i have an 18 month year old cat and everything was fine until about 3 months ago when i noticed him cuming in with cuts and scratches! i then i notice this other cat cumin into my garden and attacking my cat. the nerve of it. iv tried squirting water but that hasnt helpt ! hes been done if that helps? anybody got any ideas what i cud do please help my trevor............

Do what i do.
Sit out in the garden and when it comes and does something nasty shout like a mad woman and chase them down the street the owner of the cat won't let it out again :-)

Looks like a squirt isn't doing the trick. Try a whole bucketful, that might get the message across. You have to be persistent though.

Having said that, I doubt if you'll stop the fighting entirely. I'd imagine the invader considers himself to be the boss and probably, once he feels he's made his point the physical aggro will go. There's one around here, a belligerent ginger tom who, when he moved in, went around beating up all the others on "his" patch and once he'd done that it all stopped. He'd made his point. Now there's the tactical manouevering that goers on when they bump into each other, you know, not turning their back, refusing to meet the eye, walking carefully with exaggerated casualness around each other until, honour satisfied, they carry on.

Cats never fight really seriously, there'll be a bit of ear-slitting and so on but nothing really injurious, as to indulge in a full-on fight puts both of them at risk and they know it. And they heal at lightning speed.