Terriorial dispute

Any cat I have ever known can make a puppy respect him in two shakes of a lamb's tail, so a puppy might be the answer.

Your cat will be dreadfully offended for at least a week and probably refuse to allow you to cuddle him.

At present we have two cats, and none of the neighbouring cats dare tackle them both at once, so a kitten might be the long term answer - puss will be offended, but a kitten of the opposite sex will be more acceptable than one of the same sex.

Thank you to everyone who posted. As more people get cats these problems increase,especially when irresponsible owners will not pay to get their cats neutered.

Thank you to everyone who posted helpful comments. The problem with Tigger is not in the garden, it happens when he goes further afield to his outside "territory" so it is very difficult to discover what is happening. There have been neighbouring cats in the garden and he ignores them or they just sit looking at one another.

I will have to let him out eventually and in the mean time I am trying to think of a product I can put on his fur that will deter other cats but not harm Tigger if he licks it off.
Not easy.

I have my DD's cat, he was getting terrorised by the many cats in her area. So now I live nearer he's my cat, I had him neutered & micro-chipped. He does fight one particular cat who I believe belongs to a neighbour but so far no serious injuries (think my Stevie actually gets the better of said cat) I have caught this cat in my garden, mine would have seen it off if he hadn't been asleep on my bed

You're assuming he's scared of another cat rather than of being shot? Maybe. My cat went very scared last year, we think after an altercation with a fox. Although the garden has been shared terrtitory with a family of foxes before, and an armed truce has always prevailed. He became happy to go out again after a couple of months, but now is very nervous INSIDE the house. He has a favourite lap, is warily tolerant of me but runs a mile (to outdoors if available) from a stranger. Psycho-analysis of cats is futile. I think he's just flipped!

Dare I suggest that your lovely cat is pottering around another pussycat's garden

I did wonder just how far his territory extends!

I don't recognise any of the cats who use our garden as belonging to any of the neighbours.

We have a cat flap which is activated by our cat's identity chip so no other cat can get in. This has helped enormously when she has dived in to escape another cat. In addition I keep a water cannon water pistol by the back door - one squirt from that and they can't get away fast enough!

Dare I suggest that your lovely cat is pottering around another pussycat's garden.

My own spoilt rotten Burmese will fight anything that comes into our garden and also anything else he sees on his travels. And they really do travel a fair distance from home.

Ours is literally a pussycat indoors but a fighting machine once he steps outside! Cats will be cats ?

Ah ...we currently have this problem with our rescue cat ..she has been with us now for about 3 years or even 4 ! When she arrived (just strolled in during one night, through the cat flap) we had three other cats ...one aged about 23 who then died of old age ....a Spanish stray who unfortunately had a neurological disorder and had to be put to sleep, and another that joined us from the house opposite to avoid the three small children (the owner was only too happy for him to live with us and we had him neutered)...he sadly disappeared one night and despite a tattoo and posting ads all over the village he never returned ...NOW a cat belonging to another neighbour with two small children has arrived through the cat flap and seems to have decided to stay ....our stray cat HATES him and simply will not accept him ...I told her (like you do ) that she was lucky when she arrived our three accepted her !) she now pretends to be frightened of him (he is a lovely cat ...friendly, lovable ....whereas our cat is the neighbourhood bully ..she terrifies the little cat next door as well as their two Shi'tzus .....she is also extremely aggressive ...she does not like being touched unless it is her idea I have been sent to he Urgences for anti biotic injections following bites and scratches ...and even today I have a deep bite on my hand and a 5 inch long deep scar on my arm ...so far this time though no fever ..I keep bathing them with antiseptic !

My doc says this cat is dangerous and needs to be put down ...I agree, it is dangerous but my husband refuses to part with it (even though it attacks him a well ...) so what to do ? The other evening in the freezing cold (below zero) he was out going up and down the street calling it ...he is 84 and not in the best of health ...he refuses to listen when I say IT IS A CAT if it wants to go out it will doubtless come back when it wants ......his whole life is the cat ....he #can#t go out# because the cat might be frightened of he other one........etc etc ....looking out for this cat is now his whole life !

