Ok all you kitty lovers, I need some advice. My dogs are my family. Where they grew up there were no cats. There were bunnies, squirrels, chipmunks, racoons, bears and lizards all chaseable, but no kitties. My girls have a high prey drive. I have a 6 foot wooden fenced yard. Today when I let my girls out in their yard, there was a visiting kitty. Dogs cornered the poor, frightened kitty. It could have been very bad. I used a rake to move them away, grabed their collers and took them back inside. I opened the gate to let the cat escape, but it was frozen in fear. Clearly this kitty is someone's baby. It has a coller and a tag. I have chased it from my yard several times while my dogs were inside and it kept coming back. It successfully killed one of the visiting birds (I feed them) in my yard in the past. I don't know to whom the kitty belongs. So my biggest question, is after such a frightful experience, will the cat come back? Do I need to do yards checks before I let my dogs out? (I use to do yard bear checks and it sucked)I don't want anyone to get hurt. That kitty was fierce, I was impressed. I am still shaky I thought that kitty was going to get slaughtered before I could calm the dogs down. Any suggestions? Clearly the fence is not an obstacle, the cat will go where it wants. Sigh.