Just add water

…and cover your eyes (to stop them being removed)

we have had tons of cats round ours over the years (trying to move in) you have to be cruel to be kind! glass of coke over them works well, they hate it and after 2 or 3 times they hate it. Or once they are in the house, lock them in and then squirt them, no escape for 10 mins, they get the message! but not getting rid of them you are inviting them into your house, show them the door, squirt them then throw them out… its for the best

**** me some people on here. The mind boggles.

If you really don't want to adopt it and it's bothering you that much, take it to a cat resuce centre as a 'lost cat'. Let them look after it and find it a decent home.

Midnighthour, do consider to take it in. We took in a stray about a year ago and our resident cat at first wasn't too pleased and still puts this disgusted face on when they meet but overall they live together without problems. I found it very rewarding to give a cat without a home a home! This one obviously got one but not one it likes.
And for the posters suggesting to drive the cat miles out and release it – horrible, honestly. Even though cats are good at survival it is very cruel on them. Our stray had hardly any hair (from malnutrition) and was generally a very unhealthy and unhappy cat. Maybe he has been abandonded from someone like you.

If you hold a cat tight enough it doesnt matter how much they struggle. They stop breathing

And for all those people suggesting being cruel to the cat blah blah blah.

Its a solution to a problem
It was said in jest compared to the other suggestions and if you cant take it then return to your daily mail

The suggestions of spraying the cat are the best ones which will eventually lead to the cat going eleswhere with only the minimal discomfort to the cat.

Its a lot less than some people would do

if you cant take it then return to your daily mail

WTF?

Daily Mail ? What ???
Anyway, just because it's 'a lot less than some people would do' it doesn't mean that it is right ? Strange logic.

Water pistol? Bucket more like. You'll only have to do it once.

And I am a cat owner 🙂

Spankmonkey – your house must be sticky as ****. Bet you get bad ants in there in summer with all that coke being slung about at cats.

😆

Eat it?

orangina: "And for the posters suggesting to drive the cat miles out and release it – horrible, honestly."

When I was a kid (8 yrs old) we took in a stray tom cat and I loved it very much until my uncle (now ex-uncle) decided he hated it, so he requested my parents to let him release it far far away … Until today I still cannot know the exact reason for him to do so, except my mum speculated that the cat wee in his golf shoes (could be other cat) My heart bleeds when I remember that moment.

Now, if I see this ex-uncle again in my life I would kick the shite out of him. Like a football. 👿

As for stray mixing with own cat … no worry they will be fine. They might fight for a while but after that they will just ignore each other.

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If your cat gets on OK with the interloper, then where is the problem for you? The official owner knows where it is, the cat is happy and you have an extra cat most of the time.

If you chase it away then it'll only go somewhere else rather than going back home.

wee in his golf shoes

how very stw of it

Definately agree with the water pistol solution, not sure why you wouldnt? Youre not hurting the cat, its just an unpleasant sensation the cat will come to associate with you and your house. If youre worried about your own cat, remove it to another room, then administer the water pistol?

Water pistol = A little game for the cat
Hose pipe whilst cornered in your garden = Proper lesson that it will remember. Trust me you are not harming the cat and he will get the message quickly. If you are at all worried by this then explain your plans to its owner. Let them know kitty will be a little wet after it visits your house on the next few occasions.

Cats spend hours licking themselves after a good soaking. Imagine how peeved they will be if you do it every time they visit.

I'd just take it in, your cat seems to get on fine with it so I can't see the problem unless you've got an issue with an extra few tins of cat food each time you go shopping.

I'd have a cat, just nowhere to stick a catflap!

I propose that assasination is the only logical course of action. Either that or get it a job as a outdoor bin gaurd at tesco.

My cats come in and out through the bathroom window. Some years back I became aware that a strange cat was coming in – plant pots turned over, cats fur where they had been fighting mine etc.

One day I came home to catch the little fecker. I quickly shut the bathroom window and then proceeded the chase the bugger all over the bleeding shop, shouting abuse at him whilst soaking him with a plant sprayer set on squirt. I was determined it would be an experience that he would never forget.

After several minutes he managed to get back to the bathroom and rushed to the window only to find it shut, at which point, utterly saturated, he began to howl and then started to urinate uncontrollably. As I watch the piss cascading off the window sill, I decided that he had probably had enough and opened the window and he was gone.

As I calmed down and started to think about events, it began to occur to me just how much like my niece's cat it had resembled. When I had first caught the cat in my place I hadn't bothered assessing the situation very much and just went into action. Now the terrible truth slowly began to dawn on me – it had indeed been my niece's cat.

Which did cause some slight problems. My niece always asked me to feed her cat if she was away for a few days. After that incident the bugger never let me get anywhere near him. And it was many years before I found the courage to confess and tell my niece why.

On the plus side, the little **** never went through my bathroom window again 8)

@ernie-lynch the cat probably thought you liked it! did you talk to it or pet it when you fed it?

Ernie

with a plant sprayer set on squirt.

Is that a bit like a phaser set to stun, Jim?

The essential point is the cat has watched you, probably how you treat your own cat, how you've treated the interloper and and has come to a conclusion you are a better home.

Fact is, the cat is, if cats can be, "happier" with you. Its clearly a social cat. If it's miserable where it is, what can you do? It's not a "rescue" proposition, it will always run away when something better is on offer. Is your own cat happier with company? If so, then what's the issue?

the cat has watched you………….and has come to a conclusion you are a better home.

I do like a cat who carefully weighs up the pros and cons before making any rash decision.

If anyone is worried, NOTHING BAD is going to happen to the cat – its the humans who have the problems, mostly diplomatic ones! We have no intention of being unkind or cruel to it or dumping it somewhere. Let face it, we feel too guilty to even jet it with a water pistol even if its owner is demanding we should.

