To not to have expected these furry visitors (light hearted)

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So we recently had bi-fold doors fitted and as you might expect with the heat they have been open almost constantly when we are at home and awake.

So last week I found a random cat staring intently at our hamster one evening, poor Hammie was frozen to the spot in her cage in the dining room (not room with patio doors so cat had been through the house while Dd and I were in it - CF)

Then this morning I was in the house on my own, having a wee in the downstairs toilet (sorry tmi) with the door open when a mouse starts to stroll out of the spare bedroom (downstairs and next to loo) a cute little thing which scarpered sharpish back in to the bedroom. I have barricaded it in and bought a humane trap with chocolate brownie.

Why did I not realise these doors would bring me closer to nature and have you any stories that will make me feel better about these critters

We had a black rescue cat who used to like to camp out on our top floor, sometimes only coming down once a day to eat and go to the loo.

I had a long chat with her one day as she sat under a bed in my DS's room. I then walked downstairs to see her eating in the kitchen.

Slightly surprised as it is 4 flights of stairs and I didn't see her pass.

Something made me go back up only to find a complete different black cat under the bed. It had a collar on so clearly wasn't mine.

The collar had a phone number, I called and it was from flats next door and had been missing for 10 days. I suspect it had been in my house for 10 days living with our cat!

My friend's lab nicked a frozen leg of lamb out of someone's freezer and took it home with him. I still wonder if it was someone getting stuff out of a freezer in the garage, or if he actually made a sortie into someone's house.

I got in my car to go to work, realised I had forgotten my lunch and dashed back in for it.
It's a tiny 2 seater sports car...
Drove off and as I glanced in the mirror a pair of eyes stared back.
Yep the neighbour's cat was on the back shelf !!!!
I did pop him home

You may enjoy this thread OP, wherin a chap goes to get a jumper from the drawer under the bed and gets a surprise...well, five surprises really

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There’s a cf black cat in our street. A few times when we’ve opened our front door it’s come strolling in.
It also likes to sit under the house opposites front window tormenting their dog. It goes crazy at the window clawing and barking and the cat just sits there watching it. Said cat also likes to sit in the car parking areas or on drives and refuse to move if a car wants to park.

Next door had 2 lovely cats. One of them used to sometimes sit watching me through the patio doors and then leg it when I turned the key. It also kept sleeping in my extension when it was getting built.

The other day I had my patio door open and my cat wandered in so I said hello to him and he froze on the spot. When I actually looked, it wasn't him but a very similar looking cat who had obviously wandered in by accident and looked absolutely terrified! Here's him (the one peeking out from the curtains) and his doppleganger!

I came home from work one night to find old Ddog (sadly passed away now) stood in my street a few houses down. I grabbed his collar and proceeded to drag him back home (massive 6st cross). He growled, slipped my hand and shot off up the road. I was absolutely furious until I opened the kitchen door to be faced with my actual dog.

I have acquired a part time cat. It seems to live in the garden but visits the house. I had to warn it away from the hamster and it fell in the pond. It was FINE. But I need to not start that story with "I found a cat in my pond". I'm not feeding it or anything, just seems to enjoy visiting.

One of our cats come on walks with us and been known to take on dogs, because my dog is dog reactive, so we walk away, while feeding treats.

However the cat will not comply and depending on whether the dog is on a lead or not, will either sit just out of range or behind a fence, either way he gets in a good swipe of said dog.

We also had an issue, where one cat was bring home various different offerings, mice, birds, squirrels and the other one was stealing the neighbours shoes

When I was a kid our neighbours had a cat that lived part time with us (unofficially). It was very friendly and happily went in several houses. It was also very fat. After months of trying to cut down the cat food the neighbours discovered that every morning it got Breakfast 1 when the Dad of the family came down, then he let it out. It would go 2 doors down the road, use their catflap and help itself to breakfast 2. A couple of houses further along there was an elderly lady who liked to give it a little treat, then it circled back home where the teenage sons were getting ready for school, and they would give it breakfast 4.

The neighbours had to chat to everyone all down the street, asking them to shoo their cat out or not feed it, and also have one designated feeder in their own house.

I loved that cat. If she missed 'bedtime' at her own house she'd head straight over to ours and hide under my bed covers so that she had a warm bed for the night.

@Tara336 I was a bit tired when I wrote that.
The owners have done nothing to secure their bunny or come looking for it though.

