My neighbour has a cat who is very friendly with my two cats so they are always comfortable with him I or out of our house!! However, he is incredibly greedy and if I ever leave my windows or patio doors open he will be in like a shot and will eat any food my cats have left. Mine are grazers so often leave a lot and will return every so often for a few mouth fulls. I have seen him literally clear out two bowls of wet food and a small bowl of dried biscuits in 5 minutes. We have a microchip catflap but he literally straddles on the back of my cats when they come through so that he can get through the flap before it closes so he can get in.
This morning he has outdone himself. I came back from Sainsbury's late last night and had left two loaves of bread in a plastic bag by my front door for my DH to put in our freezer early this morning when he left for golf (lazy I know ☺️). Well neighbours cat has obviously come through the flap during the night and has literally ripped open one of the loaves and has taken big chunks out of the bread. It's definitely not my cats.
Surely this is not normal? I get in very well with my neighbour and she is aware he steals food and is always apologetic but it's not the cost of the food that worries me. He is a chubby cat (no surprise!) and her vet has told her he needs to lose weight. I have suggested perhaps she should get his thyroid levels checked and she said vet had mentioned this but that's only because they want her to pay out for blood tests 🙄 I use the same vet and I know this totally wouldn't be the case.
Does anyone else have a cat like this and could it be just pure greed? I'm not sure if to mention it to her again but don't want to be ' one of those neighbours' if you see what I mean.
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Icequeen01 · 05/05/2018 10:29
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