There is someone who puts cat food on a plastic tray in a corner of my driveway. I noticed these cats always hang around my driveway. A couple of nights ago I came home and after I parked and got out of my car and went to get my passenger side to get my dog out of the car.
I heard a sound. Looked at the driveway and some idiot speeding just hit this young cat and sped off. There was blood everywhere and one eye had come out a bit from the socket. The cat was still shaking so I put her into a box and took her to the hospital but I reckon she was gone. I got blood all over me and some on the car as well. There was blood leaking out of the box as I was carrying her into the hospital.
This probably wouldn't have happened if the guy putting food on my driveway didn't do it. Not even sure why he does. The cat was hanging around the food in my driveway, when I parked and got out of the car, it got spooked and ran out on to the road. I went to the driveway after I came back home and sure enough there was food in a tray there for the cats. It's been happening for months now. They hide it in the bushes in my front driveway.
I had moved the food yesterday morning, someone had dropped off another tray with food in the night, which I moved that tray of food, and then this morning, they had put more food in the front and also walked down my driveway to get to the other 2 trays of food I had moved.
So it seems this person is checking the food at least twice a day?? Plus getting brazen enough to now walk down the driveway to get the older trays I had moved towards the side gate.
Any ideas on the motives of this person? Are they targeting me, or just trying to feed stray cats (although if it's the latter, then why not their own driveway or the nearby park or the dead end quiet side streets, instead of my driveway which leads to a somewhat busy road.
Or is it to move cats away from their property? Now I don't mind someone trying to help cats out and I don't mind having cats near my house. But after see this cat doing cartwheels when it got smashed by the car. And then writhing in pain for minutes while blood was pouring out and the eye popped out of the socket. I still can't get that image of the poor cat out of my mind. It was quite young and seemed quite friendly too. It didn't deserve it and while I am pissed at the driver who was speeding and it was a wide open road with not a single other car at that time of night or parked car nearby. The driver didn't swerve or brake or stop after hitting the cat.
I still also hold this other person putting cat food in that spot somewhat responsible as it's right next to the road.
What they are doing is illegal since they are not entering your property with a reasonable excuse (retrieval of property that has been discarded would not be considered a reasonable excuse). Install cameras and no trespassing signs (any potentially signage which states that they will be reported to the police) and if the behaviour continues, report it to the police as trespassing, after you have the video evidence. Also continue to throw away any food to stop both vermin and any potential native birds eating it.