To be seduced by a cat?

[Lancashiregirl]

Arrghh, he's there again, every day on my windowsill looking at me with big green eyes - crying mournfully, while I try to work.

I've heard from neighbours that he doesn't like his own home (toddlers and new cats) and has run away several times. He keeps trying to wriggle into my home and I've let him in when it's been raining.

But he is also quite plump and clearly not short of a tin of kitty-kat or two. This makes me think he's got other women on the go and is an expert in feline seduction techniques. I've never had any involvement with cats before and am innocent of their wily ways.

Would I be unreasonable to give him some encouragement?

Cats will go where the heating is on.

Don't get too involved before you speak to the owners. I once fell in love like this and had my heart broken. The owners said we could keep the cat, then changed their minds a few days later. I still think about that lovely cat, snuggled with my cat with their paws round each other.

I'm not a fan of cat purloining. Our Six Dinner Sid is now confined to his enclosure and indoors but was prone to charming the neighbourhood.

I did once knowingly steal a cat in NZ. She lived next door and was pregnant then she wasn't. She arrived one afternoon and put one kitten in the spare bed and then two more. She shouted at us until we followed her to the next door garage where a heap of boxes had fallen on the other 4 babies. We handreared them after she made it clear that was her done with this kitten nonsense (she did bring us a rotting squid as her contribution to the household though a few nights later).

2 weeks later next door neighbour drops in to ask to use our phone and sees her. And says oh she's had the kittens! I haven't seen her for weeks. Cue kittens marching out of the kitchen. And then he says well I'll take them now and her and I will take them to my girlfriend's family farm and let them loose in the bush. We had words, loud words.

We had a six dinner Sid last year, he was lovely! We let him in for a while and occasionally I'd wake up and find him laying on my feet having been let in by one of the kids.

It was obvious he had an owner though so we couldn't adopt him but we enjoyed his company so much we got a kitten of our own - having never really liked cats before. Perhaps he was a messenger sent from the cat God to turn people!

We don't let him in now but he still comes by and looks hopefully. He's got fatter and fatter and fatter so I recon he's got about 8 families!

I found a cat under my Christmas tree last year. It was the neighbours one and he must have wandered in with the pizza delivery. He'd been hiding there a while. So soft and daft but my cat doesn't like him.

In fact the day I moved here he was sitting on my kitchen window sill looking longingly at my fish and chips.

Yes my parents recently deceased cat moved himself into their house in increments. His previous home had two young children and another cat and he felt pushed down the pecking order and was most put put when they couldn't provide him with his requisite 18 hours of fuss and demands to be carried around everywhere.

They had 8 very happy years with him.

If he's decided he's moving in then it WILL happen. You may as well accept it.

My cat used to visit all the neighbours. I was very happy for him to do so but asked that they didn't feed him and they sent him home to bed. They did both and he brightened several people's lives.

One of my parent's cats visits a neighbour regularly for cheese and milk apparently. This has been going on for years, but he still knows where his home is.

I found out that my old cat was being fed/looked after by two other neighbours hence the massive weight gain...

Rescue centres are full, adopt your own.

My cat and dog were all I got when I left my ex, he dumped them on me. If someone else was to take in my cat I'd be devastated. Last time the cat went missing for a few days I was hysterical, he may be 'only a cat' to some but for me he's the baby I never got to have.

This cat may be the only friend to a little old lady somewhere.

Don't do it otherwise you may end up with a psycho like me on your door step! My lovely cat visits others he is v friendly and invites himself into other people's houses, which tbh I am not overly happy about but what can I do.
The time that tipped me over was when a lady taped a message on to him saying he needed to be fed more I was fuming as I always leave food down and he is never short of a treat or two or three! I found out it was a lonely, slightly barking mad, cat lady round the corner, who was trying to nab our cat for herself. I felt sorry for her but said we love him please stop feeding him....so be careful you have been warned

I love cats but I echo other posters that say check with his owner first. There was thread on here about some neighbours who kept taking a cat into their home. Not saying its the same scenario!!! But the owner was getting very upset.