What to do ? as I said, I try to tell him it is a cat and is probably doing all this to make us feel guilty that we have allowed in the other cat ......someone suggested getting some Feliway (or something) to spray on the cat beds to keep them calm ....anyone tried this ? does it work !!!

Getting desperate !

If you see the aggressor cat, invest in a powerful water pistol and give the cat a well directed squirt every time you see it. It will soon get the message!

Elenkalubleton you need one of those cat flaps that open for your cats only using their microchips.

Think you're on the wrong thread clover

I enjoyed being an Elf in the Brownies and a Robin in Guides. I then became a Guide Cadet and Tawny Owl with the Brownies. I've recently come across the 105page book that I compiled on The History of the Guide Movement, for a Proficiency Badge in 1959. I can't believe how neat my writing was in those days. I know I used to have The Guide magazine and my book is full of cuttings from the magazines.

I've also still got the write-up of a Cadet Expedition I undertook with a friend - a day in London - in 1962 and if anyone's interested, a short article about it will be in the March issue of Best of British magazine.

I agree with the cat flap idea. Ours is clear and our cat will sit and watch through it to see if the coast is clear! He will also charge back through it when he needs a quick get away.

Friend of mine has had electric wire run round her garden so her four cats do not stray, it seems to work well for her. Cats wear a collar and get a zap if they go too near edge of garden.

I do understand your worry, we recently lost our male cat who had been having some serious fighting injuries after neighbours moved in with a large cat. Deep claw wounds can be very nasty, and despite treatment our lovely boy died very quickly of blood poisoning.

Birds flew off from the feeders this morning in a fluttering panic. Large handsome white and patch cat sneaking down the garden. Duncan told cats ahoy, job done - birds back everyone calm and peaceful.

Hello HappyGardener. Yes - I have had the same problem. Keeping the cat in didn't work. He was just too unhappy. The warring moggies had to sort it out themselves. They will eventually. It took a few visits to the vet for both of them, and a few interventions with a water pistol to separate them, but they ended up by avoiding each other, using different cat paths around the same territory or slinking through each others gardens very carefully. They did continue to taunt each other through the window just by sitting and looking in. I think they were evenly matched though.
I did have one cat - who was a large and beautiful fellow - who just didn't fight. He used to roll over on his back in submission, and the other cats left him alone.

What about getting another cat...rescue cat. After settling it in it will hopefully have 'bonded' with your cat. This my deter others. Also place a few used litter contents around garden for a while to give other the message. Lion poo pellets may work too. Amazon sell them. Scattered around edge of far den.

What about a cat flap so he can get in the house quickly.
We had this problem when our 4 cats were being terrorised by a new cat who moved into the area. This cat was deaf so shouting at him made no difference. He never followed them into our house though so they just dived in whenever he was around.
Luckily the people who owned him were only renting the house for a while & left after 6 months.

We have a Burmese who goes out under supervision.We also have next doors cat who comes in the house and steals his food.We have tried everything to keep her out wire netting etc.Also rubber spikes,don't work! She just steps over them.Cats seem to make themselves thinner and can squeeze in most places.

My cat was always getting abscesses, a tear in the ear and so on but he decided for himself if he wanted to stay in. After a while he learnt to entice cats he was having a conflict with back to the garden and he would suddenly run between the dog's legs. I would see cats chasing him to attack coming to a cartoon like horrified sliding stop. One day I looked out and there was a ring of cats sitting around the dog and he was looking up at the sky pretending that he couldn't see them and I had to rescue him. I think it's all just part of a cat's life.

Ours used to do that as well; the cats used to sit on the fence and eyeball him as he leapt around barking at them.

My terrier when let out the back door dashes around the entire garden, flushing out any intruder. If we say cats before he goes out then he dashes around at g-force. It definitely has the affect of keeping cats out of the garden during the day. At night he's on his back legs in the air.

Lhasas are very friendly towards those they know and quite fiesty towards strangers...And that includes cats. They wouldn't know what to do if they cornered one though! It's just the fun of the chase.

Anya Has it anything to do with the breed my Lhasa is best friends with Oliver but hates next doors black moggy with a passion.