Cat CFuckery

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Next doors cat keeps jumping in through my bedroom window at night. It then runs downstairs and tries to get back out through my kitchen window.

My kitchen window is not open, so the bloody thing runs around in a panic. So far it has knocked two plant pots off the windowsill and has woken me up about a million times.

I told next door. They sort of shrugged and indicated that they couldn’t really do anything.

I like having my bedroom window open. I love cats. I quite like my neighbours - although the man is a bit mean to the woman, but that’s a separate issue. I also like sleeping.

Argh.

Well... What do you want them to do?

That sounded shitty, it wasn't meant to it was a genuine question!

I don’t know Espresso - keep their cat inside their own house at night?

Pin a taught net across the open window like a screen then it can't get in. Tie a few bits of ribbon into the net so the cat can see there is a barrier there

Annoying situation for you

YABU. Cats are never CFs. You have to get up each time and usher the Feline Over Lord who has graced you with his presence, gently out of your house.

Ooooh, Cutting that’s a good idea.

Although won’t the cat just sit playing with the ribbons 😂

Ah, a neighbours cat used to do this. Except he used to settle down on my bed. He's my cat now....

Not helpful!

It keeps moths and other unsavoury summer night flying creatures out too

Sorry but cats are the ultimate CFs. They’re nosy, have no boundaries and couldn’t give a stuff what anyone thinks.

Every time cat wakes you up go round and ring neighbours doorbell.

You have a bad neighbour problem, not a CFcat problem.

Agree, every time it wakes you go round and wake them. They should be keeping the cat in at night

If I go round to neighbours house, I’d have to post on here first saying “AIBU to leave sleeping DC whilst I go round to neighbours with CFcat”

Then people would tell me my house would almosr certainly burn down and I shouldn’t “risk it”

@scaryteacher that made me laugh!!

I'd also suggest netting until the Feline Overlord realises its not happening anymore.

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Can you just leave your window open a few inches so the cat can’t get in?

Loan a small terrier dog for a week. Have him sleep at the end of your bed. After the first night cat won’t bother you again.

Furano I like a fully open window in all this lovely weather

Terrier dog prob even more annoying than cat, surely? Also, where the bloody hell would I get one from?

DH would sit in wait with a water pistol by the window...

They also hate the sound of kitchen foil, if that was on the ledge somewhere where they climb in it could really help. DM used to put it on the kitchen sides when our cats were little to teach them not to jump up in the night

Is there a reason you can't leave the kitchen window open a cat width? (Ie. Is it at the front of the house, is it not very secure?) If you can leave it open I'd do that. There are lots of reasons people leave cats put at night - I'm less strit with mine in the heat thru desperation for a breeze.
If the hinge isn't stiff the cat may well be able to open it or will miaow at you thru the gap. A netting screen may help. Next door's cat does it here but he is almost blind, and my house is a mirror image of theirs, and so he gets sooo frantic!!

I've heard that cats don't like the smell of citrus. Maybe you can make a solution from orange peelings and spray the outside of your window ledge.

chronically i feel funny leaving downstairs windows open - much better to leave upstairs window open where I can enter immediate hand to hand combat with any intruders 😂😂

How is the cat getting in through the upstairs window? If it's a flat roof could you put something on there to deter him?

Put a fly screen on that window.

Or just open your window less.

Magnetic mosquito net?

"Terrier dog prob even more annoying than cat, surely? Also, where the bloody hell would I get one from?"

I have a small terrier dog at the bottom of my bed. I'd say he was less annoying than your neighbours cat. He sleeps quietly, there's the occasional yip in his sleep and the odd fart (which is probably DH rather than the dog to be fair) but on the whole he's quite good.

He wouldn't be happy about being lent out though, not even to deal with a cat.

Have you considered getting a fake cat to sit in the window to put off the real one?