Asbo cat!

[gttia]

My cat is being a terror to other cats. Neighbors knocked again today to say he fights her old cats and they are too old for it?! Says next door cat is hurt and I can expect the vets Bill!!!!

Can they make me pay their Bill and what can I do with my cat. He's not an indoor cat, poor thing is very unhappy in doors.

Thank you

Mine out ndn cat in hospital too. They can't enforce a bill.

I keep mine in at night & there's is allowed out so they get some asbo free time.

We call mine an asbo cat too.

Yes ours is in at night. I'm thinking about only letting him out when I'm home so he can come in and feed if he needs too?

It's not great for neighbour relations is it?!

No but we're not exactly social people anyway.

I had a neighbour with a cat like yours and we just accepted it because it wasn't the neighbours fault and we couldn't expect the cat to be kept in all the time.
Part of owning an cat is risking vet bills from fighting, accidents or illness and how do you know it was definitelu your cat that caused it and not another one.

They chose to let their cats out too, if they want to keep them away from your cat they should keep them in. I might offer to pay the excess on their insurance for the sake of neighborly relations but if they don't have insurance the bill is their problem.

If you let cats out to roam freely you are risking them getting into fights. The neighbours can't object to you having a free-roaming cat when they themselves have free-roaming cats. Some cats will come off better in a fight and some will come off worse, when ASBO cat starts to get older and slow down I'm sure he'll get put in his place by the new cat on the block, it's what cats do. If they don't want their cats getting into fights then they need to keep them in or enclose their garden. I'm personally not a fan of letting cats free roam but it's not illegal and is generally the norm in the U.K. (although I believe it is getting gradually less and less common). I don't think they can make you foot the bill and I think they are unreasonable even to ask.

We also have ASBO cats. A few weeks ago, a lady posted a two page letter through our door detailing a 'serious assault' our cats had inflicted on her dog... It did eventually turn out that her dog had barked at and lunged at our cats while they were sunbathing outside our house and as a result, they attacked her dog. She took it to the vet as it had puncture wounds!

She wrote asking if our cats were feral, pregnant or hated dogs! They are (usually) the most soppy, gentle animals, have lived with dogs for most of their lives and have both been 'done' so they obviously just really took a disliking to her dog's behaviour.

I felt like a terrible neighbour for days and then decided to own it and bought this sign...

My cats been injured in fights & got urine infections due to the stress but I just suck it up.

If you let your cats outside into the wide world of gardens this is a risk - they could keep their cat as an indoor cat or cat-proof their garden.

I'm glad a vets Bill can't be enforced on us. I've kept him in for the rest of today so the neighbors are happy, but I can't exactly tell him not to fight - its normal cat behaviour and he doesn't understand .

If I could solve the issue I would, but I don't know how! I can't ground him.. Thank you for your replies, as one pp said when he gets old he may slow down...

Littlelouse - love it, I am going to buy one of those too!

@gttia do it! All joking aside, we've spent a few hundred quid over the past five years having abscesses, caused by other cats biting ours, treated at the vets. Thankfully we've got insurance, for exactly this reason, and we would never dream of trying to force the owner of the cat to pay.

As everyone has said, we buy free roaming animals knowing that there is little we can do to prevent things like this from happening. Your neighbour is obviously a moron.