My neighbours cat is in my garden...........dead!

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Just gone out to get the washing in before it goes dark and it's lying on the grass by the flower bed. It's dead! I hate it with a passion and now it's dead in my garden. Don't really get on with said neighbour as we've had issues with said cat pissing up my front door, shitting in flower beds and now it's dead. In my garden. I'm just about to put kids in bath. Husband not home till after 8. What do I do?

well done Whoa, you are a kind soul. and perhaps even earned for you!

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I feel awful but this thread is hilarious. I've now woken up DH through crying with laughter in bed 😂 oh gosh. I need to leave mumsnet before I die 😂

At least the vet can keep the cat until they get home to the upsetting news (in the freezer) and make their own choices i.e. s they might want to bury him or have him cremated and keep the ashes.

Awww - so kind of you to go to emergency vet for advice - must have cost you a fortune. Sorry I assumed shovel was for burial purposes, hadn't clicked just for moving the poor animal ... you've done all you can and you've been a good neighbour

They're home tomorrow! Will let you know what happens!

My cat disappeared in 2009. It used to have a habit of going to other houses with cats and stealing their food.
One day he didn't come back. We asked at all the houses on the estate and no one had seen anything.
Then a few weeks later a kid from a few doors down said that he found a dead cat in the bushes and that his big brother had shot it.
We didn't find the body. But I have my suspicions still that they murdered my cat.

As much as I disliked the cat I would never harm it! The fact I've forked out £85 for it to be kept in a freezer till Monday. It was a pain in the ass but didn't deserve what ever happened to it. Precious I'm sorry that happened. That's awful.

Sorry, poisonous not precious!

If they are on holiday, who was meant to be looking after the cat?

Don't get too used to a shit free sand pit though, you know by this time next week there will be probably be a new cat about.

Aw poor cat. Wonder who was supposed to be looking after it while they were away..

I found a dead cat once it was horrible. Was walking home from work and the poor baby was still warm

I knocked on a couple of doors but couldn't trace the owners. One person said they thought it was their neighbours cat bit when I knocked no one was in.

Ended up going home grabbing a towell and wrapped it up I placed it on the door step. I hoped the towel would show some one cared. I never found out what happened after. Either the poor owners came home/women up to theory beloved cat wrapped up outside their door or some poor sod discovered a dead cat on their doorstep....

Woke up to

Bloody MN and the slow down/jumping threads

Giles that's caring and terrifying in a nice way.
No idea who is looking after the cat. I've told the neighbours I know that it's deceased and where it is but no of them are looking after it. None of the other neighbours have asked about it or out looking. So who knows???

**was looking after cat

What do you mean you've paid £85?

I've got a bad feeling about this. Vets don't charge for storing dead pets, and even if they did they would charge the owner not the person who brought it in.

Are next door neighbours home yet op?

Perhaps the shovel is to pick it up? Gardening gloves might be better.

It's perfectly normal to be fed up with someone else's cat using your kids sand pit as a litter tray (though covering it would be a good idea as other animals will probably do the same). Some cat owners pretty much dare other people to dislike cats with absolute blanket vitriol towards anyone who mentions a dislike of a garden full of the shit of other people's cats... Surely it is possible to acknowledge that this is unpleasant whilst mentioning that it's not something anyone has any control over if they believe it's wrong to keep a cat confined to inside a house.

Oh shit how did that happen? I thought I'd read to the end of the thread but an entire page has just appeared and its appearance made me notice dates please ignore me

I've taken an unidentified dead cat to the vets to be scanned and wasn't charged either. It turned out to belong to a family up the road who had been on holiday. They were devastated.

She may have been charged because it was 'out of hours'
On call vet will have to of gone into practice

Sorry, was enjoying the lovely weather and avoiding neighbours
Vets fees standard apparently??? I'm going to check Monday morning and gain refund if needs be.

Neighbours have returned, and there's been no contact but as I say we've been in and out so they may have knocked and we were out. I'm in all day today but it's mothers fay so they may not wish to intrude. I'm not holding my breath but I will be chasing that vets up!!!

DH de-shitted the garden yesterday so today will be the first time the kids have been able to go straight out into the garden without us first having to do a sweep of the grass etc but I imagine it won't last as some other cat is probably waiting to claim our garden as theirs!!

24/03/2017 23:17 MsMims

What do you mean you've paid £85?

I've got a bad feeling about this. Vets don't charge for storing dead pets, and even if they did they would charge the owner not the person who brought it in

I agree, very odd, in lots of ways.

Maybe the vets she took it to wasn't their vets practice

So apparently if I'd of put the cat at the side of the street and called the council cleansing they'd come and remove the cat, scan it and inform owners but because I didn't and took it to the vets that was listed as 'open' till 10pm I incurred an £85 charge and ungrateful neighbours. I know they know I took the cat in and that the cat is deceased as the veterinary staff informed me they had been contacted on Saturday. I was out gardening at the drive earlier and they walked right past. Didn't even acknowledge me! I don't feel bad I took the cat in as it was the right thing to do, but now I'm pissed off with them. I should have taken iggles advice!!!