How can I get rid of a stray cat from my garden without harming my own cat?
To prevent the cat from coming in your home, you can get an electromagnetic cat door. It lets your pet(s) in (when it’s wearing it’s collar), but it stays locked to other animals. You could put up a fence with the electromagnetic cat door built in. Your best bet is to trap the stray. Humane societies often will rent or loan out cat traps overnight. And please don’t think that animals you take in to shelters are automatically put down. They are checked for microchips, and held to see if an owner shows up. Your stray might just be a microchipped cat that ran away and some frantic owner has been hoping for it to return for months or even years. And if it’s not neutered, your little stray could be producing dozens of more little strays every year. So get it trapped and neutered at a bare minimum! You can set up a sprinkler to work on a motion sensor, and only turn it on when your cat is indoors. It’ll only take one or two squirts to scare off most strays. Motion sensors with noise might wo
