'Looking for advice': Homeowners and their cats keep getting terrorized by random outdoor cat at 2 AM, heed the advice of online cat people

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    Human body - Posted by u/wolfbleps 2 days ago Outdoor cat terrorizing our home, looking for advice 8
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    Font - Since late last year, we keep going through periods where this one specific cat makes its rounds past our house, and terrorizes our cats inside. We will wake up at 2am to our cats screaming and fighting this cat through the window. It used to be primarily at our back door, and this cat would come up and spray on our glass door and it would get smeared all over as it tried to claw
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    Font - at our cats, but it slowed after we put chicken wire around our deck to try and stop it (it still finds it's way over) and now it goes to our other low-lying windows. We have a suspicion of who it might belong to after someone posted on next door their outdoor cat had been missing a few days longer than normal, but even though the cat in her picture
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    Font - and ours looked the same (same color and markings), she claimed it was not hers and we only know her username but not who she is or where they live in the vicinity. We HAVE caught this cat once, and animal control took it after scolding us for setting a trap outside of their 'trapping hours', but someone picked it up from AC and a month or so later it's back outside again.
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    Font - Now we're dealing with the same nightmare and we can't catch it because it knows about the trap, AC won't help because it only comes at nighttime and their 'cat trapping' hours are 8am-5pm. We're at our wits end this has been such a nightmare for us, our cats are so paranoid and on edge that they've been fighting each other and the slightest random sound startles
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    Font - them (they only get like this when this cat starts coming around). Is there any other live traps that we can set other than the standard metal tunnel spring trap? What do we even do if we DO manage to catch it again and the owner just picks up and let's it back out? Is any of this enough to take them to small claims court for anything? (IF
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    Font - we can even find out who they are or if AC will even disclose) We just want this cat to leave us tf alone
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    Font - whatawitch5 2 days ago ● The best thing to put around the perimeter would be male urine, preferably from a human male who lives in the house. I know what you're thinking, but my husband/urine source and I have been successfully using this method for decades to deter unwanted cat intruders. When we
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    Font - lived in a rural area he usually applied the urine fresh from the source using his built in applicator, but it just as easily can be collected discretely and applied using a "spray" bottle set on stream. Spray it in a dotted line around the perimeter of the area you want to keep cat-free. It does need to be reapplied periodically, especially after heavy rain. But it seriously
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    Font - works. We kept roaming male cats away from our 1/4 acre yard for years using my husband's urine, though it did take a few days for him to cover the entire perimeter. Some people use store-bought predator urine, coyote I think, in a similar way. But it's expensive over time and could easily stress out OP's own cats. Whereas using the urine of a male who already lives
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    Font - in the home is free and is a scent the cats are already familiar with. Our cats used to love to follow my husband as he "made his rounds", sniffing and strutting like they were all on patrol defending the border of our territory. It seemed to make them feel far more secure knowing that he was doing his part as a proper male by spraying his scent as a boundary marker.
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    Font - Let the jokes ensue. But this really works and will likely help alleviate OP's problem so I wanted to put it out there and risk the abuse.
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    Font - hinky-as-hell- 2 days ago We used to use fox urine in a super soaker all around the yard for feral cats and also hedgehogs, lol.
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    Font - lamireille 1 day ago This is hilarious! And it makes sense! I remember trying to choose the best animal- repellant pee from a website that sold coyote, fox, bear etc pee... it never once occurred to me that we have access to human pee for free.
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    Font - bree1818 1 day ago We were told to have my dad pee on tennis balls and put them around the perimeter to keep cats/raccoons/opossums away when we first moved to Texas. My sister used to walk
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    Font - home from school and she liked to pick tennis balls up and play with them on her way home ... that ended after we found out about peeing on tennis balls
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    Font - ShowMeTheTrees 2 days ago I'd hide the trap in some bushes and take to a different shelter. Put some extra- extra stinky food in there like canned mackeral. It's clearly an unneutered male who's going to be increasing the feral kitten population anyway, so bad owners.

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