Yelling for cat at all hours?

[Hairyfriend]

A lady at the end of our quiet, cul-de-sac lost her indoor cat a month ago. She starts at 7am, walking up and down the street calling out the cats name, at least once during the day, then again between 9-10pm.

I appreciate it must be so stressful and heart breaking, but AIBU that waking the street 7am, then flashing a torch in gardens and windows at 10pm is being unreasonable?

Hmmmm, IMO YABU.

Those could be the times she feeds her cat and thinks it's the times it's more likely to come home for food (that's our cats main mealtimes!).

Unless you've been in that situation I'm unsure you'd be able to appreciate the horror it is - pets are family for people!

I'm sure she'll cease eventually, or find the cat!

Yabu. Go out and offer to help her look rather than complain. Its soul destroying not knowing if they are lying somewhere slowly dying in horrendous pain....yep, that is where an owners mind goes.

Our neighbours used to like to do that at 4am.....

YABU

My cat goes missing on the odd occasion and when I worked I'd pst pst pst him when I left for work at 7 in the morning, when I got in and at 10am ish when I let the dog out for his last wee. He usually come back when I was calling for him. He's out now and I'm ready to go to bed so I'm going to go and pst pst him now in fact. If my neighbours didn't feed him he'd be home sooner!

YANBU. Go out and tell her she's constantly waking you up. It's very sad but not acceptable behaviour when you live near others.

YABU, sounds like this person is distraught at losing her cat. Maybe offer to help with the search?

Of course it's unreasonable to wake up and disturb neighbours day and night for a month!

Yabvvu. However I'd recommend between 12am and 6am as a better time to try and get a possibly scared cat to come out of hiding.
Even if she didn't have a valid reason, 7am and 10pm are hardly unreasonable times to make normal everyday noise. I must admit even by mumsnet standards this is a particularly feeble and nasty reason to be annoyed with someone.

YABU. She won’t go in forever fgs. Why did you not offer to help her, the poor woman.

A week wouldn't bother me but surely she's got the message now. One of the neighbours has obviously taken the cat in!

I don't think your being unreasonable but then again I'm not a cat owner

Plus she is perfectly entitled to ‘walk the street’ at 7am, or 9-10pm. How is this a problem for you exactly?

I'm not completely heartless! I have spoken to this women, laminated a sign which is on our front fence and posted a notification on next door.com and a local facebook group!

@Hairyfriend

I'm not completely heartless! I have spoken to this women, laminated a sign which is on our front fence and posted a notification on next door.com and a local facebook group!

So just leave her be then!

7am and 10pm are hardly unreasonable times to make normal everyday noise.

How is calling out for a cat in the street making normal, everyday noise? She’s obviously being quite loud if she’s waking people up!

YANBU @Hairyfriend. While it’s sad she’s lost her cat, it’s not acceptable to disturb the street multiple times a day for weeks on end.

Losing a pet is extremely stressful and very heartbreaking so YABU.

This was exactly why I wasn't allowed to call my cats Trigger, Marlene and Boycie so that husband didn't look/sound like an idiot calling them in 😂

YABU. This was me a few years ago. I was absolutely heartbroken and distraught.

Thank god we got him back, but some people aren't so lucky. Poor lady must be so upset, especially when she doesn't know what's happened to the cat and it's cold outside.

The not knowing is just awful.

Crikey - the woman isn't just walking the streets - she has been shouting and shining torches in peoples gardens and windows at night - for a month! Unhinged.

Not unreasonable times. When my cat was missing I was pretty upset and searching all over locally for him.
Knocked on doors, asked neighbours to look in sheds and garages.
Which they all did bless them. I don't even remember the times of day. I just wanted my cat back.
She will stop soon probably. Leave her be for now.

Can't people stick a 'tile' on their cats to track where they are? Or keep them indoors?

Poor woman.

I think 7am and 9-10pm are normal times to be awake aren’t they? And she’s not using a megaphone?

I’m not sure you can complain given the timing and it can’t be all that loud.

She sounds bonkers. No it’s not reasonable to wander the street shouting at 7am and 10pm. I’d have said something already.

Stone the OP says it’s an indoor cat. Obviously it got out (they do).

This just goes to bolster my view that cats are 100% the most stressful pets to own.

I have a dog and various other pets, the dog requires the most 'stuff' and the other pets require a lot of cleaning. I'd take it all over the trauma of owning a cat which seems to consist of opening the front door and hoping it doesn't get mown over by a passing truck or taken out by a teen with an air rifle.