Cats

Originally Posted by ILG

I am looking for some suggestions. We have a neighbor that called the city about our cats being in their yard. We had a cat a while back that disappeared before we got the kitten we have now (the other cat we have now is a neighborhood stray that we adopted). Our kitten has been coming home with strange but somewhat serious injuries. We have not had to take him to the vet, but considered it. He has had two bizarre injuries that have taken a few weeks to heal up each. The thing is that the neighbor we think is doing this has dogs that bark all the time and an emotionally disturbed son who comes over all the time. Even when we eat in our back porch he comes and talks to us through the screen and invites himself over and talks about how good it smells. We have been very tolerant and have had him over a lot. He has spent a number of meals here and we have never complained about their dogs or their son. We do sometimes not answer the phone when their son calls ours about 5 times in one evening. We are considering putting up a privacy fence but that still doesn't help the cat situation. Aside from keeping our cats inside 24/7, I am not sure what to do. I can't understand why someone would be so petty as to be this way when the cats are only in their yard once in a while.

ILG~ If the cat a male have you had him fixed?
Getting a male cat fixed can save you alot money in vet bills in the long run, plus it keeps them from getting into fights with other males when females are in heat. Are male cat came home on a weekly base tore apart, the last fight he was in was real bad, his eye was almost tore out and his fur around his neck rip out and bite marks. We live in the woods and though maybe a wild aniaml got to him or a dog, the vet said nope a cat fight, it cost 600.00 to put him back, he had to have drain tubes, he was a mess . The vet told us to get him fixed if we wanted to end the problem, so we had it done, sure enough a year later he not come home torn up once so far.