To break into my new neighbours house *THREAD 2*

[Catsos]

Following on from my thread yesterday https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4881905-to-break-into-new-neighbours-house-serious-question-not-trolling

to update all of the lovely people who are trying to help me rescue my cat who has got himself stuck in an unoccupied house.

Updating very shortly

@Catsos I've been following this thread and thrilled your beautiful cat is back. If it was me as new owner I would be the one apologising for causing all the worry (truly). I can totally understand how panicked you were and I know I would have been looking up how to smash double glazing or break a door down.

I would give puss a cuddle and then ground him!

Oh wow I just saw your update , so happy your cat is out . I truly hope you have sympathetic neighbours, if this was us I would be more than happy with you just paying the cleaning of a rug . The idiots trolling you , they are just awful people who clearly don’t understand how awful is to see a pet distressed . A few years ago I had a distressed cat stuck in the wall between my neighbours and my house ( fell through the attic ) and we needed dip with a massive hole in a wall . The neighbour had her dad fix it after , nit completou perfect but I would never have a bad relationship towards a neighbour due to it and I’m a animal lover so no way I would leave that cat dying, even if the wall was not fixed .

Brilliant news op. Please let us know how neighbours react 🙏🏻 and great thread 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

The builders let her in. Of course they could have gone in and picked up the cat themselves but obviously they didn't think it was an issue either.

Because they're not drama queens.

So, when you say “broken catflap” is part of the damage, do you mean that your cat broke it (and that’s why he couldn’t get out) or that you broke the outside part when trying to rescue him? Because I’m thinking that the cat flap was surely broken in the first place, which is why he was able to get in without a chip and then was unable to get out. So not his/your fault?

PMSL though at the ham and crab sticks still being in there.

Utter bollocks!! A cat used to being outdoors could become very unhappy to be shut in the house. I say that as someone whose cats are indoors, having adapted brilliantly after straying in the street.

A cat is totally different to a dog ffs!

You would be happy cleaning up dead cat I guess?

@Abblesnapps please ignore the facetious replies to your question. Mumsnet is better than their comments might make you think.

If you search for "sleep" or just "chat" there's the option to start your own thread where hopefully you'll get some decent advice rather than pisstaking.

Good luck!

But to be completely honest even as a cat owner, If it was my home you have done this too. The first thing I would be doing tomorrow is taking photos and going straight to the police and my solicitor.

@moneyplantnation I am a solicitor and if you came to me I’d tell you to get a grip!

Well then ensure they can't get access. Simple!

And either you or they ( or both) will have insurance which will cover the cost of any damage anyway.

Probably with a hefty excess, though - and likely leading directly to a big increase next year.

There's lots of accusations of trolling on this thread when it's mainly challenging the OP. That's not what trolling is.

Posters who are critical of OP automatically being labelled cat haters is ridiculous. It is possible to like cats but also not want your new home broken into or trashed by someone else’s pet

100% Yes to both of these. Branding somebody who calmly disagrees with you a troll or a hater is the (not very) 'adult' equivalent of a toddler calling you a great big smelly poo-poo head when you tell them that they've already had enough treats for today.

OP leave a note on the door

" Please call Catsos at no 3 on xxxxxxxxxxx. My cat got into your house at the weekend but your kind builder, Mr Lovely Irishman, came over to get him out."

If you see them or the builder arriving go over and explain/remove food iitems/ offer to clean rug professionally and repair other damage.

They seem to have been friendly when you have chatted before. Show them this thread and they will realise how you were trying every avenue and that there are dafter people around (who would make much worse neighbours).

I'm sure your lovely cat will be fine - last time we moved house our obstinate cat refused to use a litter tray for almost 3 days! And we once seriously considered breaking into a neighbour's (unheated) conservatory, in the middle of winter, to 'rescue ' a hamster.

Jesus Christ, it's a cat not a fucking elephant!!!!!!

Welcome home, beautiful boy.
We had a similar drama a month or so ago in Portugal when one of the feral cats we care for got into the huge mostly unoccupied house next door, and we eventually, (well over a week later, we thought she had been a road casualty) saw and heard her through a window. The Portuguese police didn’t pussyfoot around, three attended, one jumped down a ten foot wall from our terrace, opened a louvre window, she shot out like a bat out of hell, he somehow ascended the wall again, job done. She went to ground for a couple of hours, reappeared before supper time, screaming miaows of panic, looking hollow from starvation, but she must have been drinking from a loo or something, or she would have died. She took a week to fatten up, and is very clingy now, but physically well.

You might find the rug isn't as expensive as you fear, as anyone doing house renovations with builders in and out, dust getting everywhere ect is unlikely to have put their antique persian heirloom down.

Probably with a hefty excess, though - and likely leading directly to a big increase next year.

I worked in insurance for over 20 years so am perfectly aware of that. It may be cheaper to get quotes and just pay direct. The OP/neighbours have a choice.

Really ?

Most solicitors I'm met tend to quote their hourly fee and then suggest potential courses of action and their likelyhood of succeeding.

Eh the same could apply to a dog who was used to be outdoors (by their own choice).

When I was a kid most dogs would go out when it suited them and come home when it suited them, but then people stopped allowing dogs to do that......so even if it's difficult for existing outdoor cats/dogs then that doesn't apply to new ones.

Yet people will keep getting kittens and keep letting them out, even though others will get kittens from the same litter and keep them as indoor cats!

I'm really glad he's out OP. Next time you want to post about the cat, do it in Litter Tray everyone is much more understand and won't accuse you of being a weirdo!

I fully relate to you, I am the mad cat lady on my street my cat got stuck in a neighbours van all day and I was crying my eyes out when they found him.

Sure you are and its a good thing I'm friends with my solicitor isn't it. Also as you should already know its their job to do what I pay them for.

My home is private and not open to the likes of the OP and also the builder also has no rights to allow strangers in a private property, cat or no cat.

Some of us have money surprisingly, its not really an object now is it dear.

No I’m not keeping him in. Cats have a right to roam in the UK, and roam he shall! He’d be miserable indoors, he might even end up as miserable as you!

He lives his life on the veg and will continue to do so 😁

Then cat-proof the garden or why have a cat as a pet? I genuinely don't understand the point in getting a pet and then allowing it to roam the streets, other people's gardens/homes and quite often get run over. What's the point in this kind of pet-ownership?

The builder let her in, she couldn’t get in via windows, air vents, cat flaps or doors, or she would have! No she didn’t break in