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To GPS my cat and go and speak to the neighbour?

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LongGoneBeforeDaylight · 14/06/2013 14:12

I own a very large ginger Tom cat. He is supposed to be on a diet but comes home licking his lips and smelling of food. And also, often,
cigarette smoke Grin
I bought a "cat nav" device for him (v small USB thing which attaches to his collar). I have used it three times now and downloaded the data and it shows him going into a house about 8 doors down and not moving for an hour.

AIBU to go and speak to them and ask them to stop feeding him? I wasn't planning on telling them about the GPS device... Grin

Or would you leave it?

I am aware this post reads like I am a mad woman, btw. I promise I am sane. I just can't bear the patronising vet telling me he will get type 2 diabetes if he doesn't lost weight Hmm

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limitedperiodonly · 14/06/2013 18:23

I'm impressed that he hasn't any ripped ears or nose. He must be the baddest tom in town.

My mum sellotaped our cat's ripped ear up to no avail Grin He was a neuter but if trouble found him he didn't walk away.

Follyfoot · 14/06/2013 18:29

Loving the photos of him Grin

My ginger tom came home one day wearing a bloody collar. Apparently he was now called 'Garfi'.... I rang the phone number on his collar and pointed out that he was my cat. She was quite arsey with me and insisted he was hers until I told her that he had been bought as a kitten. It all came to a head when the little bugger got run over (cat not arsey woman). She happened to be home and took him to the vet. She began ringing the vet up for progress reports until I told the vet that he was my cat and I would be paying the bill. That seemed to focus their minds and they refused to give the woman any more information on his condition. It took him ages to recover but once home, he never set foot back in her house.

He did however move in with the local GP on a part time basis, my next door but one neighbour and anyone else who paid him any attention. On one occasion my neighbours were half way to the local garden centre when he popped up on the back seat of their car.

When we moved to another part of the country, he got even worse and actually properly disappeared. It was whilst I was asking around trying to find him that it came to light that he had been spending his days in the local Subaru showroom. Needless to say they had been feeding him. Eventually we found him living with someone he followed home from the pub.... As he got older, he seemed to settle down at last, and spent his days living either with us or next door.

cocolepew · 14/06/2013 18:37

Love the photos, all that is missing is a smoking jacket Grin

I'm always amazed by cat napping stories Shock

Bobyan · 14/06/2013 18:39

My five year old is now singing "fat cat sat on a sofaaaaaaaaa"!

hugoagogo · 14/06/2013 18:51

Who does this? I have had cats mooching at the back door before, but I might give them a sneaky coach, but you don't feed other people's cats. Shock

blueemerald · 14/06/2013 19:19

One of our cats once brought a dead mouse in, complete with mousetrap.
OP, you've got to get firm with these cheeky neighbours.

ComposHat · 14/06/2013 19:47

he was later found at verrrry posh house in the village, shagging the owners on-heat poodle on THEIR BED! grin

Good lad, I assume he was doing it as an act of class warfare!

Is your username a reference to the Mark E. Smith play?

AhsataN · 14/06/2013 20:07

oh what a handsome cat you have. I have two boy cats both savannahs and both brothers, except one brother looks more like a black Siamese he is the most evil shite you will ever meet. he is well known for dismembering large wood pigeons twice his size and eating the flesh from them while they are still alive. the most horrific incident was last summer when I spotted him laying on the lawn busy eating something. I ran down to have a look and he was eating someone's pet rabbit Shock. it was still warm and he had ripped its throat clean out and was having an early dinner.
another occasion my neighbour told me Bob (cat) had gone into her kitchen and tried to steal her chicken that had just been taken out of her oven!

DrinkFeckArseGirls · 14/06/2013 20:27

Gorgeous but erm, well fed!

DrinkFeckArseGirls · 14/06/2013 20:30

Compos you had a cat who shagged s dog?! Shock

HeyLuciani · 14/06/2013 20:37

DrinkFeck - ha ha! Grin Compos is referring to my previous post about a terrier shagging a posh poodle

Compos - re name, nearly - I had forgotten about the play.....it was a Fall single when I was a youngster, think it came from the play?

Jestrin · 14/06/2013 20:40

How do you view photos? I used to click on a members name but that doesn't work anymore.

hugoagogo · 14/06/2013 20:44

You can still click, but some people's profiles aren't clicky IYKWIM

ComposHat · 14/06/2013 20:47

Yeah I think it did - there was a soundtrack from the play.

Jestrin · 14/06/2013 20:50

Then I can't see the photo Sad I can't click on the OPs name at all.

hugoagogo · 14/06/2013 20:53

Oh! don't cry!

I think the OP put links on her posts to pictures of her cat, rather than it being on her profile.

Have a quick scroll back and don't despair.

SoupDragon · 14/06/2013 20:55

Yes, the cat pictures were links, not on her profile.

Jestrin · 14/06/2013 20:57

Thanks!i must have missed it! Scrolling back now. Smile

Jestrin · 14/06/2013 21:00

Oh he's gorgeous! Don't let the neighbours catnap him OP!

PosyNarker · 14/06/2013 21:10

How rude!

I am an inadvertent cat thief (though he was a stray, found he had an owner, said owner bought a puppy & he moved in with another neighbour, then they abandoned him). He was a regular Six Dinners Sid and we were fond of him, but once we realised we were becoming responsible for him rather than tossing the odd bit of chicken off the BBQ we had a Grown Up conversation with the original owner.

It worked out, because he was leaving and a dominant male teenage cat & exuberant Alsatian pup wasn't working, but I can honestly say that if he's said 'stop feeding, I'm taking him' I would have gone and with it, albeit with a reminder to worm the poor bugger because he was underweight. Anything else is rude!

echt · 14/06/2013 21:50

Aah, what a handsome cat. Back in the day, more rounded gentlemen were called "of full habit". So much nicer than porky.:o

LisaMed · 14/06/2013 21:52

The people in the flat across the corner have now washed their hands of the stray thug tom known as the ginger gentleman who has been fighting all the local cats and really needs relieving of his furry dice.

We have just recently lost evil cat, but as the ginger gentleman has not only tried to beat up lovely neighbours' lovely neutered tom but their dogs as well, plus the cat from the funeral parlour and tried to kill evil cat, and will need a vet's bill the size of a small mortgage so I will let someone else who is currently feeding him (about five people so far, not including the people across the corner) and not feel too guilty.

I miss Henry that lived three doors down and who was fed by four houses, a corner shop, a chemist, a pizza shop and I think someone from over the road who opened up around 9.30 because that was when he waddled across a main road and was a danger to traffic

I would never dream of taking a cat in, not unless I was convinced it was a stray. I think you are going to have to keep a close eye on catnav, do not disclose catnav and keep to a polite letter every time there is a problem. Play on the 'poor sick cat' angle.

This ought to end up in classics.

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LongGoneBeforeDaylight · 14/06/2013 22:53

Beautiful but obese appears to be the general consensus Grin

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LongGoneBeforeDaylight · 14/06/2013 22:55

Re my username, it's a reference to one of my favourite songs by the cardigans.

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LongGoneBeforeDaylight · 14/06/2013 22:59

Ah, you didn't mean my name Smile

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