Neighbour threatening my cat - advice please?

Feline_friendly

I am amazed at how nasty some folk can be...but dealing with rescue i shouldnt be. To the poster whos dad spikes his garden to kill cats..if you get reported by a neighbour to the RSPCA you can be prosecuted which i hope he will! Why do you feel it is exceptable to kill an animal?? You would be outraged if someone killed your dog/budgie/pet snake just because they didnt like them. It with moronic attitudes like that that we have so much animal cruelty in this country! It makes me mad to read that someone thinks it awful that a cat has killed a bird yet think it ok to set their dog on a cat!!

Now to something helpful to the OP.

I am a pet owner and own 4 cats. It may be wise to keep your cat in whilst you are out. Put a bell on his collar so it scares the birds when he tries for when he does go out. Sadly, it is nature and it's in biult for their survival...just like it is for us to eat meat. It isnt nice.

Try to stop the cat going into next door. There are plants they do not like the smell of and wont go near.....google the name as it escapes me right now..... and put up a trellis so they cant climb it. There are even gell balls which you can sprinkle around the edge of your garden which the cat hates the smell of and may help stop him jumping that way over the fence. Have an area in your garden just for your cats to poop in. Rake it daily as cats love freshly dug soil. My cats always poop in this soil. Always have a litter tray in the house too to encourage them to poop there.

Cats are happy as house cats...and maybe to keep your neighbour happy just have some outside times with the cat. My 4 are 90% indoor and are allowed an hour out at night and they no longer go far.

Davesnave

valk_scot wrote: »

It's not illegal to let your cat out and for it to kill birds, unless the bird is a rare protected species.

It is illegal for your neighbour to harm or damage your property (ie the cat) and to deliberately inflict pain, suffering, injury or death on it.

Personally I don't think it's on to make threats to you about harming your cat. !!!!!! the council...I'd have been onto the police and asked for a visit from the local community policeman to explain to this person what he is and is not allowed to do. Then it would have been police logged that he's threatened your cat.

Erk! Mention cats and all the mentalists will come out of the woodwork, but valk above has got it right.

I agree that the council are not the people to go to first, mainly because if the neighbours were owner-occupiers you wouldn't have that course of action at your disposal. They may see it that way, anyway.

The police community officers are very good and will listen to both sides, but they may wait a few days to see if you want them to intervene. Things are often said in anger which are never meant, and issues are often better resolved by calm discussion after some time has passed. If the community officer does call, it could be therapeutic for your neighbours just to get this off their chests. In any event, the matter will have been logged & they will know that.

Evidence of opening statement:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=54139

mazza111

Couldn't you suggest to your neighbour to get one of those things that makes a noise (that we can't hear) to keep the cats away from their garden, I'm pretty sure your cat isn't the only one in the area.

My sister has had similar problems, her neighbour bought one of these for the front garden and it has worked wonders at keep the cats off her lawn. However at the back garden they tried a different approach and put grippa rods (yes the ones for carpets) down on the tops of the 3 perimeter fences, gits! My sister managed to remove it from one fence as legally she owns this fence, however she has tried to get many other agencies involved in this and basically they won't do anything until a cat or child is injured, which i found absolutely ridiculous. So now they have 2 fences spiked, which means the cats can still enter from my sister's side of the garden, so there is no point in them having them spiked, but they still do. Daft bit is, my sister's cat is too old to climb the fences, but she got involved for all the other wee furry critters in the area.

kunekune

Why should the non cat owners have to spend the money? Like some others here I get really annoyed at the incontinence of various visitors to our garden. There is no soil in next door's garden, and yet they have two cats, and now a dog. Their cats use our small area of soil and our plant pots. A dog from two houses away wandered into our garden, poo'd and then left yesterday (we went and got the owner to clean up!). Even next door's small child once came in, wee'd on the patio and then left ... but he was very small at the time, and actually it was funny. But it is very frustrating and I don't quite see why it is ME being curmudgeonly. With a garden like we have, I would think it irresponsible to have pets, and theirs is even less 'green.

MrsE_2

As disgusting as the spikes are, I doubt they are illegal:mad:

Its a difficult one & I am a cat lover.

I keep my cats confined to my garden, when I lived in London they were indoor cats.
I prefer it that way, no one can steal them (they are exotics), they are less likely to pick up nasties, they won't get injured by cars or people. They won't bother anyone & so won't come to any harm.

I can understand why non cat owners get annoyed when cats come in their garden & poo & kill birds.

The OP should think about raising her fences & containing the cat (not always possible I know).

Davesnave

Love your sig, MrsE !!!

MrsE_2

mazza111 wrote: »

Couldn't you suggest to your neighbour to get one of those things that makes a noise (that we can't hear) to keep the cats away from their garden, I'm pretty sure your cat isn't the only one in the area.

My sister has had similar problems, her neighbour bought one of these for the front garden and it has worked wonders at keep the cats off her lawn. However at the back garden they tried a different approach and put grippa rods (yes the ones for carpets) down on the tops of the 3 perimeter fences, gits! My sister managed to remove it from one fence as legally she owns this fence, however she has tried to get many other agencies involved in this and basically they won't do anything until a cat or child is injured, which i found absolutely ridiculous. So now they have 2 fences spiked, which means the cats can still enter from my sister's side of the garden, so there is no point in them having them spiked, but they still do. Daft bit is, my sister's cat is too old to climb the fences, but she got involved for all the other wee furry critters in the area.

Would gripper rods do any damage?
They are small teeth, they will just stop a cat walking along the top of the fence. If someone wants to put stuff on top of their fences to stop cats getting in, I can't see a problem. I would rather a cat didn't get into a cat haters garden.

mags1962

Jeez i had the same trouble from a neighbour who threatned to kill my cat , my cat then went missing 1 day after the threat he returned 16 days later with a fractured pelvis and so skiny i hardly regognised him
So what does that make my neighbour ? if it were him ..............pure evil imo picking on defensless animals , that is what cats do its survival instincts just like it is the birds to catch worms i mean where does it all end its the food chain isnt it.
Where i live there is peacocks roaming and the same man threatins them also running after them chasing them out off his garden personally i love to see all animals roaming about.

Geoffo_M

Why is it that dog owners have legal responsibility now for scooping up their dog-poo and placing in a suitable receptacle - whereas this doesn't apply to cat owners? Surely there is no difference between keeping dogs or cats as pets.

poppysarah

http://www.cats.org.uk/catcare/faq_environment.asp#6
By law cats are protected from physical violence, so do not hit or kick them to get them off your property.