Cat bullying

[mezzo-tam]

Our 9 year old bundle of loveliness absolutely adores going out into the back garden, very rarely goes out front by the road. Unfortunately one of our neighbours has just bought 2 cats and they have started bullying ours, to the extent she had a little accident at the weekend on the carpet.

We scream and shout at them if they come into our garden but is there anything else we can do that will not harm our cat?

[wolf63]

Is there no way that you could 'secure' the garden so the other cats can't get in.

Cats are very territorial and will bully any cat that they think is in its territory.

Apart from taking your little Princess to martial arts classes there is not much more than you can do.

As you have realised cats get stressed very easily and there is no eas solution to this problem.

The neighbours maybe let their cats go out the front - but that is not to say they will stay there.

Good luck.

[Bettyboo22]

This may sound cruel but it is the most humane thing to do. A farm cat kept attacking our kitten, so everytime it came into our garden we gave it a tiny squirt with a water pistol. We only had to do it about 5 times and it never came back. We have seen it around but it hasn't come into our garden.

[Nosha123]

You could put a fence along the boundary - chicken wire maybe... poor little lamb.. she needs to get a bit tougher eh!!

[Schutzengel]

Hi. The water pistol idea is a very good one. The marauding cats will soon get the idea after a few times of getting wet. It will scare them of but certainly won't hurt them. Good luck.

[wolf63]

a garden hose would be more effective - it would have to look like a accident though.

Best of luck.

[mezzo-tam]

Thanks for all your answers.

We do use a water pistol which scares them off, but they keep coming back.

They just climb up the fence and drop down into our garden, so that obviously doesn't stop them, we do have a gap in the fence but that is so the hedgehog that frequents our garden can come and go.

She has stood up for herself on occasions, but they got the better of the little lamb at the weekend.

I think we'll have to enrol her in kick boxing classes so she can confidently kick some butt!!!

[woofgang]

you can get cat prong things that discourage them from going over fences here
http://www.deteracat.co.uk/