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Help - neighbouring cat invading and spraying!

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willow2 · 24/04/2007 10:26

Over the past few weeks a (new) neighbouring cat has started to come into our house. The last two times he has come in the little bastard has sprayed on my cats' bed and on MY sofa! This morning he decided to come in while I was doing the school run and have another spray. I am so p'd off, I feel like killing the bloody creature.
I have chased him out of the garden a few times, armed with the garden hose, but how do I stop him thinking my casa is his f'ing casa? We have an old petmate cat flap that used to be magnetically controlled, but the lock is a bit knackered so doesn't work properly any more. Plus the cat flap was put into a glass panel when we had French doors built - so replacing it, with an invariably new design that doesn't fit the original hole, is going to be a total pta and involve the cost of a new cat flap and a sodding glazier. Add to that the fact that one of my cats constantly loses her collar, so would end up unable to get back in at some point - no doubt when we were away on holiday or summat - and you can see why I am keen to just catch the offending Tom, stick him in the car and take him to the nearest RSPCA shelter. (Joke btw, before anyone gets on their high horse.)
Any solutions, other than getting DH to pee on the cat so it knows it's not king of the castle? (That was a joke too... well, kind of.)

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mrcandmre · 24/04/2007 10:28

LOL..sorry.
I remember my parents had a problem with a neighbours cat coming through their cat flap and peeing and spraying everywhere.
My Dad got so hacked off with it that he sat up waiting one night, grabbed the little bugger and dunked him in a bucket of cold water.

It never came back.

willow2 · 24/04/2007 10:32

I am close to doing something similar.

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mrcandmre · 24/04/2007 11:07

You should LOL.
Have you spoken to the owners? they should snip it's wotsit off.
Other than never opening a door window or catflap ever again, what else is there to do?

scatterbrain · 24/04/2007 11:15

Oh sympathies - we've had this problem for two years now ! We've caught it in a trap, dunked it in a bucket, squirted it with water so many times it must think it's a fish - and yet still it does what it does !!

Ours is feral we think !

We now lock the cat flap every night - and chase the bugger out whenever we see it ! It is really scared of us - but still comes in our house two or three times a day !

We are moving now - partly because of the cat !

willow2 · 24/04/2007 11:39

I don't know who owns the bloody thing.

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scatterbrain · 24/04/2007 11:41

It doesn't matter who owns it - how could an owner stop its cat doing this ?? It's not the same as having a dog - people don't understand that !

MuminBrum · 24/04/2007 11:41

We had a cat that did this - my DP trapped it in the kitchen by turning the catflap to "in only" and then sprayed him all over with a really pongy deodorant! The poor cat (I did feel a bit sorry for it) apparently did a wall of death run round and round the walls with the Lynx Africa close behind it. But it never came back.

willow2 · 24/04/2007 13:02

Scatterbrain - I'm not daft, I do realise that the owners can't ensure this doesn't happen again. That said, neutering Tom cats is to be recommended - particularly when they're spraying all over someone else's home... and don't even get me started on their ability to spawn countless unwanted litters of kittens. Plus it may well be that the cat is locked out of its own home, hence the fact it's looking to enter mine. Another neighbour falls into this category - won't put a cat flap in, even though another neighbour has offered to do the job for them, so sick are they of the sodding cat coming in to their home and fighting with their cats. So it's not quite as black and white as you might think.

That said, looks like I have managed to mend the current cat flap. So hopefully the no magnet/no entry will stop it.

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scatterbrain · 24/04/2007 14:13

Pardon me for bloody speaking then !

mrcandmre · 24/04/2007 15:05

Calm down calm down peeps...lol. The cat just needs his bits chopping off, that said the cat obviously needs the owners to do it for him..(well not them personally lol!)

Anyway Willow2, I really hope your problem is solved..be it by a cold water bath, or chopping it's nuts off. ...

Good luck with the little bugger

willow2 · 24/04/2007 16:53

Wasn't having a go- just explaining.

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Desperate07 · 30/08/2017 14:41

What can you do if his bits have already been removed and he still does it?

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