How to keep cat away from my neighbour?

catkins

fatboy77 wrote: »

I didn't know cats did not like being sprayed?, must be a nightmare trying to bathe them. I guess this explains why the chubby cat who used to visit my garden regularly no longer does, after I started throwing ice cubes at it.:rotfl:

Cats, dogs? Makes no difference to me. Personally, I can't stand any pets, which are allowed to roam freely inside someone's home.

I kindly refuse to eat or drink anything at a home who own a cat or dog because:

(a) their home stinks
(b) hygiene goes out of the window when pets have infected the food preparation area and are being stroked every two minutes.

Further, I'm reluctant to shake the hand of a cat/dog owner, sit on their sofa or spend any length of time in their home. Thankfully, hardly any of my close friends or relatives own a cat or a dog.

I'm glad you're not a friend or relative of mine. You don't even want to shake a dog or cat owner's hand? Don't you think we wash? Every single time I touch my dog or cat and then go to do something else I wash my hands YES EVERY SINGLE TIME. My dog is not allowed in the kitchen ever and my cats go only get in there if I am in there. They rarely go in there and don't go on the work tops because they know not to (a couple of them did go on them when we first got them).

To say you won't eat or drink anything in the house of a pet owner is rude and completely over the top.

Also it is completely untrue to say all pet owners houses stink. My awful MIL would soon tell me if my house smelt and would take great delight in doing so. In fact she says she can't believe we have a dog and cats and it doesn't smell. She has told plenty of other relatives that their houses smell so nothing wrong with her nose!

Pont wrote: »

No, not 'cat haters' but utter despair, and sometimes dislike, of 'cat lovers' who don't accept their cats impact on the lives of others. It's the irresponsibility of humans, rather than the hatred of cats, that causes the conflicts. If you can't get your 'cat to do what you want it to do', quite simply don't have a cat! As I've said before, if my kids or my dog or my whatever cause my neighbours a problem then I am held (quite rightly so), held responsible. I'm sorry cat 'owners' - you can't have it both ways. It's either your cat (and therefore your responsibility) or it's not. If the said cat isn't yours well......whose it it? If nobody has 'ownership', be definition it is a stray animal and therefore, potentially, there could be unfortunate consequences.

Why in all that can can deemed reasonable should somebody else have to make, pay and install window screens to prevent somebody else's cat from entering their house - God in heaven!

Btw, after 50(ish) years a fox has never caused me a problem - don't remember ever seeing a fox within 10 miles of my house - a rather silly comparison IMO.

I know a few people who have had a fox go into their houses. It has never caused any problem and gone out again although if you believe the rubbish written in The Mail, foxes are going into houses and attacking children, cats, dogs etc.

My MIL had a squirrel get into her house and it caused a lot of damage before it was caught. I regularly see foxes and squirrels in my garden and don't even live in the country.

I also know quite a few people who have had mice in their houses, myself included.

I hate flies in the house and don't believe in using sprays so screens make perfect sense.

Treevo

pawsies wrote: »

cats have been domesticated since Egyptian times, so I don't understand the selective breeding point.

No they haven't. They've lived around people since then but they've never been domesticated in the way dogs have been. A cat is still capable of surviving in the wild whereas a dog isn't.

notanewuser

valkirn wrote: »

I do hope your daughter is very careful of the lillies too!!

I'm not stupid enough to put them where she can get to them!!! :rotfl:

valkirn

notanewuser wrote: »

I'm not stupid enough to put them where she can get to them!!! :rotfl:

Oh i dont know i thought i had put my daffs somewhere my toddler couldnt get to and now i know better and shes my 4th child!!

Nothing escapes a determined child!

penny_pincha

meg72 wrote: »

I like cats but not the horendous smell

The smell you complain of sounds like an entire boy. Do you know whose cat it is? Perhaps they need educating about your problem and at least ask them to neuter their cat.

meg72 wrote: »

havent found a repellent that works,

Someone told me recently that tea bags soaked in Jays fluid works but the that smells too. Must be better than tom cat pee. Also you have to keep it dry, some possibly put it under a flowerpot which is raised on bricks or those fancy flowerpot stands.

penny_pincha

Treevo wrote: »

We treat cats differently than dogs because - and I'm sure this will be a shock to you - they're different animals. They are all different animals governed by different laws because they have very different needs.

I think cats are classed as 'livestock' so you aren't responsible for their behaviour. So if a cat causes a road accident for instance you can't be sued but you can if a dog does.

Treevo wrote: »

Dogs are fully domesticated after thousands of years of selective breeding. Cats are not as domesticated by their very nature because they are different than dogs. .

In the days when it was viewed all mouths to feed had to earn their keep, dogs have been domesticated for various jobs they can do for us humans. So different breeds of dogs have been bred for different jobs eg to hunt with us, retrieve, flush out vermin, herd sheep, guard property or us. Cats were thought of as useful to keep vermin down. I believe in the past (possibly in Anglo-Saxon times) cats which were a proved mouser were actually more valuable to sell!!

It is only more recently that cats have been bred for their looks (just over 100 years ago officially) so their body type is not very diverse and as far as I know not ever been selectively bred for their intelligence.

Raksha

penny_pincha wrote: »

The smell you complain of sounds like an entire boy. Do you know whose cat it is? Perhaps they need educating about your problem and at least ask them to neuter their cat.




Someone told me recently that tea bags soaked in Jays fluid works but the that smells too. Must be better than tom cat pee. Also you have to keep it dry, some possibly put it under a flowerpot which is raised on bricks or those fancy flowerpot stands.

Jeyes fluid is highly poisonous to cats, even getting it on their paws and licking it off can be fatal. Using it as a deterrent could put you in a difficult legal position

penny_pincha

Raksha wrote: »

Jeyes fluid is highly poisonous to cats, even getting it on their paws and licking it off can be fatal. Using it as a deterrent could put you in a difficult legal position

Ok I did point out that someone else told me this. I wouldn't want anyone else's cat to come to any harm of course. But if it was put under something it would still smell perhaps an up turned plant pot so the cat couldn't come into contact with it but would still smell.

I have found putting my own cat's pee or a small amount of my cat's litter where intruder cats come tends to discourage other cats. The only thing is you have to replace it regularly but once the intruder cat's habit is broken, the problem goes away.

Cats tend to use a place which is loose to toilet in so making the surface not so will also discourage it. If the cat is marking though then you have a different problem.