Overhead neighbours talking about me?

You can't just shout loudly at night when you have nearby neighbours! YABVU!

I didn't think cats responded to getting called in?

Can you not get a cat flap OP? Especially if you have several cats. It would be much easier for you quite frankly. I have a cat and the cat flap is a godsend.

Id have said a lot more than her if you were waking me up shouting bloody cats.Selfish.

Very English. Refuse to face a problem head on so complain out of earshot, or not as in this case.

They weren't really complaining about you personally, it was more of a neighbour related complaint. I think you could take this on board a bit. Honestly, it might be upsetting now but I think it's better than them knocking on your door and complaining. If you really do want a face to face you could bring it up casually next time. Say one of the other neighbours mentioned you were loud calling your cat and do they find this to be true and is it annoying them.

They should say it to your face if they want you to change your behaviour.
Carry on with your life, ignore them, and rise above it. It says more about them, gossiping about people, than it does you.

Neighbour one wasn't being two faced. She didn't say you were annoying her. But she was acknowledging it was loud. Either because it is or just to be polite and try and move the convo on.

She didn't say anything against you. It wouldn't be her place to start arguing your corner and justifying a noise that was clearly genuinely disturbing to neighbour 2.

1 might have been too polite to tell you it also annoyed her.?

Maybe you need to try not to be so noisy if neighbour 2 is being disturbed.

But at the end of the day if she was that bothered she'd talk to your face about it. So probably just forget it.

It would annoy me too having a neighbour shouting for her cat/s every night

Oh gosh maybe you’re my old neighbour. It was indeed super annoying.

The neighbour who looks after your cats barely said anything. She basically said, “I heard, but went to bed” and then, “hmm, yeah, it can be loud.”

She didn’t join in complaining, she didn’t say anything rude. Just “yes, I heard” and then moved on.

What is your problem? Stop shouting at night when your neighbours want and expect peace and quiet. And this neighbour, who does favours for you, barely said anything. She just hmm’d along with the conversation the way we all do when we don’t really want to be involved.

Do cats actually come when you call them? I have three cats who make it clear they are doing whatever the hell they like, but we live in the middle of nowhere so they are not in much danger. They have a stable on the yard with dried food in bowls topped up through the day, beds and toys, and a cat flap so they were the only animals that can access it, and then they sashay down to the house for wet food, cuddles and a snooze on the sofa. But they pretty much have their own routine.

Oh I've just remembered our old neighbours used to shout for their cats every fucking night at 11pm. So annoying. One of the cats clearly hated them because it would take ten minutes of rattling the cat food packet and shouting it's name. Between that and the cats shitting in my garden it was a relief when they moved.

Well now you know and I’m sure it’s a bit embarrassing. But you need to stop disturbing your neighbours!

It does seem odd that what you took from this was 'my neighbours are rude for talking about me' and not 'my neighbours both think I'm a pain in the arse - maybe they're right?'. You still haven't said how late this shouting happens but if it's waking people up I'm guessing it's pretty late. Either get a cat flap or don't let them out in the first place.

Get the cats in earlier, so nobody is asleep when you do it. You shouldn't be shouting outside late at night.

Kudos for having a cat that responds though. Mine knows its name (ears twitch), but completely ignores me, unless her name is accompanied by the rustle of a chicken wrapper.

omg you would drive me insane and I would be moaning about you to all the neighbours (and to your face!).
Do you realise how annoying this must be?

Bring them in at tea time and shut the door no need for late night yelling?

I used to let my cats out for a wee around 6am and they would come back for breakfast shut them in while the school run went on (we lived by several schools) and let them out after they would then come in for late lunch be shut in for school pick up then out till tea time/supper time in summer (they were dark cats so I kept them in at night) very easy to train took a few weeks their recall was better than my moms "trained" dog

I have a neighbour who takes his dog out and then shouts for it, dog barking, around 11.30pm, it's very irritating, especially as he could supervise the dog!

One call around 8pm is very different than repeatedly shouting for your cats late at night. I'm not sure how much shouting you are doing.

I sometimes shout for mine in the day if I need them in for some reason, but the cat food box rattle usually does the trick.

Now you know.

Team Neighbour! God that sounds so annoying plus I would think you were mental.

Haha I only say the name once and if they're not back I'll leave it. No I don't have a door. 🤣 Well yes I do but it doesn't work with cat flaps, and the cats only go out through the conservatory at the back and I can't put a flap there.

Stop the outside shouting then!
It's not fecking difficult!

I have a neighbour who does this for his cats. Drives me insane.
I have cats and not once in 15 years have i called them in. The back doors open all evening . If they are not in by the time I go to bed then they stay out all night. Super simple. And given that cats are quite smart they are in and fast asleep pretty much every day before I shut the door.

Seems like a reasonable thing to have a moan about. Stop squawking loudly for your cats every night especially if others are likely in bed.

My neighbour used to do this every night and it was annoying. Get a cat flap!