Are cats just ****??

Im getting fed up with all the cats around my house, there used to be 4 cats within the nearest 10 houses, never any real hassle, but lately there have been 3 new families move in nearby and we now have another 5 cats along with the original 4 so 9 in total

You can hear them jumping off our extension roof onto our sloped conservatory roof with a thump each time as they chase each other or worse chasing the squirrells, they run across 5 houses extensions/consevatories chasing each other making loads of noise

Lots of screeching as the they fight each other and now starting to find dead mice and birds in our shared private road which run behind the houses which im guessing is the cats kills

Even the foxes and their cubs have been seen around less since more cats arrived

Not to mention the cats like to sh*t in our gardens

Just been informed by one of our oldest neighbours who’s cat has been around this area for 12 years that the cat has gone missing days after coming home with battle scars, he thinks the newer cats have scared it off so he’s now keeping his other cat indoors

I know there’s nothing we can really do about it, cats are just cu*ts

Yes

The owners can be a bit cultish, certainly.

Hasn’t this been done to death on here a bazillion times? Is anything new or insightful going to come out of yet another thread on the subject?

Yes, not even a question anymore

I love our cat.  As annoying as she is, she makes us laugh every day with her antics.

Complete and utter, yes.

I detest our (my wife’s) two but not as much as the all-black neighbouring one that constantly sprays against our front, back and garage doors and car wheels most nights.

Despite cleaning it *every* day, including special spray from Amazon, the house stinks of cat p*ss, it’s horrible. I hate them.

Put a cling film wall up on the edge of your roof and sit back and watch.

Yes and they do it on purpose.

I suspect someone has ‘intact’ Toms – they are sh1ts. There will be some boundary setting if there are Toms !  We’ve four cats but they are indoor/catio/catrun limited as three are pedigree and not worldly wise wired, and the rescue carries cat flu, so we keep him in too. They have an extensive run in the garden to get out in the fresh air.

Cats spraying – it’s a Tom. Folk need to get them done as a Tom is not particularly nice animal to have – neutered males are far better (more friendly than females TBH).

Don’t wash cat spray away with bleach – it makes the issue work. A floral disinfectant might be better as cats hate citrus.

There is a solution.

Get a dog.  A Proper one of course, not just a rat on a rope that you take for a drag around the streets (chi-how-ha owners, you know what I mean)

I love cats, we have three of them that go outside.

Interestingly in Australia and I think America it’s frowned upon / illegal to allow cats free reign outside as they decimate the local mini mammal population and instead, owners cat proof their own garden to keep them in or create large outside runs for them.

Neutered males spray loads too. Our now deceased bengal took out several toasters while trying to claim the kitchen, the bastard.

Another good tip.

Prior to having this bunch, we had three others. Three females (one arrived 10 years after the first two) and was arround when the current four ‘arrived’.

We had issues with a few Toms coming round chasing ours – spayed females. One Tom would spray our front door then another would always be in the back garden (cat’s establish a territory).  I cleared one off with a super soaker.

Only needed a couple of ‘encouragements’ and it didn’t come back.  Cat’s are way too fast if you try and chuck something at it, but a charged suer soaker, and the ‘potential’ of getting wet is fast.  I’d shot at the cat from upstairs, missed.

Next time the bugger was terrorising ours in the garden, so snook up, let go, and just splashed the cat, moved sides around the other side of the garage, shoot….  missed the cat but it never came back. Totaly harmless and fun for you !

Just watch which proper dog you get as they bite people if not trained properly (I’d put the owners down).

Thin monofilament net stretched across lawn, its amazing just how easy it is to catch cats.

They eventually get the message and stay away.

We have a problem ginger cat a few houses down, one of a pair. Total killing machine, I’ve seen it 20m up trees being mobbed by corvids defending their nests. Other one is much less trouble.

Now I have one of these.

https://uk.spyra.com/products/spyrathree

After a couple of shots from 5m or so, I now just need to shoot at the fence and the noise has it bolting home, 4 gardens away. By aiming upwards I can spray it from 10m away too if needed.

