there like a shot.

DD tells me the violin has a similar effect.

Get yourself an electronic cat flap linked to the microchip in the cat's neck?
Had similar things with Siamese, Bengal and now a pair of Maine coons who catch rabbits and somehow get it through a window that is seven foot high.

Alas, DD1 has a recorder from school and I found her playing "Now is the Month of Maying" to one of the cats last week, while it rolled around at her feet gazing up at her lovingly. They are definitely odd cats. Our cat can't abide the recorder and will bolt out of the room the second it's produced, never mind actually played.

aw can they visit me please