My cat hates dogs, neighbours have new puppy...

Jerryjerryjerry

Just to clear things up. I would not kill a cat. Its the last thing i'd want on my concience. Just incase anybody here thinks I would.

However, I'd hit one very very hard if it was attacking my dog. I am sorry to use the word Throttle. I was not entirely sure that that word means killing.

I don't hate cats either. I have one next door which I feed when they go away at Christmas. Just wouldn't want one of the blighters myself.

Yes, i'm a dog lover. My dog is my life. I don't have kids, so my dog is like my child.

If a person or an animal was attacking my dog, I'd use all the force I could muster to kick the animal/person away from my dog. Or my husband for that matter.

Bromley86

Why is the fact a cat is s***ing in your garden any excuse to harm/kill it. Are you going to kill EVERY creature that messes in your garden?

Don't use your anger at cat owners not taking responsibility for their animals behaviour to be deliberately cruel/cause harm to cats.

Whilst I might not have been clear in my post, I've never said anything of the sort.

I was translating what was happening into how, I believe, the law would see it. So:

It's not illegal to deliberately hurt a cat if you're protecting your property [animal] on your property [enclosed garden] from attack by another person's property [animal].

I thought the "attack" clearly involved another living thing, but I can see how you might not see it that way. Note the "deliberately hurt", not deliberately maim/kill etc. As BMB says, perhaps that's wrong and the law would see it as "accidentally hurt", as the action of hurting was merely a product of one trying to prevent one animal from doing harm to the other.

Still, that seems weaselly to me as the way most owners would break up this hypothetical fight where their dog is being attacked would probably be by (a) screaming and then, if that didn't work, (b) kicking.

Fire_Fox

Jerryjerryjerry wrote: »

Just to clear things up. I would not kill a cat. Its the last thing i'd want on my concience. Just incase anybody here thinks I would.

However, I'd hit one very very hard if it was attacking my dog. I am sorry to use the word Throttle. I was not entirely sure that that word means killing.

I don't hate cats either. I have one next door which I feed when they go away at Christmas. Just wouldn't want one of the blighters myself.

Yes, i'm a dog lover. My dog is my life. I don't have kids, so my dog is like my child.

If a person or an animal was attacking my dog, I'd use all the force I could muster to kick the animal/person away from my dog. Or my husband for that matter.

Throttle doesn't mean kill it means strangle, not great added to "using as much force as possible". AGAIN you don't need to threaten to kick using "all the force you can muster" because that could kill an animal or at least do a lot of internal damage. You might kick hard on the spur of the moment/ through fear or shock but to actually 'plan' that is awful. Kicking an adult human is different: you'd not likely kick the body, you'd break their leg at worst.

gravitytolls

Although the thread's a couple of weeks old, i just wanted to say that Clarence looks gorgeous, big, self satisfied, sleepy smile on his face. Of course the scar face pic does rather portray him in a different light lol.

Hoping all's well with the pup. Hopefully its puppy status will have dissuaded Clarence from his instinctive hatred, as animals are often moved to different behaviour by babies, strange critters that they are.

Anyhoo, I second the advice to let them sort out th pecking order (sorry, can't recall who that was). As for 'controlling' cats by building a cage, that's not controlling, that's imprisoning ~ each to their own, our neighbours don't allow their cats to roam free, but never believe you're controlling your cat, you're merely controlling it's ability to escape and commit unspeakable crimes against smaller furry critters!