No I can't do that, I can only discourage it.so I need to find a way to discourage the cat from coming here. A dog or spray, A bell perhaps will
discourage it, That way everyone is a winner, the owner,the birds and me

Pete

Dettol sprayed around the place will deter them. It stinks, but better than cat pee.

Or trap it and send it home with a note attached.

It's totally unacceptable for a dog to escape his yard and jump all over someone elses car and scratch it, but it is accepted of a cat????

Yes,I lived in the country before as a boy and if your dog got out and went roaming it was shot. No question about it!
That is how it works and it is accepted by all as the rule of thumb.
It's different attitude here in country Areas and best if you treat everyone as if you all went to the same school even if you didn't.

Pete

In most places now there are bylaws etc. that says Bad ol puddy tat should not be wandering and as long as they do Tweety is in danger.

The Rainbow Bee Eater nests in a tunnel they drill into the side of the creek bank. Often I will put a grille behind it or mow the grass behind it so that I can see the Cat, or Fox & the Snakes & Goanna's are a bit less likely to move in to a spot where a raptor can see them. One Blue Tongue has its occasional stayover in a rabbit hole under this shed. They do like a little bit of mince, or leftover bits of meat etc. that one does not waste by putting in the trash, as all creatures large & small will descend on it.

There are two massive Red Ant colonies, one in the front yard & one next to the, garage & they keep the place clean.

There are currently eleven trees in the house yard here, two are forest giants as are several around the house area. It does pay to have shrubby bushes for the small birds to nest in and provide shelter for them to move around in like a ring road.

Marc

As a kid I used the electric fence idea on a chicken coop that our kelpie - lab cross couldn't keep away from.

All it took was 67.5 volts on the chicken wire from a radio B battery, other side to a screwdriver stuck in the ground.

Dog came sniffing up to the wire as usual, let out a Yelp! and from that moment on wouldn't go within 15 yards of that coop.

My how the world has changed.When I was a boy all the Dogs use to chase cars up most streets and roads, They would even grab the tyre and their head would go around with the wheel it was a common site.
When cats had kittens people just use to put the new borns in a bucket of water.
All us kids had Air Riffles and would go down the local bush and throw a can or a bottle in the creek and shoot it.
Gosh ! Imagine taking a group of kids off their computer games and going back in time for a day ! They wouldn't believe it was the same world.

Pete

Back in the early 1990s, back before we had that many massacres in Australia, a mate of mine would go shooting up somewhere on the mid north coast of NSW and take his guns on the XPT. His rucksack and camping gear would stow in the luggage racks and the guns would be alongside him at his seat. No-one would give it a second thought.

If someone did that now people would be jumping over each other to get off the train and the police would surround it in full riot gear.

Brad, too many Nuts now.
As our population grew so did the Nut population, people do things that was unheard of years ago....plus Australia is full of Ice heads and they hear voices from beyond this world giving them orders.

There is a product called "Urinoff" which neutralises the enzyme in cat urine that creates the horrible smell.
My son was taking a cat to the vet which panicked and sprayed inside his car.
It stank to high heaven but a friend of mine loaned me a spray bottle of Urinoff which completely removed the pong.
I'm not sure where he bought it from but I think it was bought online.

There is a product called "Urinoff" which neutralises the enzyme in cat urine that creates the horrible smell.

That sounds like the way to go. Once you kill the urine smell you can use deterrents.

Yep I will get some ,White vinegar also works.
It's the killing of the birds that will be the challenge.

Yep! "Once a bad ol Puddy tat, always a bad ol Puddy tat" (Tweety).

Non indigenous Cat, feral Cat, or Fox, killing the native fauna around here: I have a problem with.

Exterminating the feral aka vermin, Fox, or Cat, I don't have a problem with.

The NSW Inclosed Lands Protection Act permits a land owner to destroy goats that trespass on his land, providing the goats aren't tagged or otherwise identifiable. Why goats and not cats? Probably because this piece of legislation is 120 years old and cats may not have been a problem at the time. Cats aren't a protected species and are generally a pest unless kept indoors by their owners so they probably should be added to the hit list. I am not an animal hater but I make an exception for cats, the usual rodents and other serial pests - the only good one is a dead one.

I couldn't Kill anything Brad , Its not my Nature . .. I believe that all things that are alive should be able to live their life.
I've been that way since I was 28 and I'm 51 soon
When I was a boy I killed things, Rabbits , Snakes, and I've killed Sheep to eat them . But not since I was a boy. I can only Discourage the cat from coming here that way I don't have to answer for the dead cat . The only exception I would kill is if it was self-defence and the Cat ain't that
Its a complicated way of thinking,But at the moment the owner of the Cat and the Cat are doing the wrong thing and If I kill the Cat,, than I'm also involved with them doing the wrong thing.

...... Pete

Here's a confidence booster for me and my love for Puddy Tats in the environment.

https://www.necma.vic.gov.au/News-Events/Media-Releases/ArtMID/537/ArticleID/1575/Endangered-wildlife-receives-helping-hand-after-Black-Summer-fires