It is very well cared for, as its owner is clearly fond of it and we too have been nice to it for some while, believing it to be a stray Our household quite likes it and we dont mind it being around to visit. However its owner is not happy with it visiting us. She is upset her cat wishes to move out and find a new house.

The owner seems nice and caring, she has 4 other cats all 'rescued'. I think the 'stray' likes its owner, but it seems to hate her house, or maybe not cope with the other cats in it.

Anyway, again to anyone worried, this cat is a problem because people feel concern for it and becasue its owner loves it and is upset it is so determined to move out of her house, not because it is disliked by anyone 🙂

Suggest to her that she reads some of the Vicky Halls books – "The Cat Detective" etc. They sound dire, but they're written by someone who specialises in feline behavioural issues. She has a lot to say about indiscriminately adopting cats without thinking about the cats you already have…

Midnighthour, that's re-assuring. However, you said in an earlier post

…She would not even walk over the road to collect it…

so how fond/caring is she really ? And if I had 5 cats and 3 kids and one cat clearly would feel more relaxed elsewhere, I would be a bit sad but would let the cat go where she wants to be as I want it to be content.
Maybe you should try and diplomatically talk her into letting the cat be with you.

shouting abuse at him

Ernie, what did you shout? 🙂

Cats roam my garden and sometimes do a shite in the vegetable patch, I've been looking for a non-physical means of retribution for a while, maybe just hurt their feelings a bit.

"What insult for uninvited cat?"

I think the 'stray' likes its owner, but it seems to hate her house

I think there's a possibility that you might be misinterpreting the situation. One of my cats Dennis, adores me. In all the years I've had him I've only known him not to purr about 2 or 3 times – in fact he's next to me right now purring. He is also very fond of his brother and step bother – they all sleep together.

Despite that, the little git is like Harry Houdini when it comes to escaping. And if he sees the front door open you won't see his fat arse for dust. Anyone witnessing him tearing out of the house like a bat out of hell might well get the impression that he hated his home – he doesn't.

I do let him out almost every day, but only if I'm convinced that he's hungry – I would never let him out on a full stomach. And even then, he will sometimes, specially if the weather is nice, stay out for 6 or 8 hours. I have no idea where he goes. And then the **** comes strolling in about midnight demanding to be instantly fed.
Just as well I love the little fecker to bits.

I think the cat's owner is correct in not coming over to collect him every time he makes it over to you – it would be quite pointless. Don't let it in and don't feed it, and it will eventually go home. I'm sure she is correct in the advise which she says her vet gave her – including using water to drive it away.

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Ernie, what did you shout?

Couldn't tell you mate. Dishing out abuse is a bit like driving a car for me – it involves automatic reactions which require no thought. Although I think it's probably fair to assume that it included the very liberal use of the word "****".

It's word which can be said with such profound emotion, that even animals seem to understand it.

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Ernie

with a plant sprayer set on squirt.

Is that a bit like a phaser set to stun, Jim?

You could say that Karinofnine. Having it set on 'fine mist' somehow didn't seem appropriate …….. after all,
I wasn't trying to rehydrate the little feckers complexion, or trying to make him feel somehow refreshed.

Just shoot it, preferably with a shotgun. Problem solved.

Problem solved.

How's that zokes ?

Sounds to me like that could be the beginning of quite a few problems.

It would solve the problem of the cat coming into his conservatory.

Mind you, so would shutting the door, but each to their own…

So the problem is not that you dislike the cat, but that you are trying not to upset your neighbour whose cat prefers you.

I see that that could be tricky.

Thing is, cats choose their owners and there's not much you can do about it. Maybe you could just assure her that you are doing your best to dissuade it and over time her issues surrounding the defection will subside until the cat is yours and she is happy. At which point, knowing cats, it will simply go back home!

Pretty much the situation, except I don't think the incoming cat cares about the humans – it wants the overgrown garden (lots of bushes to hide under) and the conservatory/greenhouse that reaches 120F+ quite often, even with the doors wide open. Mmmm aroma of roasting cats and fried plant!

I don't know how they can choose to stay in such heat but they love it (free access to outdoors at all times). I have been told by our vet that cats come from dessert areas, but I reckon they must have inhabited the centre of the sun to be so immune to heat! I have to give up and go out in the garden or I would have heat stroke.

think about the poor cat – it was probably half-feral, living a jack-the-lad life roaming free when caught, had his nads chopped off and then dumped in a house with 3 kids and 4 other cats….
Cat's vote with their feet.

If it's bothering your other cat then get a magnetic cat-flap if it's not (and you want another cat) then let it adopt you – you don't need to be official about it.
If the owner complains then say it's not bothering you & it's not your job to hunt it down and spray it with water.

I don't know how they can choose to stay in such heat but they love it

One of our cats used to lie on top of the radiators, and another would spread himself out as close to the fire as he could get. I love cats 🙂

…cats come from dessert areas…

Update, just in case anyone remembers this post from a few months back.

The cat ground us all down. Having it hiss at me and struggle to get away when I carried it up the path of its house was the final straw (its normally a very friendly and placid cat, the owner herself described it as non aggressive). It lives here now with us and its owner is replacing it with another sort of pet and she seems to really be looking forward to the new pet arriving, which is nice as she seems a kind person. All the rest of her cats are still with her, though 2 of them come to visit with the cat that's moved in here. They always go home after though and don't hang around like he used to. They just seem to say hello.

Our orig cat seems very happy with the situation, provided his food gets given to him before the other gets fed! They spend all their time together and often go to sleep near each other.

So the cats seem happy and at least we are still on passable terms with the neighbour.

Thanks for all the advice folks, much of it was interesting, helpful or amusing 🙂