Male cat won't leave my female cat alone.

[Soulkeeper]

I've got a spayed female cat that used to only come inside to eat and sleep.
Over the past two months a young male cat from the neighborhood has been following her and trying to get in the cat door.
She hardly goes outside anymore and when she does he chases her back in and she hisses and swats at the cat door.
This cat is agressive and won't even run from me unless I get within 3' of him clapping my hands.

What would you guys recommend ?
My cat is not a fighter, she refuses to defend her turf like previous cats i've had.
She sat on the window sill hissing with her hair puffed up for half an hour straight the other day.

 

[IronWing]

Trap, neuter, release the male.

 

[Iron Woode]

use a garden hose on the male cat. Fixed or not, some cats are bullies.

 

[kage69]

Yep, project water at the problem and it will go away. A cheap squirt gun will do the trick.

Put a cucumber on watch just out side the door too maybe?

 

[highland145]

Good reason to buy a super soaker or a nerf gun.

 

[ch33zw1z]

What size caliber for cats?

 

[IronWing]

OTOH, keep your cat inside. Indoor cats live longer with far fewer health problems.

 

[Soulkeeper]

Thanks for the replies.
I supposed I can try spraying the cat with the hose. Catching it might be a real headache.
I guess it makes sense that the cat is probably unfixed, I can't be sure of this.
I'm not even sure if it's a stray cat or belongs to someone, but it don't seem to be starving.

 

[Torn Mind]

Trap and kill that male cat. A little water gun will scare it in your presence, but it will come back when you're not present, which is 99% of the time.

I used to have a female cat and likely was victimized by a male cat and sometimes it had a bizzaro posse of other animals.

 

[Iron Woode]

Trap and kill that male cat. A little water gun will scare it in your presence, but it will come back when you're not present, which is 99% of the time.

I used to have a female cat and likely was victimized by a male cat and sometimes it had a bizzaro posse of other animals.

no need to kill anything.

Hosing the cat will keep it from coming back anytime soon. Cats do learn to avoid things and places that are unpleasant. He may have to spray the cat a few times to make it sink in.

 

[Iron Woode]

OTOH, keep your cat inside. Indoor cats live longer with far fewer health problems.

my cat was an indoor/outdoor cat. In the winter she stayed indoors. In the summer she was outside. She passed away at the age of 15 which is a pretty normal life span.

She never had fleas or ticks. She also kept the mouse population under control for both our house and my neighbour's.

 

[snoopy7548]

Pics of cat?

 

[Soulkeeper]

When I was a kid the neighbor shot one of my cats in between the eyes with a bb gun because it was in his yard. I can't bring myself to be that guy. We went over to talk to him about it and he was watching porn on a big screen tv ...
The cat lived, but we had to hold him down and pull the bb out with a pair of tweezers.

The best cat I ever had I caught wild when I was 6yrs old. There was a kitten nest in a rotted tree stump and I lured her out with cheese. She lived to be 18yrs old. I think what finally killed her was her teeth started to go bad, she was also partially blind by that point. She was always outdoors, the toughest cat I ever saw.

My current cat is similar she was part of a liter from the neighborhood, before I moved, that was just living in my yard. If I try to lock her inside she'll climb the window blinds and go crazy.
She'd come meowing at my door for food and eventually I just let her in and she became mine I guess. She's just half wild.

 

[Soulkeeper]

Here is a picture:

 

[Soulkeeper]

I bought her these cat scratchers last year because she was tearing up my carpet.

 

[Soulkeeper]

I've had her for 5yrs already.

My two previous cats:
Adopted one from the neighborhood but he got ran over 6 months later(he also refused to stay inside because he was living/born in a shed outside).
Adopted one from a breeder which had some kinda desease from her inbreeding them, he died from a stroke or something just before I got this cat.

 

[pcgeek11]

Trap it with a live trap and take it to the shelter.