I actually love cats, and the others around here are pretty benign or mainly indoor cats. But this one…

They are worse than Land Cruisers

There is a fair amount of blame on owners too. If the cat has a clean litter, it will use that (ours will piddle inside, but poo outside in the run), and it all depends how much the cat is shut out. We used to keep our ‘roaming cats’ in at night, as do we do with the house cats at night – this is when they hunt, and cause fights etc and hiss folk off. If owners made sure they were in at night (cat’s sleep most of the time anyway) then we’d have less wild life killed.

It’s lazy owners, same with dog owners too – you get issues when the owners aren’t ‘bothered’.

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The owners can be a bit cultish, certainly

Cats don’t have owners, they have staff

I too am fed up of the multiple cats in our street. The garden birds have noticeably declined, we’ve empty nest boxes for the last couple of years. There’s shit on any area of bare earth. It’s not one cat per household any more – it’s two and three, and that’s just hugely upped the numbers.

🙁

I don’t have cats, but there are plenty round where I live, and other people’s cats bother me far, far less than other people’s dogs.

There are too many dogs and untrained owners in this world

Lots of screeching as the they fight each other and now starting to find dead mice and birds in our shared private road which run behind the houses which im guessing is the cats kills

It doesn’t sound like cats to me. I would expect cats to either eat a kill there and then or take it home. I wouldn’t expect a cat to kill something and then just walk away and leave it there.

And cats aren’t really noted for being particularly noisy animals, if that’s an issue for you I reckon that you are unlucky – they are generally very quiet animals.

Its funny, this is exactly how I feel about dogs. Cult dog owners with noisy dogs who run and poo everywhere. Never had a cat chase me and never ridden in cat poo. Also never had a cat owner shout at me while their cat chases me down the road.

Not all cats

Interestingly in Australia and I think America it’s frowned upon / illegal to allow cats free reign outside as they SHIT IN EVERYONE ELSES GARDEN and instead, owners cat proof their own garden to keep them in or create large outside runs for them.

They get some things right 🙂

Ours aren’t, they are lovely, but they stay indoors.

Can they do the same with dogs so they dont poo in public places?

Can they do the same with dogs so they dont poo in public places?

I’ve no issue with cats as such, but I’d guess the majority of owners just leave them to get up to what they want regardless of whether it’s leaving presents everywhere but their own back yard and murdering baby robins.

At least the majority of dog owners round here have the decency to clean up after their furry friend. Can’t say I’ve ever seen anyone rummaging around in my flowerbed cleaning up after Tiddles (not so much an issue these days with a spaniel on garden patrol).

Have you tried barking at them?

Hammer frozen catnip into your neighbours front lawn.

not just a rat on a rope that you take for a drag around the streets

oh i dunno, jack russells will be pretty good at this sorta thing 😀

Collect a small sample of the cat shit in a plastic bag and take it round to one of the cat owners requesting that they keep their bird killing shit spreaders out of your garden. Make you you are very smily and friendly while doing this so it is clear that you are not hostile or threatening.

Repeat for a while until all the cat owners have had their cat shit returned a few times and there may be a change it their ownership habits.

And buy a super soaker – water with aniseed balls dissolved in it makes it easier to smell which cats you have hit as the smell seems to linger on them for weeks but does not actual harm, unless they are sat in your living room of course.

I had a neighbours Tom cat peeing on our door years ago, spraying the door with cat repellant wasn’t very effective, but spraying the cat with it was. It repelled itself non stop for several days, from then on a little repellent on the door was enough to keep it away.

Cats are ace.

Dogs on the other hand, are shit.

End of discussion 😉

Cats are treated differently in law from dogs.  You are responsible for your dogs actions but not your cats actions as cats are considered wild animals

Cats are also one of a very few if not the only animal that manipulates people into doing what the cat wants

cats are great, but they shouldn’t be allowed to roam free, I’ve got two of the buggers that live in my house/catio.

Do too much damage to the native population of rodents, birds etc, and its far too dangerous for the cats to be outside. On the local facebook groups there is literally a missing or dead cat every other day….

but they shouldn’t be allowed to roam free,

An interesting one because indoor cats tend to exhibit abnormal behaviours.  Ie its bad for the cat.  My answer as a cat lover was not to have one at all 🙁