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nettie434 · 28/08/2023 15:34

Catsos · 28/08/2023 14:44

My boy has been liberated 🙌 thanks to the kind builder.

He’s had a good drink/meal and is now relaxing in MY garden :)

Unfortunately he has done some damage inside the house…lots of muddy paw marks on the walls were he was scratching to get out, broken catflap and unfortunately he had a wee on a white rubbish bag which was on the floor. The white bag captured some of the wee but some has gone onto the wooden floors and the rug beside it. It’s a huge rug (about 2 x 3 meters) and I’m guessing expensive :/ Apparently the new owners are coming tomorrow - I’ll offer to have it cleaned, hopefully that will be enough as I don’t have much money right now. 😩

A cat as handsome as that can get away with a lot!

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Catsos · 28/08/2023 15:34

saltinesandcoffeecups · 28/08/2023 15:24

Glad the great escape was successful. Any word on the crab sticks?

Thank you🤗

In regards to the crabsticks, I’m really kicking myself but I actually totally forgot about them and they are now locked in the house. 😫
I was so distracted with the wee on the rug and floor and flustered by the builder waiting for me that I totally forgot.

Should I put a note on the door saying “I’m sorry, my crabsticks are still inside - please ring number 3’s door once you see this” or something?

They’re meant to be coming down tomorrow according to the builder. I’m not sure if they even know whats happened so I appreciate that the note on the door is going to come across as very strange

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OnlyFannys · 28/08/2023 15:35

PumpkinsAndCoconuts · 28/08/2023 15:32

Wait… they’re still there ?? Goodness 😂🙈🙈

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No official status update on the crabsticks as yet. Schrodingers crabsticks so they are rotten until proven otherwise

MavisMcMinty · 28/08/2023 15:36

Maybe he ate the crab sticks?

MavisMcMinty · 28/08/2023 15:36

…The cat, not the builder.

OnlyFannys · 28/08/2023 15:36

Catsos · 28/08/2023 15:34

Thank you🤗

In regards to the crabsticks, I’m really kicking myself but I actually totally forgot about them and they are now locked in the house. 😫
I was so distracted with the wee on the rug and floor and flustered by the builder waiting for me that I totally forgot.

Should I put a note on the door saying “I’m sorry, my crabsticks are still inside - please ring number 3’s door once you see this” or something?

They’re meant to be coming down tomorrow according to the builder. I’m not sure if they even know whats happened so I appreciate that the note on the door is going to come across as very strange

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Cross posted on the crabsticks, your new neighbours will absolutely love you op 😂

FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper · 28/08/2023 15:37

Possibly by-the-by, but do the new neighbours even have a cat - or is the cat flap still there from the previous owner?

It seems particularly harsh to blame them if the cat flap was nothing to do with them, but they hadn't yet had time/funds to block it off or (more likely) buy a new door yet.

FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper · 28/08/2023 15:39

Should I put a note on the door saying “I’m sorry, my crabsticks are still inside - please ring number 3’s door once you see this” or something?

If you do that, you're going to be 'that' neighbour that they always silently Paddington-stare at when they see you, for as long as they live there!

TibetanTerrah · 28/08/2023 15:39

Should I put a note on the door saying “I’m sorry, my crabsticks are still inside - please ring number 3’s door once you see this” or something?

You seem determined to portray yourself as 'that weird neighbour' from the outset OP Grin

ifIwerenotanandroid · 28/08/2023 15:40

I'm hoping that since the new neighbours are from that there Lon-don, maybe they'll assume that this is just what happens in the countryside.

Oioicaptain · 28/08/2023 15:40

He’s had a good drink/meal and is now relaxing in MY garden :)

The cat or the builder?

JudgeJ · 28/08/2023 15:41

anotheranotheranotheranother · 28/08/2023 11:25

Some of these posts are awful, this is a cat a living thing that is probably in distress about the fact they have been without water and food for over 48 hours.

Have you seen the pictures of the cat? The cat that has been without food/water for 2 days and it's wonder is standing outside? It i not showing any signs of interest in OP let alone distress

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After we moved into a new house our cat went missing for three days, the odd thing was we could hear him. After searching everywhere, cupboards, drawers and so on, OH suddenly recalled lifting a floor hatch in the understairs cupboard, the house was built on quite a slope, when we'd just arrived, he lifted it again and there he was, angry but otherwise fine.

MumGMT · 28/08/2023 15:41

FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper · 28/08/2023 15:13

You could then add that you would like to contribute to the cost of the clearing up of what he has done.

That makes it sound like you're doing them a kindness, rather than just paying them what you rightfully owe them.

I wouldn't use the word 'contribute' unless you really want to sound like a massive CF.

