Started letting my 3yo female cat out this week, as we've moved to a lovely area away from main roads with lots of greenery, so feel safe letting her out here.
She's very confident and she's really loving it - not going too far either which is reassuring for me. However I've just been outside watching her and she was perched on my bottom fence, looking into another garden. She climbed into one of the trees of the other garden (probably because there is a lot of bird activity in that garden). The man who lives there came out straight away, really angry and swearing. I went down to the bottom of the garden and saw her just sort of frozen and he went for her. She bolted back into my garden and even then he carried on swearing. I should have said something but I was a little shocked at how angry he sounded and just wanted to get her inside.
I'm guessing from the sounds of it he has bird feeders in his garden and I get why he would be defensive, but she does wear a bell so I'm not sure what else I can do? Any tips on that?
I've kept her in as I hate the thought of someone hurting her, but she really needs to go out as she's having a hard time with my other indoor cat. H says he will go round and just say that he's welcome to shoo her away but that it's not fair to be aggressive. I don't think it's going to make a difference to someone like that tbh. Is this just how it is with some people? I feel really awkward about it.