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Original poster

To feed someone else's cat?

84 replies

Stellenbosch · 09/08/2018 21:49

It pines at me and sits on my window ledge!

However, neighbour (sent their seven yr old kid) to knock and asked me not to feed cat because it's on a 'diet'!

I want to respond with "nobody puts 'cat' on a diet!' 😂

But, it's not my cat!

Aibu to feed it? How do I stop it begging and staring in my window?

OP posts:
Lindalee3 · 09/08/2018 21:51

YABU. It's not your cat. I would be proper pissed off if someone was shoving food into my cats mouth.

I am sure you mean well, but just stop.

Lindalee3 · 09/08/2018 21:52

The reason the cat is staring into your window is because you keep feeding it!

Original poster
Stellenbosch · 09/08/2018 21:53

I'm not 'shoving food' into its mouth?! ☹️😲

OP posts:
Mousefunky · 09/08/2018 21:53

Some cats need to be put on special diets to keep them healthy for various medical reasons. Or maybe the cat is overweight. YABU.

Sandstormbrewing · 09/08/2018 21:53

YABU if you've been asked not to. You have no idea why it's on a diet.

Stop feeding it.

RustyBear · 09/08/2018 21:53

Cats can be put on a diet for lots of reasons - maybe it’s overweight, maybe it has kidney problems, or allergies. Please don’t feed it, you could make it ill.

NotSoThinLizzy · 09/08/2018 21:54

My older cat is on a diet as he was huge and now he needs a special diet that is low in salt. Next door kept feeding him spam 😂

Ontheboardwalk · 09/08/2018 21:54

Stop feeding it. If you fed my cat against my advice I’d be sending you any vet bills on the back of your actions.

SchrodingersMeowth · 09/08/2018 21:54

She probably has to put up with her cat dragging its arse along the carpet because someone has given it “tasty” food that’s banned in the boys and it’s constantly got the shits.

Not projecting honestly Hmm

SchrodingersMeowth · 09/08/2018 21:55

Banned in the house *

SideOrderofSprouts · 09/08/2018 21:56

Yabu

They’ve told you it’s on a special diet. You could kill the cat.

SingingMyOwnSpecialSong · 09/08/2018 21:56

Everyone I have ever asked to cat-sit has fed my cat about double what I ask because he ‘seems so hungry’. Every time I go to the vets they suggest he lose a little weight. Cat’s are manipulative buggers.

Ontheboardwalk · 09/08/2018 21:56

Sorry Lizzy but the thought of spam eating cat made me smile

Passmethecrisps · 09/08/2018 21:57

Please don’t feed it if you know it has a happy home elsewhere.

Some cats are just greedy and will make themselves sick.

Pull the curtains and ignore it. It will catch on pretty quick

RedRedBluee · 09/08/2018 21:57

Yabvvvvvvu!

Don’t do it. Unless you want to be responsible for vet bills and the suffering of an innocent animal when the food you’re giving it has bad effects.

NotAsGreenAsCabbageLooking · 09/08/2018 21:58

YABU.

If you want to feed a cat, go and rescue one from a shelter?

WeeMadArthur · 09/08/2018 21:58

If you stop feeding it, it will hopefully get the message (or move on to someone else’s window). I wouldn’t feed an animal once its owner had asked me not to.

RedRedBluee · 09/08/2018 21:59

And btw it’s very common to put a cat on a special diet. Particularly as they get older.

Idontbelieveinthemoon · 09/08/2018 22:00

We have loads of cats and they're such greedy shites they'll 'beg' for food as soon as they've been fed; I have to leave DH a note on the fridge if he comes in late telling him the naughty shites have been fed and to ignore their sad eyes imploring him to feed them again. One of ours is named after a famous lady singer who is known to be portly and, tbh, even the vet shakes his head when he weighs her and declares how well her name suits her.

YABU to feed a cat you know has a home. YWNBU to find a different one to make fat, though. A house without a cat is a pointless place, tbh.

jaseyraex · 09/08/2018 22:00

YABU. My neighbour nearly killed my diabetic cat because she kept bloody feeding him crap, despite knowing she shouldn't. Ignore the cat, it'll lose interest when it knows there's nothing tasty on offer.

troodiedoo · 09/08/2018 22:01

Yabu. Listen to the cat people.

Seeingadistance · 09/08/2018 22:03

I clicked on this thread to say that if the cat you're feeding is fat and stripey with a missing fang, then STOP FEEDING HIM!

But I see it isn't and someone else has already told you to STOP FEEDING their cat!

Vinorosso74 · 09/08/2018 22:04

YABU! Our lad always claims to be hungry and starving to death but he eats just fine. We are trying to keep him slender.
Our old girl was skinny due to IBD and diabetes so anyone feeding her could really make her ill. After she came home one day and vomited up what looked like crappy food we made flyers to put through neighbours doors and spoke to a couple of them. She never went far and nobody by us had cats but I have my suspicions who fed her.....

susurration · 09/08/2018 22:06

Well my cat is on a special diet. She could be seriously poorly if you feed her anything but the special diet and I'd be landed the with the fucking vet bill.

Don't feed other people's cats!

SabineUndine · 09/08/2018 22:06

My last cat was on a special low phosphate cat because he had kidney trouble. £70 a month for three years. Current cat has been on a diet ever since I’ve had him because he was grossly overweight and has a knee problem. Do NOT feed someone else’s cat.

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