On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:27:13 +0100, Des Higgins wrote
(in article . com):

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We have a male cat coming into our house (we have a small neutered
female
cat so she tries to ignore it but is not big enough to fight it) and
it is
****ing on everything.


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Hehe; you obviously have been there and bought the tee shirt.
I do appreciate the suggestions folks btw so keep em coming.
We have spent a year trying to exclude it (locking cat flap for
extended periods of time etc.). This is a VERY persistent cat. We
even soaked it with water pistols inside the house and it came back
next day. Lately we have had to keep our cat in (a bit unkind but
nicer to teh neighbourhood mice and birds) by locking the cat flap at
night. The intruder still tries every night but has now also shifted
its attention to day time visits. We went out yesterday for an hour
and forgot to close the door of the room with the sofa (the only room
in the house downstairs that does not smell of cat ****) and it came
and ****ed on the sofa (one year old).

Des, two suggestions. One, we bought some stuff from the pet shop which
neutralised the smell and stopped the cats going in the same place. We don't
have any left and I can't remember the name except that it was pink g but
you could ask in a pet shop.

Secondly, we had problems with intact tom cats coming into the house. We
borrowed the catching cage from our local Cats Protection League and caught
three toms at different times. The first two, our local CPL paid for them to
be neutered (because they were thought to be part of a feral colony), and the
third one, we paid because quite honestly it was worth it. We were told to
release the cat in the same place that we had caught it - they tend to avoid
the area after that. You have to bait the cage with some nice tasty food
(fresh fish is good), and it is sensible to keep your own cat in otherwise
you tend to catch your own, especially if you have inquisitive ones like
ours. Technically, I suppose we are getting someone else's cat neutered
without their permission, but we did try to find out the owners, and if the
owners can't be bothered - well so be it.

Strangely enough, we have noticed that not many young men hang around the
back door any more either :-)




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