Perhaps if a cat is not chipped then it has no legal owner, or there is no proof of ownership.
Yes and you get the bill for any damage they may cause too if you own one. Only my last two were chipped as tatoos were normal before and even then not everyone did it nor got chipped especially the locals who didn’t even have their animals vaccinated or sterilised that annoyed me beyond belief.
I think that’s not necessarily true. If I understood her, she implied if they are being fed by someone then they, effectively become the owner. My context is different, we have had feral cats coming onto our land and marking around our gite, which is not great for our guests. I explained to our vet that our neighbours up the hill have dogs and that the cats are happily hanging around our neighbour’s property being fed. Our vet implied that our neighbours could find they have become responsible for these cats - with all that that entails.
If they are feral and have been neutered and chipped you may find one ear has been snipped. It’s a way for a vet to identify from a distance whether that cat needs neutering or not.
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I bought a chip scanner/reader so we can check all of ours are working and the dog is ok for going back to the UK, around €20 off Amazon.
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That’s interesting @Griffin36 - I didn’t know you could get those 
I was think more from @vero 's perspective - if a cat has been chipped then I’d expect IF the cats are to be taken away then the authorities could contact the owner, but if the cat has no identifiers then it effectively has no owner.
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It’s along the lines of below, the app lets you search the data base as well.
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One would hope so, but when the gendarmes came to identify the GS bitch which had torn my hens to pieces they couldn’t find the chip, though the SPA were able to.
I can well imagine a situation where, if ordinary looking cats were deemed a nuisance, they would simply be put down without too much compunction.
The cat which turned up chez moi famished was about 2 and a half and neither chipped tattooed nor castrated.
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I used the word angry (adj) , not anger (noun), that aside, you’ll perhaps be glad to see that I have edited my posts to something more suitable for the litotes-loving English. I have removed the offending adjective and written slightly disgruntled in its stead.
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I would bet we have more words like “miffed” and “peeved” to express such a feeling than synonyms for “anger” 
Maybe. But miffed and peeved could still imply too much strong emotion, which might, by clouding one’s judgment, make one incapable of rational dialogue.
Only in the fairer sex, surely?
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Naughty 
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FWIW I liked anger, and didn’t find it a negative word at all. It was just factual.
Welcome, Bee. You’ll find there are a lot of animal and nature lovers on here, and I’m sorry about your allergy.
Curiously, in the UK I gather dog owners are legally responsible for the actions of their dogs, but this is not the case for cats.
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I would write to the neighbour en recommandé with AR, again explaining that it is not a possible situation, itemising the problems (puanteur, absence d’hygiène etc)
I would send a copy of the letter to the Syndic with a covering letter demanding action.
I would buy a couple of big powerful water pistols, water is a good deterrent for cats and does them no injury.
I would plant my balcony up with aromatic herbs and use them as cover when wielding the water pistol: you want the cats to associate the place (rather than you) with a soaking.
I might occasionally cause a bucket of water to spill onto the balcony below when I was watering.
In Italy and some parts of Switzerland and Germany you sometimes see bottles half full of water sitting on stairs or windowsills, they are commonly held to be cat deterrents though I have no idea if it works. You could try it.
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Ha the old half filled water bottle myth. We tried it once to keep our cats off plant bed. It was used by one of them as a back rest when sunning herself 
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@anon91526832 You have probably already had a look for this type of information, but just in case:
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This seems to be good for repulsive cats, but what if the cat you’re trying to get rid of is adorably cute?
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I had this problem. I thought diplomacy would resolve it and it did. I visited my neighbour( a home for cared for children, who weren’t allowed pets because the kids might not be very kind to them!!) and told them that I had seen my cat visiting them and said this is OK, but please don’t feed him, he’s diabetic on a very strict diet, he could become very ill if fed the wrong food, not untrue for me, but you could embellish, and lo and behold cat the came back home , permanently. It transpired they had been feeding him fried fish!! I would go myself rather than send your wife who might not be so diplomatic.
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