Cat coming into my garden after my chickens and rabbits

zoe 3619

How big is the garden and how high is the wall?
Could you put something on the top that overhangs on the outside to stop the cat jumping up?bits of plywood weighted down with heavy stones for instance?
Or cats tend to jump up onto something solid before jumping back down. If you could have sticks somehow protruding from the wall with a couple of stands of taut wire or string run between them it might be a deterant.
Other than that,it's fairly unlikely a cat would take on a full size hen or rabbit unless they're particularly small breeds.Have had bantam hens,ducks and a free range rabbit here for years.Also have three drifted in stray cats and have had no problems.

Mooooo

Another persons pet is going on to your property. I would catch the cat and either hold on to it till the owner comes looking or hand it in as a stray to a pound rescue. If details are on collar contact owner and tell them they will be liable to replace any animal or vets bills caused by the cat. If this was a dog chasing livestock it would be shot, with the owner to blame not the animal. People will only do anything if there are consequences

Demonique

Put a roof on the run.

Another idea, get a humane trap, trap the cat and bring it to your nearest animal shelter.

Owner can pick up cat from shelter, hopefully the inconvenience of doing so will make them keep the cat indoors.

Your birds and rabbits are living on borrowed time
If it's not that cat, it'll be another cat, and if it's not that other cat, it'll be a fox

My neighbour got chickens. They had a proper enclosure but were allowed have access to the garden. The first day they got the chickens was the first time I ever saw a fox in daylight, sitting on the wall. I had to run out and scare it. Believe me, foxes are absolutely everywhere.

Chickens no longer wander the garden

Demonique

eeguy wrote: »

You don't see foxes. You just see feathers:p

We saw a fox after our chickens exactly once, heard chickens going nuts, went to the patio door to see a fox with a mouthful of feathers chasing our larger hen.

When I ran outside the hens ran to one corner of the garden and the fix to the other, checked the hens, larger one had superficial bite mark, luckily they both survived.

Never saw the fox again.

DBB

Folks.
Did you not see the on thread warning a few posts above asking to stick to the topic of the cat?
Please stay on topic, as per that request.
Thanks,
DBB

lifeandtimes

Mooooo wrote: »

Another persons pet is going on to your property. I would catch the cat and either hold on to it till the owner comes looking or hand it in as a stray to a pound rescue. If details are on collar contact owner and tell them they will be liable to replace any animal or vets bills caused by the cat. If this was a dog chasing livestock it would be shot, with the owner to blame not the animal. People will only do anything if there are consequences

This may be an additional option to protecting the run even further, the owner needs to know and if I hadn't come out to stop the cat then they would be liable for any damage done to our pets, thanks for your help

Ms Doubtfire1

Take a pair of geese.They are noisy, not afraid of cats (fox might be another issue) and will defend their territory....I need to see the cat that will stand up against a goose coming at him/her with their wings spread out screeching loud...

muttnjeff

Demonique wrote: »

Put a roof on the run.

Another idea, get a humane trap, trap the cat and bring it to your nearest animal shelter.

Owner can pick up cat from shelter, hopefully the inconvenience of doing so will make them keep the cat indoors.

That's lousy.The cat has a collar so is quite obviously a pet. collar may have ID. knock on a few doors if you want but dont trap the poor cat. He hasnt actually done anything!!
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