He’s a 4 year old male and he’s been living in my garden since last July. He’s made himself cosy by tearing a hole in my garden furniture cover and that’s where he sleeps.
He has an owner. A woman who lives round the corner. She has mental health issues, lives in total squalor and has 7 other cats - all unneutered. She chipped him when he was a kitten as part of a charity initiative but as he was un-neutered, he refuses to stay in her house.
He wasn’t neutered until last month when I arranged for him to be done (we have a wonderful team here called the neuter rangers who round up stray cats and have them done. His owner gave her permission and he was done , taken back to her house and on my doorstep precisely 2 mins later.
He’s a nice boy but he’s a pain. He causes my elderly cat stress, he begs for food constantly , he is never - and I mean never - out of my garden and I’ve had enough of him tbh.
I have started taking him back round to her house in a cat carrier: - we have had two days of peace since last July - that’s the longest she’s kept him in for
she doesn’t care he’s in my garden. She doesn’t care he doesn’t come home unless I march him round. He won’t stay in her house - probably because he wasn’t ’done,’ he just got used to wanting to be outside . I’ll often message her and say ‘ oh your cat is here , you can’t have seen him for weeks! I’ll bring him round for you!’ And she says ‘ok’ and then , sometimes he’s back at my house before I’ve even walked back round
I’m not feeding him although I did in the depth of winter when it was bitterly cold and I just couldn’t not!
Any suggestions? I’m really aware that a cat will go where a cat wants to go but I don’t want him in my garden , I don’t want him constantly miaowing at my back door and like I said, he stresses my cat out and he is living in my garden. Not visiting often - living there
Just wondered if there was anything I could do that I haven’t thought of.