How can I get rid of a stray cat from my garden without harming my own cat?
Christine L asked:
There is a stray cat that keeps coming into my back garden. I have a cat of my own so can’t put down any pet repellents. This cat has even come into my house and ate my cats food and scratched my cat.
There is a stray cat that keeps coming into my back garden. I have a cat of my own so can’t put down any pet repellents. This cat has even come into my house and ate my cats food and scratched my cat.
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November 30th, 2009 at 8:47 am
A few squirts with a water bottle should sent him on his way.
Good Luck! Spike & Co.
December 1st, 2009 at 11:35 am
you can try animal control
or put food far away from there
and it would think food would always be over there Carlos
December 2nd, 2009 at 12:01 pm
Ask the cat protection league to come and catch it if it is stray Blossom
December 5th, 2009 at 9:51 am
Aim very carefully. Twat
December 5th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
try to catch it or call animal control. good luck ~*~Erica~*~
December 6th, 2009 at 7:58 am
if you have a friend who has a dog ask to borrow it and let it at the stray james e
December 8th, 2009 at 6:35 am
Ask your local animal shelter or no kill shelter (better yet) to pick him up. Arwen
December 9th, 2009 at 11:52 am
well my friend had this problem and here is how she handled it she hung a alumunim pie plate in the garden and a statue of a owl it worked bunny
December 10th, 2009 at 1:13 am
Get a water pistol! My stepdad used one to get rid of strays in his garden, the cats hate it and will avoid the garden but it doesn’t do any harm other than giving them a bit of a shock silver_inc
December 12th, 2009 at 12:01 am
Call animal control. They will come and get the cat and make sure it goes to a good home =) Bs
December 15th, 2009 at 5:52 am
As long as you allow your cat to go in the back yard then you can’t put out repellent, as you know. Would it be possible to keep your cat an indoor cat for a few weeks while you sprayed repellent in the back yard and spooked the other cat away?
Maybe you could just use the repellent on the foliage closest to the fence that the other guy must transverse on his way to your yard?
Tough question. Maybe your cat can learn to share ;-)) ?
December 15th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
I’m a little confused, but I have the impression that your cat is indoor/outdoor.
If you keep your cat as an indoor/outdoor, I really don’t think there’s any way to do a selective repellent.
Cat fights are gonna happen if you continue to let your cat go outdoors. But you can get one of those doors that only opens in response to a tag in your cats collar so that your cat is the only one that can get in and out of your house. That way, it can run from a fight and into your house without risking the other cat following it in. Also, then the stray won’t be able to sneak into your house and steal food.
Here’s one: midniqhtblue
December 15th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
Air rifle….. Ahwell
December 17th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
you have get a water pistol and fill it with vinegar then just shot the stray a few times they hate licking it off maxhead
December 20th, 2009 at 6:06 am
semtex..booom,, rusty
December 20th, 2009 at 9:32 am
You shouldn’t be trying to run the cat off, you should be honored that it has deigned to grace your home with its presence. See, the thing is, if yours wants it gone, she’ll take care of the issue herself. The easiest thing would be to make sure she can’t get into the house, and keep yours inside till she gives up on you and goes somewhere else. Usually, if you don’t feed them, they’ll write you off.
Or, you could just put food out for her outdoors, sort of foster her.
Basically, however, this is best left to your cat to handle. kaththea s
December 20th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
I had a similar problem, the other cat would come in the cat flap eat the cat food and play with our cats toys, I used to pick it up and take it back outside,untill I was preparing my dinner when it came back inside jumped up on the counter and started in at my raw steak, I grabed the bloody thing and drop kiked it out the back door I have never seenit since werf ydna
December 21st, 2009 at 6:14 am
I was once told to put plastic forks with the points up in a row all around the garden and put hot sauce on the tips. This should do the trick. He is going in the garden to poo trust me. so this is the way to get him to not go digging around or in there anymore. Plus the scratchy feeling will make him not like the feeling and the hot sauce is repulsing to him. princessNLB
December 21st, 2009 at 7:16 pm
Chances are very high it isn’t a stray. More likely it is a neighbourhood cat that wants to oust your cat and take it’s place as your house is better than it’s current residence.
