Hello, everyone. I have a small, old dog with a heart condition. He's a pretty chill dog... friends with all the dogs in the neighbourhood and ignores all the cats we come across our walks. Recently, this big cat with one missing eye and a scar down that side of his face started stalking him on our walks.
This is starting to escalate. When we were out yesterday, this cat skulked down and started slowly creeping up on him (I know this is the classic pose for cats before they attack because I used to have a cat). My dog was oblivious, but I started panicking a little. So I tried hissing at it, then, when that produced zero result, stomping and yelling at it. It kinda paused at this point, then sat down, then started bounding at us again. I had nothing with me except a bottle of water, so I threw all the water in there at it while yelling some more and stomping. The water stopped it again. At this point, I picked up my dog, and keeping my eye on the cat, walked home.
This morning, we found the cat outside in our garden less than a meter from my dog, who was indoors, staring through the glass at him. So now, I can't let him out in the garden without me being there in case the cat's there. And I don't know what to do in case the cat tries to attack again. I don't want to have to resort to attacking the cat back, but all the yelling, stomping, water isn't deterring it.
The cat belongs to someone in the neighbourhood. It has a tag around its neck, but I don't know who.
Any suggestions? Thank you.
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