To not want next door’s cat’s ‘presents’?

[MayDayHelp]

I love my NDNs, they are great and we get on really well. However, their cat is a right bellend.

Over the last 2 weeks, it has killed and left on my doorstep 3 rats and two birds. The first rat was enormous, I’m not kidding when I say it was a foot long.

I’m a vegetarian and dead animals in general make me feel a bit ill, but as the only adult in my household it’s my job to pick up what dd now calls my ‘dead animal shovel’, scoop up the latest carcass, take it for a walk down the street and fling it into the hedge at the side of the road. I don’t want to put them in my wheely bin as they’ll stink.

It’s really getting to me. I feel like it would be a bit childish asking my NDNs to clear the bodies up, especially as I don’t have any actual evidence it is their cat (although their cat is the only one on the street and spends most of its life in my garden so I’ve got a pretty good idea). But I really hate dealing with the dead things and this is one of the main reasons I don’t have a cat of my own.

There’s not really an answer to this is there? Dreading opening my door in the mornings and discovering what carnage has been left 😭

My NDNs cat brought me a dead mouse the other day!!
I was horrified yet pleased he obviously likes me.
Bless.

It’s definitely not adorable. There’s not enough brain bleach in the world to erase the memory of the foot-long rat, dead as a dodo on my doorstep, with its mouth wide open. Also, my Dead Animal Shovel is not very big so that one was balanced on very precariously for its trip down the street.

Also I’ve no idea why I am the lucky recipient of these gifts. I’m nice to all animals but I can’t say me and this cat have ever formed a bond, it’s very timid and skittish and fucks off if you try to go anywhere near it. We’ve never had any special moments together, or any kind of interaction at all.

@MayDayHelp

Also I’ve no idea why I am the lucky recipient of these gifts. I’m nice to all animals but I can’t say me and this cat have ever formed a bond, it’s very timid and skittish and fucks off if you try to go anywhere near it. We’ve never had any special moments together, or any kind of interaction at all.

@MayDayHelp, so you're just not that into him then? Sorry op, couldn't resist.

At least it wasn’t a duck....if you’ve not seen this you need to, watch til the end though...Naughty Slippers!

You could ask and I bet they wouldn't mind much, but personally I would find it more bother to call them and get them over to do it.

The bright side is that it will keep rats down. My neighbourhood has a real rat problem but people have become too modern to let their cats out.

OUr cat brought home a lice of pizza once - not fit to eat though.

@LakieLady

We think a neighbour's cat has had the two robins that were living in our hedge.

The robins used to be around all the time and we haven't seen them for over a week now. They were totally unafraid of humans and would come to within a couple of feet of us, I'm convinced with a little patience we could have hand fed them.

The Bad Cat comes through our garden a lot and twice I've spotted him running though our garden with a sparrow in his mouth, and my NDN has seen him lurking near the hedge where the nest is.

I love cats, and this one is a gorgeous, elegant ginger and white beast, but I could happily throttle him if he's had those birds. I'm vaguely hoping that they might have fledged their young and set up home elsewhere, but I guess that's wishful thinking.

Definitely not BU to ask the neighbours to remove his "gifts", OP.

We're down on Robins at the moment - I have a feeling that the warm weather might have started their summer moult off a couple of weeks early; they're always more retiring then.

I would be mortified if one of my cats did this and would absolutely expect to deal with it and do it without any issue- the same if they crapped in their garden. That’s just responsible pet ownership and being a decent neighbour, surely?!