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There is a cat in my bedroom

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ButtonMirror · 02/09/2018 06:37

Just woken up and found a cat fast asleep on the chair in my bedroom.

I do not have a cat.

I have two dogs who would bark and chase a cat if they saw one.

The dogs have the run of downstairs during the night. There is a stair gate to stop them coming up stairs.

How has a cat got into my bedroom without my dogs going nuts???

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TerfsUp · 02/09/2018 09:04

Hah, TSSDNCOP! That is excellent. How was the situation resolved? Did you have roast chicken for lunch that day?

ItWasntMeItWasIm · 02/09/2018 09:06

I was woken up one night by a cat jumping in the window onto me. We both got a bit of a fright but luckily only one of us ran and jumped out the window

NonaGrey · 02/09/2018 09:13

You see I find most of these responses quite confusing. There are lots of threads about how people can’t sleep if there’s a spider in their room (a harmless spider who won’t harm you in any way) but a strange cat (who could actually hurt you) is seen as a thing to be welcomed.

Very odd.

I’m with the OP’s husband.

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TSSDNCOP · 02/09/2018 09:16

Well, it turns out chickens are quite the tricky tricksters to catch. This particular one had flapped over the fence from next door, which agin is odd when you consider we lived in Lewisham. Eventually a bath towel saved the day to stop it flapping long enough to heft it back over the fence.

Cats don't have 8 eyes and legs, therefore less scary than spiders.

LittleCandle · 02/09/2018 09:19

i would love to wake up to a new cat. Both of mine went over a period of 4 months at the turn of the year and due to circumstances, I can't really see when I could get another one. I would want to be home with it, to settle it in, so a visiting cat would work nicely.

I would also LTB regarding your husband. The cat was purring, for heaven's sake!

TerfsUp · 02/09/2018 09:22

Thanks, TSSDNCOP, for the response. Glad to hear that it all ended well.

And I agree with everyone who says LTB. Meanie that he is.

LumpSatAloneInABoggyMarsh · 02/09/2018 09:25

I have a cat who is the random cat that other people wake up to in the morning. We have a local facebook group and she is famous on there.

At least once a month someone will post a photo asking if anyone knows her because she's made herself at home on their couch!

The problem is, people feed her because she is petite and they think she is a starving kitten. I have resigned myself to the fact that she is not at all loyal to me.

NonaGrey · 02/09/2018 09:29

Cats don't have 8 eyes and legs, therefore less scary than spiders.

But they have sharp teeth and claws, they might wee and poo over your soft furnishings.

The poor wee spider sits in the corner and eats nasty flies. If you live in the U.K. it poses no threat to you at all.

Not like a creepy strange cat.

psychedelia · 02/09/2018 09:32

My cat chose me in a similar way. Spiders are also very welcome in my home. The cat just cocks her head at them and leaves them be

cindersrella · 02/09/2018 09:38

That's hilarious😂😂 sneaky pussy cat 🐈

FlorencesHunger · 02/09/2018 09:39

I have a cat but also a six dinner six that visits, my cat goes mental at cats passing outside or chases others out but not six dinner sid, she just let's him get on with it.

The other six dinner sid in my street is too fat to get in my cat flap.

overnightangel · 02/09/2018 09:41

@schnubbins
Oh my god what did you do? Did they all survive? What mean neighbours 😰

Roomba · 02/09/2018 09:45

I was once in the bath - upstairs bathroom with a particularly high up window which only opened a bit at the top. Anyway, I was relaxing nicely when all of a sudden there was a terrifying scrabbling noise and a huge tabby cat plopped down from the open window. I almost jumped out of my skin and the poor cat looked just as terrified. I ended up shrieking for my ex to come put the cat out of the front door, it clawed him lots as he did so. I assume it was being chased but I was seriously confused by how it managed to get up to that window!

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ButtonMirror · 02/09/2018 09:50

Glad it's not just me who has random animals in their houses.

Cat was last seen in my garden.

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Samantha2018 · 02/09/2018 09:51

Omg I read this and thought one of my friends had posted about me!
A cat was in my bedroom last night I went up to bed and was too scared to go on I really don't like cats!!!! I went back down hoping I'd scared it off and it would leave! It must have but I cannot believe it was just sat there looking at me!!!

BareBum · 02/09/2018 09:54

@Schnubbins - I dream of that happening to me. I would keep them all. My cat is neutered because that is the right thing to do, but if someone else’s pregnant cat adopted me...

Stressedoverkids · 02/09/2018 10:03

Excuse me!! as a cat owner can I pop into this thread to say if you find my cat in your house please kick her and out and send her home. Don't just keep her!! that's really mean

Our cat is my ASD daughters companion animal, she is worth more to us than anybody else could understand.

and yes she will bewitch you with her big green eyes and pretend she is starving, it's all a very clever act.

psychedelia · 02/09/2018 10:06

Stressed that’s lovely. I did in fairness become the new slave to my feline owner with full permission from the previous slaves

sashh · 02/09/2018 10:13

The problem is, people feed her because she is petite and they think she is a starving kitten

OMG mine too. She is small so people think she's about 6 months old.

SistersOfPercy · 02/09/2018 10:27

We've just moved house and I'm being stalked by the most beautiful black and white cat. 2 issues. One I own a pretty grumpy terrier and 2 I also own a pretty grumpy DH who hates cats.

He was nearly through the window last night (cat not DH). He's such a cutie (again, cat not DH) and talks to you loudly when you speak to him. Never met such a vocal cat. I'd happily let him in but I don't think I'm winning this one.

UpstartCrow · 02/09/2018 10:30

LemonRedwood

Stressedoverkids · 02/09/2018 10:31

My parents have a cat who goes in through other houses windows. Particularly in the middle of the night. He is massive and has been responsible for a few "near" heart attacks.

shallen · 02/09/2018 11:02

Those of you saying this is how you get a cat, please don't keep random cats, their owners are probably frantically looking for it and worried sick, upset kids etc!

Make sure the cat can get back out again and do not feed it.

Our cat once popped in to see an old man down the road, I searched and searched for her in minus 2 weather till nearly midnight then he opened his door and let her out...... could have strangled him!
He kept doing it and started buying her food despite me having many arguments with him that she is not his cat and and course if he puts food out to entice her in then shuts her in she will then sleep on his sofa!
Even offered to help him find a cat to adopt from a shelter if he wanted a cat so badly.

Then one day she bit him when he tried to get her off the sofa so he came round and asked me to collect her, she was all sweetness and light when I walked in to pick her up! Cue smug mode!! He never let her in after that!!

psychedelia · 02/09/2018 11:14

My cat left her previous home as she got a better deal with us, long before we started feeding her. Lap time, hours of it. She shared her former home with another cat, 2 dogs, 2 toddlers and adult humans who ran a woodworking business from their home. Now she’s the centre of attention

PatriciaHolm · 02/09/2018 11:17

you have The Cat That Walls Through Walls.

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