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I have a big fat friendly neutered tom cat. He is a really nice, happy cat, no trouble at all and clean as a pin. However, he's had a bit of a rough time of it lately. We went on holiday, so he went to the kennels, then I went away for a couple of weeks and he missed his mum! Then we moved house.
We have been keeping him in, and after a few days of sulking he is now fine in his new surroundings, back to his happy self. Then we let him out, and that's when the trouble started. There is another cat in the neighbourhood, who in itself is friendly, will let you stroke it, etc, but is obviously very territorial. Every time my cat goes outside, he comes face to face with a small black ball of hissing spitting cat. Not being very brave, he makes a run for home, but being so big it takes him a minute or two to wriggle through the cat flap, and has lost a bit of fur to the other one on several occasions.
Our cat is probably 3 times the size of the little black one.
The cat flap is a magnetic one, which stops other cats getting in, but this black one will actually sit on the other side of the flap with his head in the hole, hissing at ours through the see-through door. He will also, if the front door is open, chase our cat into the house and up the stairs. All ours wants to do is to go out and have a scratch around in the garden, but the other one won't let him.
Our cat just looks so sad, and he has definitely become more clingy, but we are giving him lots of love. He is such a nice cat too. I have tried shooing the other cat away, but it is relentless, sometimes following me back up the stairs. There are other cats around, and it seems to tolerate those OK. Does anyone know of anything I can do to stop this cat terrorising mine?
Thanks
Debbie
We have been keeping him in, and after a few days of sulking he is now fine in his new surroundings, back to his happy self. Then we let him out, and that's when the trouble started. There is another cat in the neighbourhood, who in itself is friendly, will let you stroke it, etc, but is obviously very territorial. Every time my cat goes outside, he comes face to face with a small black ball of hissing spitting cat. Not being very brave, he makes a run for home, but being so big it takes him a minute or two to wriggle through the cat flap, and has lost a bit of fur to the other one on several occasions.
Our cat is probably 3 times the size of the little black one.
The cat flap is a magnetic one, which stops other cats getting in, but this black one will actually sit on the other side of the flap with his head in the hole, hissing at ours through the see-through door. He will also, if the front door is open, chase our cat into the house and up the stairs. All ours wants to do is to go out and have a scratch around in the garden, but the other one won't let him.
Our cat just looks so sad, and he has definitely become more clingy, but we are giving him lots of love. He is such a nice cat too. I have tried shooing the other cat away, but it is relentless, sometimes following me back up the stairs. There are other cats around, and it seems to tolerate those OK. Does anyone know of anything I can do to stop this cat terrorising mine?
Thanks
Debbie