Next doors cat

[I get around]

Right essentially, next door are neglecting their cat (they've moved but still own the house and for some reason haven't taken the cat), so i've been feeding it, and it's started coming in the house. Which up until recently I didn't mind too much.
Last night it took a dump on the sofa so I now want to keep it out of the house.

I've also got a cat, so any ideas of how I would prevent the other cat coming in my house without restricting my cats freedom.

My cat doesn't wear collars, he'll rip it off as fast as you put it on so those magnetic catflaps are out.

 

[Slime]

I've heard that if you cook it right, cat curry isn't all that bad...

 

[Ucof]

Magnetic catflaps are the only way to do this, other than manually letting your cat go in and out by you opening the door.
If your cat is ripping the collar off, you need to teach your cat who is boss.
Wrap it up in a towel so it can't scratch you, get behind it,grip it's body with your legs, then put the collar on. It willl get used to having it on.

otehr than that, report next door's cat to the RSPCA and get it taken away. They are, like you said, neglecting it.

We will be facing something like this with our next door neighbours when they move out. They'll leave their cat, and we will be calling the RSPCA. We can't afford to feed him as well as our two.

 

[Master_X]

Let them fight it out, 'There can be only one!'

 

[wordy]

maybe try leaving the litter tray near the door, if it's litter trained it will hopefully go in there as opposed to ****ting on your pillow or whereever

 

[Roweyboi]

Let them fight it out, 'There can be only one!'

I always wondered why i couldnt find my cats body...another cat must have absorbed it

 

[uv]

Let them fight it out, 'There can be only one!'

"Two cats enter, one cat leaves"

 

[ScarySquirrel]

Let them fight it out, 'There can be only one!'

I think I would favour the one that doesn't take a dump on my sofa personally.

 

[Wicksta]

Wrap it up in a towel so it can't scratch you, get behind it,grip it's body with your legs, then put the collar on. It willl get used to having it on.

I think he means the cat will take the collar off. Our oldest tabby cat has suddenly learnt this new trick at 10 years old and no matter how many times you put the collar on he will take it off again within an hour or so. I won't use any other collars apart from safety ones as we had a cat almost die after getting caught, plus a colleagues cat hung itself on the window handle because he didn't have one.

 

[uchuff]

Indeed, cat collars should be the safety kind which come off if they get caught (or ideally no collar at all). If your cat is microchipped I believe you can get flaps which you can code to open for just that chip, not cheap though I bet.

 

[Roweyboi]

get them to play russian roulette

 

[FooAtari]

Knowing me I would just keep that cat and litter train it.

/is a sucker

 

[Slime]

get them to play russian roulette

That would end in Cat-astrophe

 

[Ucof]

I think he means the cat will take the collar off. Our oldest tabby cat has suddenly learnt this new trick at 10 years old and no matter how many times you put the collar on he will take it off again within an hour or so. I won't use any other collars apart from safety ones as we had a cat almost die after getting caught, plus a colleagues cat hung itself on the window handle because he didn't have one.

Put it tighter

You should only be able to get your first two fingers under the collar.
Any more, and it's too loose. Any less and it is too tight.
Random sticks or window handles shouldn't be able to get under the collar in the first place.

Most collars have a strip of elastic on them that will stretch the collar and slip it off, were the cat to get it caught on anything.

 

[w3bbo]

Call the RSPCA. They will remove the cat for you free of charge and give it the home it deserves.

 

[bitslice]

report next door's cat to the RSPCA and get it taken away.

Cats Protection
http://www.cats.org.uk/

are better, RSPCA will put animals down if they have problems rehoming them.
By all means report the owners for neglect though

you could put food/water down in a shed and he'll sleep there, at least until CPL can find a new home for it. It'll cost about the same as a pint of beer a week

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[Fenris]

Set the cat flap on fire, see how willing it is to jump through the ring of death to crap on your sofa.

Failing that as people have said, call the relevant animal services and have them take it away and rehome it.

 

[MagicBoy]

Nice neighbours.

As above - report them to the RSPCA or Cats Protection. If it's a really cute cat and it gets on with yours then consider re-homing it.

My parents last two cats have been rescue cats. Both complete characters and a lot of fun. Current cat is pretending to be asleep on the table next to me right now.

 

[SoSolid]

Right essentially, next door are neglecting their cat (they've moved but still own the house and for some reason haven't taken the cat), so i've been feeding it, and it's started coming in the house. Which up until recently I didn't mind too much.
Last night it took a dump on the sofa so I now want to keep it out of the house.

I've also got a cat, so any ideas of how I would prevent the other cat coming in my house without restricting my cats freedom.

My cat doesn't wear collars, he'll rip it off as fast as you put it on so those magnetic catflaps are out.

I swear I read somewhere about a cat flap which uses a small microchip placed under the cats skin to activate it.

 

[Mr Jack]

Yeah, you can get flaps that work on the microchip - they're about £80 a pop though.

Can't you just start shouting the pooing cat with a water pistol when it comes in? Or just try and house train it a bit?