To have chased the person who took my cat?

Something like this could explain the absolute stunner of a young tortoiseshell that turned up on our property last year - we live rurally and posted the cat all over local social media/vets/rescues but never found an owner. She wasn't chipped and was clearly terrified when we found her in our garage.

My sister adopted her when no-one claimed her. I'd have kept her but our resident cats are old and set in their ways and were bullying her.

People are crazy.

Is it a pedigree cat? That can be sold for lots?

Is your cat a pedigree?

Makes me glad that our cat pretty much hates everyone who comes near the house and isn't that keen on us most of the time either. Only loves Dh who feeds him treats.

Sort out your fencing and keep your cat contained in the back garden for its own safety. Cars and dogs and humans are a risk to your cat, so keep it safe inside your own garden.

Yup. Many years ago, my aunt was too late to stop two women stealing her Siamese cat.

I have a cat microchip scanner so registered my details with a service where you volunteer to scan lost cats. Good grief the number of calls I’ve had from people along the lines of “there’s a cat in my garden, they’ve been here for a few hours, can you come and scan it”. Madness. I’ve helped rescue a couple of genuine strays , reunited a cat that has been separated from its owner for years, and sadly helped with cats who have been run over. But I have to ignore a lot of calls as I just don’t have time to deal with all the worriers!

No they don't.

If they do take them, it's normally they think the cat is lost and take to the vets to get scanned. My neighbour bought my cat back from the vets. She had taken him because he was going in her house and eating her cats food. While her cat just watched him....

Someone tried to pick up one of my old cats (now sadly no longer with me) and was horrified when she went ballistic and scratched their arms to pieces. I really do think the woman expected me to be sympathetic.

Omg he wants your cat do not let him out this man is not to be trusted. What a freak.

Do you have a Ring doorbell? I'd be tempted to send any footage to the police. Utter weirdo.

I've "kidnapped" two cats. One was camped out for weeks at my neighbour's house, posted all over SM, did the paper collar and no one came forward to claim her. My neighbour didn't have a cat carrier to I offered to take her to the vet. No microchip, so neighbour adopted her and she's now chipped, spayed, vaccinated, flea treated, wormed and living very happily as queen of their house. The second cat was a scrap of a thing in a filthy collar, coughing all over my driveway. It turned out that someone had been catching feral cats and selling them to randoms. This one promptly escaped and had been wandering the streets for weeks. The poor scrap was starving and so ill that it had to be PTS.

Don’t answer the door to him. Tell him through the door that you have CCTV and if he contacts you again, you’ll be telling the police.

How on earth can anyone think it's unreasonable to claim your own children/pets/possessions back from a thief?! If you have the energy, capacity and resources, it's what everyone should do.

You did the right thing, but still I had to laugh lol

A woman I used to know told me that if her dad sees any cats around their estate he pops them into his van. He is a roofer and goes all over for work and he releases them as far away from home as he can. Doesn't want them around his pigeons. Scumbag.

I would never 'rescue' a cat. That said, I did do it once - but that was a cat who had been posted on our local FB pages as missing, and it absolutely was the same cat - elderly, deaf, a little bit disorganised, had escaped. Owners were delighted to have her back, she was a little sweetheart.

I think you were very restrained, OP. If someone tried to walk off with one of my cats I wouldn't say "put him down" I'd kick the crap out of him. The fact that he's come back is weird and predatory, and I'd guess he was hoping to have a second attempt, and then had to make up a load of BS because you caught him again.

Is your cat particularly attractive? Sorry to say, I think you need to keep him in for a bit. I don't think he's safe until you figure out who this man is and take steps to keep him away.

My elder cat would probably rip his face off and if she didn't, I'd do instead. Do NOT touch my cats.

We've had groups of little shits catapulting animals for years. I live near a river and the amount of birds they have killed it terrible so they would think nothing of attacking a snoozing cat. I live in hope that they'll fall in the river and drown but no such luck so far.

When I was a teenager, there was a house near one of our two bus-stops where I regularly met a cat friend. S/he would sit on the wall - it was one of those low rockery walls, giving you a view straight into their beautiful front garden. The cat liked it too, especially as there were plenty of passers-by to say hello to. The cat, a big, fluffy tabby and white, would hook her/his claws into my jumper so I had to lift her/him up for a cuddle. You would never have mistaken this cat for a stray, but I did sometimes wonder if anyone was tempted and if the keepers knew how easy it would be. S/he really was the most gorgeous, friendly cat. But grounding him/her wouldn't have been fair. Your cat, like that one, obviously enjoys being out and socialising and quite right too.

That is utterly bizarre.

Utter bonkers! You shouldn’t have to, but d9 you have the cat’s vaccination record to show? Don’t hand it over! I personally wouldn’t open the door, show through a window if poss and if he persists, phone the non emergency number. Who the heck does this?! It’s very odd.

Re it being rare to have a cat lifted, there was one on the local neighbourhood app yesterday, person had moved and taken the neighbour’s cat! Luckily, the neighbour knew where they’d moved to, drove round, demanded the cat back. I love how they gave the exact address of the thief!

I had a neighbour who knew a cat was mine yet still took it. I saw her with my cat in a carrier ,it was our cat so I run out to ask what the hell she was going.

she actually said she was taking him to the vet because her son really likes him. And if he’s not chipped then she’s keeping him!. lol!

she flatly refused to hand him back and off she went. So I rang the vets to warn them that some crazy person was bringing my cat in. My cat was well known to our vets as he’d recently had some teeth removed and was getting some arthritis in his old age.

she gets to vets, tells them he’s a stray and asks them to scan his chip. Receptionist told her they’d take him through to be scanned and promptly rang me to go collect him.

her face when I strolled in and picked him up.

it was a shame as he only lived another year and could no longer have his afternoon sunbath in the front garden because of this woman.