[Closed] Neighbour Won't Stop Feeding Our Cat

[i]More recently the woman has been bringing our cat back, saying she's sick of feeding him (though she won't stop)and that it was costing her a fortune[/i]

lol!

Sounds like a loon to me. Why on earth would she call the RSPCA? Of course, if she wants to do that then let her, if they actually do turn up they'll see the cat is perfectly healthy and have a go at her for wasting their time.

From your perspective I'd record yourself asking her not to feed the cat any more, it's her own fault for starting in the first place. After that there's not much more you can do. Try and ignore her.

You could say for medical reasons your cat will now need a specific diet and she could potentially harm him by feeding the wrong foods
Then the RSPCA threat could be turned towards her

Or just mention how your cat is having a terrible flea problem and would hate for her cat and house to get them

shoot it

keep a log of meetings, when you noticed she was feeding etc etc etc

might help if you have such a record if things get tricky..

i notice the other day one of our neighbours has started leaving a bowl of cat food outside their front door - might be for hedgehogs... but

The problem is that he's almost always at her house, we see him once or twice a day max. She only seems to kick off about it when (we think) she's drunk. She even brought him back one time moaning that he had a tick!

I've contacted the RSPCA and am waiting for a response. My main concern is that we had a cat disappear a year or so ago under mysterious circumstances and can't face anything happening to this one, she does seem to be a nutter after all.

get one of those electric shock training collars they use on dogs and everytime you think it's going to go in her house/is already there then trigger it.

Aversion therapy works best!

there must be a singlecatworld somewhere online for all you losers!

Cheers, very useful

[i]get one of those electric shock training collars they use on dogs and everytime you think it's going to go in her house/is already there then trigger it.[/i]

on the cat or the woman?

if you're in Wales the woman as they're illegal to use on animals there...

move house
simples

davidtaylforth - Member
shoot it

The cat or the neighbour?

You won't sort it. My elderly neighbors kept feeding my Springer, buscuits over the fence. My dog started to go out and up to the fence if they were there and bark for more buscuits.
One neighbor has stopped, but the other continues.
She now has the front to complain about the dog barking for her attention, it's not a long mental bark more a deep woof, but still she continues to throw buscuits over our fence.
I've been asking her not to for over ten years now and planted shrubs to make it harder but still the old biddy carries on.

Your cat won't be pleased.

It's gone to a lot of trouble to train that human to feed it...

What's a buscuit? Is it a special doggy treat?

It sounds like she feels that if she doesn't feed the cat, it will go hungry, and I suppose the cat isn't exactly going out of it's way to disabuse her on this point.

Whether she got herself into the situation or not doesn't affect it.

You could try telling her that the cat knows it's got food available at your house, and it won't be hungry, and she won't be harming it, [s]and like her, with alcohol, it's just taking the easy way out[/s].

As a dog owner the options I see are:

Tie a length of string to the cat and a central post that is just long enough so it can walk around the garden.

Muzzle the cat.

We've tried to explain to her that he's got a good home and plenty of food. She actually accused us of neglecting him at one point saying he was skinny when he's a slim athletic type. Her cat on the other hand is built like a barrel. He was a very affectionate cat before she enticed him away and as much as we've tried to talk sensibly to her she won't listen and storms off.

put the cat on a long chain in the garden.

You clearly have a nutter on your hands. I had a similar problem with a neighbour letting my old dog out of our garden and taking him into her house to play with her kids whilst we were out. The dog BTW, was quite content with his own company, and wasn't so keen on having his tail pulled and eyes poked.
I solved the problem, after several polite requests to cease and desist were ignored, by going mental.

Shouting, swearing, waggling fingers, swinging arms wildly. Garbled nonsense about respecting boundaries, overstepping marks, and theft of livestock. A good analogy about coming into your house uninvited to help the kids with their homework helped too.

She never even looked at the dog again. Cross fence relations were extremily frosty for the rest of our time in that house though.

The cat or the neighbour?

The cat or the neighbour

I think this is what you call a Cat Knap ! (sorry)

I'd say something about special diet and if she continues feeding you'll be billing her for part of the vet bills.

I might give that idea a go, though at the moment going mental with a pair of Bombers seems quite appealing 🙂

at the moment going mental with a pair of Bombers seems quite appealing

Do it. It's both satisfying, and effective.

[i]She actually accused us of neglecting him at one point saying he was skinny when he's a slim athletic type.[/i]

Well I know this one. One of our cats just eats all the time. Her food (and we put out plenty for her), the other cats food, any other cats food she can find. But she's still built like a rake. She's horrible to stroke, dead boney. Luckily she'd rather eat her own poo than let anyone stroke her, the only time I do it is when I'm being mean.

she'd rather eat her own poo than let anyone stroke her

That's one of the things that's really bugging me, he used to be a real family cat and now we can't get near him.

have you tried a moustache 😯

Keep the cat drunk and have endless cat porn on the DVD player 24/7?

Keep the cat drunk and have endless cat porn on the DVD player 24/7?

I could see that working

bgd's cat:
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Punch her in the ear.

With a knitting needle concealed in your hand

Wee in her shoes, obviously.

give him whiskers?

they put something in it (possibly crack), once a cats had it, they wont eat anything else.
it might cost you a fortune though

Wee in her shoes, obviously.

No no no, train the cat to wee in her shoes.

She won't let it in her house again then.

You need to chat wioth this person

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/advice-please-whats-a-reasonable-response-to-the-owner-of-this-cat

As it seems you both live next to each other.