I used to look after a black cat years ago (can’t say owned exactly...he was very independent). One day he appeared in our house with a great big BATTERED fish! Never found out where he got it from, but someone clearly went without tea that evening...

A few years ago, I got out of my car and thought "Next door's chickens are very noisy today".

Opened the door and the dog, unusually, didn't come to greet me. The little fucker was chasing one of the next door's chooks round MY garden.

It took me over half an hour to get her in, I was worried she or the chicken would die of exhaustion before the chasing stopped.

Local neighbourhood cat will come racing over the fence if she hears us outside, immediately rolls over for tummy strokes then will bolt in through the tiniest crack of an ajar kitchen door, to bomb around the room like a loony. Usually goes straight for the doormat to roll around on it scratching her back

Except last night DH left the living room window open a tiny tiny bit, theoretically impossible to squeeze through, and heard a slight mewing noise from the room next door. Went to investigate and she's sitting there, starts chattering away, and then decides to mark her territory by spraying everywhere. He was less than impressed to be cleaning up cat piss at 1am. She is not in our good books!

Our cleaning lady found a bump in the lino, which moved when touched...it was a snake! We found its old skin behind the TV cabinet so it had been living with us for a while.

Same, poor, cleaning lady lived with us with her boyfriend when their dog woke them up in the middle of the night and would not settle. Yes, you guessed it, another snake in the bedroom.

I would love to know what the bunny signs said ! Could the bunny read them ?

We have a local cat with a death wish.

Keeps wandering into my kitchen. Ddog (a whippet) is usually snoozing on the sofa but one day it will end in a whippet vs cat encounter. Have told the owners and they just shrug.

Also found a ferret in the passageway. Thought it was our stables ferret that had followed us home. Scooped him up into my bridle bag and took him with me to the yard. Only to be greeted by the real Freddie when I got there. Freddie 2 was actually Fredrica .

Longest standing visitor was a fancy looking pigeon 2 years ago. Found it fading and floppy on my front garden. Fed it and watered it in my shed for the day, looking a lot perkier the next day so let it out of the shed.

Fucker decided it liked my shed. Never went and used to divebomb me for food when I put my washing out. We fed it all summer then when winter came DH felt sorry for it and we bought it a hutch and trained it to go in there.

Kez the pidge is still here, gets let out first thing then comes home when you shout him and goes to bed.

I have my French doors open all day, every day, and last week walked in to find a brown bird doing a circuit of the living room, which swiftly flew out when it saw me.

A few years ago, a bird had flown in my dds bedroom window, and I didn't discover it for a while. It couldn't get out again, and it had pooed absolutely everywhere in her room, in a blind panic trying to get out.
I was reading my other dd a bedtime story when she was about 2, and she pointed to a paint splatter on top of a large teddy bear on top of her wardrobe. It was a brown furry bat sitting on the bears head.

My husband came home drunk once, and I was already annoyed with him because I was heavily pregnant and he stank which made me gag! He said he'd get the cats in, then come up to bed.

Went down to check on him after he was gone a while and found he'd accidentally carried in a few extra neighbourhood cats, who were all enjoying a can of tuna and some cat food alongside our residents.

(They weren't even the same colour as ours. He said it was dark outside, but how you couldn't tell a tabby from a black cat, I don't know…)

Our neighbours cat is in here all the time. Sometimes over night. The kids love it. She comes in the back door or the velux window.

Years before that, DH noticed our cat food was being eating at an alarming rate, so set up a webcam to monitor it. Saw that a fat old stray Tom was coming in every night to feed. Not sure if he was fat at the start, but was eating bags of food a week! He was terrified of people but
eventually moved in, then moved house with us (after £2k worth of veterinary surgery to fix his poor battered body paid for by a lovely cat charity).

He's now the loveliest, softest house cat ever. Loves our new baby with a passion. Would upload photos but would be a bit outing!

I forgot about this one...we were woken up in the middle of the night because of an enormous racket coming from downstairs. Turns out there was an owl in the living room. He had massive claws and DH had quite a job catching him in a blanket and releasing him.

Oh an owl would scare me as they are so precious.

At least the cat visiting you used the door. We have small furry pets, and one local cat jumped through a first floor window to get a closer look. They were terrified. Getting the cat back out wasn't much fun either.... We've now put a screen on the window.

If you search #notmycat on Twitter there are loads of good pictures.