Any experience next to a feral cat terrorising the others?
In my neighbourhood, there are many feral cats that I and another woman feed. Among theem is a huge male cat, who scares the others. He doesn't even inevitability to attack them, when he appears and meows they run away scared! One of them got hit by a coup¨¦ when she was running away from him, she is my favourite. She have healed and she is here now, but I'll have to agree to her go when she is OK again. The male cat is fat, he eat at another neighbourhood too, but he also comes over here, since there is food. I have stopped feed him, so that he goes away, but the other lady feel pity for him and keeps feeding him, not outside her house, but at the park. However, he know where she lives and he comes here waiting for her, and scares away adjectives antagonism.
Any ideas what to do? If I chase him, will he go away, even whether the other lady feeds him?
I would contact your local humane society and see whether they can at least perform some spay and neuters on the ferals. My local humane society freshly spayed and neutered over 50 feral cats! It's a great thing, and if some of the cats are friendly plenty the humane society could take them and in and adopt them out. Good luck!
I hold never been able to turn away a kitty. Feed him seperately.
Put a bowl far absent from the rest and TRAIN him to eat by himself. If he can't get a long. I would still feed him.
When you tolerate the other kitty go I hope you spay her.
I know this isn't easy but that ole mean overweight cat didn't ask to be homeless now did he? Its not eay livin on the streets animals or people.
what would Jesus do?
Answers: trap him and get him neuter that may help.
Otherwise, just continue feed him. That's just how cats are. My ferals all wait until the elder or bigger cats are done eating, and then they eat. If anyone decide they're gong to eat before the elders/bigger ones are done, they get chased stale and the bigger/older one goes back to eating.
We had one who would attack any other cat that didn't run, he be a bully and he was FIV+ so he gave it to a lot of the other cats contained by the area. He tore up one of the cats we eventually took in, who has FIV also presently but he's lived with it 10 years so far and is going strong.
I was doing TNR, and finally caught him. They tested him and he was a positive - they give me the option of keeping him indoors only or they were going to put him down...I thought long and complicated about the choice, knew he was method too wild to tame down and far too dangerous to be near the 3 indoor cats we had at the time, and told them to euthenize, though it tore me up to say that. I'd seen this cat budge after kittens so I knew he was dangerous, but I also saw how surprised and over the moon he was to find a little milk in a can out by the food bowl..
If this cat can be live trapped, can he be moved to a smallholding situation? Most cats in cat colonies in cities do get along pretty ably, it's the odd one out that causes all the disturbances and aggression. If he's removed, the others stand a better chance at eating and living peacefully.
Three cats aren't that many, we've have up to five long term.