The council and animal charities won’t touch it. The tricky thing being it is property, but classed feral. They can’t take it in if it isn’t in distress.
A person in a similar position to you put the offending cat in a cat carrier when it entered the house one time too many and took it for a long car journey. I’m pretty sure they didn’t kill it, but it was never seen again. Marcus
December 23rd, 2009 at 1:09 pm
wow you know what you should do (BE BRAVE) take a stick and try to scare it or if you dont want the cat to be hurt than whjen it comes throw the food out of ur garden and the cat will be running out for it. (DO NOT SHOW THE CAT YOUR THE 1 WHO PUT THAT FOOD ! IF YOU DO IT,IT WILL COME BACK FOR MORE) cloe
December 26th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
keep it! I kept a stray, which came to me a few months ago, and it has turned into one of the most loveable pets i have ever owned ! ( i also have a lot of other cats too ) Thomas
December 29th, 2009 at 10:45 am
try …hmmm i dont think you can ♥♥♥!hello kitty lover!♥♥♥
December 30th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
I had this happen but I ending up keeping it! If you aren’t wanting to keep it try spraying it with water. If this doesn’t work try calling a no-kill shelter and have them come and get it. This way they won’t kill it but you won’t have to deal with it anymore. Good Luck! DLB
December 31st, 2009 at 2:35 am
The kindest thing to do would be to catch the stray cat and take him/her to your local pet shelter. You could also get them to pick it uo if you can contain it.
Call the RSPCA advice line on 0300 1234 555 for further information. Jody
January 3rd, 2010 at 1:13 pm
spray his entry path with water that will send him on his way Tom S
January 6th, 2010 at 3:34 pm
There’s nothing in the way of a repellant that can distinguish between an “authorised” cat (yours) and a trespasser apart from you and your moggy. We found that the only thing that has any effect is a high-power water pistol, which is guaranteed to shift the pest without harming anything apart from its dignity. Trouble is, this relies on you being persistent and for that matter on your marksmanship. If you’re able to keep up a campaign of blasting it whenever it appears eventually it will get the message.
What happens if your cat meets it outside? Often there’s a face-off involving much hissing, spitting and swearing but seldom any blows, and usually the resident wins the confrontation, being bolstered by the moral high-ground of living there. Plus your moral support if you can be nearby.
Wish you luck. Bardic
January 7th, 2010 at 10:31 pm
To prevent the cat from coming in your home, you can get an electromagnetic cat door. It lets your pet(s) in (when it’s wearing it’s collar), but it stays locked to other animals.
You could put up a fence with the electromagnetic cat door built in.
Your best bet is to trap the stray. Humane societies often will rent or loan out cat traps overnight. And please don’t think that animals you take in to shelters are automatically put down. They are checked for microchips, and held to see if an owner shows up. Your stray might just be a microchipped cat that ran away and some frantic owner has been hoping for it to return for months or even years. And if it’s not neutered, your little stray could be producing dozens of more little strays every year. So get it trapped and neutered at a bare minimum!
You can set up a sprinkler to work on a motion sensor, and only turn it on when your cat is indoors. It’ll only take one or two squirts to scare off most strays. Motion sensors with noise might work also (like loud Halloween decorations could be cheap) if you can remember to turn them off when your cat is out.
It’s not really a good idea to let your cat go potty in a garden where you know other cats may visit, even periodically. Your cat could pick up a serious or even fatal illness from contacting the waste of other cats. I’ve seen whole colonies of strays wiped out that way. Even just picking up worms is at best unpleasant.
It’s best to deter your cat from going potty in the garden also. Put some chicken wire, pine cones, or other uncomfortable things to walk on where ever there is a good “potty” area in the garden. Or plant some strongly scented plants. petsitscom