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Cat scrapping...& coming off worse!

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purdypuma · 16/04/2024 18:05

4 Yr old ginger & white make Casper. Used to be mine but now lives with parents due to him going for my female every time she came back in her own garden.

Anyway loves it at the parents & he is adored despite him being their first cat. Helps tremendously with DF's mental health. They are retired so at home a lot with a house on a cul de sac with large garden. He's lived there for 2 years.

However he has now taken fighting with another cat ...although don't know which one. He's already cost my parents 400.00 in 3 wks in vets bills & looks as though he's limping again with puncture marks on his leg.

My parents love him & would be gutted if anything happened to him but my mum is at the end of their tether. It's barely 3 wks since he's been allowed out since the last episode. They don't like keeping him In as he gives them no peace & he's costing a fortune!

Any ideas? I can't have him back at mine as my female would hate it.

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AnnaMagnani · 16/04/2024 18:31

Options would be cat proofing the garden, he stays in and lumps in (possibly aided by Feliway) or just accepting it and only going to the vet if he isn't getting better by himself.

My boy is a fighter not a lover and has been on house arrest since September. Eventually the insanity died down but we had to up the level of stimulation for him at home. He loves his tower and his tunnel.

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purdypuma · 16/04/2024 19:34

Tbh I don't think it will be possible to cat proof the parents garden due to the layout. They have had to keep hi
m in quite a bit after antibiotics & painkillers at the vets ...he's drove them batty wailing all night & following them round the house Incessantly meowing!
Bless him...he's going to shoot himself in the foot the way he's carrying on. He's got it really good with them & I'm convinced that him ending up living with my parents was fate.

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minipie · 16/04/2024 19:40

There’s been a few temporary visiting cats in my area in the past few weeks. Large males. Probably due to the season. Hopefully the one yours is fighting is a temporary visitor too.

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purdypuma · 16/04/2024 19:57

minipie · 16/04/2024 19:40

There’s been a few temporary visiting cats in my area in the past few weeks. Large males. Probably due to the season. Hopefully the one yours is fighting is a temporary visitor too.

I hope so! He's lived there 2 years with no issues up until now & shared the garden with a neighbours elderly cat which died last year.

In every other sense he's a lovely chunky boy, wary of people he doesn't know but adores my parents & seems to have found his happy place being spoilt rotten.

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Vergeofbreakdown23 · 16/04/2024 20:27

I don't think I've missed it but I'm assuming he's been neutered?
If this has only recently started after two years then it sounds like a Tom cat is in the area and other than keeping him inside there's not allot that can be done as he is simply defending his territory.

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purdypuma · 16/04/2024 21:23

Vergeofbreakdown23 · 16/04/2024 20:27

I don't think I've missed it but I'm assuming he's been neutered?
If this has only recently started after two years then it sounds like a Tom cat is in the area and other than keeping him inside there's not allot that can be done as he is simply defending his territory.

Yeah Caspers neutered. He's always been territorial & I think he's not backing down but coming off worse!

It really would be a shame for him to have to stop in as he keeps at DFs side when he's doing the gardening & loves nothing better than sunning himself outside. I'm Just hoping that it somehow resolves itself...🤞🙏

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purdypuma · 16/04/2024 21:32

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Cat scrapping...& coming off worse!
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PiggieWig · 16/04/2024 21:32

I have a big chunky Tom cat and there’s a big ginger fella in the next street. They pretty much have their territory established now but they occasionally scrap in the ginnel (which we call No Mans Land).
They went through a spell of scrapping almost daily but they seem to have figured it out- hopefully your boy will too.

Canthave2manycats · 16/04/2024 21:35

purdypuma · 16/04/2024 21:23

Yeah Caspers neutered. He's always been territorial & I think he's not backing down but coming off worse!

It really would be a shame for him to have to stop in as he keeps at DFs side when he's doing the gardening & loves nothing better than sunning himself outside. I'm Just hoping that it somehow resolves itself...🤞🙏

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Is a catio an option? I had a ginger boy like this years ago, and he was a fighter. Unfortunately he wasn't very good at it and he was always getting bitten (usually on the arse as he fled!) and of course, he was allergic to the bites... he cost us a fortune! He also contracted FIV through fighting leading to his death from kidney failure when he was 10...

Catios weren't a thing back then, but I have three rescues I've got in the last couple of years and thankfully, although they were all used to being outdoors, they've been happy indoors here. I'd have got a catio if they had wanted to go out.

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purdypuma · 17/04/2024 18:35

Update - better news today thank heavens! He is now not limping & appears back to normal! He's stopped whinging & has allowed DF to examine his leg & bathe it with warm salt water just in case.

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fieldsofbutterflies · 17/04/2024 19:30

I'm glad he's better!

If they can't cat-proof, could they consider a catio? Or allowing him outside on a tether with a secure harness? I know it's not ideal but it's always something to consider.

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