Yes this.
You should be paying all of it. Your cat did the damage. As a dog owner I would fully expect to foot the bill if I let my dog roam and he got into a house and caused damage, cats shouldn't be any different.

Alargeoneplease89 · 28/08/2023 15:42

placemats · 28/08/2023 14:57

The white bag captured some of the wee but some has gone onto the wooden floors and the rug beside it. It’s a huge rug (about 2 x 3 meters) and I’m guessing expensive :/ Apparently the new owners are coming tomorrow - I’ll offer to have it cleaned, hopefully that will be enough as I don’t have much money right now. 😩

It's going to be an expensive repair unfortunately, possibly new floor boards and a replacement rug. Also factor in new paint work as well. However, I'm sure there's many a poster on here who will help towards the payment.

Actually if OP set up a crowd funder, I would because I'm nice 😁but probably why I'm poor too 😂

Aww happy to see your cat is out- let's hope it's put him off doing it in future.

DeanElderberry · 28/08/2023 15:42

They didn't need time or funds to put something outside the catflap opening to prevent access.

If they'd left a window open and a human had got in and damaged their rug, they would been seen to have been negligent.

AliceOlive · 28/08/2023 15:42

I would leave a note:

Dear Neighbor,
While you were away my cat, <insert name>, found his way into your home via the cat door and was trapped.
I was able to reach your kind builder who help me retrieved him. I’m afraid there may be some damage in your home. Please give me a call.

or something like this!

MollyRover · 28/08/2023 15:45

DeanElderberry · 28/08/2023 15:42

They didn't need time or funds to put something outside the catflap opening to prevent access.

If they'd left a window open and a human had got in and damaged their rug, they would been seen to have been negligent.

Didn't you read the OP? The cat is able to break a catflap. If a person had broken a window who would be responsible??

ifIwerenotanandroid · 28/08/2023 15:47

Ah, @AliceOlive, my sweet summer child, you seem unaware that CFs exist to whom such a note would be catnip.😹Such people would invent all kinds of damage to non-existent vauables which had been in the house at the time (lor not).

You've always lived among such nice people. And not read MN classics yet.

ifIwerenotanandroid · 28/08/2023 15:47

valuables 🙄

Boomboom22 · 28/08/2023 15:49

Please update us tomorrow when you retrieve the crabsticks. Assuming no creatures have been enticed in the window and had them away! Rats etc.

RosaCaramella · 28/08/2023 15:50

@Catsos So glad you got your cat out today. I would pop round in person rather than leave a note and explain how he was stuck in their house and take it from there. Maybe don’t give too many details away? Xx

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Catsos · 28/08/2023 15:51

TibetanTerrah · 28/08/2023 15:39

Should I put a note on the door saying “I’m sorry, my crabsticks are still inside - please ring number 3’s door once you see this” or something?

You seem determined to portray yourself as 'that weird neighbour' from the outset OP Grin

😩 I’m really not trying to be. How should I word the note do you think? Otherwise when they arrive they’re going to find my crabsticks in their bedroom and be really confused?

I’m actually just wanting to move at this point. I’m on Rightmove as we speak 😫 I’m so mortified with the way I had to belly flop over the garden fence in full view of my neighbours. None of my neighbours helped either.

To break into my new neighbours house *THREAD 2*
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DeanElderberry · 28/08/2023 15:52

There is no evidence that the cat broke this catflap - he certainly wasn't able to break OUT of it. The entrance to the access tunnel should have been blocked from the outside.

FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper · 28/08/2023 15:52

They didn't need time or funds to put something outside the catflap opening to prevent access.

I know this will probably not hold any water with you, but most people who don't have cats don't really give cats a second thought, unless they're pooing on their garden. I'm sure they'll now learn the lesson the hard way, but contrary to what a lot of cat owners seem to think (especially on this thread), their cat is not the centre of everybody's world.

If they'd left a window open and a human had got in and damaged their rug, they would been seen to have been negligent.

Really? If an adult got in through an open window, it wouldn't be a police matter? And if a child got in, you don't think the police or social services might want to speak to the parents?

At any rate, a human could get in by opening an unlocked door, so by that reasoning, you could have gone into the back garden to hang out some washing, somebody lets themselves in your front door and trashes your kitchen, and it would all be your own fault for not living in a fortress?

I remember reading ages ago about a burglar in the USA who got in to somebody's garage (they were on holiday) and then couldn't get out again (much worse for wear) until they came back a week later. He successfully sued the owners for 'wrongful imprisonment' and won compensation, but I never thought I'd hear a non-American person (assuming you aren't; apologies if you are) defending this kind of thing as 'justice'.

HighywayToHell · 28/08/2023 15:53

Im so glad you got him back OP, i think i would have smashed the window. Good luck facing the new neighbours.

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