Hey, is there/does anyone know of a way to keep cats (or in my case just *a* cat) away from my house? There is this outdoor cat that roams around my area of the neighborhood (technically, I think it belongs to the people across the street, but I don't think they actually take care of it more than leaving food out for it). The problem with this cat, is that it likes to come up and sit in our front windows at night, right where *my* cat likes to sit and look *out*. She's such a sweet old lap-kitty, but this other cat just riles her up to no end. If she sees him, she gets all puffed up and hisses and attacks the window, and the outdoor cat won't go away unless we really bang on the windows to scare him off, or like tonight when I had to go chase him off with a broom. We've tried keeping the blinds down so she won't see him, but she just paws through the blinds to look out the window, and if he's there she'll get stuck in them attacking him through the window.

Any ideas what to do? I am very tempted to go over to the neighbor's house (who I am pretty sure own the cat) and ask them to do something about him, although I doubt they will. I just really don't want to call like... animal control or something like that :<