Problem with Cats

mightymolly

I can sympathise, I absolutely despise cats, our neighbours have two, the female rules the roost and is just a general nuisance pooing everywhere, the tom is un-neutered and malnurished (they obviously care more about the female and have had her spayed). The Tom not only poos, but sprays everything too. I find them revolting unhygenic creatures, and really wish the neighbours would at least get the Tom done to stop the spraying.

Newbird

Mightymolly, I'm sorry to hear you don't like cats, but it sounds like it is the owners at fault in this case.

If the Tom is being a nuisance spraying and is obviously malnourished, you may like to contact the RSPCA. You can report the problem and they won't reveal your id to the neighbour. They will help the owner with feeding advice and also be able to arrange for the tom to be neutered, which will help. At the very least it will make your neighbour wake up to the problem and be made aware of their responsibilty to their animals. If they don't care to look after them properly they will recommend re-homing and will take the cats for re-homing if the owner admits they would be better off without them. The RSPCA will follow up any recommendations they make to the owner to ensure the situation improves. In this way you help yourself, your garden and help improve the cats lot in life too!

HTH

mightymolly

Hi, thank you Newbird. I do really dislike them, but don't get me wrong, I would never see an animal hurt! I have actually spoken to the RSPCA about them a) about the cat problem, and b) about the fact they have a large dog that never sees the light of day or gets taken for walks (another story), but basically the RSPCA said that I was to speak to them about getting it neutered, but they aren't really a neighbour we can approach, it would be the ideal solution though. You can blatently see that when the female was brought into the household the male was just abandoned to fend for itself, no longer being flavour of the month. I might just ring the RSPCA again and see what they say. Thank you for your advice - i've been a bit worried about putting my dislike for cats, it's my opinion of them, but hoped I wouldn't upset anyone by saying it!

chris_n_tj

Get in touch with the nearest zoo and ask for some big cat poo. I kid you not it works. If you havnt a local zoo then you can buy big cat poo pellets on Ebay.
Chris n TJ

Newbird

Mightymolly, OK, good you have already contatced the RSPCA, I would try again, I know they are always busy, but THEY should visit the neighbour, not ask you to visit them or get involved in any way really.
You don't want any trouble yourself, and I would try again and press this point to them and ask them to visit. They have to respond to any complaint not just ask you to deal with it, it is their job!

I hope you get a better response when you try again and they will see that they will have to make a visit if you are persistent and tell them again about the poor dog as well.

They are very busy, probably even more so at this time of the year, but they must log your call and information and put it on their TTD list!

Please do try again, for the sake of the animals.

blindmouse

I found that when I did pruning if I stuck sticks upright into the ground, that made it hard for cats to walk on I also grow Mahonia (nice berrys birds love) which is very spikey and cut a few stems and layed it across the ground that also makes it unfriendly to their paws..

knithryn

Cats adore freshly turned over ground (I have three, who love it when I create a cat litter area for them - I call it a seed bed).
Apart from the twiggy stuff (which does work) what about...
Leaving an area specifically as a cat litter area
Covering freshly planted plants that will grow quite big with an upturned wire hanging basket - leave the basket to act as support to floppy stems
grow potatoes in bags (as mentioned before - works really well)
Grow your plants in huge tubs on the roof of a sturdy shed (I do this, cats wont go up our ladder)