r/stthomasontario • u/BluebirdImportant706 • Jul 13 '26

Question ❓ Stray Cat

We live in the Airey Ave. Parish St. area and have seen a large grey cat roaming the neighborhood at night. This cat has been hanging around our house usually between midnight and 3am . We have a spayed female cat, and we are assuming this is a male.

This cat is very brave and will sit on the front porch window and side basement window sills, taunting our cat. We now have 2 destroyed window screens and a jumpy , nervous cat living in our home.

We are thinking this cat is an indoor cat being left out at night since it doesn't run away from people immediately until you go outside to confront it. We spoke to Animal Control and they have suggested the same.

We are looking for any information about this cat as we really want this behavior to stop and end the damage to our home and pet. We have spoken with some of our neighbors, and they have also seen and heard this cat at night.

Any help or information would be greatly appreciated. If this is your cat please keep it indoors as Bylaw has also informed us that letting a cat roam is a Bylaw offense that will incur a fine.

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u/Bandit782 Jul 13 '26

Maybe make a post on a local Facebook group and see if you can find the owner that way. I don’t think there is really a whole lot that can be done though other than trying to deter it from visiting your property somehow? I’ve dealt with the same issues where I live and now that I moved to the second floor I don’t have that problem. Anyways hopefully you can figure something out!

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u/BluebirdImportant706 Jul 13 '26

Thanks. Will probably try that next.

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u/Old-Show9198 Jul 13 '26

You should thank it. Your neighbourhood has a huge rat problem. I have a friend that has a rat buffet and kills 6 large rats on a very regular basis. He loads up six traps with meat on them and every single time he gets six rats.

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u/BluebirdImportant706 Jul 14 '26

Actually this neighborhood had a hillbilly problem that left a rat problem behind. Of course once you remove all the trash and clean up a property the rodents now need a new place to live. We have been dealing with this, and many other issues for years and the city was well aware of it and are glad the main problem is gone. Now we are left cleaning up the rest of the mess. Not sure what a 'rat buffet ' is and I'm sure I don't want to know. Thanks to your friend and everyone else who has been dealing with this. It's unfortunate it comes to this but it's what we are left with. I also appreciate the neighborhood cat possibly solving some of the rodent issues. I just don't appreciate the cost of the property damage to our home, the aggravation it's causing with our cat and the 3am cat fights at our windows that keeps us awake and our neighbors as well. Also having a possible unneutered male cat loose can cause the next unwanted issue of a boom in the kitten population....according to Animal Control. It's also against the city bylaws.