I woke up one morning to a large cat invading a dove nest on my patio.... very upsetting.
Chattering squirrels have alerted me several recent mornings about this same cat's presence in my yard.

I DO NOT want the cat in my yard, killing more birds... or squirrels.... so I have been researching ways to keep it out of my yard. ( I don't know who owns the cat and it seems well fed)

I have many trees around the yard, along the walls, etc. and the squirrels mostly seem to come and go from high up, and not ON the wall, whereas the cat seems to prowl along the wall and go over it to escape.. I saw one suggestion about putting chicken wire around or in gardens so I put some in the location where I've seen the cat several times, and when I chased it today, it got kind of tangled up in the chicken wire before it moved on. I felt bad because I certainly don't want to hurt the cat.... AND, I don't want squirrels to get tangled up in the chicken wire!!

Would welcome any suggestions. I believe I've gotten a bit overly anxious and controlling about the wildlife in my backyard... doves, squirrels, hummingbirds and lizards... and would like to just relax and let nature do it's thing. But a neighbor's cat invading doesn't seem like 'nature.'