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To report my neighbour because of their intruding cat!

162 replies

ricecrispies16 · 18/01/2017 20:03

Just gone in the kitchen to see paw marks all down my window, across the sides and up the stairs carpet! It regularly sits on my window ledge trying to get in and spreading mud all over my window, now it's gone and come in. What can I do about this? If anything.

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Lireal · 18/01/2017 20:19

Is this a Tom and Jerry episode?
Grin
Practical solutions:
Get a motion detection water spray.
Spikes on window sill, could use holly or thorny hedge cuttings.
Lion poo apparently deters them.
Super soaker.

PuppyMonkey · 18/01/2017 20:21

I would also like to report my cat for weeing on the sofa last week. Angry

Tanito279 · 18/01/2017 20:21

My cat hides under the sofa and then attacks my feet every time I move. Can you report her too please?

insan1tyscartching · 18/01/2017 20:23

If there was somebody to report cats to I'd report my friend and neighbour's cat for sitting on my path, on the one spot the dog can see from the window sill. I know it does this on purpose to piss my dog off. Just because he lives with a St Bernard he thinks he is a real hard cat and must be laughing at my tiny wimpy poodle cross going mental at the window.

TheresABluebirdOnMyShoulder · 18/01/2017 20:24

Joking aside, I properly hate cats. They freak me out. If I wanted a sodding cat crapping all over my garden and sneaking in through my kitchen door I would get my own. Can only imagine the uproar if my dog crapped all over the neighbour's flower beds.

wifework · 18/01/2017 20:25

OP are you my cat?

Flisstizzy · 18/01/2017 20:26

Yep, my big stupid ginger cat ripped open a plastic bag of rubbish with his claws, just for the sheer hell of it. There was rubbish all over the floor.
Gave me a massive dirty look when I told him to stop it, then carried on the second my back was turned.
I would like to report him for both occasions.

GizmosBandana · 18/01/2017 20:26

Call 101 and have it logged immediately

Celaena · 18/01/2017 20:27

hahaha bat cat!

def report it - let me know when you do.... and who you report it to

PaulAnkaTheDog · 18/01/2017 20:28

This is a joke, right?

BarbarianMum · 18/01/2017 20:29

Oh we had this problem. Solution: attack tortoises Smile

atheistmantis · 18/01/2017 20:29

Work on your sad face OP, you'll be in the daily fail next week.

ICouldDieLaughing · 18/01/2017 20:29

Sotiredbutworthit GrinGrin

QuiteLikely5 · 18/01/2017 20:30

Urghhh I hate cats! I would throw a pint of water over it every time it came near your home.

I have had similar issues and i did soak the thing. I eventually got a dog and the damn thing kept away but still tortured the neighbours!

limitedperiodonly · 18/01/2017 20:32

My parents' neighbours once sent them a solicitor's letter about their cat coming into the neighbours' garden. Easiest £50 that solicitor ever earned, but I guess keeping a straight face was worth every penny.

Rhubardandcustard · 18/01/2017 20:32

Cats are deemed 'free spirits' and as such don't have to follow and rules or laws.
You could try and sue the cat or report him, but the cat will win!

ipswichwitch · 18/01/2017 20:33

Haha! Batcat is great, although he looks slightly miffed Grin

I'm intrigued as to who you will report this cat to. The purrr-lice?

ICouldDieLaughing · 18/01/2017 20:36

I'd put a tray of water outside so the cat could wash his paws, with a towel next to it for drying. Then he won't leave paw marks next time.

Work out how he got in, make sure he can't do it again & have a water spray handy in case he does. I understand it must be annoying but there's not a lot else you can do.

Please do update us on your report, exact wording, and who you sent it to. Consider it a public service.

user1484578224 · 18/01/2017 20:36

its catasrophic

HappyFlappy · 18/01/2017 20:38

Please add my homicidal bastard cats to your report.

They try to trip me up at the top of the stairs, and in the kitchen when I am picking up Very Hot Things.

(I suspect that Mr Flappy is paying them in kippers to "off" me for the insurance money, but I have no solid proof of this. It is because I put all of the tools he left scattered round the house into two carrier bags and told him to put them into one of his two sheds or his greenhouse as I was sick of the sight of them on kitchen benches etc. He did put them away, but he Had A Face On.)

BarbarianMum · 18/01/2017 20:39

Toothpaste on the windowsill. Or a thick coat of Vaseline.

HelenaGWells · 18/01/2017 20:39

My neighbours cat would love to do this. She likes to sit forlornly outside my kitchen window (despite the fact it's on the second floor, cats are nothing if not resourceful.) I solve it by keeping the window closed or only slightly open unless I'm in the kitchen. If I'm in the kitchen I leave it all the way open and flick water at her. She does it much less now than she used to. My neighbour is totally fine with the water flicking but has no authority over the cat who gives zero shits about etiquette.

HappyFlappy · 18/01/2017 20:42

its catasrophic

Cataclysmically so.

Serin · 18/01/2017 20:43

Buy/borrow a Jack Russell.

We are selling up here, after 23 years, because of next doors cats x 6.

Just can't cope with the shit and the lack of sleep (from their wailing) anymore.

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