I am at my wits end and I’m not sure there’s anything I CAN do but in the hope someone might be able to suggest something, anything, thought I would post. My poor 10 year old bit of an idiot is being bullied by the most nightmare cat I have ever met. We’ll call him Micky, because that’s his name and I’m very happy to put him.
Since we moved into our house last year we have been invaded by a ginger terrorist. He is desperate to get inside the house: we have to have all the ground floor windows shut and all the skylights on the side and front single extension because otherwise he gets in. He once leaped up and scared the life out of me by coming in the first floor bathroom window when the top was open while I was cleaning my teeth. I’ve been woken up twice by him in the house and our cat screaming and terrified. This wasn’t ideal but when he was a big kitten he was quite submissive. Now he is horrible.
He caught her in the garden and attacked her. Throws himself at the French doors growling and hissing when he’s in the garden and sees her. DP walked out into the back garden the other day and he just suddenly appeared and went for him and really sliced his ankle up, deep cuts. He’s not so bad with me. I spray him with the hose every time I see him. He doesn’t care.
I met his owner last year when he cornered my cat on next door’s extension roof - both cats were yowling and the owner was trying to get him down. He was exasperated but jokey and told me he’d gone into a child’s window, got on their bunk bed and scratched them. I didn’t find this quite so hilarious. He’s getting more and more aggressive.
I looked out of the window the other day and he was on top of a car catching flies and playing and it was quite sweet. Until one of the neighbours walked past and he tried to bite him!
what can we do? He’s a roaming cat and they’re obviously not going to keep him in but I can’t think of anything else that would work. We can’t have the garden doors open in this lovely weather, we can’t let our cat outside without worrying and she loves being outside and it’s making me so sad for her. It’s making me sad for me we can’t open any bloody windows!