I have two cats, a small - slightly fat - neutered female and a larger neutered male, both of them brother and sister and only just turned one years old. Since we first let them outdoors - which was about 5/6 months ago - every single night is the same. We have a small cat flap that we installed recently due to problems with a local Tom Cat. This cat is a large ginger male and I guess could be described as the “alpha” around where we live. I’ve seen many cats come and go around my place - including a very large black and white cat who was considered as “dangerous” where we live but he was nothing compared to this cat - this cat now seems to be a major problem not just for me but for my neighbours also. This ginger cat has caused my neighbours cat - who only has one eye - some bad injuries and is always a problem; this cat will always attack my neighbours cat if he sees him.
Before we had our cat flap we would let our cats go out at night, only some nights but we had to stop this due to this cat coming and attcking our cats. My male cat was very submissive to this ginger cat as he is very young and not as strong, however even though both of my cats are submissive to this cat, it continues to attack aggressively towards my cats as if this is not just for dominance and I fear what would happen if our cats were unable to get away. Before we had our cat flap some nights I would I wake up at 2:00-4:00am go running down the stairs to rescue my cats from outdoors because this cat had cornered my cats and was attacking them. Since we had the cat flap they are able to escape, however things have gotten worse.
My male cat does not seem to be submissive to this cat no longer and if seems this ginger Tom he will chase him and attack him, although he seems to have lost weight and we fear he may be developing depression which Cats can suffer from if being attacked. My female cats runs at the first sight of him and I don’t blame her. He has cornered her in some bad situations but when she get the opportunity she immediately makes a break for the Cat flap. However she is not so lucky and recently has come up with some serious injuries from bites this cat as given her as she runs away. I literally just went to the aid of my female cat because she has just been chased through he cat flap by this Tom. She is very nervous and growls at anything she hears. She does not seem to have injuries but her back half is wet as if she may have been bitten, but we will not be so sure of these injuries just yet as she is so nervous.
Now I’ve seen many suggestions on what to do but it is impossible to get any closer than 15 metres to this cat. He mocks us. He will sit just out our door watching us through the window but as soon as we touch the door handle he’s gone. We’re really loosing ideas on what to do. Does anyone have any idea what we could do?
Before we had our cat flap we would let our cats go out at night, only some nights but we had to stop this due to this cat coming and attcking our cats. My male cat was very submissive to this ginger cat as he is very young and not as strong, however even though both of my cats are submissive to this cat, it continues to attack aggressively towards my cats as if this is not just for dominance and I fear what would happen if our cats were unable to get away. Before we had our cat flap some nights I would I wake up at 2:00-4:00am go running down the stairs to rescue my cats from outdoors because this cat had cornered my cats and was attacking them. Since we had the cat flap they are able to escape, however things have gotten worse.
My male cat does not seem to be submissive to this cat no longer and if seems this ginger Tom he will chase him and attack him, although he seems to have lost weight and we fear he may be developing depression which Cats can suffer from if being attacked. My female cats runs at the first sight of him and I don’t blame her. He has cornered her in some bad situations but when she get the opportunity she immediately makes a break for the Cat flap. However she is not so lucky and recently has come up with some serious injuries from bites this cat as given her as she runs away. I literally just went to the aid of my female cat because she has just been chased through he cat flap by this Tom. She is very nervous and growls at anything she hears. She does not seem to have injuries but her back half is wet as if she may have been bitten, but we will not be so sure of these injuries just yet as she is so nervous.
Now I’ve seen many suggestions on what to do but it is impossible to get any closer than 15 metres to this cat. He mocks us. He will sit just out our door watching us through the window but as soon as we touch the door handle he’s gone. We’re really loosing ideas on what to do. Does anyone have any idea what we could do?
