Trespassing cat
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I share a house with two other guys, one of whom is the owner. The owner has a fluffy nightmare of a cat, which uses a catflap in the kitchen.
Unfortunately a neighbourhood gypsy/feral/stray big old tomcat has started to come into the house through the catflap, presumably to eat "our" cats food, and possibly molest it during the day...who knows.
Said ginger tom is full of fleas, and is in the kitchen most times when i come home from work...I can hear it bolt through the catflap as i come through the lounge...by the time i'm in the kitchen i can see it slinking up the garden, pausing occasionally to gloat.
Any ideas how we can stop this cat ingress? Our incumbent cat has been utterly useless at defending her home turf, beyond some half hearted hissing.
Blocking up the flap is a no go, "our" cat spends as much time indoors as out, and does her business outside.
Unfortunately a neighbourhood gypsy/feral/stray big old tomcat has started to come into the house through the catflap, presumably to eat "our" cats food, and possibly molest it during the day...who knows.
Said ginger tom is full of fleas, and is in the kitchen most times when i come home from work...I can hear it bolt through the catflap as i come through the lounge...by the time i'm in the kitchen i can see it slinking up the garden, pausing occasionally to gloat.
Any ideas how we can stop this cat ingress? Our incumbent cat has been utterly useless at defending her home turf, beyond some half hearted hissing.
Blocking up the flap is a no go, "our" cat spends as much time indoors as out, and does her business outside.
R8VXF said:
and any other cat with a magnetic collar. Also a collar can come off so not the best idea.
The local stray (the one causing the problem) isn't going to be wearing a magnetic tag on it's collar 
The stray will soon learn that it can't get in, and so the need for the collar & tag lessens
Leave the kitchen door shut when you go to work.
When you arrive home don't go in by the front door, just walk around to the back of the house and push the wheelie bin or something in front of the cat flap, trapping the intruder inside.
Enter the house normally and grab the stray in your kitchen and take him to the nearest cat shelter place or scare the crap out of it with a super soaker /taser/air horn etc before releasing it. Or borrow a friends Doberman and send that it.
When you arrive home don't go in by the front door, just walk around to the back of the house and push the wheelie bin or something in front of the cat flap, trapping the intruder inside.
Enter the house normally and grab the stray in your kitchen and take him to the nearest cat shelter place or scare the crap out of it with a super soaker /taser/air horn etc before releasing it. Or borrow a friends Doberman and send that it.
My cat's too stupid to work out how to use the flap. She either manages to go out of it then cry outside the front door at midnight (as per last night) or else pleads with me to open the back door with an expression suggesting I'm being unreasonable expecting her to push open a piece of plastic to go outside. Actually since she normally gets her own way I'm not sure if she's actually that stupid or really being clever and manipulative!
steelbreeze said:
My cat's too stupid to work out how to use the flap. She either manages to go out of it then cry outside the front door at midnight (as per last night) or else pleads with me to open the back door with an expression suggesting I'm being unreasonable expecting her to push open a piece of plastic to go outside. Actually since she normally gets her own way I'm not sure if she's actually that stupid or really being clever and manipulative!
Ours were like that till we went out and there was a rainstorm. They soon worked out how it worked.... They were very damp when we got home though.Gassing Station | All Creatures Great & Small | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff