Stop bloody feeding my cat!!!!

[Frickssake]

WHY do people feed cats that are not their own? My cat has an extremely sensitive stomach. Someone put a pic of my cat on sm as they think he is a stray and have been feeding him as he is always begging for food!! FFS. He is extremely handsome ( well I would say that!) So in no way looks neglected. I've responded saying the cat is mine and please stop feeding him. ( This was Sunday). He came home late last night and I woke up this morning to cat vomit. Arghhh

@twoshedsjackson Thank you for reminding me of Six-Dinner Sid! That was a great book to read to the kids, many years ago .

Could he be eating food that people put out for a hedgehog or a fox?

I've already stated my cat wees and Pooh's in his own garden

Does he read about the Hundred Acre Wood whilst urinating or are the two acts unrelated?

I've already stated my cat wees and Pooh's in his own garden

Does he read about the Hundred Acre Wood whilst urinating or are the two acts unrelated

@Frickssake how on earth can you know that he doesn't wee/poo in other people's gardens? You're just assuming and it seems pretty unlikely.

YABU for having an outdoor cat in a residential area and then being surprised you can't control what other people do to it.

Can't stand outdoor cats and the hypocrisy around it - imagine if people let dogs wander into other peoples gardens, homes, shitting everywhere, digging up plants and OMG the best bit - killing wildlife for fun??? Yet somehow we're just meant to think it's okay for cats to do. F that - keep it indoors.

@GreenFingersWouldBeHandy

If he's begging food from other people, he isn't getting enough nourishment from you. Suggest you talk to your vet about his diet and stop blaming people who are kind enough to feed what they they think is a hungry, neglected cat.

Hahaha ha!

Utter nonsense!

Put something on his collar to say I’m fed and homed and happy. I’m just greedy. Don’t feed me please.

My neighbour’s cat strolls in through our cat flap moments after we go to bed and hoovers up anything left in our cats dish. He hates it when we Chuck him out.

It drives me mad. People have no right to feed other people’s pets, it’s so irresponsible.

We’ve got ours on diets - one for a sensitive stomach and one because he’s very overweight (a rescue car - starved when younger so endlessly food seeking). Our ‘cat-loving’ neighbours buy boxes of treats and extras for them, encourage them into their house. It’s infuriating.

@GreenFingersWouldBeHandy

If he's begging food from other people, he isn't getting enough nourishment from you. Suggest you talk to your vet about his diet and stop blaming people who are kind enough to feed what they they think is a hungry, neglected cat.

Another guessing you aren't owned by any cats

@GreenFingersWouldBeHandy

If he's begging food from other people, he isn't getting enough nourishment from you. Suggest you talk to your vet about his diet and stop blaming people who are kind enough to feed what they they think is a hungry, neglected cat.

Have you ever met a cat?

I hate this too. One of my cars was stolen by someone claiming she wasn't fed. She damn well was, and plenty, too. People who do this are after stealing your cat, whilst pretending not to be.

@Frickssake Pictures on the same FaceAche page, of you cat and even his vomit. Explain in detail how much he is hurt by other people feeding him, how much it costs in vet bills etc

And post it weekly...

A friend is still posting abouther Maine Coon cat that never ventures out of their garden. Over lock down he disappeared. Weeks later a FaceAche post turns up, looking for the owner, who obviously hadn't ben at all bothered to lose such a beauty (friend had papered the entire town with Missing posters).

Turns out the cat had been sunbathing on the shed roof when a neighbour saw him and enticed it down with some fish. Then put the cat out of her garden. Cat wandered off... was found and taken in by a good samaritan who didn't take him to a vet, or put a post up. She only made attempts to find his real owner when he started peeing in her bed

He's home now, but she posts every week - don't feed him, don't take him home, leave him on the shed!

Op you answered your own question, because he’s begging for food. And he’s collarlesss. Of course some people are going to feed a cat begging for food.

If I feed the fuckers will they stop shitting on my grass?

@Bluntness100

Op you answered your own question, because he’s begging for food. And he’s collarlesss. Of course some people are going to feed a cat begging for food.

Surely that's all cats? I've genuinely never met a mog who wouldn't take up the opportunity of another meal if offered.

@Bluntness100

Op you answered your own question, because he’s begging for food. And he’s collarlesss. Of course some people are going to feed a cat begging for food.

Collars can be a problem for many cats, lethal for some. Vets, RSPCA etc all explain that each cat owner needs to weigh up the pros and cons for their specific cat.

And all cats scrounge food.

@denverRegina

If I feed the fuckers will they stop shitting on my grass?

I wish they shat on my grass, then I’d be able to see it! The little wildlife murdering fuckers around here dig a hole in my veg patch, shit in it, then bury it for me to find when I am pulling carrots up.

Cat-proof your garden and deal with the little fuckers yourselves, then the pwecious lickle snoeflakes can have all the speshul food you want.

@skirk64

I agree but you'll get lots of answers saying "stop bloody letting your cat come in my garden."

This. Stop bloody letting your cat shit in my garden!

The cats that shit in other people's gardens is because their owners don't want the hassle of having andcleaning a litter tray.
It's easier to just let the cat out to do their business.
Nobody, cats included, like to shit on this own doorsteps, so do it elsewhere.

Ps. I feed the neighbours cats sometimes. They have our left overs.

I have to confess, I really love next door's friendly moggy, who's a frequent visitor to our garden (and poos in my flower beds) and before I knew who he belonged to, I did consider feeding him and offering him some home comforts in case he was a stray. (But I didn't) It's a powerful urge, though, the feeling that you can help an animal in distress. Our dear departed cat, Ginger, was a genuine stray who turned up half starved in our garden and became a much-loved family pet.

As a cat owner I agree that we can't have it both ways. If we want to let them out to freely wander and not be able to control what they get up to we have to accept we can't control how they interact with people.

@helpfulperson

As a cat owner I agree that we can't have it both ways. If we want to let them out to freely wander and not be able to control what they get up to we have to accept we can't control how they interact with people.

A sensible answer.

@Roadtohades

I have to confess, I really love next door's friendly moggy, who's a frequent visitor to our garden (and poos in my flower beds) and before I knew who he belonged to, I did consider feeding him and offering him some home comforts in case he was a stray. (But I didn't) It's a powerful urge, though, the feeling that you can help an animal in distress. Our dear departed cat, Ginger, was a genuine stray who turned up half starved in our garden and became a much-loved family pet.

Why would you assume he was a stray?

Also not aimed at you, but I can never understand how someone looks at a perfectly friendly, healthy looking cat and thinks I must feed them. You see it all the time on social media. I found this cat, it wolfed down the food I gave it, does anyone know who it belongs to? Post is accompanied with a photo of a perfectly healthy cat. Who probably lives only a couple of doors away, but isn't going to turn down the chance of an additional meal.

OMG the number of social media posts on local groups "there's a cat in my garden, does anyone know who it belongs to?"......it's a fecking cat, it probably lives down the road or over the back fence! Stupid people.

If you don’t want him eating things which upset his stomach then you need to keep him in.

You can’t have it both ways. If you have an animal which you allow to roam freely then that is precisely what he will do.

Some cats even wander through other people’s cat flaps , steal their dogs’ and cats’ food without needing to be invited in.

A friend’s neighbour’s cat has come in on numerous occasions and attacked their dog.

I’ve owned cats and I wouldn’t feed someone else’s cats, but the choice is yours. You either accept that he will eat things while out and pester the neighbours and probably even enter their houses, or you have a house cat.