The Cat Thread

So far my approach is yelling and chasing. Doesn't seem that cruel, but is also seemingly ineffective.
I thought maybe some kind of scented deterrent existed or was half looking for someone to suggest me peeing round the perimeter of my property so I had an excuse when the neighbours looked at me funny.

Shouting and chasing does little to cats IMO. Thought the pee thing is for foxes, but super soaker with water will be fine .

From experience of a few decades ago, the powders don't work nor the citrus thing either.

So far my approach is yelling and chasing.

The cat or the neighbour?

I don’t know which neighbour owns the cat unfortunately. But I don’t think they’ve done anything wrong, it’s not like they can have a stern word with the cat and stop it from coming over to our place.

Get better Meabh. Glad they are getting on fingers crossed they become good company for each other. V cute photos.

Trouble lies ahead...

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Amazing they are getting on so quickly, are they both female?

What is their back stories, assume they both must be used to being around other cats?

Is it an intact tom? Catch it and get it neutered.

Both female. I don't know tons about their back stories:
Celeste - turned up on my friend's balcony one night (4th floor), matted and grey, a piece of string tied around her neck. She was about a year old and was terrified of people at first. My friend fed her for a few nights and then eventually let her in as she felt sorry for her, she got on quite well with my friend's two boy cats although they were horrified at her desire for them to shag her.
Méabh - she was a stray living in a village but the villagers didn't like her and started throwing things at her to make her go away. She was caught as part of a charity catch-neuter-release scheme, but she was so friendly with people that the charity thought she should have a home. She was about 7 months old when she was caught.

I haven't been close enough to check his undercarriage. According to my immediate neighbour he belongs to a house 2 roads over who might be a bricky, so I wouldn't want to just go chopping someone else's cat.

When he stands with his front legs together, the black markings on each leg join up!

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Get where you are coming from, but un nutered cats are a big problem. Lots of cat charities will do the opp for free just for the control of feral cats.

Yes, ours are both rescues so had to be neuteured before we got them. I know the issue quite well here!

Staking out flies

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haha

The hair above Meabh's eyes hasn't grown back and the patch is getting larger - yesterday we also noticed red patches on her neck, her leg and chest. It was a public holiday yesterday so we couldn't get an appointment at the vet, so we separated the cats overnight and will take Meabh to the vet today. I am SO FUCKING TIRED thanks to both cats miaowing at the door between them, interspersed with Meabh chasing her tail on the bed and generally rampaging about.

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A lot of this happening in my house/garden at the moment. Woodlouse chasing/eating is also popular at this time of year

Guess who has a fungal skin infection and needs to be fully shaved, given medicine every day, ointment every day, bathed twice a week and kept totally separate to the other cat?! FFS. So angry with the adoption lady who surely knew what was wrong with the poor cat.

Guess who has a fungal skin infection and needs to be fully shaved, given medicine every day, ointment every day, bathed twice a week and kept totally separate to the other cat?! FFS

You?

You joke but I'm now super itchy....

I'm putting my itchiness down to mosquitoes.

But we all know that it's fleas, and I need to spray the house.

Had the most stressful 45 mins earlier, Jesus.

Guess who found out he could leap from the bed to the Velux window in our loft conversion, with sufficient weight now to pull the window down slightly more, enough to get out onto the roof?

Guess who went missing, as I frantically searched the neighbourhood outside, shaking his food and fave squeaky toy ?

I spotted him on the roof from the other side of the terraces, hunkered down next to the chimney stack, with two Herring gulls swooping on him and a third on the chimney itself. I ran back upstairs and opened the Velux as wide as it would go, calling him. He was absolutely terrified, eyes wide open and meowing pitifully. I was totally convinced he was going to be taken by one of the gulls.

Managed to coax him down the roof slightly but still out of reach. I sat out of the window half way onto the roof, trying to get him to come over to me so I could grab him. He was swooped on by a second gull which I tried to shoo away, as he ran across far enough for me to grab him by the scruff of the neck and haul him over to me so I could throw him back down into the room through the window.

This little escapologist, that's who. Jesus Effing Christmas I need a drink....

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OMG, that's like a horror movie! Glad you managed to rescue the little minx

It was horrendous. He's already been back up there, looking up at the window. Jeez!

Gulls are such dicks!