Crab stick cat.

[easyandbreezy]

What happened in the end?

I don't think there was a 4th thread it just stopped.

Nasty

Yes I agree that all cats should have to be kept in too, but as they don;t have to be at the moment, then surely if you have a cat flap then there is always the risk that someone else's cat could get in.

The OP said the the neigbour had a smart cat flat so only a cat with a chip should have been able to get in but surely the smart cat flap shouldn't stop a stray cat getting out. If it does then that is a design fault.

Agree with this.

If you're that worried about your cat wtf don't you keep it in or build it a catio? Cat owners are always bleating on about how much they love their cats, but seem quite happy to allow them to run the risk of getting shut in/run over/poisoned etc.

The cat breaks into cat flaps. It wasn't "allowed in" it broke the flap.

I didnt read any of the thread you're talking about but if the cat got in through a non microchip flap, how come the crab sticks and ham couldnt be put through the flap?

And also surely there must have been a way to hold the flap open if it opened when pushed, push a stick or support through to keep it open and keep calling the cat?

Very nasty. There is a link between people who think nothing of hurting animals and who think nothing of hurting humans, psychopathic. Quite chilling actually that someone would think this way

How ready we are to believe that which we wish to be true.

I don't think owners are liable for what cats do are they? Not like dogs, who are considered property of the owner. I'd tell them to whistle for it and endure the glares.

I hate the cats that poo in my garden, but to be fair to the cat, it shouldn't have been able to get in to the house in the first place and if it could then the owners should have ensured that it could get out.

According to the thread, the cat would cheerfully break in - so we never established whether the catflap was faulty with letting cats in but not out, or whether the cat broke it on his way in in such a way as it was trapped - i.e. if it was properly locked, but the cat bust it and bent it to enter, but then the bend in it meant that it wouldn't now open the other way.

One point that I don't think was ever addressed was, considering that cats can be quite arrogant, determined creatures that do whatever they like, how do we know that the cat would have come straight back out again if he could? He obviously wanted to go into the strange house, so it's very possible that he was quite content to spend several hours exploring (and messing and damaging) everywhere - and then only panicked much later when he realised that he was trapped.

I would never condone anybody trying to justify killing or injuring a cat, but I can very much see how desperate and powerless people must feel when somebody else's pet is freely allowed to roam into - and foul - their property, unless they take action such as never being able to leave their doors and windows open or otherwise restrict their own lives; and there's nothing else they can do about it.

That cat sounded like an absolute menace that was known around the neighbourhood for ‘breaking into cat flaps and houses’, feel so sorry for those people with the nightmare original OP as their neighbour. And shoving smelly food through windows and vents in rooms the cat couldn’t even access - absolutely bonkers 😂

Happy? No I wasn't. He jumped on a shed roof which had rotted. The shed was in a garden backed onto a neighbour who lives across the road, hardly wandering.

I would have been pretty pissed if someone did those things to my house tbh

It seems to have been deleted.

No, it wasn't deleted

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4883289-to-break-into-my-new-neighbours-house-thread-3-the-final-conundrum?page=10

Was it an article about trolls or people being too gullible online? 😅

Neither, I think the 1st one was reported to mumsnet who left it up so.. 🤷‍♀️

I think some people were 'suspicious', and took it as confirmation of that suspicion, when the thread said that it was not accepting any more comments - but this was just automatic because the thread had reached the maximum 1,000 comments, not because MN had somehow labelled it as 'naughty'.

Sounds like it was installed the wrong way around. We got one after a cat was persistently coming in and stealing our cats food. It most definitely controlled cats coming in but not going out. I know this because we had a cat that liked to push the flap open with his paw before going through and the stupid sod kept getting stuck outside because his paw didn't activate the MC reader.

Somebody setting up a catflap to let cats into but not out of an empty house is not high on the list of concerns when letting a cat out tbh. It is quite a niche set of circumstances.

I’m not sure it’s possible for a cat to ‘break into’ a cat flap which is shut/ locked. You’d need a lot of force to do that surely? They’re designed to stay shut unless the resident cat wants to enter. We’ve never had any stray cat ‘break in’ through our microchip cat flap and we’ve had it for many years…