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

[LongGoneBeforeDaylight]

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
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...

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

[LongGoneBeforeDaylight]

Benjamin (my cat) is still out and has been since 19.30. Bet he's at her house!

[LittleFeileFooFoo]

The freeloading bum! D'you think she's keeping him in?

[LongGoneBeforeDaylight]

I really hope not.

[80sbabe]

Not unreasonable at all to ask your neighbour to stop feeding or even encouraging your cat to visit.
We had a similar situation a while back with a neighbour who ended up trying to catnap our moggy. Our cat was and still is very thin but she has thyroid problems and needs medication and a special diet - which was (and still is) being provided at home and monitored by a vet.
Our neighbour kept taking her into his house and feeding her but she throws wet cat food up and he was making her condition worse.
It was the devil's own job to get him to stop and eventually we had to involve the police.
The neighbour would not believe that our cat wasn't being neglected, but thankfully after he was officially persuaded to leave her alone it all stopped.
Sometimes people think they are being kind but in reality are doing the opposite.

[murasaki]

I'm afraid in terms of 'tea leaf' cats, I, or rather himself, can top you all. One Sunday, he found Cat1 one one side of the cat flap, dragging through something, clearly being pushed from the other side, by Cat2. When they got it in (it was nearly in when he entered the kitchen), it turned out to be a freshly cooked entire leg of lamb. Christ knows whose kitchen they got it from, and how they got it over at least one fence if not more, but he was too embarrassed to go round all the houses asking if someone had lost their sunday lunch. Imagine putting your lamb on the side to rest, then coming back in and finding it gone, you'd start to wonder if you'd ever cooked it in the first place! No neighbours have ever mentioned it, and he knows most of them....

[LongGoneBeforeDaylight]

murasaki

[murasaki]

Mr M has very bad cats. ;-)

[LongGoneBeforeDaylight]

I love that they worked together to get it in

[murasaki]

Clearly not got the smiley thing down pat, let's try again

[murasaki]

Totally, evil teamwork in action. I still wonder what those poor folk ate for sunday lunch though!

[Oldraver]

OP did he come home...I would be tracking him, and anymore than 15 minutes in the neighbours going and getting him

[AbyCat]

OP, your cat is gorgeous! (and looks just like my ginger Alan, who is also prone to wandering. I regularly have to go and spring him from the old people's home about a mile away where the ladies there keep him in their rooms fed on Mr. Kipling cakes & left over kippers).

We've also got to buy our neighbours a new electronic or magnetic cat flat as our Korat has been going in there, eating food, terrorising her two cats and sleeping on their kids beds. The shame of it. At least the neighbour doesn't encourage him, and we've also told the kids to squirt him with water if he rocks up there again.

[xylem8]

Did you see the Horizon programme the other night? Many of the cats were going into other cat's houses and stealing their food and neither owner had a clue!

[AmazingBouncingFerret]

Send them an invoice for his vets bills.

[CSIJanner]

My first cat, Tigger was a right one. The next door neighbour left his Christmas turkey to rest on the side and next thing we know, glutton had dragged it to the bottom of the garden and made short work of it, whilst Uncle (next door neighbour) was shaking his fist at him over the wall, yelling "that damned grumpy cat".

It was lucky we cooked duck and turkey that year as we had to give one up to our dear elderly neighbours. They still looked after him and fed him when the elders were on holiday, even after turkey-geddon God, I miss that cat

[LongGoneBeforeDaylight]

He did come home, but at midnight (I don't have a cat flap so had to wait up). He'd been there again!

Yes did see the fab horizon programme. I would quite like a cat cam to try and ascertain if he is letting himself in and stealing or being encouraged in, but perhaps that's a step too far

[Casserole]

Get a litter tray and keep him in for a couple of weeks, and tell HER he's been at the vets being treated for diet related complications.

[LongGoneBeforeDaylight]

He's got a litter tray, but honestly, he drives me absolutely fecking mental when I keep him in. He meows and scratches the door CONSTANTLY. Blood brute!

[neunundneunzigluftballons]

Do you think they do those collars for people I could definitely do with the I' m fat please don't feed me one

[lemontwist]

Hmmm,don't really have any advice but quite impressed about the tracking device. DH thinksit would be 'quite fun' to attach a mini camera to our cats just to see what they get up to I suspect we would just get hours of footage of DS1's comfy bed

[MonstrousPippin]

I wouldn't make out he's got fleas and worms as someone suggested, just in case that makes her think she's right about him being neglected.

[ThisWayForCrazy]

Our neighbours cat "Hairy" (it's actually either Harley or Harvey but we can never remember) sneaks in our house, eats our cats food and sleeps on our beds

We are regularly kicking him out. He even sits at the back door, with my girls, asking to be let in at night time!! He's a bugger.

I've told the neighbour, she's horrified bless her. But he just likes our house

[LongGoneBeforeDaylight]

Ah, what if my boy just prefers her house

[HeavenlyYoni]

Perhaps he needs a cat flap and can then come back when he feels like it? Lovely ginger btw