To think she got her comeuppance and he’s a CF?

I have a feeling my cat is cheating on us. We had a visitor recently whose phone rang and it sounded like a doorbell. Our Cat jumped up and went and looked at the front door.
We don't have a doorbell, never have. So he's been hanging at a house where someone has a doorbell and he knows what it means. Bastard.

But yes definitely getting her comeuppance.

Why would you not take the cat back from her? Was it not microchipped with your details?

My cat occasionally comes home smelling of another woman’s perfume, but he still comes home. I’ve decided not to pry. I sometimes wonder if he’ll leave us for her when the kids leave home. We’ll see.

Just thank your lucky stars that cock-lodging faithless feline is somebody else’s problem now.

[In truth, I know it must be painful to have lost him originally. Hopefully the schadenfreude with recent developments is salving old wounds.]

This is Cat. Cat likes to taunt his old owner after leaving for greener pastures. Cat has moved on to the next gullible neighbour.

Sunning himself on the neighbour's windowsill is a cat's version of the middle finger.

We had a cat that moved in many years ago, he was a lovely lap cat and my neighbours had suddenly had twins ......

He went home every night once the kids where in bed but came back the next morning - we didn't feed him until I'd spoken to them and he pretty much lived with us till they moved (leaving the cat)

Were you expecting him to pay the mortgage?

I was happy for my cat to visit the elderly neighbour but I wasn't happy for him to be locked in the house and fed Whiskas which caused explosive stomach upsets. I do think it is cheeky to feed someone else's cat - for me that amounts to a definite intent to lure the cat away (ie steal it). If the cat has the freedom to come and go and makes it clear they prefer to live elsewhere that's probably different but mine was not one of those cases.

YABU. the cat doesn't owe you anything as you knew very well before you got the cat that they only have open relationships. if you wanted to be exclusive, you should have got a dog.

The cat stealing neighbour has just been around to me saying he’s not been “home” (the cheek of it!”) for a week or so

"Actually Sandra, he's not been 'home' for several years". Using the PA little air quotes and with a MN Tinkly Laugh.

Our greedy old cat loved his food which had, in part, led to him being diabetic. This was fine and easy to manage as loving food he'd come running whenever the feeding bowl was rattled. He'd chow down and I could give him his insulin injection.

He then discovered that the old chap across the road was a soft touch and I couldn't get him home to give him his insulin. Saw the chap sitting on the porch, in the sun, with our cat happily sitting on his lap cleaning his whiskers. I went across to bring him home and the chap said he thought it was a stray given how hungry he was. He said the cat particularly liked it when he did a bit of roast chicken for him!!! He looked a bit sad when I asked him to stop spoiling our cat but understood when I explained about the diabetes. I said I was happy if the cat visited and they sat in the sun together but please don't feed him, so that worked out fine.

Traded her in for a newer windowsill.

How very cat 😂

Reading posts like these remind me how lucky I am that my cat doesn’t look people. She likes those here in her home (she tolerates ds. Adores dd), but doesn’t like anyone outside the home. Means I know she will never move out

Many years ago, my cat went missing and I discovered her in the next road along. She followed me home, but didn’t stay and then she went to live with the person she’d been ‘visiting’ who had tempted her with treats.

I accepted she preferred to live elsewhere, but was not happy when the person who took her asked me to pay a vet bill for her. I declined.

There's that saying about cheaters..... They cheated with you, they'll cheat ON you

Or whatever it is

I hope you've relinquished rights / responsibility for the vet bills though

CF she is

Or CSCF (cat stealing cheeky fucker)

Once a cheater, always a cheater.

It's up to the cat. They set their own rules.

My own faithless feline packed his bags and left me for a neighbour too. Probably one that fed him on demand, i.e. all day long.

When I flung back the duvet this morning, I disturbed the cat who jumped off the bed in high dudgeon. It was next door's cat.

This has blown my mind. I know nothing of cats, but do you not march across the street and demand your pet back when this happens??? CFers....the cats and the neighbours.

I'd have bought 2 new cats and hoped they wouldn't be so flighty! My cat sometimes goes round a neighbour's house, not overnight, but I'm not that chuffed about it! She asked if her cat came round ours, I was like no! My other one would chase him off. Lol.

Did she expect you to return him to her if he had been at yours? Cheeky bint

@MmedeGouge Is the cat a 'house' cat being kept in first by the neighbour across the street and now the new neighbour?

If the cat has always been allowed to roam free then
it is exactly what they do from time to time.

What did you do to get the cat back from the lady across the street in the first place?

Did it come back to visit you from time to time?

My elderly friend had a cat who sneaked in and she didn’t know as it had gone into an upstairs bedroom of her big mostly unused family home so she never went in there.
The owners had knocked (before she knew cat was in the house) so she obviously said no idea but that’s terrible I’ll keep an eye out, please let me know if you find it.
two days later the owners knocked again angrily saying it’s in your bedroom window, you’ve stolen our cat etc My friend was absolutely mortified! She is now very carful to check if the back door has been open! Owners did calm down and believed her, they still say hello in the passing now but I think they were just happy to get their cat back.

she still doesn’t understand why it went in one room and just stayed there, didn’t meow or try to get out.

when I was a teen (although I’d left home by this point) our (ill under treatment) cat was stolen by a neighbour. We looked for couple of months and one day when I was babysitting my much younger siblings were out playing and he jumped up to. Bedroom window scratching and meowing as he’d heard them outside. They ran in to me crying and as both parents were at work it was up to me 😳
I started knocking knowing there were people in only to be ignored, but I wouldn’t leave! Eventually an older child of the neighbour Happened to be coming home from work to find me knocking. I said you’ve got my cat I’m not going anywhere until I get it back, her look was I’ve been caught so she just handed him back to me. She didn’t even say much as she handed him back.
we got him to the vet the next day as he looked not right
as it turned out he hadn’t been treated very well at all in the time they had him, in fact he’d been treated really badly but I won’t go into the details, as I don’t want to upset people reading.
We did inform the police but they weren’t interested saying it was a civil matter (not sure if that’s the case but I pit was a long time ago now so it’s irrelevant really.

mum made it clear if we ever found him missing again it would be “war” plus the fact that he needed very expensive meds etc.

anyway we had him back and coincidentally mum moved house to the countryside not long after and we (although I didn’t live there) had 6 or 7 lovely years with him loving life on the farm before he passed away.

sorry really long with the two stories!