Originally Posted by Perikles

In fact, the health and safety officer in Adeje town hall told me that this law applies to everywhere in Adeje apart from your own private freehold.

This sounds odd when applied to a cat, but cats in Spain do not enjoy their odd legal status that they have in the UK, where the neighbour's cat seems to have the right to use your seedbed as a toilet.

If you feed a cat which is loose, a claim that a cat does not belong to you is not valid, because it is illegal to feed any feral animal.