The neighbours cat.

[tjroth]

Agree! From what I've seen, cats are intimidated by groups of ducks and chickens.

For quite a year now we have problems with the neighbours cat.
The neighbour his girlfriend came live with him and brought this cat.
We are 99 procent sure that this is their cat.

We proofed our garden so my cat can't get out and annoy neighbours. An no cat get's in. But this cat is somehow an acrobat and mastermind in one. EVERYDAY we have to rescue the ducks for this cat; or think we have to. When young ones we find them backed up in the corner and have to rescue them. Now they chase him away but we are still awakened by the noice and we just hear in their quacks that they are not feeling safe afterwards. We don't sleep well. Sometimes it's 3 times. We hosed this cat with water a LOT. And one day he was stupid enough to go into the empty coop and I'm angry enough to close it. He went all loco. Through the whole cage jumping back and forth (dargnit dude, It is a big poop coop, I just closed the door.. and nothing else...) and managed to wurm himself through 1cm of wire... and stayed away for a week..and then returned.
Again daily.

I am afraid to talk to this neighbour.
I think you should not have a pet and lay the burdons upon others.
But where I live people think 'yeah, but cats need to be free, otherwise it is abuse'. (and your dog then?)
I'm a cat person. But I can't expect other people to be a cat person and find it okay to find cat-poo all over their garden and their fowl get killed...just so MY cat can be free.
I'm afraid that I ask friendly if he can keep his cat out of my yard he will suddenly complain about the quacking of the ducks. (which they don't, unless feeding time that we do diliberattly hours after the hours you can make noise, from 07.00 in the morning it is allowed and we do 09.00. And they are soft quackers for the rest, and he said he never heard them) and the rest of their loud quacks is because of their cat.

What to do?

I beg to differ on cats (or at least the ones here) being afraid of a group of chickens. We lost one of our newest (and not entirely small) leghorns to the neighbor cat. The cat traveled over the roof tops of the garages, sheds etc and got into our pen area. While I don't think it killed her in there and took her out I think it frightened her enough that she was able to escape and then it hunted her through our yard and into it's own yard. My idiot neighbor was clueless even though it had to have made tons of noise. I have caught her other cat trying to get in even though it is all totally enclosed now. I am sorry that this is such a difficult thing for your ducks. We are waging war on cats. We never let our dog into someone else's yard to kill their cats....their cats shouldn't be free to roam either. It is either your girls or their cat...

 

[IdyllwildAcres]

I would trap it and relocate it at the pound.

Gary