Is there anything I can do about this cat?

[GreeboIsMySpiritAnimal]

There's a very skinny cat, very aggressive and very yowly cat that keeps coming into mine and NDN's garden to yowl and growl loudly and attack our cats - more the NDN cat than mine, as Casper is a huge ginger who can take care of himself, but he still comes in to yowl at him.

I'm not sure if he's a stray - he's very thin, and I think unneutered (although I've never got too close) - but there is a lady on our street who owns (or at least feeds) several, so he could be one of hers.

Apart from the aggression towards our cats, the noise he makes is loud enough to wake up DS, who's 4, so he's not getting enough sleep (this happens several times day and night). He's tried to get into our house a few times but Casper has chased him.

A quick Google of the local RSPCA and CPL suggests they won't do anything as he may have an owner and looks healthy enough, but is there anything I can do? I chase him every time but he keeps coming back!

Coincidentally the DC and I met yowly cat just now on our way home. He's actually pretty friendly (and definitely unneutered!) He meowed up to us looking for strokes and pets, feel a bit bad for chasing him except he is very aggressive to other cats.

Unsure if he's thin because he's not getting enough to eat, or because of his breed - he certainly looked like could be some sort of Siamese cross, and it would explain the yowliness.

You could ask your vet to see if they know him or have been informed that he's gone missing. Poor old thing. He might have hyperthyroidism. Maybe put a notice up in your local shop with his picture on, asking if anyone knows him and have a look online to check for missing notices. Have you asked the woman who feeds the cats? Good luck.

Ooh, the CPL just got back to me - they're going to send someone out to check for a microchip. That's something.

Keep us updated. If he hasn't got a microchip, hopefully they'll assess him and if concerned you'd hope they might be able to help.

Feeling distinctly less sympathetic as he's woken up DS again by yowling in the garden and then scrapping with Casper who went out to see him off.

DS finds the yowling frightening and I don't blame him, it's an awful sound. Like a bloody banshee.

Casper is refusing to come in and is guarding the back door instead.

It's his balls that are the problem. Hopefully Cpl will neuter because it will stop him breeding literally hundreds of kittens and also getting run over while roaming to meet lady cats.

He shouldn't be thin, poor things got winter to get through with no fat on him.

I'm hoping the CPL will take him for rehoming if he doesn't have a microchip. He doesn't meet the description of any missing cats locally, and he was very affectionate to me and the DC when he saw us yesterday without our guard cat, so I think he'd like a home.

You or c.p. can upload a pic onto their find my cat website, hope they find him a home.

It was in our bloody house!! Just got woken up by it yowling outside our bedroom door and had to chase it round the house for 20 minutes before it would leave - and it really didn't want to. Gave it every opportunity to run out of the open door and it wouldn't go.

As best we can figure it had been here since before we went to bed - we close the kitchen door before we go to bed as Casper has a habit of asking everyone up for no reason if given free run of the house, and it was still closed, with a very puzzled Casper on the other side of it wondering why he wasn't being allowed out to deal with the intruder. The DC are at their grandma's, so I think it came in during the evening and hid in one of their rooms.

I was tempted to let it stay till later in the morning and then try and get it in a cat box and take it to the vet's, but DH wouldn't have it. He doesn't even like our cat, and he loathes this one.

I know a microchipped cat flap is the answer, but we are about to have a kitchen extension done so can't really put one on a door that's about to be removed. I could lock the one we have but Casper is used to being to come and go as he pleases, and would be a bugger to keep in at night.

I'll ring the CPL again tomorrow, ask for help. Don't know what else to do. DS was awake from 4am thanks to the cat yowling outside his window, and DH and I are exhausted too. Today was supposed to be our chance to catch up on some sleep!

Yeah all the neighbours cats come in our house if they get chance.

Did you see that bbc documentary where they put cctv into cat owners houses and filmed them all going in and out of each others houses? one woman adopted a local stray after realising she was feeding him anyway.

None of the owners had a clue it was going on.

Looks like you're the chosen one. Hope you can help him find a good home.

You've said what I didn't want to Want.

He's lives with you now.

Fluffy, it's happened to most of us

We got two that way.