So, three times now, I have run to the basement toward the blood curdling screams and found our neighbor’s cat in our house facing off with our cat. Luckily, it is apparently weary of humans because I did not have to do much to scare it back out the door.
I have no idea if it is a male or female, spayed or neutered - I would hope. However, our cat is spayed, 4yo, we’ve been living in this house for two years, but this problem only started over the summer. “Oreo” as my boyfriend and I have started to call “him”, is now frequently lurking, trying to get in the house. Today “he” tried to get in a window I opened while cleaning the house.
I don’t even know who this cat belongs to, although he does have a collar, I’ve never gotten close enough to check. Our cat gave our neighbor stitches when she tried to pick her up last summer. One of the reasons I don’t approach strange animals. (Luckily she admitted the cat tried to get down and she kept holding her… well…:rolleyes:)
How do I get this cat to stop lurking and coming in our cat door, short of making our cat an indoor cat? Do I contact Animal Control, or would they tell me to get lost and just keep our cat inside? We’ve tried… if she can’t go outside, she will everything apart, use the entire house as her personal litterbox, and essentially goes completely feral - which seems counter intuitive, but there it is.