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Originally Posted by hyrum
Personally, we don't have that problem because the cat is mostly indoors and when its outside it doesn't dig up stuff in the neighbor's property -- barely strays from our yard at all.
However, there are much more humane ways of training a cat to stay out of somewhere -- for example they hate water -- so spray 'em a few times with a hose and they'll learn. I am sure if your dad tried he could find other means. As I mentioned if the cat is semi-feral, just roams around all day and night, and has set this as his territory, etc, I can see how it could become a greater nuiscanc, and maybe is not so endearing to its owner, either. Why not, at least once, trap the cat, bring it to the owner and give a warning that next time its going to the pound or the countryside?
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Dude, come on. Do you really think that the cat is going to stay put so that my 64 year old father with bad knees can drag the hose over to it and squirt it in the face? And I'm not sure how many times he warned the lady that he was going to take action, but from what my mom had said, it was a few.
I really don't know what I would have done if I was in his shoes. Most likely it would have been something like you suggested, trapping the cat and telling it's owner if she gives me 100 bucks to pay for all the plants it's destroyed, she could have it back.
But of course, it's not me that has spent hundreds of hours improving my property only to have an animal whose owner is a careless dipshit rip it up all the time. So I can't say for sure.
I guess it just comes down to people that have the balls to stand up for themselves, and those that don't.