to think my neighbour is being incredibly unreasonable about our cat?

[Objection]

We've recently moved into a very tiny village, two doors down from my in - laws. (moved in December)
We have a dog and a cat. (no kids)
FIL said the other day that my cat was pissing off their neighbour.
Apparently neighbour is absolutely furious and the cat is causing all kinds of hell.
What hell, you ask?
Well, she sunbathes on his dustbin and sits up when he comes out in the morning to stare at him getting into his car.
Apparently the ragey shouting we hear most mornings is him screaming at the cat, who just looks at him whilst he does so.
FIL, I think, expected me to do something about the cat's "rudeness".

AIBU to think this is actually quite funny and neighbour is a little unhinged?

I think you need to find a reason for this to come up in conversation and then very seriously tell him that you will have a chat with the cat and ask him not to stare, as it isn't polite.

I would love to see how he responds.

No Parking outside my house.
Or else.

One morning a neighbour down the road came to tell me that when she woke up, my cat was asleep on her bed. Another neighbour told me that my cat came into her house one night via the cat flap. She then proceeded to fight with my neighbours cat all around the downstairs of her house, knocking over lamps and pictures. It just so happened that my neighbour was sleeping downstairs on the sofa because she had broken her ankle and couldn't get upstairs. She had to fight my cat off with her crutch.
I was very

I need a cat in my life again.
Love The stories.

Hear me roar

I hate cats*. I hate their fur. I hate their tongues. I hate their revolting food. I hate their noise. I hate their need to rip my bin bags to shreds nanoseconds after I put them out. I hate their shitting on my lawn. I hate them.

But even I, cat hater extraordinaire, can cope with being looked at.

*i also hate dogs/rabbits/anything with hair.

Sorry but yabu, cats are fluffy little balls of evil and deliberately act up around anyone likely to see through their cute little kitten act so everyone will think they are crazy and not listen when they eventually find proof of the cat plot for world domination... this is why my neighbours cat is all cuteness and light in front of everyone else but attacks my ankles every time I walk past it on my own.

Some people just really, really, really HATE cats.

I don't get it myself, but their loathing seems to have no bounds.

Moose I have 3 Maine Coons, but your silver girl looks incredibly similar to our one who died last year (courtesy of MIL, visiting dogs, escaping house cat and a fox ). She used to play fetch.

We have a cream tabby, ginger tabby (boys) and a blue and white girl but I still pine for a big silver even now.

I live in an apartment building in Mexico City where we have open walkways leading our doors with a small wall on the other side. One of my neighbours put a notice up to tell dogs and cats not to shit in front of her door, at their height!

How else will they read it innis?
I hope she wrote it in dog and cat

This thread is making me really, really want a cat now. Our last one died four months back, she was old and lovely. I'm missing that contemptuous, superior look she'd give me, and how she would always have to sit on the laptop whenever I was typing sometían or if I was reading a book or whatever she'd have to interrupt. Of course, any other time, she was very aloof and wouldn't let us inferior humans contaminate her fur...

I really need to look at getting another one, I think!

Bet your cat is giving him stink eye.

Tell him he's lucky.two of mine take a shit in my neighbours garden!I'm just lucky its my uncle, though do understand why he's not a massive fan of cats.

LOVE all the cat pics
partic judge cat

fantastic thread.

my baby woke last night and have one hear wrenching miaowe and vomited what looked like half a mouse.

dh and I jumped out of bed, obviously she has a basket with special jumpers in our room, and he cuddled her while I cleared up the mess. daddy told her she was a brave girl and we tucked her into our bed.

I know.

Have you tried CM? Tough love!
(Controlled miaowing)

Very funny thread :) Milly the miserable fat cat she is decided last year to break into our neighbours house to eat their cats food and fight her up stairs in their bedroom...I am not quite sure what my neighbour wanted me to do about it?

Lucy the lovely friendly cat also takes herself into another neighbours house, that neighbour hasn't said anything to me the neighbour mentioned above has though.

OP your neighbour should be afraid, very afraid...for one day...

cm yes but not strong enough. now cc with the kids was a breeze.

This thread made me laugh!

But at risk of being a killjoy, please be careful.

Four years ago, I was living in a godforsaken northern village full of people who could barely speak, read, or write. A new couple moved into the house next door and were the neighbours from hell in all kinds of ways. One feature was them coming round my house drunk and complaining about my cats sitting at the end of their garden because they had 'glowing eyes like the bogeyman'. They also complained about it going to the loo in their garden, which would have been understandable if they hadn't decided to use at least half of their garden as a rubbish tip (no exaggeration - they built a fence and then just slung all of their rubbish in there).

One of my cats was indoors only, and was fine.

Another died very suddenly, I suspect of poisoning because of the symptoms. I think they fed him antifreeze.

The other was shot twice in the head with an airgun, wrapped in a bin bag, and slung over a wall on nearby farmland. By a miracle, he survived. Despite the fact that the neighbour had been round, drunk, and had threatened to shoot this cat in the head with an air rifle - a conversation that I had recorded on my phone - the police were unable to find the culprit. Their investigation technique consisted of going next door and saying 'Her cat died, did you do it?' then coming round my house and complaining that the police station was 'haunted' (I kid you not).

I now live in a big city and my cats are happy and safe. My neighbours can read and write and are civilized and sociable.

Thank you. Just thank you

I think that people should respect their neighbours wishes if they don't want a cat on their property.