Neighbour feeding cat deliberately

[Chellabella]

Our neighbour keeps feeding our cat despite a really polite request not to do so. It’s got to the point where he feeds him morning, noon and night in addition to giving him milk. The milk in itself has caused terrible diarrhoea and the over feeding has caused sickness.

Hes now regulated some kind of feeding schedule and our cat never wants to be at our house and is howling ALL of the time to get out on the front to get fed by the neighbour. I’ve had him for 15 years and this has been going on for about 6 months now.

Its clearly deliberate. He’s retired and is a people watcher so knows exactly when I leave the house. For example if I pop to the shops for 10 minutes, by the time I am back the food bowls are outside his house so he knows when to do it so I don’t see!

To top it off he has an indoor house cat, so has his own pet, I have no idea why he’s got a fetish for overfeeding mine!

Anyone had a similar experience and advice for not making things awkward? Tried the paper collar it doesn’t stay on for 5 minutes.

Why keep him inside? Tell the neighbour if he carries on feeding the cat you will be sending him the vet bill as his actions are making the cat poorly.

If the cat is used to being outdoors you can’t keep it in suddenly.

Cat proof your garden so you keep cat in your garden and house

Awww your poor cat, but sadly this is what can happen when you let your cat free roam, ours are indoor cats quite safe from harm and have cat proof garden, I’m not sure what you can do regarding him feeding as you can’t control what another person does, I would be furious.

Legally the cat belongs to the owner https://www.cats.org.uk/media/1024/eg13_cats_and_the_law.pdf

this lady sued her neighbour for continually feeding their cat https://metro.co.uk/2020/01/16/couple-sued-neighbour-feeding-cat-four-year-20000-legal-battle-12067030/

Stop your cat roaming for a start. Cat proof your garden so it can’t get out.

Keep it in the house at night, make sure you have decent litter trays inside the house, and actively look after it instead of allowing it to wander.

You can control your cat, you can’t control your neighbour. If the cat cannot access your neighbours property then you’ll solve the problem in one go.

Also, by giving it access to the garden during the day, you will also keep your cat safely away from traffic, dogs and other humans who may harm it. Unfortunately there are horrible oeople who harm animals. But also It prevents / reduces the cat hunting. Keeping the cat inside your own garden brings a lot of problem solving benefits.