A bit of a backstory to the situation first. I have 2 cats. both boys, both brothers. We have had them since they were 8 weeks old - DH bought them off a colleague who breeds cats.
Anyways, Years go by with Cat 1 and Cat 2, all ok. then we got a puppy when the cats were about 3. In the meantime, a neighbour 3 doors down had been feeding both cats and letting them into her house to sleep, play etc. basically treating them like her own. at one point when the cats were around 2, I did write a firm but polite note asking her to not feed our cats.
fast forward back to the time we brought the puppy home, the shyest of the 2 cats has ended up rehoming itself to her house, after almost a year of me trying to bring him home and DH just letting him run out of the house. so I accepted that the little guy didn't want to live under the same roof as the puppy. it still irks me that she has him. I've tried to be polite about the situation. Even asking "how is ..... cat" and she would say "oh he comes to your back door every day you know, he misses the children" but in the next breath she would say "hes sleeping on the bed with my husband at the moment" Hes husband is quite ill with cancer - which is why I have been so accepting/lenient about the whole situation.
anywhoo - back to the current situation - we still have 1 cat live with us. He is happy with the dog, loves the children, sleeps on the bed with me every night (until DH takes him down to the kitchen for the night) cat needed a scale and polish last week, so was taken to the vets and had the proceedure done, along with having a microchip inserted whilst he was under general. On Monday I needed to take him back to the vet as he has had a reaction to the microchip. He now has a meatball sized cyst where the microchip was put in, so is on a 10 day course of anitbiotics, and ibubrofen for cats. I brought him home tuesday night and he had his first set of medication. Morning comes and in the rush of doing the morning routine and the school run, cat had escaped to the garden. I wasnt overly worried as his usual routune is to go out in the morning and come home around 1.30-2 ish for food, then hes in till the next morning. Excet cat didnt come home. DH and i went out on a number of occasions searching for him. I eventually found him underneath another neighbours shed - and bless her, she tried so hard to get him out but he wasnt having it whatsoever. I said that I would come backin the morning. that was this morning. 9.30am this morning once the kids had gone to school, I set about looking for him again. I was back in the nice neighbours garden when I heard my husband shout "mrs xyz has got him"
So i ran back to the front of the houses and there she was with DH outside her house. I asked where he was and she replied with "hes asleep in the house" I said that I wanted to take him home as he needed his medication. she responded with "shall I bring him home when he wakes up?" I said, no, I want him now, hes already gone a day without medication. She didnt look happy that Id said that so walked into her house and there he was wide awake. "he's been here since 11.30 lasy night" she said. I took the cat off her and waled home with him. He is now on the sofa - been asleep all day but been hand fed dreamies and cats milk along with meds.
AIBU to be seriously pissed at this woman? considering phoning the police on her?!! She is basically trying to steal my cat!! shes managed it with one. Im damned as hell going to let her take my boy!!