Keeping a neighbour's cat away

exiled_red

A few months ago we moved into a new house, we have a cat who for a variety of reasons is an indoor cat. Our neighbours also have a couple of cats who the previous owner of our house we believe used to let into their (our) house. So from time to time the neighbours cat comes and sits on our back step (presumably waiting for us to let it in).


Our cat, being a hater of all other cats, goes crazy when this happens and jumps up and the door (full glass door) and starts hissing and jumping and being aggressive towards the other cat (through the glass door) until the other cat leaves. Unfortunately the other cat is not remotely bothered by this and just sits there quietly until myself or my wife gets our cat away and goes out to scare the other cat off.


I obviously want these incidents to stop so am looking for suggestions, the first thing that I have tried is covering the bottom half of the window so that our cat can't see the other cat this hasn't worked as our cat can either smell or sense the other cat and jumps up and attacks / destroys the barrier. I have also tried putting rough brush type mats outside the door so that it is not comfortable for the other cat to sit there, but this doesn't work either, I need a way to discourage the other cat from coming near to our door but that won't stress my cat out. Any suggestions?

Savvy_Sue

Would lion poo work?

Lorian

Presuably it's a Tom.

I've been though this.

The most effective and completely non-harmful way to discourage it is water.

If you have a low budget and time, then each time you see it there spray it with a supersoaker.

If you don't have time and have better budget then there is

https://www.amazon.co.uk/PestBye-Battery-Operated-Activated-Repellent/dp/B004YCUT4W (connect to hose, dont use while freezing outside)

But be warned it will spray anything that moves including you, the postman etc.

There are some bottle-based ones too - but I don't have a link to them.

After a while it will modify it's territorial patrol away from you.

We had to go one further and put a chip-operated cat flap in too, to stop the thing coming in eating our cat food, and spraying.

exiled_red

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

Would lion poo work?

I had read about this it's supposed to be the smell that puts the cats off, I had wondered if it would un-nerve my cat when I open the door?

exiled_red

Lorian wrote: »

Presuably it's a Tom.

I've been though this.

The most effective and completely non-harmful way to discourage it is water.

If you have a low budget and time, then each time you see it there spray it with a supersoaker.

If you don't have time and have better budget then there is

https://www.amazon.co.uk/PestBye-Battery-Operated-Activated-Repellent/dp/B004YCUT4W (connect to hose, dont use while freezing outside)

But be warned it will spray anything that moves including you, the postman etc.

There are some bottle-based ones too - but I don't have a link to them.

After a while it will modify it's territorial patrol away from you.

We had to go one further and put a chip-operated cat flap in too, to stop the thing coming in eating our cat food, and spraying.

I couldn't use an automatic one as we are in the middle of renovations so it may also annoy the builders when they use the garden for cutting or mixing stuff.


Doing it manually isn't really going to work as it mostly seems to happen at night or early in the morning, we get woken up but the cat screeching and hissing and 3 or 4 am. I could get an automated one if I could remember to move it so not to annoy the builders, although it may stop them smoking on my back step

sheramber

We have never hd a cat but had three dogs.

A neighbour two doors along hd a cat which chose to lie at my front door most of the time.

Despite me chasing it so I could take the dogs out safely and chasing it when I came home to allow me to get the dogs out of the car and into the house, it always came back.

I don't know why it preferred our doorstep to its own or any other house in the street.

Savvy_Sue

exiled_red wrote: »

I had read about this it's supposed to be the smell that puts the cats off, I had wondered if it would un-nerve my cat when I open the door?

Well, my feeling was that if your cat's not going out through the door, the unnerving shouldn't last too long or be too severe. It might mean your cat spent less time near your back door, maybe?

exiled_red

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

Well, my feeling was that if your cat's not going out through the door, the unnerving shouldn't last too long or be too severe. It might mean your cat spent less time near your back door, maybe?

Good point, maybe worth a try then, thanks

Fireflyaway

I'd go for a water pistol. Just make sure the neighbour doesn't see you!