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This is now on HER to do something pro-active to keep her cat out of your yard. Your cat is in his home/territory. HER cat needs to be contained in HER yard. Time for her to consider doling out the same money for the same product as you have. Give her the information/brochure when you hang out next week.
That sounds like it is the solution to the problem.
There's a local company here called Invisible Fence. It seems focused on dogs but perhaps it would work for cats. The downside of course it could cost a couple of grand to install. I doubt OP's neighbor would go for it but you never know.
A couple of neighbors have them, I can watch their dogs trotting around their yards but boundaries are boundaries. One ditz up the street used to let her batteries die and then her dog would show up in our yard or elsewhere. So you have to have half a brain to keep them working.
There's a local company here called Invisible Fence. It seems focused on dogs but perhaps it would work for cats. The downside of course it could cost a couple of grand to install. I doubt OP's neighbor would go for it but you never know.
A couple of neighbors have them, I can watch their dogs trotting around their yards but boundaries are boundaries. One ditz up the street used to let her batteries die and then her dog would show up in our yard or elsewhere. So you have to have half a brain to keep them working.
I also have that as well. That was $3000. So I'm very deep money wise keeping my cats in. However, it kept malfunctioning. It would shock the cats in the middle of the yard when they were no where near the fence LOL. So we stopped using it. It will be a great selling point as we have it for the front and back yard.
This is now on HER to do something pro-active to keep her cat out of your yard. Your cat is in his home/territory. HER cat needs to be contained in HER yard. Time for her to consider doling out the same money for the same product as you have. Give her the information/brochure when you hang out next week.
That sounds like it is the solution to the problem.
Trust me, I've tried to speak to her about her part in all this and that's when it turned nasty on her end.
We bought our house 3 years ago in January. My cat, Vinny (the sprayer from another thread--V1) is now an indoor/outdoor cat. I never leave the house when he's outside. He's never outside at night. The neighbor diagonal from me has a cat named Vinny (V2) as well. Both are orange. Her's is long haired, mine is short. They used to get along in the beginning. Vinny2 would come into my yard (numerous times a day) and they would sit together and hang out. Sometimes he would just come over and look into my sliding glass doors because no one is home. Then something changed and her cat viciously attacked my cat in OUR yard. I'm not going to lie; I beat the crap out of her cat to get it off my cat with my shoe. It wouldn't stop. I literally chased them all over the yard as my Vinny as trying to get away from her cat and it wouldn't stop attacking him. I spoke to the neighbor about this as we were friends and she told me: her cat was there first and what do I want her to do and then finally told me FU when I asked her to help me figure this out. We stopped talking after that.
Every time her cat would come into our yard, I'd put it over the fence and tell him no. It finally got to the point where I had to spend $1500 on the purrfect fence to stop her cat from coming into our yard because it wouldn't stop. It covered 3/4s of my fence as the other neighbor has a big dog and her cat won't go along the fence line due to that.
We have reconnected and have begun speaking again months ago. Well, today her cat came into my yard while mine was on my deck and viciously attacked mine again. I kicked the cat off it and screamed for my bf to get outside and to throw her cat over the fence. I then spent another $1000 to finish the rest of the fence along the neighbor with the dog to just finish the whole property to try and stop this whole situation.
I'm now going to be 3k into this trying to keep her cat out of my yard. I think it's jumping on the fence line and then walking on the arm and jumping onto my deck to get into my yard in the corner and/OR just walking along fence line, getting on arm and jumping into my yard. I am going to speak with her about it again today. There's no way she didn't hear the fight and I text her immediately to check her cat as both were full of blood. I also have it on camera.
Do you have any further suggestions on what else I can do to keep this cat out of my yard? My cat is all scratched up and it shouldn't be getting attacked in its OWN yard!!I have a feeling this conversation is not going to end well again and I'm trying to avoid that but it is what it is at this point.
First of all, cats are very territorial and from the sound of it, so is its owner. Next, she couldn't help you, either because she has no clue how to or doesn't want to. You cannot control her or her animal, but you can control yours.
You do not mention the gender of either cat, age, if they are fixed or not, climate or if you are in the city or a rural area. All of which can make a difference. One cat could be in heat or sending out mating signals. If your cat is female has not been fixed, you run the risk of another cat coming into your yard. Either way you cannot get too angry, as it is just thier nature. Some cats are more aggressive than the next. I say, sell the fence and keep your cat inside. You can also get a enclosure that will allow the cat to still enjoy outside for a few hours a day (with supervision) and prevent others from getting to your cat. Again, I urge you to keep your cat indoors.
I live in the city, and the cat I had 20 years ago was killed by some new neighborhood kids. I now realize that she was at risk from anything the city and the neighbor's used for rodent control or moving cars. My current cat is 15, freakishly large and walks on a leash.
I have not finished reading all the replies here but my first thought is rabies. Also this neighbors cat could have a medical condition that the owners do not know about.
It could also be territorial. If your cat one day unexpectedly got scared of a sound or something while the two were together that would trigger something in the neighbor's cat. It would make the neighbor's cat does not recognize your cat anymore or just see's your cat as the one to hunt. I learned about this on that show with Jackson Galaxy and I swear it's all true. My male cat went after my female cat after she showed fear. Also, I found out my male cat was not getting enough play and hunter attack play time. I finally learned to play daBird with him and that got a lot of his pent-up frustration of not hunting. It helped a lot with stopping him from making her a punching ball for him.
Your neighbor should get their cat checked by a vet and tell the vet the cat is acting aggressively all of a sudden.
Also, you might want to put a camera on your home to show her cat is coming on your property not yours on hers. make sure it stays on long enough with a wide screen showing it's their property coming onto your property. It will be proof for when their cat does physical harm so bad that you need to take yours to a vet which can be costly.
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Reason: last paragraph I added to edit.
Hey guys. This just happened: The cat came into my yard and was screeching at my cat through the sliding glass door. I was escorting him out of yard to jump the fence to get back into hers and it attacked me--scratched and bit me. Thank God I had pants on so it didn't get to my skin. I have just text her telling her what happened. How do I proceed from here?
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