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Is this how you get a cat?

41 replies

Anycrispsleft · 29/03/2021 15:50

I've been in and out gardening, kids are playing with the neighbours (we're not in the UK, rules here allow it Smile) and I had the doors open. Just come in and found this chap on the sofa. I know him like - when his mum goes away for a night he comes up on our patio and miaows at the door to be let in - but he's made himself properly comfortable this time!

Is this how you get a cat?
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Easterbunnygettingready · 29/03/2021 15:54

My dd bought dkittens last summer... Her actual dcat figure is now 6....
Grin

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Anycrispsleft · 29/03/2021 16:02

I'm allergic sadly so I can't have cats of my own.
Nobody's told this fellow though Grin

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Sparklesocks · 29/03/2021 16:04

There’s a ginger cat in our area who comes in to any window/door he can find and sets up shop before moving on again. He doesn’t care! The owner posted on a local fb group apologising and asking not to feed him as he’s gained a bit of weight quickly - I’m guessing from all the makeshift hotels he drops into Grin

Authenticchicken · 29/03/2021 16:05

Awww!

Prestel · 29/03/2021 16:06

Well, if you will insist on putting a comfy sofa in his territory, what do you expect? You've only got yourself to blame :)

sunflowersandbuttercups · 29/03/2021 16:09

We have black cats (currently 3, but at the time of this story, we had 2).

A couple of summers ago, a third one got in the house and lived here quite happily for several hours before DH (who was home the whole time) noticed it wasn't one of ours Grin

Wolfiefan · 29/03/2021 16:11

We had two black and white cats. I walked past the bed in the spare room and reached out to stroke the cat on there. And then realised it wasn’t my cat. Next doors cat. I put him out but had to admit to them he had tried to move in and said if they ever “lost” him to come and search at ours first. Blush

Temp023 · 29/03/2021 16:16

Our next door neighbours were complimented on their lovely cat by some guests. They said that it had spent the whole night sleeping on the end their bed.
They don’t have a cat, it was our Issy. She gets into the neighbours houses across the garage roofs and through the en-suite windows.

LondonJax · 29/03/2021 16:17

I was calling in my cat many years ago when a neighbour popped his head out of his back door and said 'don't worry, he's in here. He walked in and settled in front of the fire'. As I worked all day and we were in a rented house with no cat flap I could see why as it was chucking it down.

I could see why even more when the neighbour said 'oh, and he's had a bite to eat. Mrs neighbour has given him some of our rump steak'! I did offer to do a swap with the cat at that point...

He turned his nose up at his breakfast bowl of Felix next day too! Oh the joys of cat ownership...

MrsKellySeveride · 29/03/2021 16:18

This made me laugh yesterday Smile

Is this how you get a cat?
UhtredRagnarson · 29/03/2021 16:20

@MrsKellySeveride

This made me laugh yesterday Smile
I was just about to post the same thing! Grin

One of my old cats took up residence with my neighbour and refused to move back home. It’s true- they pick their owners.

snowone · 29/03/2021 16:21

Cats are fickle and also nosy! My mums old cat has a snoozy spot in every neighbourhood house! 😃

NeedaLittleNap · 29/03/2021 16:23

Six Dinner Sid

2bazookas · 29/03/2021 16:31

Looks like you've been chosen.
Last time that happened to us the cat turned out to be smuggling concealed goods (another 6 cats).

viques · 29/03/2021 16:34

There’s a wonderful thread somewhere called Not My Cat. With pictures.

It seems it is a very common occurrence!

BIoodyStupidJohnson · 29/03/2021 16:35

You don't get a cat.

A cat gets you.

StopGuacAndRoll · 29/03/2021 16:36

Yep you’re his now. Enjoy!

stressbandit · 29/03/2021 16:38

One morning we was woken up by the elderly neighbour next door screaming in terror saying get out get out.

My dad ran next door to ask if she's okay and to give help, turns out our big black hairy overweight cat had climbed in her window and jumped on to her from the windowsill into her in bed.

She wasn't happy and the cat refused to get out, my dad had to pick him up and bring him home. I miss him so much his name was Tony Sad.

bruffin · 29/03/2021 16:38

I got one like that, she just turned up on our doorstep and cried for 3 hours until we fed her and let her in. Its 15 months later and she is still here!

mamawithfive · 29/03/2021 16:46

We live abroad, with our own cat & dog. Also a garden cat that seems to have adopted us! We’ve built her a little house so she has some shelter from the rain, and she sleeps there at night. And we feed her twice a day. Definitely a stray, lots of them here. She never ventures far, always in our garden or sun bathing in our street.
She’d come in if the doors were open! We try not to let her as our own cat is a bit older so likes a quiet life!

maddiemookins16mum · 29/03/2021 16:55

I woke up once with the neighbours cat at the back of my legs snoring. I lived in a first floor flat. He’d got in an open bathroom window.

JorisBonson · 29/03/2021 16:56

He has claimed you now.

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Anycrispsleft · 29/03/2021 17:11

He's sleeping. Guess this is his house now. I hope we will be allowed to stay.

Is this how you get a cat?
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XenoBitch · 29/03/2021 17:16

Cute, but this is someone else's cat. Please don't steal him. I have lost 2 this way.

sunflowersandbuttercups · 29/03/2021 17:18

@XenoBitch

Cute, but this is someone else's cat. Please don't steal him. I have lost 2 this way.
I'm sorry about what happened to you, but nowhere has OP said she plans on stealing the cat - especially as she's allergic to them!