Thanks for the welcome, been her for a while. I do not hate cats. I merely believe that they belong in your house or in an environment in which they cannot harm native animals. I am a conservationist, not a radical environmentalist. Love of an animal is one thing, loving something to the exclusion of all other things is well, insanity.
The guy could have simply chased off the cat.
Works here, and the cats rarely come back once they see that the territory is ‘claimed.’