OT barking cat problem

If you were local to Portland OR I'd offer to take her on for you.

The only two things keeping me from being a crazy cat lady are (1) my gender, and (2) my wife.

Don't go there Tim! I'm not sure if this is true.. it's partly neighbor rumors. But about 10 years ago there was a crazy cat guy who lived in an old house down the road. (Cats everywhere.) One night there was a fire, and the rumor is that it started from spontaneous combustion of the accumulated cat droppings. (Crazy cat guys don't have the cleanliness needed.)

To the OP I would suggest that if you don't want cat's "barking" at your door, then don't feed them.... that tends to work for most animals.

George H.

I like cats and would part with this stray because it is so obvious that she's gentle and was someone's house cat. I can't walk past her without her flopping on her side assuming a submissive posture. She'd probably be great with kids.

That assumes a lack of empathy and compassion.

Ahh OK. We've got two cats at the moment, both strays. There are a lot of "barn cats" in the area, and at least once a year another one will take up residence in our barn for a few weeks... and then move on. I try and train the cats, the cats try and train my wife. (The cats have more success than I do.... but I'm a dog person.)

George H.

Electrifying the cat doesn't seem very compassionate, though.

Agreed. The cat already found ways to circumvent the various physical barriers I tried, so...

Needless to say, I've experienced it a time or two myself. It is unpleasant, but I could hold on to the electrode if it were necessary. If she touches it now, it is because she's still testing it since I went to stiff electrode wires. She just perches on the fence railing in the morning's.

The picture I have is that the gazebo is a building detached from your house, and that the bottom of the "bay window" is a foot or two from the ground and projects out a foot or two from the house.

I'm guessing that the bay window also has an outdoor sill that the cat sits on to scratch at the window. ( If she's jumping from the ground and batting at the glass panes I'm not sure what to recommend. )

If you're willing to give up viewing through an inch or two of the bottom panes on the window, how about installing a triangular block that fills the sill, such that the cat simply slides off whenever she tries to sit on it?

Jes' a thought...

Frank McKenney McKenney Associates