I have a cat stalker!

[TaliZorahVasNormandy]

Seriously!

Got home at 8 with DD, parked up and noticed a ginger cat lingering away the neighbours cars. We walk around to the front door and the cat has followed. It's now sat outside the front door, staring at the house.

What does it want?

Is this how you get a cat?

It has no collar on but it looks fed and looked after.

It wants to come in and settle down for the evening. Are the houses all quite similar and it's just got a bit lost.

Houses are mostly different. It's not a cat I recognise either. There's about 5 houses around our house and I dont think it belongs there.

Is it still there, welcome to the cat owners club

Yeah. Still there. It's not the first time a ginger cat has shown up. Happened at my parents yeareally ago. We adopted that cat.

It’s chosen you! You’re privileged!

Have you got your central heating on? Perhaps it's a protest.

Central Heating. Never!

That's certainly how I got a cat . . . . .

About 4 years ago this white/tabby cat kept hanging around the hose and garden. Of course I foolishly started feeding her and she got quite cosy.

Took her to the vet and she wasn't chipped or neutered, and probably not vaccinated either. DH HATED cats and said no way was she staying.

Said cat is currently sitting on DH's lap on the couch next to me and will follow us up to bed and cuddle up to HIM shortly. I've been sidelined!

Congratulations OP, you're now a bonafide cat owner

Hanging around the HOUSE, not the HOSE! I'm pretty sure most cats aren't too keen on hanging around a HOSE!

Congratulations on your new arrival

Ginger cats are buggers, they won't take no for an answer!

Well, she went out last night and I've not seen her since.

Does that mean we failed some sort of hospitality test?

She has since returned, Begging for food.

Someone else is feeding her too. Little bloody scavenger.

Shes not putting all her eggs in your basket yet, she will want to hedge her bets and have as many safe places (and meals!) as possible bless her. Its going to be bloody cold overnight, she'll need as much food as she can get

Are you sure she’s a she? Most ginger cats are boys.

I would just sit back and enjoy the cat company

Don't bloody feed it.......if it looks well looked after it will have an owner wondering where the hell it is. Really pisses me off when people do this. It's a cat, they sit where they want to sit.

I read about a cat watching a house once.

Possibly a huge man will visit on a flying motorbike and leave a baby on your doorstep...

I had a stalker cat, a bengal, in my last flat just before I left. Took him to the vet. He was chipped and the owner lived not far from me. I left him there to be collected, thinking I wouldn't see him again as he seemed pissed off at being taken to the vet. A couple of hours later he was back in my garden with a collar on with the owners phone number. I texted her to sayhe was back, I was quite happy to hang out with him, but I wouldn't feed him. The last couple of months of living there he would sleep on my bed with me, leaving early morning presumably to go home to get fed. If I didn't let him in he would howl at my windows until I did let him in.

It was so nice to have the cuddlyness of a cat without the responsibility.

It has taken to miaowing at the back door. Not feeding it but won't go away. Doesnt help that DD is the cat whisperer.

I don't want a cat.

PrueDent
That made me properly laugh.

I'd rather have the baby than the cat.

What @Horace said there is correct, majority of gingers are male.
Remember Streetcat Bob?

It probably has an owner. Check local FB page to see if someone is missing their cat. You could post a pic to see if anyone recognises it. Or you could paper collar with your number asking the owner to contact you.

Our boy gets his collars off and goes around all the neighbours begging. They know not to feed him, even though he's highly convincing at acting malnourished and unloved!