after a legal battle from cat damage my car is gtng painted

[rhyde]

yep u read it right. After tolerating my neighbours cat sleeping, pissing and clawing through my roof, I won a legal battle and now my car is getting a full respray and new roof. I'm posting this for peeps to see what can be done if your persistent enough. With extensive photos and getting the council involved and a legal team i won my case adn now neighbours have to pay up. My neighbours cat damaged 98% of my car including putting claws through my roof. Every pannel bar 1 pannel. The scratches were everywhere, he litteally took the piss out of my car, and then he also pissed on it marking his territory.

End result neighbours have to pay 3200 full respray and 1100 for new roof. I'm exhausted from the battle but my car comes out a winnner. So if you have problematic animals around your car and u can get photos u can sue the neighbours for damages.

[Okibi]

Not a cat person either. Glad you made them pay for their irresponsibility.

[KevGoat]

I have become a cat person over the years. In fact we are currently nursing our cat through a near fatal reaction to some medication the vet gave her last week. Just a few minutes before reading this thread we finished feeding her with a syringe to keep her alive. But that aside, it took less than 3 days after driving my immaculate SE home, for her to put a couple of deep scratches in the fender and above the windscreen The sensitive movement sensor set the alarm of and she has not been back on it, but they can certainly do some damage.

[rhyde]

Im sorry to hear the kev. Im not against cats at all, in fact i quite like them, its just so happens this little cat did a tad too much damage to my car. I do feel that cats like dogs should be kept under control to prevent this kind of thing happening though

[lizard]

A small bowl of 50/50 milk and anti freeze would have saved you the heart ache in the begining

[beavis]

A small bowl of 50/50 milk and anti freeze would have saved you the heart ache in the begining

I want to hear more 'remedies' like this. If you have a solution, please share.

[Vat]

Wow - wonder what drove the cat's behaviour to do this damage? Are you the only owner? Just wondering if the car had been marked by a another cat whilst in a previous location and these was deemed threatening by the neighbour's cat. Sounds hugely territorial.

That said, you're absolutely right to pursue the cat owner for costs. You've done well to get it repaired at their expense (would be interested to hear of the documentary side of the legal proceedings), and hopefully someone has learned a little lesson about simply letting cats roam

We are a multiple cat household but the guys are only ever allowed out during the day when we're home (so basically weekends only), not before 9 am and not after 5 pm. They have an enclosure which they can access via a cat flap cut into a side window so if they want to go outside and pretend to be wild they can do it safely (both for them and for the local wildlife).

The Jaffa shares an internal garage with our cats and whilst I have taken to covering it in sheets (more for dust than anything) I've had one or two minor scratches, and one took to chewing the end off the stubbie aerial, but nothing even remotely approaching the level of damage inflicted on yours. Mind you, mine's 17 years old and a bit dog-eared, so I'm probably not as concerned about it!

We'll probably see the usual anti-cat tirades here, but they're just animals (i.e. don't anthropomorphise them) and don't things for reasons, usually biological, just to aggravate you - they're just not that smart. Case in point - one of our guys was weeing in inappropriate places and getting into a bit of aggro with the others. Visit to vet revealed start of urinary infection. Quick dose of anti-inflammatories and change of diet, issues resolved within three days.

[Odd]

Goggle cat repellant....;)

example....http://www.mypetwarehouse.com.au/aristo ... vAodgXYAUA

Buy a good car cover....???

I don't have a problem with my MX5....it's in the garage, but it's pushed the Mazda6 outside
my problem has been possums ....car cover seems to protect paint, but needs to be washed often
to remove pee smell

[Trackphotos]

If you want to keep cats away from your property, and if you don't have any small children around frequently, you can soak a few rags in ammonia and leave them around your yard. Ammonia makes up one of the stronger scents in cat piss, and leaving soaked rags of it around has the effect of your yard being marked by a big cat. I used to live in a block with neighbours on 3 sides who all had cats, and our yard was the middleground where they would fight every night. A few ammonia-soaked rags, and they were gone for good.

It has the minor inconvenience of being potentially lethal if a dopey animal or human decides to investigate the smell too closely, so you wouldn't do it if you had kids around, or if you own any of the number of breeds of dogs that are particularly dumb, maltese etc.

Good job on getting the money out of the neighbours. I hate pet owners who don't take responsibility for their animals. We have a few cats and a dog, the cats never leave the house and the dog never leaves the back yard. Our cats are antagonised most nights by neighbour cats that climb all over our outdoor furniture and sit out of reach on the other side of the windows. I would use the ammonia smell to get rid of them, if our dog wasn't so dumb.

[beavis]

I shouldn't have to buy pet repellents to keep someone else's creature from defecating, urinating, dancing, fornicating, prancing or whatever on my vehicles when they are parked at my property.

[Trackphotos]

No you shouldn't. What's your solution then?

[Lokiel]

So when you get your shiny-new car back, what's going to stop the cat from coming back and starting all over again? The ammonia sounds like a good idea (or a hungry rottweiler - dog-person here).

I'm not a fan of car covers. I used to use one at work on my Starion in Adelaide's summers. It was one of those light metallic ones and it ended up wearing my paint on the roof above the rear view mirror since that was a taut spot so rubbed when the wind blew the cover about.

Love your persistence with taking the owners to court - when it's clearly their cat and they do nothing about it, they should be made to pay.

[Odd]

Good point Beavis....

I've briefed my legal team to take Mother Nature to court for letting her possums pee on my Mazda6

[Vat]

Ammonia actually attracts cats, it's similar to elements in their urine/marking so they're inclined to head over, check it out and "leave a message". You're better off with citrus based cleaners and essential oils.

[beavis]

No you shouldn't. What's your solution then?

The point is, the owner should take responsibility. Somehow it is 'accepted' to have your cat ƒü¢k around in other peoples sh*t. If my dog were caught in the neighbors yard they'd have it put down.