How to keep cat away from my neighbour?

adouglasmhor

Buy some cat repellent for your neighbour OP as a good will gesture.

Pont

adouglasmhor wrote: »

The law is different for dogs than for cats.

Yes! But it shouldn't be - I rest my case.

delain

But... The cat can get in their garden from the garage block... Are you just wilfully ignoring me?! The fence is not the only access point

pawsies

Person_one wrote: »

A loose cat will disappear long before the dog sees it.

It would be an absolute nightmare in more urban areas, walking the dogs would become massively stressful. Could you ever let your dog off lead again even in wide open spaces and parks?

Maybe dogs would get used to it, as the cat can no longer run it's not as fun and neither could get hurt as both leashed.

As for offlead, well of course there are risks but those would apply to leashed or loose cats.

Treevo

Pont wrote: »

Yes! But it shouldn't be - I rest my case.

You're not a lawyer, are you?

We treat cats differently than dogs because - and I'm sure this will be a shock to you - they're different animals. In the same way we treat dogs differently from horses. And horses differently to hawks. They are all different animals governed by different laws because they have very different needs.

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.

Here endeth the lesson.

Slinky

ninjaryder wrote: »

Cats are pretty much pointless pets. Buy a dog instead ?

I've never heard of a pack of domestic cats killing anybody......

adouglasmhor

Pont wrote: »

Yes! But it shouldn't be - I rest my case.

Yes it should, because you can't train a cat the way you can a dog. Your case is deemed incompetent and frivolous then thrown out. NEXT!

notanewuser

adouglasmhor wrote: »

Yes it should, because you can't train a cat the way you can a dog. Your case is deemed incompetent and frivolous then thrown out. NEXT!

This making them even more pointless animals.

adouglasmhor

notanewuser wrote: »

This making them even more pointless animals.

They are pets - that is the point. You start labeling animals as pointless, possibly soon you will start applying it to human beings and we all know where that ends up.

adouglasmhor

Treevo wrote: »

Dogs are fully domesticated after thousands of years of selective breeding.

Even then some dogs are more "domesticated" than others or differently domesticated, most of the sighthound family of dogs for example have been bred for prey drive, speed or endurance, there is no way I can let my two retired racing greyhounds off the leash as they like most of them have no recall whatsoever (and no sense of direction).

As for the poster who thinks loose cats can avoid dogs, my two spot cats regularly and if they were not on the leash they would have no problem catching them before they could climb or get through an obstacle.